The Pitcher Is Broken : Memorial Essays for Gosta W. Ahlstrom

Holloway, Steven Winford ; & Handy, Lowell K. ; editors:

Published by Sheffield Academic Press (1995), Sheffield [UK], 1995

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474 pp, 23x15cm, Series: Journal for the Study of the Old Testament. Supplement Series, 190. Contents : Zephaniah ben Cushi and Cush of Benjamin : traces of Cushite presence in Syria-Palestine / Roger W. Anderson, Jr. -- Discerning the time : Haggai, Zechariah and the delay in the rebuilding of the Jerusalem Temple / Peter Ross Bedford -- Inclusion in and exclusion from Israel as conveyed by the use of the term Israel" in post-monarchic biblical texts / Ehud Ben Zvi -- Temple and bamah : some considerations / Janice E. Catron -- Solomon s adversaries Hadad, Rezon and Jeroboam : a trio of bad guy characters illustrating the theology of immediate retribution / Diana V. Edelman -- Cult images, royal policies and the origins of aniconism / Carl D. Evans -- Site planning and subsistence economy : Negev settlements as a case study / Israel Finkelstein and Yitzhak Zilberman -- United monarchy--divided monarchy : fact or fiction? /Margaret M. Gelinas -- Cush in Zephaniah / Robert D. Haak -- Historical probability and the narrative of Josiah s reform in 2 Kings / Lowell K. Handy -- Harran : cultic geography in the neo-Assyrian empire and its implications for Sennacherib s Letter to Hezekiah in 2 Kings / Steven W. Holloway -- Joshua 7 : a reassessment of Israelite conceptions of corporate punishment / Joel S. Kaminsky -- Ruth : an exercise in Israelite political correctness or a call to proper conversion? / Peter Theodore Nash -- Samaria in the books of the eighth-century prophets / John J. Schmitt -- Anat s warfare cannibalism and the West Semitic ban / Mark S. Smith -- Priestly families (or factions) in Samuel and Kings / John R. Minor rubbing. VG., dustwrapper. Seller Inventory # 016723

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Title: The Pitcher Is Broken : Memorial Essays for ...

Publisher: Sheffield Academic Press (1995), Sheffield [UK]

Publication Date: 1995

Binding: orig. boards