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Index
Title Page Contents Preface Transliteration and Abbreviations THE TEXT OF THE OLD TESTAMENT The Pentateuch Genesis Exodus Leviticus Numbers Deuteronomy The Histories Joshua Judges Ruth Samuel 1 Samuel 2 Samuel Kings 1 Kings 2 Kings Chronicles 1 Chronicles 2 Chronicles Ezra and Nehemiah Ezra Nehemiah Esther Poetry and Wisdom Job Psalms Proverbs Ecclesiastes The Song of Solomon The Prophets Isaiah Jeremiah Lamentations Ezekiel Daniel Hosea Joel Amos Obadiah Jonah Micah Nahum Habakkuk Zephaniah Haggai Zachariah Malachi CONTEXT, RECEPTION, CRITICISM Part I. Ancient Near Eastern Texts Myths and Legends EGYPTIAN MYTHS OF ORIGIN [The One and the Many] The Memphite Cosmology [Creation Equal for Rich and Poor] EPIC TALES FROM MESOPOTAMIA AND CANAAN Enuma Elish (The Babylonian Epic of Creation) [The Battle of Baal and Sea] The Eridu Genesis Atrahasis (the Babylonian Noah) The Epic of Gilgamesh • [Gilgamesh and Enkidu] • [The Story of the Flood] Adapa and the South Wind POPULAR LEGENDS The Two Brothers The Birth Legend of Sargon of Akkad Laws and Treaties Laws of Lipit-Ishtar Laws of Hammurabi Hittite Laws Middle Assyrian Laws Vassal Treaty of Esarhaddon Historical Records The Sumerian King List The Amarna Letters The Moabite Stone Assyrian Royal Annals • Shalmaneser III (battle of Qarqar; siege of Damascus) • Sargon II (deportation of the Samarians) • Sennacherib (siege of Jerusalem) The Babylonian Chronicle • [Battle of Carchemish] • [Conquest of Jerusalem] • [Fall of Babylon] The Cyrus Cylinder The Passover Letter from Elephantine Prophecy The Prophecies of Neferti Egyptian Dream Book Dream Oracle to Thutmose IV Mesopotamian Omens Divination by Stones Mari Letters Book of Balaam (Deir All a Inscriptions) Oracles Concerning Esarhaddon [Apocalyptic Prophecy] Hymns and Prayers The Great Hymn to the Aten Amon as the Sole God Hymn to Enlil Prayer of Kantuzzili Prayer to Ishtar Prayer to Marduk To a Personal God Didactic and Wisdom Literature The Instruction of the Vizier Ptah-Hotep The Instruction of Amenemope Babylonian Counsels of Wisdom Harper’s Song from the Tomb of Intef The Dialogue of Pessimism The Poem of the Righteous Sufferer The Babylonian Theodicy Songs and Laments Egyptian Love Song Sumerian Love Songs Lamentation over the Destruction of Ur Part II. Historical Anthology of Biblical Interpretation Traditional Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Exegesis HELLENISTIC WRITINGS First Book of Enoch • [The Rebel Angels] Jubilees • [Moses Summoned] • [The Creation] • [Enoch] • [The Binding of the Demons] • [The Life of Abraham] • [Conclusion] The Genesis Apocryphon • [Abram and Sarai in Egypt] Commentary on Habakkuk • [The Teacher of Righteousness and the Wicked Priest] Aristobulus • [That the Greeks Borrowed from the Hebrews] Philo of Alexandria • [The Two Adams] • [The Descent of the Soul] • [On Reputation and Outward Observance] Josephus Flavius • [On the canon of sacred scripture] On the Origin of the World (from the Nag Hammadi Library) RABBINIC EXEGESIS Mekilta de-Rabbi Ishmael • [No earlier and later in Torah] • [“An Eye for an Eye”] Targum Pseudo-Jonathan on Genesis 4:1–6; 18:1–25 Genesis Rabbah • [“In the Beginning”] • [The Double Nature of Man] • [Abraham and His Father’s Idols] Leviticus Rabbah • [“Speak…and say” (Saul and the Woman of Endor)] Baba Batra (Babylonian Talmud) • [On the Tables in the Ark] • [The List of Biblical Books] PATRISTIC EXEGESIS Irenaeus • [Despoiling the Egyptians] • [Lot and his Daughters] • [The Two Testaments] Origen • [Threefold Interpretation] • [Carnal and Spiritual Love] Gregory of Nyssa • [Male and Female] • [The Divine Darkness] • [From Glory to Glory] Augustine of Hippo • [Egyptian Gold] • [The Principle of Charity] • [“In the Beginning”] • [Noah’s Ark] ISLAMIC WRITINGS Qur’an• 2:47–57 [The Covenant with Israel] • 2:60–62 [Israel in the Wilderness] • 7:103–26 [Moses and the Egyptian Sorcerers] • 7:142–43 [The Revelation of the Mountain] • 12:22–34 [The Chastity of Joseph] • 21:48–94 [The Community of Prophets] al-Kisa’i • [The Prophet Job] MEDIEVAL JEWISH AND CHRISTIAN EXEGESIS Rashi • Commentary on the Pentateuch (Genesis 1:1; 1:26; Deuteronomy 28:23; 31:23; 32:12) Nachmanides • [How Moses Wrote the Torah] • [“In the Beginning”] The Zohar • [The Creation] • [Male and Female] • [Noah and the Ark] • [Openings] Bernard of Clairvaux • [The “Kiss,” Song of Songs 1:2] Hildegard of Bingen • [Moses’ Vision of God] • Analogy of the Manna • Goliath and David Thomas Aquinas • [On Metaphor] • [The Four Senses of Scripture] Bonaventure • [The Seven Days of Creation] RENAISSANCE AND REFORMATION Giovanni Pico della Mirandola • Exposition of…“In the beginning” Martin Luther • [The Purpose of the Law] John Calvin • [On the Wrestling of Jacob] Lancelot Andrewes • A Sermon [“Touch not Mine anointed”] Philosophical Reflections Moses Maimonides • [The Language of Scripture] • [On Prophecy] • [On Divine Providence] Thomas Aquinas • [The Proper Name of God] • [Can There Be Creation Ex Nihilo?] Thomas Hobbes • [How God Speaks to Man] • [The Pentateuch Not Written by Moses] Algernon Sidney • [Absolute Monarchy Not Conformable to Scripture] Baruch Spinoza • Of the Interpretation of Scripture • The True Authorship of the Sacred Books • In What Respect Scripture Is Called the Word of God Isaac Newton • [The Oldest Religion] Voltaire • David • Moses Immanuel Kant • Conjectural Beginning of Human History G. W. F. Hegel • The Spirit of Judaism Friedrich Nietzsche • [The Grandeur of the Old Testament] Max Weber • The Prophet Martin Buber • The God of the Sufferers Paul Ricoeur • The Infinite Demand and the Finite Commandment Historical-Critical Analysis LETTER AND SPIRIT Julius Wellhausen • [Ordering the Sources] • The Oral and the Written Torah Yehezkel Kaufmann • The Torah and Prophecy • [The Antiquity of the Priestly Writings] LEGEND, HISTORY, IDEOLOGY Hermann Gunkel • The Legends of Genesis E. A. Speiser • The Biblical Idea of History in Its Common Near Eastern Setting Philip R. Davies • [Ancient Israel: A Scholarly Fiction] THE COMPOSITION OF THE PENTATEUCH Gerhard von Rad • The Form-Critical Problem of the Hexateuch Martin Noth • The Major Themes of the Tradition in the Pentateuch and Their Origin Samuel Sandmel • The Haggada Within Scripture Rolf Rendtorff • The ‘Yahwist’ as Theologian? David M. Carr • Textuality and Education in Ancient Israel FROM COVENANT TO CANON Moshe Weinfeld • [Treaty and Covenant] Moshe Greenberg • Some Postulates of Biblical Criminal Law Phyllis A. Bird • The Image of Woman in the Old Testament Laws Joseph Blenkinsopp • [Institution and Charisma] Michael Fishbane • Inner Biblical Exegesis Comparative and Literary Approaches Martin Buber • Leitwort Style in Pentateuch Narrative Erich Auerbach • Odysseus’ Scar Mary Douglas • The Abominations of Leviticus Robert Alter • Characterization and the Art of Reticence Alan Mintz • The Rhetoric of Lamentations Meir Sternberg • Ideology of Narration and Narration of Ideology David Damrosch • Law and Narrative in the Priestly Work Harold Bloom • The Representation of Yahweh James C. Nohrnberg • Justifying Narrative: Commentary within Biblical Storytelling Tikva Frymer-Kensky • The Ideology of Gender Jean-Pierre Sonnet • From Burial Place to Crossing Book Poems and Parables Adam lay ybounden George Herbert • Sion • The Bunch of Grapes Robert Herrick • The Chewing the Cud Henry Vaughan • Religion John Milton • [The Creation] Christopher Smart • Jubilate Agno (man and beast…together) Emily Dickinson • “A little East of Jordan” • “It always felt to me–a wrong” • “The Soul should always stand ajar” • “Elijah’s Wagon knew no thill” A. E. Housman • [Lot’s Wife] Robert Frost • The Most of It • Never Again Would Birds’ Song Be the Same John Hollander • Adam’s Task Jay Macpherson • The Beauty of Job’s Daughters METRICAL PSALMS Thomas Sternhold • “The man is blest that hath not goen” (Psalm 1) Thomas Wyatt • “From depth of sin and from a deep despair” (Psalm 130) Philip Sidney • “The Lord, the Lord my shepheard is” (Psalm 23) Mary Herbert, Countess of Pembroke • “Praise him that ay” (Psalm 117) • “From depth of grief” (Psalm 130) Thomas Carew • “Sitting by the streams that Glide” (Psalm 137) Isaac Watts • “Our God, our help in ages past” (Psalm 90:1–5) HYMNS Charles Wesley • Wrestling Jacob John Newton • Glorious Things of Thee Are Spoken John Marriott • Thou, Whose Almighty Word SPIRITUALS Every Time I Feel the Spirit Let My People Go Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho Swing Low, Sweet Chariot Ezekiel Saw the Wheel (1) Ezekiel Saw the Wheel (2) Ezekiel Said There Was a Wheel in a Wheel IN PROSE Laurence Sterne • The History of Jacob, Considered William Blake • A Memorable Fancy Herman Melville • The Sermon Franz Kafka • The Tower of Babel • Mount Sinai • [In the Wilderness] Thomas Mann • Jacob Must Journey • [The Art of Condensation] Two Exemplary Passages from Genesis THE EXPULSION FROM THE GARDEN (GENESIS 3) Life of Adam and Eve Philo of Alexandria Irenaeus Ephrem the Syrian The Hypostasis of the Archons Qur’an Pirke de Rabbi Eliezer Mystère d’Adam John Calvin John Milton Creation (African American folksong) Julius Wellhausen Phyllis Trible Joel Rosenberg Leslie Brisman Franz Kafka THE BINDING OF ISAAC (GENESIS 22) Jubilees Epistle to the Hebrews Targum Pseudo-Jonathan Genesis Rabbah Augustine of Hippo al-Kisa’i Moses Maimonides John Calvin Søren Kierkegaard Franz Kafka Benno Jacob E. A. Speiser Anthony Hecht Part III. On Translation Gerald Hammond • English Translations of the Bible Survey of English Translations from Wycliff to the Present • Genesis 1:1–8 • Psalm 23 The Translators to the Readers (Translators’ preface from 1611) DIAGRAMS, CHARTS, TIMELINE, AND MAPS The tabernacle The wilderness camp Temple of Solomon Ezekiel’s apportionment of the land and the sacred reserve Traditional Orders for the Books in the Hebrew Bible Kings and Prophets of Judah and Israel Ancient Near Eastern Chronology MAPS The Ancient Near East Sinai and the Wilderness Tribal Allotments The Kingdom of David and Solomon and the Divided Kingdom Permissions Acknowledgments Copyright
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