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Making a difference : essays on the Bible and Judaism in honor of Tamara Cohn Eskenazi / edited by David J. A. Clines, Kent Harold Richards and Jacob L. Wright.

Contributor(s): Eskenazi, Tamara Cohn | Clines, David J. A | Richards, Kent Harold, 1939- | Wright, Jacob L
Material type: TextTextSeries: Hebrew Bible monographs: 49.Publisher: Sheffield : Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2012Description: xxiv, 367 pages : portrait ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781907534720 (Cloth); 1907534725 (Cloth)Subject(s): Bible. Old Testament -- Criticism, interpretation, etc | Bible -- Criticism, interpretation, etc | Bible. Old Testament -- Criticism, interpretation, etc., Jewish | Judaism | Eskenazi, Tamara Cohn -- BibliographyBibliography, Etc. Note: Includes a bibliography of Tamara Eskenazi.; Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents:
Rabbinic dirges and the voices of women in lament / Rachel Adler -- The sweet lie of metaphor : Levinas's reflections on metaphor and their implications for biblical hermeneutics / Annette Aronowicz -- Educating Jewish girls in medieval Muslim and Christian settings / Judith R. Baskin -- Madame Potiphar revisited out of and in the classroom / Athalya Brenner -- The politics of marriage in Genesis / Mark G. Brett -- The voice and the book / Catherine Chalier -- The failure of the flood / David J.A. Clines -- Micah Yosef Berdyczewski and the new Jewish mimesis : two stories in honor of Tamara C. Eskenazi / William Cutter -- Pual vis-a-vis Levinas / Pamela Eisenbaum -- A Zionist reading of Abraham Geiger and his biblical scholarship / David Ellenson -- The law triumphant : another look at 1 Esdras / Lisbeth S. Fried -- Standing again at Sinai? / Frederick E. Greenspahn -- The composition of Ezra-Nehemiah from the perspective of a medieval Jewish commentator / Sara Japhet --
The Samaritan schism or the judaization of Samaria? : reassessing Josephus's account of the Mt. Gerizim Temple / Gary N. Knoppers -- Levinas on prophecy / Francis Landy -- 'Where were you when I founded the earth?' : poetic subversions of a human-centered world in Job / Adriane Leveen -- Making a difference, then and now : the very different lives and afterlives of Dinah and Rizpah / Heather A. McKay -- Blood in the post-flood world / David L. Petersen -- Farewell to 'Mr. So and So' (Ruth 4.1)? / Jack M. Sasson -- Rendering the rending of the veil : what difference does it make? / Jesper Svartvik -- Eschatology in the Book of Ezekiel / Marvin A. Sweeney -- Difference among the distaff : a reading of Exodus 1.1-2.10 / Phyllis Trible -- Amos and the cult / Gene M. Tucker -- Motives behind the biblical mixed metaphors / Andrea L. Weiss -- Scribe and scroll : revisiting the great Isaiah Scroll from Qumran / H.G.M. Williamson -- Between nation and state in the Book of Samuel : the case of Ittai the Gittite / Jacob L. Wright.

Festschrift.

Includes a bibliography of Tamara Eskenazi.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Rabbinic dirges and the voices of women in lament / Rachel Adler -- The sweet lie of metaphor : Levinas's reflections on metaphor and their implications for biblical hermeneutics / Annette Aronowicz -- Educating Jewish girls in medieval Muslim and Christian settings / Judith R. Baskin -- Madame Potiphar revisited out of and in the classroom / Athalya Brenner -- The politics of marriage in Genesis / Mark G. Brett -- The voice and the book / Catherine Chalier -- The failure of the flood / David J.A. Clines -- Micah Yosef Berdyczewski and the new Jewish mimesis : two stories in honor of Tamara C. Eskenazi / William Cutter -- Pual vis-a-vis Levinas / Pamela Eisenbaum -- A Zionist reading of Abraham Geiger and his biblical scholarship / David Ellenson -- The law triumphant : another look at 1 Esdras / Lisbeth S. Fried -- Standing again at Sinai? / Frederick E. Greenspahn -- The composition of Ezra-Nehemiah from the perspective of a medieval Jewish commentator / Sara Japhet --

The Samaritan schism or the judaization of Samaria? : reassessing Josephus's account of the Mt. Gerizim Temple / Gary N. Knoppers -- Levinas on prophecy / Francis Landy -- 'Where were you when I founded the earth?' : poetic subversions of a human-centered world in Job / Adriane Leveen -- Making a difference, then and now : the very different lives and afterlives of Dinah and Rizpah / Heather A. McKay -- Blood in the post-flood world / David L. Petersen -- Farewell to 'Mr. So and So' (Ruth 4.1)? / Jack M. Sasson -- Rendering the rending of the veil : what difference does it make? / Jesper Svartvik -- Eschatology in the Book of Ezekiel / Marvin A. Sweeney -- Difference among the distaff : a reading of Exodus 1.1-2.10 / Phyllis Trible -- Amos and the cult / Gene M. Tucker -- Motives behind the biblical mixed metaphors / Andrea L. Weiss -- Scribe and scroll : revisiting the great Isaiah Scroll from Qumran / H.G.M. Williamson -- Between nation and state in the Book of Samuel : the case of Ittai the Gittite / Jacob L. Wright.

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