The ambiguity in Isa 54:16a concerning the identity of the subject (YHWH or the smith) of the two... more The ambiguity in Isa 54:16a concerning the identity of the subject (YHWH or the smith) of the two verbs relating a metallurgical action (to blow and to cast) is identified here as a rhetorical device intending to conceal the essential relation of YHWH with metallurgy. Integrated in the whole Isa 54 chapter, this device becomes a plea for the definitive replacement of Edom with Israel as YHWH’S people, exactly as in Isa 34-35 and Isa 61-63.
This paper follows the use of numbers from the Bible and Ancient Near Eastern literature, through... more This paper follows the use of numbers from the Bible and Ancient Near Eastern literature, through the book of Ben-Sira, and ultimately to the Rabbinic literature. We show that the Rabbis were familiar with the Biblical use of numbers as rhetorical devices and used numbers in the same ways that the Bible did.
One of the most famous stories in Ugaritic literature is the legend of Aqht that was found at Ras... more One of the most famous stories in Ugaritic literature is the legend of Aqht that was found at Ras Shamra, Syria, during the early 1930s. Written in Ugaritic script and spread over three worn and broken tablets, this text has been thoroughly studied for the past eighty years. More than a few studies have dealt with the following questions: Is the end of the known text in the third tablet really the end of the story? Or is there perhaps a missing tablet, or tablets, that continue the plot from the third tablet (KTU 1.19)? These questions have been answered on the basis of storyline and plot, and many believe that there must have been more contents that complete this story and that it cannot end where the text ends. In this paper we have tried to answer this question based on epigraphic evidence found in the third tablet of the Aqht legend. After carefully examining four unique features of this tablet, we conclude that KTU 1.19 is, in fact, the last one of this specific sequence. We su...
ABSTRACT The study of parallel texts in Hebrew Scripture and the variations, small and great, bet... more ABSTRACT The study of parallel texts in Hebrew Scripture and the variations, small and great, between them has a long history. Scholars have called attention to two kinds of variations. The first kind of variation includes slight changes in the order of the elements, which results in a chiastic structure. The second kind of variation involves the substitution of alternate synonymous words and/ or phrases. 1 Assuming that the respective variations are significant on the level 1. Gershon Brin and Yair Hoffman, "Chiasmus in the Bible," in Moshe Zeidel Jubilee Vol-ume (Jerusalem: Israel Society of Biblical Research, 1962) 280–88 [Hebrew]; Avi Hurvitz, "Diachronic Chiasmus in Biblical Hebrew," in Studies in Bible and Jewish History in Memory of Jacob Liver (ed. Binyamin Uffenheimer; Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv University Faculty of Humani-ties, 1971) 248–55 [Hebrew]; Yitzhak Avishur, "The Forms of Repetition of Numbers In-dicating Wholeness (3, 7, 10) in the Bible and in Ancient Semitic Literature," Beer Sheva 1 (1973) 1–55 [Hebrew], especially pp. 2–17 and 33–36; idem, Repetition and Parallelism in Biblical and Ancient Semitic Literatures (Tel Aviv–Jaffa: Archaeological Center Publications, 2002) [Hebrew]. Avishur deals with the phenomenon of word-for-word repetition in par-allel clauses and in the variations introduced when a given clause is repeated in a different context. Avishur attempts to account for the variations in repeated versets chronologically. See also Meir Paran, Repeated Proverbs and the Study of the Development of the Proverb (M.A. Thesis; Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1975) [Hebrew]; Paran also deals with the phe-nomenon in question frequently in his Forms of the Priestly Style in the Pentateuch (Jerusalem: Magnes, 1989) [Hebrew]. Likewise, Yair Zakovitch frequently provides important insights into the matter under discussion in his Literary Pattern of Three and Four in the Bible (Jerusa-lem: Makor, 1979) [Hebrew]. Adele Berlin examines the forms of stylistic variation in eleven psalms that share the common idea of God's hearkening to the prayer of the psalmist (The Dynamics of Biblical Parallelism [Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1985] 127–30). She shows that the variation is accomplished in a variety of ways. See also Isaac Kalimi, The Author's note : This article is dedicated with great admiration to Professor Michael Fox in recognition of his tremendous contributions to biblical research and especially to the study of biblical wisdom literature.
The ambiguity in Isa 54:16a concerning the identity of the subject (YHWH or the smith) of the two... more The ambiguity in Isa 54:16a concerning the identity of the subject (YHWH or the smith) of the two verbs relating a metallurgical action (to blow and to cast) is identified here as a rhetorical device intending to conceal the essential relation of YHWH with metallurgy. Integrated in the whole Isa 54 chapter, this device becomes a plea for the definitive replacement of Edom with Israel as YHWH’S people, exactly as in Isa 34-35 and Isa 61-63.
This paper follows the use of numbers from the Bible and Ancient Near Eastern literature, through... more This paper follows the use of numbers from the Bible and Ancient Near Eastern literature, through the book of Ben-Sira, and ultimately to the Rabbinic literature. We show that the Rabbis were familiar with the Biblical use of numbers as rhetorical devices and used numbers in the same ways that the Bible did.
One of the most famous stories in Ugaritic literature is the legend of Aqht that was found at Ras... more One of the most famous stories in Ugaritic literature is the legend of Aqht that was found at Ras Shamra, Syria, during the early 1930s. Written in Ugaritic script and spread over three worn and broken tablets, this text has been thoroughly studied for the past eighty years. More than a few studies have dealt with the following questions: Is the end of the known text in the third tablet really the end of the story? Or is there perhaps a missing tablet, or tablets, that continue the plot from the third tablet (KTU 1.19)? These questions have been answered on the basis of storyline and plot, and many believe that there must have been more contents that complete this story and that it cannot end where the text ends. In this paper we have tried to answer this question based on epigraphic evidence found in the third tablet of the Aqht legend. After carefully examining four unique features of this tablet, we conclude that KTU 1.19 is, in fact, the last one of this specific sequence. We su...
ABSTRACT The study of parallel texts in Hebrew Scripture and the variations, small and great, bet... more ABSTRACT The study of parallel texts in Hebrew Scripture and the variations, small and great, between them has a long history. Scholars have called attention to two kinds of variations. The first kind of variation includes slight changes in the order of the elements, which results in a chiastic structure. The second kind of variation involves the substitution of alternate synonymous words and/ or phrases. 1 Assuming that the respective variations are significant on the level 1. Gershon Brin and Yair Hoffman, "Chiasmus in the Bible," in Moshe Zeidel Jubilee Vol-ume (Jerusalem: Israel Society of Biblical Research, 1962) 280–88 [Hebrew]; Avi Hurvitz, "Diachronic Chiasmus in Biblical Hebrew," in Studies in Bible and Jewish History in Memory of Jacob Liver (ed. Binyamin Uffenheimer; Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv University Faculty of Humani-ties, 1971) 248–55 [Hebrew]; Yitzhak Avishur, "The Forms of Repetition of Numbers In-dicating Wholeness (3, 7, 10) in the Bible and in Ancient Semitic Literature," Beer Sheva 1 (1973) 1–55 [Hebrew], especially pp. 2–17 and 33–36; idem, Repetition and Parallelism in Biblical and Ancient Semitic Literatures (Tel Aviv–Jaffa: Archaeological Center Publications, 2002) [Hebrew]. Avishur deals with the phenomenon of word-for-word repetition in par-allel clauses and in the variations introduced when a given clause is repeated in a different context. Avishur attempts to account for the variations in repeated versets chronologically. See also Meir Paran, Repeated Proverbs and the Study of the Development of the Proverb (M.A. Thesis; Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1975) [Hebrew]; Paran also deals with the phe-nomenon in question frequently in his Forms of the Priestly Style in the Pentateuch (Jerusalem: Magnes, 1989) [Hebrew]. Likewise, Yair Zakovitch frequently provides important insights into the matter under discussion in his Literary Pattern of Three and Four in the Bible (Jerusa-lem: Makor, 1979) [Hebrew]. Adele Berlin examines the forms of stylistic variation in eleven psalms that share the common idea of God's hearkening to the prayer of the psalmist (The Dynamics of Biblical Parallelism [Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1985] 127–30). She shows that the variation is accomplished in a variety of ways. See also Isaac Kalimi, The Author's note : This article is dedicated with great admiration to Professor Michael Fox in recognition of his tremendous contributions to biblical research and especially to the study of biblical wisdom literature.
Intensified Repetition and its Contribution to Stylistic Analysis and Exegesis Developed and Complex Patterns of Expanded Repetition by Means of Construct-State Expressions in Biblical, Post-Biblical and Ancient Near Eastern Literature, Beer-Sheva-Jerusalem , 2020
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