A Sage in New Haven
Essays on the Prophets, the Writings, and the Ancient World in Honor of Robert R. Wilson
edited by Alison Acker Gruseke and Carolyn J. Sharp
“A Sage in New Haven” pays tribute to Professor Robert R. Wilson, Yale University’s Hoober Professor emeritus of Religious Studies and Professor emeritus of Old Testament. The festschrift is composed of two sections. Each section represents a biblical corpus or area of study in which Bob Wilson has made significant contributions. Part I addresses subjects related to the Prophets and Part II to the Writings, the ancient Near East, and their scholarship.
“A Sage in New Haven” pays tribute to Professor Robert R. Wilson, Yale University’s Hoober Professor emeritus of Religious Studies and Professor emeritus of Old Testament. The festschrift is composed of two sections. Each section represents a biblical corpus or area of study in which Bob Wilson has made significant contributions. Part I addresses subjects related to the Prophets and Part II to the Writings, the ancient Near East, and their scholarship. Altogether 32 essays are devoted among other topics to “Males and Sexual Assault in Isaiah 56:1-8”, “Genre Multiplicity in Micah 6:1-8”, “The Human Body in Judges”, “Og in Biblical Historiography and Postbiblical Contexts”, “Millenarianism in Ancient Judaism”, “Yale and the Bible: 1886-1925”, “Aging in Ancient Israelite and Jewish Instructions”, “Mechanisms of Persuasion in the Sefire Inscriptions”, “Rituals for Keeping Infants Safe and Quiet in the Ancient Near East”, … to list just a few.
Publications of Robert R. Wilson Alison Acker Gruseke: A Sage in New Haven Marches to the Beat of His Own Drum: The Inimitable Wit and Wisdom of Robert Rutherford Wilson Part I: Between Heaven and Earth: Prophecy and Society in the Ancient Near East Karel van der Toorn: The Sons of the Prophets: Movement, Guild, Order, or Sect? Joel Baden: Situating Balaam Susan Niditch: Tradition and Variation in Tales of National Foundation: Og in Biblical Historiography and Postbiblical Contexts Mark S. Smith: The Name(s) of the Book of Judges in the Persian and Hellenistic Periods: Observations and Reflections Gregory Mobley: The Human Body in Judges Elizabeth Bloch-Smith: Breaking Ground: Archaeologys Contribution to the Redaction of the Shechem Temple Narrative (Judges 9:4649) Roy L. Heller: Nathans Sixth Sense: Russian Formalism, Cinematic Technique, and the Character of a Prophet Stephen L. Cook: All Flesh, Together: The Divine Glorys Tractive Force in Isaiah 4066 Corrine Carvalho: Eunuchs and Foreigners: Males and Sexual Assault in Isaiah 56:18 Louis Stulman: The Prose Discourses of Jeremiah 125 as Legitimation for the Collapse of Early Sixth-Century Judean Society Jaime L. Waters: Pain and Provocation: A Social-Scientific Reading of Jeremiah 15 Heath D. Dewrell: How Prophecy Gets Written: Hosea, Redactors, and Neo-Assyrian Prophecy Tyler D. Mayfield: Genre Multiplicity in Micah 6:18: A Non-Legal rib and an Entrance Liturgy Paul N. Anderson: On Doing Justice, Loving Mercy, and Walking Humbly in Micah 6:8: The Peaceable Ways of Israels God, Then and Now Part II: My Tongue is the Pen of a Skillful Scribe: Scholars, Scholarship, and the Shaping of Tradition in the Ancient and Modern Worlds Mark Lester: Conveying the Covenant: Mechanisms of Persuasion in the Sefire Inscriptions Marc Zvi Brettler: Pandemics and Pilgrimages: A Suggested Sitz im Leben for Psalm 91 Peter Machinist: Psalm 137: Another Look Judy Fentress-Williams: Lord, How Come Me Here? Psalms and Spirituals as Sanctuaries Carol M. Bechtel: Upstairs, Downstairs: Hermeneutical Insights Based on the Structure of Jobs Prologue F. W. Dobbs-Allsopp: Signs of Writing (Poetry) in Lamentations Samuel L. Adams: The Intractable Problem of Aging in Ancient Israelite and Jewish Instructions Laura Carlson Hasler: Radiant Genealogies: A Note on Genealogy and History in the Biblical World Susan Ackerman: Battle Horns and Frame Drums Kristine Henriksen Garroway: Hush, Little Child: Rituals for Keeping Infants Safe and Quiet in the Ancient Near East Julie Faith Parker: Call Them Ishmael: A Childist Investigation of Israels First Son as a Powerful Precedent Stephen B. Chapman: Historical Criticism, Moral Judgment, and the Future of the Past John J. Collins: Modalities of Millenarianism in Ancient Judaism Dong-Hyuk Kim: Let Your Yes Be Yes and Your No Be No: The Absence of Answer Particles in Biblical Hebrew and Some Related Issues Eric D. Reymond: Irregular Short-Yiq?ol Forms in Late Second Temple Hebrew Steven D. Fraade: Ezra the Scribe and the (Purported) Origins of Targum Claire Mathews McGinnis: The Hardening of Pharaohs Heart in Tradition- and Reception-History Benjamin R. Foster: Yale and the Bible: 18861925 Abbreviations Contributors Index
- Edited by Alison Acker Gruseke
- Edited by Carolyn J. Sharp
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