Zipi Talshir’s work on the evolution, formation, and transmission of the Hebrew Bible throughout her academic career, her remarkable ability to integrate the Septuagint into this research, and her profound understanding of the late books of the Hebrew Bible and the process of canonization are well known and appreciated. In this volume, 21 of Talshir’s colleagues and students contribute essays in her honor on these topics that are so close to her heart. A bibliography of her publications and a short biography open and complete this compelling volume presented by renowned authors in the field from all over Europe, Israel, and the U.S.
Septuagint and Samareitikon—Jan Joosten
The Text-Critical Contribution of the Antiochean Greek and Old Latin Texts—Case Study: 2 Kings 8:10–11—Julio Trebolle Barrera
The Genealogical Lists in Genesis 5 and 11 in Three Different Versions—Emanuel Tov
An Identical Scribal Mistake in 1 Kings 9 and 2 Chronicles 7: Consequences for the Textual History of Kings and Chronicles—Adrian Schenker
Text and Context: The Textual Elimination of the Names of Gods and Its Literary, Administrative, and Legal Context—Alexander Rofé
Once Again: Hosea and the Pentateuchal Traditions—Erhard Blum
Ezekiel, a Singer of Erotic Songs? Some Text-Critical Remarks on Ezekiel 33:31–32—Johan Lust
If You Go Down to the Woods Today: B(e)aring the Text of Proverbs MT and LXX—Tova Forti
Numbers 36:13: The Transition between Numbers and Deuteronomy and the Redaction of the Pentateuch—Itamar Kislev
Bel and the Dragon: The Relationship between Theodotion and the Old Greek—Dalia Amara
The Masoretic Rewriting of Daniel 4–6: The Septuagint Version as Witness—Olivier Munnich
Speaking about God: Person Deixis in Malachi (Text and Versions)—Jonathan Ben-Dov and Romina Vergari
Echoes of Solomon and Nehemiah: Hezekiah’s Cultic Reforms in the Book of Chronicles—David A. Glatt-Gilad
Textual History through the Prism of Historical Linguistics: The Case of Biblical Hebrew z-m-r—Noam Mizrahi
Whodunit? Implicit Subject, Discourse Structure, and Pragmatics in the Hebrew and Greek Bibles—Frank H. Polak
Weighing in the Scales: How an Egyptian Concept Made Its Way into Biblical and Postbiblical Literature—Nili Shupak
The Rabbinic Sages’ Allegation about LXX Genesis 1:1: Bickerman’s Cogent Explanation—Mayer I. Gruber
When Did the Books of Samuel Become Scripture?—Anneli Aejmelaeus
What Is a Biblical Book?—Ronald Hendel
Revelatory Experiences as the Beginning of Scripture: Paul’s Letters and the Prophets in the Hebrew Bible—Roland Deines
The Canonization of the Hebrew Bible in Light of Second Temple Literature—Cana Werman
