Studies on the Text and Versions of the Hebrew Bible in Honour of Robert Gordon

Biographical note Readership Table of contents

Publication Type:

Book

Pages, Illustrations:

xxii, 436 pp.

Imprint:

BRILL

Language:

English

Biographical note

Geoffrey Khan, Ph.D. (1984) in Semitic Languages, School of Oriental and African Studies, London, is Professor of Semitic Philology at the Univeristy of Cambridge. He has published in the field of Hebrew and Semitic philology.

Diana Lipton wrote her Ph.D. on dreams in Genesis at Cambridge University under the supervision of Robert Gordon (1996). She was a Fellow of Newnham College Cambridge and latterly Reader in Hebrew Bible and Jewish Studies at King's College London.

Readership

Scholars, students and educated lay-people concerned with inner-biblical interpretation, as well as linguistic, ideological and theological approaches to the translations and versions.

Contributors include: James K. Aitken; Philip Alexander; Hans M. Barstad; William D. Barker; Kevin J. Cathcart; Ronald E. Clements; David D.A. Clines; Graham Davies; Rodrigo de Sousa; Katharine J. Dell; Jennifer Dines; Sue E. Gillingham; Robert Hayward; John F. Healey; Charlotte Hempel; William Horbury; Geoffrey Khan; Diana Lipton; V. Philips Long; Nathan MacDonald; Andrew A. Macintosh;Martin McNamara; Brian A. Mastin; Alan Millard; Stefan C. Reif; Arie van der Kooij; Peter J. Williams; Hugh G.M. Williamson.

€103.00$133.00

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158

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ISBN13:

9789004251663

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156

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9789004235601

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155

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9789004216082

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Hezekiah in History and Tradition

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154

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152

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151

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9789004223370

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150

Version:

ISBN13:

9789004206748

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Two Books of Ezekiel

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Congress Volume Helsinki 2010

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