Priests, Prophets And Scribes

Essays on the Formation and Heritage of Second Temple Judaism in Honour of Joseph Blenkinsopp

edited by

Eugene Ulrich, John W. Wright, Robert P. Carroll and Philip R. Davies

Journal for the Study of the Old Testament

Supplement Series 149

Copyright © 1992 Sheffield Academic Press

Published by JSOT Press

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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

Priests, Prophets and Scribes: Essays on

the Formation and Heritage of Second

Temple Judaism in Honour of Joseph

Blenkinsopp.- (JSOT Supplement Series,

ISSN 0309-0787; No. 149)

I Ulrich, Eugene II. Series,

296.8

ISBN 1-85075-375-X

Contents

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

List of Contributors

Robert L. Wilken

Introduction

Part I

Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah

John W. Wright

From Center to Periphery: 1 Chronicles 23–27 and the Interpretation of Chronicles in the Nineteenth Century

Philip R. Davies

Defending the Boundaries of Israel in the Second Temple Period: 2 Chronicles 20 and the ‘Salvation Army’

James C. VanderKam

Ezra–Nehemiah or Ezra and Nehemiah?

Judson R. Shaver

Ezra and Nehemiah: On the Theological Significance of Making them Contemporaries

Robert P. Carroll

Coopting the Prophets: Nehemiah and Noadiah

Part II

Wisdom, Scribes and Scribalism

R.N. Whybray

Thoughts on the Composition of Proverbs 10–29

James L. Crenshaw

Prohibitions in Proverbs and Qoheleth

David Noel Freedman

Patterns in Psalms 25 and 34

Eugene Ulrich

Ezra and Qoheleth Manuscripts from Qumran (4QEzra and 4QQoha, b)

Walter Harrelson

Wisdom Hidden and Revealed according to Baruch (Baruch 3.9–4.4)

Part III

Early Judaism and its Environment

Joel P. Weinberg

The Perception of ‘Things’ and their Production in the Old Testament Historical Writings

Moshe Weinfeld

The Phases of Human Life in Mesopotamian and Jewish Sources

Vassilios Tzaferis

Cults and Deities Worshipped at Caesarea Philippi-Banias

Part IV

The Theology of the Hebrew Bible

Rolf Rendtorff

Some Reflections on Creation as a Topic of Old Testament Theology

James Barr

‘Thou art the Cherub’: Ezekiel 28:14 and the Post-Ezekiel Understanding of Genesis 2–3

Christiana de Groot van Houten

Remember that you were Aliens: A Traditio-Historical Study

Niels Peter Lemche

The God of Hosea

Bibliography of Joseph Blenkinsopp

Index of References

Index of Authors

Acknowledgments

The editors wish to thank several people for their contributions to the completion of this volume. Alan Krieger, Bibliographer for Philosophy and Theology at the University of Notre Dame, assisted in compiling Professor Blenkinsopp’s bibliography. Professor James Vanderkam aided in editing the Ethiopic. Margaret Jasiewicz and her staff at Notre Dame helped with the computerization of a number of the articles. Robert A. Kugler, Peter W. Flint and Catherine Murphy provided research assistance to complete the editing. To Irene Blenkinsopp also thanks are due for help in initiating this project. The contributors ...