Prof. Moshe Weinfeld: A Professional Profile

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Prof. Moshe Weinfeld: A Professional Profile ix
4. Prof. Moshe Weinfeld’s Contribution to Biblical Scholarship: An Appreciation xii
5. Abbreviations xix
6. Bibliography of the Publications of Moshe Weinfeld (1961–2001) xxv
7. Subject Index to the Bibliography xlvi
8. Part 1 Exegetical and Literary Studies on the Bible
9. A Slip of the Pen? On Josiah’s Actions in Samaria (2 Kings 23:15–20) 3
10. A Problem in Proverbs 3:35 9
11. On the Common Literary Expressions of the Ancient Semites 25
12. Min ha ssa mayim dibbartî: ‘I Spoke from Heaven’ (Exodus 20:22) 33
13. Who Redacted the Primary History? 39
14. Paradise Regained: Proverbs 3:13–20 Reconsidered 49
15. Cain: The Forefather of Humanity 63
16. The Punishment of Succoth and Penuel by Gideon in the Light of Ancient Near Eastern Treaties 69
17. Myth, History, and Utopia in the Prophecy of the Shoot (Isaiah 10:33–11:9) 73
18. Covenants: The Sinaitic and Patriarchal Covenants in the Holiness Code (Leviticus 17–27) 91
19. “Yet I Have Been to Them f[m çdqml in the Countries Where They Have Gone” (Ezekiel 11:16) 103
20. Daniel 12:9: A Technical Mesopotamian Scribal Term 115
21. The Covenant at Mount Sinai in the Light of Texts from Mari 119
22. ‘No Ephod or Teraphim ’ — oude hierateias oude d e l o n : Hosea 3:4 in the LXX and in the Paraphrases of Chronicles and the Damascus Document 135
23. Reexamining the Fate of the “Canaanites” in the Torah Traditions 151
24. The Law of the Sorceress (Exodus 22:17[18]) in the Light of Biblical and Mesopotamian Parallels 171
25. “And You Will Be like God and Know What Is Good and What Is Bad”: Genesis 2–3 191
26. The Presence of God and the Coherence of Exodus 20:22–26 195
27. Psalm 82 and Biblical Exegesis 213
28. Part 2 Studies on Biblical Hebrew, History, and Geography
29. The Encliticmem in Biblical Hebrew: Its Existence and Initial Discovery 231
30. The Boundary of the Tribe of Dan ( Joshua 19:41–46) 261
31. Again the Abecedaries 285
32. Maison de David’, ‘maison de Mopsos’, et les Hivvites 303
33. Sources and Composition in the Biblical History of Edom 313
34. On the Onomastics and Topography of the Fertile Crescent 321
35. Part 3 Ancient Near Eastern and Amarna Studies
36. Rationality in Ancient Near Eastern International Relations in the “Extended Age of the Amarna Archive,” ca. 1460–1200 b.c.e. : The Force of †e mu ‘Mind’ 339
37. Another Case of Hiphil in Amarna Age Canaanite 351
38. Amarna Letter No. 84: Damu, Adonis, and “The Living God” at Byblos 361
39. The Originality of the Teachings of Zarathustra in the Light of Yasna 44 . 373
40. Sennacherib, King of Justice 385
41. Part 4 Studies on Qumran, Postbiblical Judaism, and the Jewish Medieval Commentaries
42. Some “Qumranic” Observations on the Aramaic Levi Document 393
43. The Tension between Rabbinic Legal Midrash and the ‘Plain Meaning’ (Peshat) of the Biblical Text—An Unresolved Problem?: In the Wake of Rashbam’s Commentary on the Pentateuch 403
44. La croyance à la résurrection des justes dans un texte qumranien de sagesse: 4Q418 69 ii 427
45. The Writing of Ancient Biblical Texts, with Special Attention to the Judean Desert Scrolls 445
46. The Deuteronomistic Roots of Judaism 459
47. Indexes 479