Divrei Shalom: Collected Studies of Shalom M. Paul on the Bible and the Ancient Near East, 1967-2005 (Culture and History of the Ancient Near East)

563 Pages·2005·2.2 MB·English

by  Shalom M. Paul

Divrei Shalom
Culture and History
of the
Ancient Near East
Edited by
B. Halpern — M.H.E. Weippert
Th.P.J. van den Hout — I. Winter
VOLUME 23

Divrei Shalom
Collected Studies of Shalom M. Paul on the
Bible and the Ancient Near East
1967–2005
"!wl` yrbd"
(l ,f rtsa ;wk ,b !yrbd)
by
Shalom M. Paul
BRILL
LEIDEN BOSTON
•
2005
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Paul, Shalom M.
Divrei Shalom : collected studies of Shalom M. Paul on the Bible and the ancient
Near East, 1967-2005 = (Divre Shalom (Devarim 2, 26: Ester 9, 30)] / by Shalom
M. Paul.
p. cm. — (Culture and history of the ancient Near East, ISSN 1566-2055 ; v.
23)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 90-04-14367-X (alk. paper)
1. Bible. O.T.—Criticism, interpretation, etc. 2. Middle Eastern literature—
History and criticism. I. Title. II. Series.
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contents v
CONTENTS
Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii
Abbreviations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix
The Bible and the Ancient Near East
1. “The Image of the Oven and the Cake in Hosea 7:4–10,”
Vetus Testamentum 18 (1968), 114–120 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2. “Deutero-Isaiah and Cuneiform Royal Inscriptions,” Journal
of the American Oriental Society 88 (1968) (= Essays in Memory
of E. A. Speiser, ed. W. W. Hallo [New Haven, 1968], 180–
186) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
3. “Cuneiform Light on Jer. 9:20,” Biblica 49 (1968), 373–376 23
4. “Exod. 21:10: A Threefold Maintenance Clause,” Journal
of Near Eastern Studies 28 (1969), 48–53. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
5. “Sargon’s Administrative Diction in 2 Kings 17:27,” Jour-
nal of Biblical Literature 88 (1969), 73–74 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
6. “Formulaic Patterns of Law in Israel and Mesopotamia,”
Leàonénu 34 (1970), 257–266. Hebrew (translation into
English) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
7. “Psalm 72:5—A Traditional Blessing for the Long Life of the
King,”Journal of Near Eastern Studies 31 (1972), 351–355 . . . . 51
8. “Heavenly Tablets and the Book of Life,” in: T. H. Gaster
Festschrift (New York, 1973) (= Journal of the Ancient Near
Eastern Society of Columbia University 5), 345–354 . . . . . . . . . . . 59
9. “Classifications of Wine in Mesopotamian and Rabbinic
Sources,”Israel Exploration Journal 25 (1975), 42–44. . . . . . . . 71
10. “Nehemiah 6:19—Counterespionage,” Hebrew Annual Review
1 (1977), 177–179 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
11. “Amos 3:15—Winter and Summer Mansions,” Vetus Testa-
mentum 28 (1978), 358–360. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
12. “Fishing Imagery in Amos 4:2,” Journal of Biblical Litera-
ture 97 (1978), 183–190 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
13. “An Unrecognized Medical Idiom in Song of Songs 6:12
and Job 9:21,” Biblica 59 (1978), 545–547. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
14. “1 Samuel 9:7: An Interview Fee,” Biblica 59 (1978), 542–
544. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
vi contents
15. “Unrecognized Biblical Legal Idioms in the Light of Com-
parative Akkadian Expressions,” Revue Biblique 86 (1979),
231–239. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
16. “Adoption Formulae: A Study of Cuneiform and Bibli-
cal Legal Clauses,” Maarav 2/2 (1979–80), 173–185 . . . . . . 109
17. “Psalm 27:10 and the Babylonian Theodicy,” Vetus Testa-
mentum 32 (1982), 489–492. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
18. “Two Cognate Semitic Terms for Mating and Copulation,”
Vetus Testamentum 32 (1982), 492–493 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
19. “Job 4:15—A Hair Raising Encounter,” Zeitschrift für die
Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 95 (1983), 119–121 . . . . . . . . . . . 129
20. “Daniel 3:29 — A Case of ‘Neglected’ Blasphemy,” Journal
of Near Eastern Studies 42 (1983), 291–294. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
21. “Dan 6:8: An Aramaic Reflex of Assyrian Legal Termi-
nology,”Biblica 65 (1984), 106–110. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
םירש ךלמ אשמ:
22. “Hosea 8:8–10 and Ancient Near Eastern
Royal Epithets,” Scripta Hierosolymitana 31: Studies in Bible
(Jerusalem, 1986), 193–204. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
23. “A Technical Expression from Archery in Zechariah
9:13a,” Vetus Testamentum 39 (1989), 495–497 . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
24. “Biblical Analogues to Middle Assyrian Law,” in: Religion
and Law: Biblical-Judaic and Islamic Perspectives, ed. E. B.
Firmage et al. (Winona Lake, IN, 1990), 333–350 . . . . . . . . 159
25. “Exodus 1:21: ‘To Found a Family’: A Biblical and Akka-
dian Idiom,” in: Let Your Colleagues Praise You: Studies in
Memory of Stanley Gevirtz, Part II, ed. R. J. Ratner et al.
(=Maarav 8 [1992]), 139–142 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
26. “Gleanings from the Biblical and Talmudic Lexica in
Light of Akkadian,” in: MinÈah le-NaÈum: Biblical and Other
Studies Presented to Nahum M. Sarna in Honour of His 70thBirth-
day, ed. M. Brettler and M. Fishbane (= Journal for the Study
of the Old Testament, Supplement Series (Sheffield, 1993), 242-
256. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
27. “Decoding a ‘Joint’ Expression in Daniel 5:6, 16,” in:
Comparative Studies in Honor of Yochanan Muffs, ed. E. L.
Greenstein and D. Marcus (= Journal of the Ancient Near
Eastern Society 22[1993]), 121–127. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195
28. “From Mari to Daniel: Instructions for the Acceptance of
Servants into the Royal Court,” in: Eretz Israel 22 (Abraham
Malamat Volume), eds. S. AÈituv and B. Levine (Jerusalem,
contents vii
1993), 161–163. Hebrew (translation into English). . . . . . . . 205
29. “Euphemistically ‘Speaking’ and a Covetous Eye,” in: Bib-
lical and Other Studies in Honor of Reuben Ahroni on the Occasion of
His Sixtieth Birthday, ed. T. J. Lewis (= Hebrew Annual Review
14 [1994]), 193–204. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213
30. “Untimely Death in the Semitic Languages,” in: The Bible
in the Light of its Interpreters: Sarah Kamin Memorial Volume, ed.
S. Japhet (Jerusalem, 1994), 575–586 (translation into Eng-
lish). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223
31. “The ‘Plural of Ecstasy’ in Mesopotamian and Biblical Love
Poetry,” in: Solving Riddles and Untying Knots: Biblical, Epigraphic,
and Semitic Studies in Honor of Jonas C. Greenfield, ed. Z. Zevit
et al. (Winona Lake, IN, 1995), 585–597 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239
32. “Two Proposed Janus Parallelisms in Akkadian Literature,”
N.A.B.U. (1995), 11–12 (co-authored with W. Horowitz) . . . 253
33. “Hosea 7:16: Gibberish Jabber,” in: Pomegranates and Golden
Bells: Studies in Biblical, Jewish, and Near Eastern Ritual, Law, and
Literature in Honor of Jacob Milgrom, ed. D. P. Wright et al. (Wi-
nona Lake, IN, 1995), 707–712. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257
34. “‘Emigration’ from the Netherworld in the Ancient Near
East,” in: Immigration and Emigration Within the Ancient Near East:
Festschrift E. LipiÔski, ed. K. van Lerberghe and A. Schoors
(Leuven, 1995), 221–227. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263
35. “A Lover’s Garden of Verse: Literal and Metaphorical Ima-
gery in Ancient Near Eastern Love Poetry,” in: Tehillah le-
Moshe: Biblical and Judaic Studies in Honor of Moshe Greenberg,
ed. M. Cogan et al. (Winona Lake, IN, 1997) 99–110 . . . . . 271
36. “The Mesopotamian Background of Daniel 1–6,” in: The
Book of Daniel: Composition and Reception, I, ed. J. J. Collins
andP. W. Flint (Leiden, Boston & Köln, 2001), 55–68. . . . . 285
37. “The Shared Legacy of Sexual Metaphors and Euphe-
misms Mesopotamian and Biblical Literature,” in: Sex and
Gender in the Ancient Near East: Proceedings of the 47th Rencontre
Assyriologique Internationale, Helsinki, July 2–6, 2001, II, ed. S.
Parpolaand R. M. Whiting (Helsinki, 2002). . . . . . . . . . . . . 299
38. “A Double Entendre in Job 15:32 in the Light of Akkadian,”
in: Emanuel: Studies in Hebrew Bible, Septuagint and Dead Sea
Scrolls in Honor of Emanuel Tov, ed. S. M. Paul et al. (Leiden,
2003),755–757 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315