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essays on relationships in the Hebrew Bible in honor of Saul M. Olyan
Part 1. Family Relations. Mothers' wisdom : technical training and lessons for life / Carol Meyers -- Ambivalent relations between brothers in the Hebrew Bible / Rainer Albertz -- Where are Joseph's brothers? : Jacob, Joseph, and the Joseph novella / Andrew Tobolowsky -- Protective violence, punitive mutilation, spousal relations, and gender hierarchies in the legal case of Deuteronomy 25:11-12 / Debra Scoggins Ballentine -- Love and friendship in Elephantine / Bob Becking -- Part 2. Social Relations Among Israelites. Public self and private self in the world of the Hebrew Bible / Karel van der Toorn -- Ritual weeping : tears, separation, and reunion in biblical relationships / Susan Niditch -- Sex, honor, and civilization in Genesis 1-11 / Ronald Hendel -- Defect or blemish? : cultural-historical readings and lexicography of mûm in Leviticus 21:17-24; 22:17-23 / Klaus-Peter Adam -- The faithful priest of 1 Samuel 2 and priestly lineage relationships / Stephen L. Cook -- Part 3. Relations Between Israelites and Others. The neigbor and the alien in Leviticus 19 / John J. Collins -- There's a stranger in my house : the use of foreignness language in disruptions of close, intimate relationships / Brian Rainey -- A sinful people, an angry deity, and a nauseated land : a triadic relationship in the Hebrew Bible through the lens of land defilement / Andrea Allgood -- The relationship between the Philistines and the Israelites in the ark narrative / Thomas Römer -- Neither mice nor men : dehumanization and extermination in Mesopotamian sources, ḥ̣ērem texts, and the War Scroll / T.M. Lemos -- Inside out : bodily inversion in ancient West Asian loyalty oaths and curses / Nathaniel B. Levtow -- Part 4. Relationships With the Dead. And Moses took the bones of Joseph with him : Israelite interment ideology from Moses to Moshe rabbeinu / Jordan D. Rosenblum -- Just who is coming to dinner? : fostering relationships with the dead through ritual meals / Susan Ackerman -- The ongoing relations between the living and the dead : a viewpoint from the material evidence / Rüdiger Schmitt -- Bonds between the living and the dead : rethinking dedications in the synagogue of Syrian Apamea / Karen B. Stern -- In my house and within my walls : the shared space of Yahweh and the dead in Israelite religion / Kerry M. Sonia -- Part 5. Relations With and Among Divine Beings. Fighting with angels : on how to build up a celestial army / Steven Weitzman -- What is the relation of God to the ghost that Saul did not see? / Stanley Stowers -- Incomparable or prototypical : Yahweh among the gods in the Hebrew Bible / Jennifer Elizabeth Singletary -- Beyond angels and demons : reconsidering the cosmic powers of Colossians / Emma Wasserman.
edited by T.M. Lemos, Jordan D. Rosenblum, Karen B. Stern, and Debra Scoggins Ballentine.
Description based on print version record.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 431-491) and indexes.
Ancient Israel and its literature ; no. 42