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Go to the Land I Will Show You

Studies in Honor of Dwight W. Young

Edited by Joseph Coleson and Victor Matthews

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1996

Go to the Land I Will Show You

Studies in Honor of Dwight W. Young

Edited by Joseph Coleson and Victor Matthews

Dwight Young taught ancient Near Eastern Languages at Brandeis University for many years. More than 20 essays are presented by students and friends in his honor. Indexes of authors and scripture references complete the volume.

 

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Dwight Young taught ancient Near Eastern Languages at Brandeis University for many years. More than 20 essays are presented by students and friends in his honor. Indexes of authors and scripture references complete the volume.

Appreciation

Publications of Dwight W. Young

Abbreviations

SECTION I

BIBLICAL STUDIES

F. W. Bush - Ruth 4:17: A Semantic Wordplay

C. M. Carmichael - Joseph, Moses, and the Institution of the Israelite Judicature

J. E. Coleson - The Peasant Woman and the Fugitive Prophet: A Study in Biblical Narrative Settings

D. H. Engelhard - Ezekiel 47:13-48:29 as Royal Grant

C. H. Gordon - The Background of Some Distinctive Values in the Hebrew Bible

F. E. Greenspahn - Primogeniture in Ancient Israel

J. E. Hartley and T. Dwyer - An Investigation into the Location of the Laws on Offerings to Molek in the Book of Leviticus

W. C. Kaiser, Jr. - Balaam Son of Beor in Light of Deir Alla and Scripture: Saint or Soothsayer?

B. A. Levine - Offerings Rejected by God: Numbers 16:15 in Comparative Perspective

C. Meyers - The Hannah Narrative in Feminist Perspective

E. M. Meyers - Messianism in First and Second Zechariah and the ‘End’ of Biblical Prophecy

C. Schultz - The Cohesive Issue of mispat in Job

R. B. Widbin - Center Structure in the Center Oracles of Amos

J. E. Wright - Baruch, the Ideal Sage

SECTION II

ANCIENT NEAR EASTERN HISTORY AND LINGUISTICS

M. C. Astour - Some Unrecognized North Syrian Toponyms in Egyptian Sources

C. W. Hedrick - A New Coptic Fragment of the Book of Hebrews

H. A. Hoffner, Jr. - From Head to Toe in Hittite: The Language of the Human Body

P. Y. Hoskisson - The Scission and Ascendancy of a Goddess: Diritum at Mari

V. H. Matthews - Messengers and the Transmission of Information in the Mari Kingdom

P. Overland - Structure in The Wisdom of Amenemope and Proverbs

W. T. Pitard - An Historical Overview of Pastoral Nomadism in the Central Euphrates Valley

A. F. Rainey - The Imperative ‘See’ as an Introductory Particle: An Egyptian—West Semitic Calque

I. A. Todd - The Vasilikos Valley: Its Place in Cypriot and Near Eastern Prehistory

D. T. Tsumura - The ‘Word Pair’ qst and mt in Habakkuk 3:9 in the Light of Ugaritic and Akkadian

M. K. Wakeman - Religious Conservatism and Political Invention in Ancient Sumer

E. Yamauchi - Cambyses in Egypt

A. York - The Maturation Theme in the Adam and Eve Story

INDEXES

Index of Authors

Index of Scripture Citations

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