Hamlet on a Hill: Semitic and Greek Studies Presented to Professor T. Muraoka on the Occasion of His Sixty-fifth Birthday: v.118 (Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9042912154 ISBN 13: 9789042912151

Publisher: Peeters Publishers, 2003

Synopsis

This volume is published in honour of Professor Takamitsu Muraoka on the occasion of his retirement from the Chair of Hebrew, Israelite Antiquities and Ugaritic at Leiden University, a date which coincides with the celebration of his sixty-fifth birthday. The laureate is well known for his expertise in the languages of the Bible and cognate studies and this volume includes contributions covering as far as possible the wide field of his interests. Some of his friends and colleagues from all parts of the world are presenting him with this valuable collection of forty-two articles. They include studies on the Greek of the Septuagint; Hebrew (Biblical and Qumran); Aramaic (Old, Offical and Qumran; Syriac and Neo-Aramaic); Canaanite (Amarna, Ugaritic and Phoenician-Punic); Medieval Jewish exegesis and Karaite studies. M.F.J. Baasten and W.Th. van Peursen, two former students of Muraoka at Leiden, have edited the volume.

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Synopsis:

The 65th birthday and academic achievement of the biblical scholar Muraoka (his name translates as hamlet, or village, on a hill) is celebrated in this festschrift of 42 essays by an international group of scholars. Muraoka's specialty of philology and linguistics is reflected in the paper topics, which are divided between Semitic studies (31 paper

About this edition

• Publisher: Peeters Publishers
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 9042912154
• ISBN 13: 9789042912151
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 636
• Editor: Baasten M.F.J., Peursen W. T. Van