Contents

Preface

Abbreviations

List of Contributors

Chapter 1 Interpreting the Septuagint

Chapter 2 Le pectoral d’Aaron et la figure du grand prêtre dans les traditions sacerdotales du Pentateuque

Chapter 3 The Forest and the Trees: The Place of Pentateuchal Materials in Prophecy of the Late Seventh / Early Sixth Centuries BCE

Chapter 4 Ethics and Creational Dignity in the Old Testament

Chapter 5 Adjusting Social Memory in the Hebrew Bible: The Teraphim

Chapter 6 Die rapiʾūma/rephāʾîm als konstitutives Element der westsemitischen Königsideologie. Herkunft – Rezeptionsgeschichte – Ende

Chapter 7 Caton-Thompson, Kenyon and Gardner: Where Near Eastern and Southern African Archaeology Intersected

Chapter 8 The Study of the Old Testament and the Material Imagery of the Ancient Near East, with a Focus on the Body Parts of the Deity

Chapter 9 Sept défis posés à une théologie de la Septante

Chapter 10 Daniel 5 in Aramaic and Greek and the Textual History of Daniel 4–6

Chapter 11 “Can the Cushite Change his Skin …?” (Jer 13:23): Beating the Drums of African Biblical Hermeneutics

Chapter 12 “Love is Strong as Death” (Song 8:6): Reading the Old Testament in a Context of Gender Violence

Chapter 13 Hiob als jüdisches, christliches und paganes Werk. Überlegungen zur Hermeneutik heiliger Schriften

Chapter 14 Gott in anderem Licht. Das Gottesbild der apokalyptischen Literatur im 3. und 2. Jahrhundert

Chapter 15 New Directions in the Computational Analysis of Biblical Poetry

Chapter 16 Changing Truths: אמֱֶת and קשֶֹט as Core Concepts in the Second Temple Period

Index of Cited Modern Authors

Index of Ancient Sources