Human Interaction with the Natural World in Wisdom Literature and Beyond : Essays in Honour of Tova L. Forti / [edited by] Mordechai Cogan, Katharine J. Dell and David Glatt-Gilad.
"Created in honor of the work of Professor Tova Forti, this collection will consider the natural world in key wisdom books - Proverbs, Job and Qoheleth/Ecclesiastes, Ben Sira and Song of Songs/Solomon - and also examine particular animal and plant imagery in other texts in the Hebrew Bible. It...
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2022.
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Table of Contents:
- Preface Tribute to Tova Forti Part One: The Natural World in Wisdom Literature
- 1. Of Leeches, Lizards, and Lions: The Contextual Function of Animal Behavior in Proverbs 30:15-33 / Knut Heim (Denver Seminary, USA)
- 2. Ask the Plants': Job's Allusions to Nature Imagery from the Psalms / Will Kynes (Samford University, USA)
- 3. God's View of his Animals in Job 39 / Michael Fox (University of Wisconsin, USA)
- 4. How Behemoth and Leviathan 'Speak' (12:7) to Job / Mark Sneed (Lubbock Christian University, USA)
- 5. The Tree Will Stay Where It Falls?́Ö (Qoh 11:3): The Limits of Knowledge and Human Action in Qohelet 11:1-6 / Nili Wazana (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)
- 6. Mortals cannot abide in their pomp: they are like the animals that perish" (Ps 49:12 [Heb. 13]: An Intertextual approach to Psalm 49 and Qoheleth / Katharine J. Dell (University of Cambridge, UK)
- 7. The Function of Animal Imagery in Ben Sira' Ethics / Samuel L. Adams (Union Presbyterian Seminary, USA)
- 8. An Astonishing Zoo: Sir 11,30 Revisited / Nuria Calduch-Benages (Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome, Italy)
- 9. Imagery of Animals in the Egyptian and Biblical Wisdom Literature / Nili Shupak (University of Haifa, Israel)
- 10. Wise Kings in Assyria and Israel: Mastering the Natural World in Words and Action / Mordechai Cogan (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)
- 11. The Prophetic Tradition of the Day of Yahweh, its Origin and Grounding in the Relationship between God and Nature / Nili Samet (Bar-Ilan University, Israel) Part 2: Animal and Plant Imagery in the Hebrew Bible and Beyond
- 12. A Living Soul: On the Complex Status of Animals in the Bible / Yael Shemesh (Bar-Ilan University, Israel)
- 13. Gazelles: Symbols of Power and Vulnerability in the Hebrew Bible and the Ancient Near East / Jennifer Andruska (Universit©© de Lorraine, France)
- 14. Harmony between Humanity and the natural world in Song of Songs / Brittany Melton (Palm Beach Atlantic University, Florida, USA)
- 15. Vulnerable Lovers: On the Metaphor of the Dove in the Song of Songs / Danilo Verde (KU Leuven, Belgium)
- 16. The Salvia Plant and the Menorah Revisited / Mayer I. Gruber and Allan Witztum (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel)
- 17. The Relationship between 'You Shall Not Let Your Cattle Mate with a Different Kind' (Lev 19:19) and 'You Shall Not Plow with an Ox and an Ass Together' (Deut 22:10): A Reexamination / Eran Viezel (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel)
- 18. Almonds, Flocks, and Classical Rhetoric: The Retelling of Num 17:16-26 in LAB 17 / Atar Livneh (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel)
- 19. Animals Better than Men in the Prophetic Parables of the Hebrew Bible / Alexander Rofé (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)
- 20. The Rhetorical Functions of the Ox/Lamb to Slaughter Imagery / David A. Glatt-Gilad (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel)
- 21. Divine Gift: Sacrifice of Game and Domesticated Animals in Hittite Culture / Ada Taggar-Cohen (Doshisha University, Japan)
- Bibliography
- Index