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Vetus Testamentum Volume 61 Issue 4

Subject Areas: History; ; ; ;
Publisher: Brill - Brill
ISSN: 0042-4935
SJR: 20

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The Love-Fear Antinomy in Deuteronomy 5-11 *

Arnold, Bill T.

2011 Vetus Testamentum

doi:10.1163/156853311X560754

Abstract Examines the lexemes “love” ( ʾhb ) and “fear” ( yrʾ ) in Deut 5-11 in order better to understand the way they complement each other in both their cognitive and affective domains. The affective domain of “love” in Deuteronomy has not been appreciated fully in exegetical work on chs. 5-11...
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Survival, Conversion and Restoration: Reflections on the Redaction History of the Book of Zephaniah

Hadjiev, Tchavdar S.

2011 Vetus Testamentum

doi:10.1163/156853311X560817

Abstract Understanding the redaction history of a biblical book helps us to see how the community of faith received, applied and reinterpreted the prophetic words. There are a number of places in the book of Zephaniah that can be recognized as secondary in their present literary context. Analysis...
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“Deciphering the Shema: Staircase Parallelism and the Syntax of Deuteronomy 6:4” 1

Kraut, Judah

2011 Vetus Testamentum

doi:10.1163/156853311X560745

Abstract The unusual syntax of Deut 6:4 has long puzzled expositors of the Hebrew Bible. None of the many solutions posed by commentators has ever gained widespread acceptance. The continuing, increasingly strained, efforts to unravel the verse’s syntax testify to the desirability of a new...
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Paronomasia, Ambiguities and Shifts in Hos 5:1-2

Kwakkel, Gert

2011 Vetus Testamentum

doi:10.1163/156853311X560736

Abstract Building on Elliger’s and Mazor’s analyses of the structure of Hos 5:1-2, this study discusses several problematic aspects of Hos 5:1-2, such as the meaning of בֵּית יִשְׂרָאֵל and מִשְׁפָּט in 1a and מוּסָר in 2b. It accepts the emended reading שַׁחַת הַשִּׁטִּים “the pit of Shittim” in...
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Das synchronistische Exzerpt aus den Annalen der Könige von Israel und Juda

Levin, Christoph

2011 Vetus Testamentum

doi:10.1163/156853311X560772

Abstract Das Rahmenwerk der Bücher der Könige beruht auf einem kombinierten Exzerpt aus den Annalen der Könige von Israel und den Annalen der Könige von Juda. Diese Quelle hat das Ziel, die Geschichte Israels und Judas nachträglich als Einheit erscheinen zu lassen. Sehr wahrscheinlich vertritt...
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Good Blood, Bad Blood: Multivocality, Metonymy, and Mediation in Zechariah 9

Niditch, Susan

2011 Vetus Testamentum

doi:10.1163/156853311X560763

Abstract A number of scholars have pointed to the ways in which Zechariah 9 convincingly functions as a literary and conceptual whole. Approaching Zechariah 9 as a unity, however, raises important questions concerning a recurring motif in the chapter that has especially deep cultural...
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Satire and the King of Aram

Robker, Jonathan M.

2011 Vetus Testamentum

doi:10.1163/156853311X560808

Abstract The text of 1 Kings 20 has presented many exegetes with a fertile plain from which to reap a multitude of historical data about the history of Israel. Various concepts have been developed in order to approach the text, almost always gleaning some historical circumstances behind the text...
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Why Does the Plague of Darkness Last for Three Days? Source Ascription and Literary Motif in Exodus 10:21-23, 27 1

Stackert, >Jeffrey

2011 Vetus Testamentum

doi:10.1163/156853311X560727

Abstract This article addresses the question of source ascription for the plague of darkness in Exod 10:21-23, 27. It argues that attention to the specific content of this episode, and especially its indication of a three-day duration for the darkness, ties it to Exod 6:9-12, Moses’s initial...
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Khirbet el-Kōm und Psalm 112—ein Fall von Intertextualität

Kessler, Rainer

2011 Vetus Testamentum

doi:10.1163/156853311X560781

Abstract Nearly all the vocabulary of the 8th century inscription from Khirbet el-Kōm appears in the biblical psalms. The qualification of Uriyahu as “the rich” in combination with the semantic field of the inscription leads directly and exclusively to the post-exilic Psalm 112. The article...
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The Influence of Realia on Biblical Depictions of Childbirth

Viezel, Eran

2011 Vetus Testamentum

doi:10.1163/156853311X560790

Abstract As is well-known, the first part of a newborn’s body to emerge during a standard birth is the head. In a breech birth, which is much more rare, the baby enters the world bottom-first. There is no evidence at all of babies exiting the womb with their arms outstretched. Yet biblical...

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