Table of Contents

Michael V. Fox: A Tribute

The Publications of Michael V. Fox: Overview and Bibliography—Lawrence J. Mykytiuk

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Part 1 “Seeking Out Wisdom and Concerned with Prophecies” (Sirach 39:1): Studies in Biblical Texts

Observations on Ezekiel as a Book Prophet—Menahem Haran

The Decrees of Yahweh That Are “Not Good”: Ezekiel 20:25–26—Kelvin G. Friebel

Ellipsis Involving Negation in Biblical Poetry—Cynthia L. Miller

Psalm 18 and 2 Samuel 22: Two Versions of the Same Song—Theron Young

The Wisdom of Creation in Psalm 104—Adele Berlin

“Come, O Children I Will Teach You the Fear of the Lord” (Psalm 34:12): Comparing Psalms and Proverbs—William P. Brown

A Proverb in the Mouth of a Fool—James L. Crenshaw

Genericity, Tense, and Verbal Patterns in the Sentence Literature of Proverbs—John A. Cook

Word Order in the Book of Proverbs—Robert D. Holmstedt

Exegetical and Stylistic Analysis of a Number of Aphorisms in the Book of Proverbs: Mitigation of Monotony in Repetitions in Parallel Texts—Shamir Yona

Forming “Fearers of Yahweh”: Repetition and Contradiction as Pedagogy in Proverbs—Christine Roy Yoder

Visual Metaphors and Proverbs 5:15–20: Some Archaeological Reflections on Gendered Iconography—Carole R. Fontaine

The Instruction of Amenemope and Proverbs 22:17–24:22 from the Perspective of Contemporary Research—Nili Shupak

The Woman of Valor and A Woman Large of Head: Matchmaking in the Ancient Near East—Victor Avigdor Hurowitz

The Fly and the Dog: Observations on Ideational Polarity in the Book of Qoheleth—Tova Forti

A Sense of Timing: A Neglected Aspect of Qoheleth’s Wisdom—Richard L. Schultz

The Little Sister and Solomon’s Vineyard: Song of Songs 8:8–12 as a Lovers’ Dialogue—J. Cheryl Exum

Answering Questions, Questioning Answers: The Rhetoric of Interrogatives in the Speeches of Job and His Friends—Dennis R. Magary

Part 2 “Preserving the Sayings of the Famous” (Sirach 39:2): Text, Versions, and Method

The Mysterious Disappearance of Zerubbabel—Theodore J. Lewis

Textual Criticism of the Book of Deuteronomy and the Oxford Hebrew Bible Project—Sidnie White Crawford

What’s in a Name? Contemporization and Toponyms in LXX-Isaiah—Ronald L. Troxel

Characterization in the Old Greek of Job—Karl V. Kutz

On the Influence of Job on Jewish Hellenistic Literature—Heidi M. Szpek

Becoming Canon: Women, Texts, and Scribes in Proverbs and Sirach—Claudia V. Camp

Translating Biblical Words of Wisdom into the Modern World—Leonard Greenspoon

The Text-Critical Value of the Septuagint of Proverbs—Johann Cook

Christian Aramaism: The Birth and Growth of Aramaic Scholarship in the Sixteenth Century—Stephen G. Burnett

Spying out the Land: A Report from Genology—Carol A. Newsom

What’s in a Calendar? Calendar Conformity, Calendar Controversy, and Calendar Reform in Ancient and Medieval Judaism—Shemaryahu Talmon

Competing Commentaries—Frederick E. Greenspahn

Index of Authors

Index of Scripture