Ve-Eileh Divrei David: Essays in Semitics, Hebrew Bible and History of Biblical Scholarship

Leiden: Brill, 2017. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. Octavo. xii, 393, (1)pp. Index and 34 page bibliography. Text in English with some Hebrew. Red buckram lettered in yellow. Scratch on front cover, otherwise a fine copy..

"Ve-Eileh Divrei David: Essays in Semitics, Hebrew Bible and History of Biblical Scholarship, covers the career of S. David Sperling, a well-known and respected biblical scholar. It is divided into three sections representing the three foci of the author's work namely, Semitic philology, Bible, and the history of biblical scholarship. The chapters represent a remarkable 40 years of scholarship and convey deep knowledge of a range of topics that is rarely paralleled in today's scholarship." (Publisher)

Contents: Semitic Philology. ḥgr I and ḥgr II -- Akkadian egerrû and HEbrew bt qwl -- Late HEbrew ḥzr and Akkadian saḫāru -- Genesis 41:40 : a new interpretation -- A šu-íl-lá to Ištar (Ebeling Handerhebung 60) -- An Arslan Tash incantation: interpretations and implications -- KAI 24 re-examined -- Aramaic nzh and Akkadian nesû -- ḤBR and friends -- Aramaic spousal misunderstandings -- Talmud:East and West -- Bible. Joshua 24 re-examined -- Deuteronomy 6:4 : a new proposal -- Biblical rḥm I and rḥm II -- Rethinking covenant in late Biblical books -- Pants, Persians, and the prieslty source -- Miriam, Aaron and Moses : sibling rivalry -- The Law and the prophet -- Monotheism and Ancient Israelite religion -- History of Biblical Scholarship. Jewish Biblical scholarship in America : the beginnings -- The Bible at Columbia University.

This is Volume 88 of the Brill series, "Culture and History of the Ancient Near East."