Books in the Beihefte zur Zeitschrift fur die Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft series

What is said about God in Ben Sira is illuminated against Old and New Testament background. This volume of proceedings contains separate, overarching and exegetic studies on the subject matter. There is a broad consideration of Jewish influence throughout history.

Das Buch untersucht die unter der Bezeichnung Konfessionen Jeremias"e; bekannten Gebete (Jer 11,18-12,6; 15,10-21; 17,14-18; 18,18-23; 20,7-18) aus redaktionskritischer Perspektive. Anstatt direkt auf die Einzeltexte zuzugreifen und in einem zweiten Schritt nach ihrem Weg ins Jeremiabuch zu fragen, wird der umgekehrte Weg gewahlt. Ausgangspunkt der Exegese ist daher das Jeremiabuch in seinen verschiedenen Endgestalten (MT und LXX). Es wird zunachst die literarische und literargenetische Beziehung jedes der funf Abschnitte zu seinem Kontext untersucht, um dann in einem weiteren Schritt die Klagen selbst auf ihre literarische Einheitlichkeit hin zu befragen. Auf diesem Wege ergibt sich eine diachrone Analyse von Jer 11-20, welche die Konfessionen als relativ spate Einschreibungstexte fur ihren jeweiligen Kontext verstehbar macht. Sie artikulieren durch den Mund des Propheten das Problem der Kompatibilitat von Erwahlung und Leiden. Durch verschiedene Fortschreibungsschube wird Jeremia dadurch zum Paradigma des leidenden Propheten, des leidenden Gerechten, des leidenden Israel und schlielich des leidenden Menschen schlechthin. Dabei ubernehmen die Klagen eine buchstrukturierende Rolle nicht nur im Bereich von Jer 11-20, sondern auch von Jer 1-20; 1-45 und 1-51.

The series Beihefte zur Zeitschrift fur die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft (BZAW) covers all areas of research into the Old Testament, focusing on the Hebrew Bible, its early and later forms in Ancient Judaism, as well as its branching into many neighboring cultures of the Ancient Near East and the Greco-Roman world.

The series Beihefte zur Zeitschrift fur die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft (BZAW) covers all areas of research into the Old Testament, focusing on the Hebrew Bible, its early and later forms in Ancient Judaism, as well as its branching into many neighboring cultures of the Ancient Near East and the Greco-Roman world.

The series Beihefte zur Zeitschrift fur die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft (BZAW) covers all areas of research into the Old Testament, focusing on the Hebrew Bible, its early and later forms in Ancient Judaism, as well as its branching into many neighboring cultures of the Ancient Near East and the Greco-Roman world.

For some years the view has become established that the Book of the Twelve is a systematically structured literary unity. The papers collected here attempt to reveal significant structures which overarch the individual components.

The series Beihefte zur Zeitschrift fur die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft (BZAW) covers all areas of research into the Old Testament, focusing on the Hebrew Bible, its early and later forms in Ancient Judaism, as well as its branching into many neighboring cultures of the Ancient Near East and the Greco-Roman world.

This book examines the literary genre(s) to which the book of Qoheleth belongs and on which it is modelled. It suggests that Qoheleth is best described as a royal autobiography based on the arguments of specific literary features of style and content, resemblance to various kinds of royal autobiographical narrative from the ancient Near East, and the existence, despite first impressions, of a coherent worldview. The analyses in this book cover various aspects from textual criticism, through aspects of vocabulary and style, to the interpretation of particular passages and the problem of making sense of the book as a whole.

The series Beihefte zur Zeitschrift fur die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft (BZAW) covers all areas of research into the Old Testament, focusing on the Hebrew Bible, its early and later forms in Ancient Judaism, as well as its branching into many neighboring cultures of the Ancient Near East and the Greco-Roman world.

Die Studie untersucht die Prosatexte des Hiobbuches und ihr Verhaltnis zu den poetischen Dialogen des Buches. Eine detaillierte literarkritische Analyse der Prosatexte (Hiob 1,1-2,13; 32,1-5; 42,7-17) bildet den Kern der Arbeit, erganzt um eine Untersuchung der inhaltlich verwandten poetischen Texte (insbesondere Hiob 27-31). Die redaktionsgeschichtliche Auswertung der Beobachtungen fuhrt zu dem Ergebnis, dass ein Redaktor Vorformen des Hiobdialoges und der Hioberzahlung zu einem Gesamtwerk verbunden und so das die Rezeptionsgeschichte bestimmende Hiobbild gepragt hat.

Die Monographie untersucht die Königspsalmen vor dem Hintergrund der neueren Psalmen- und Psalterforschung, die sich neben einer genauen Untersuchung der Einzeltexte auch den Verbindungen zwischen den einzelnen Psalmen zuwendet. Entgegen der These einer ausschließlich vorexilischen Entstehung der Königspsalmen weist die detaillierte Analyse der Texte auf eine über das Exil hinausgehende literarische Entwicklung und eine zusammenhängende Theologie der Königspsalmen hin.

This text is an an interpretation of Leviticus 20. In addition to classical methods of exegesis, it also uses other approaches, particularly from cultural anthropology.

Besides two hitherto unpublished papers, this collection contains 15 of Rainer Albertz' papers from the period 1978 - 2000. They reflect the author's concern to understand biblical developments against the background of the religious and socio-historical developments and currents in Israel and the Ancient Orient. The volume includes, for example, reflections on the development of the tradition of prehistory, of the commandment to honour one's parents, of the issue of monotheism, or of the significance of personal piety. The collection is completed with socio-historical studies on the social background to the Book of Job or the moving forces behind the Deuteronomistic History, together with approaches to the editorial history of the Books of Jeremiah and Deuteroisaiah.

In diesem Band werden detaillierte Kommentierungen der Psalmen 1-3, 6, 11, 13, 72, 81, 82, 88, 127, 137 und 149 sowie Einzelabhandlungen zur Problematik der Zitat-Vernetzung zwischen Ugarit-Texten und Psalmen und zur Politischen Theologie des Konigtums vorgelegt. Dabei werden neue Erkenntnisse der Altorientalistik und Ugaritologie fur die poetische, philologische und theologische Interpretation der Psalmen fruchtbar gemacht.

The series Beihefte zur Zeitschrift fur die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft (BZAW) covers all areas of research into the Old Testament, focusing on the Hebrew Bible, its early and later forms in Ancient Judaism, as well as its branching into many neighboring cultures of the Ancient Near East and the Greco-Roman world.

This volume examines the use of citation formulae in the Old Testament. After demonstrating the lack of consensus and method in the treatment of such exegetical devices, the author addresses the need for a sustained examination of citation formulae and related expressions.

The focus of this book is on early Jewish interpretations of the ambiguous relationship between God and the angel of the Lord/God' in texts like Genesis 16, 22 and 31. Genesis 32 is included since it exhibits the same ambiguity and constitutes an inseparable part of the Jacob saga. The study is set in the wider context of the development of angelology and concepts of God in various forms of early Judaism.When identifying patterns of interpretation in Jewish texts, their chronological setting is less important than the nature of the biblical source texts. For example, a common pattern is the avoidance of anthropomorphism. In Genesis the angel of the Lord' generally seems to be a kind of impersonal extension of God, while later Jewish writings are characterized by a more individualized angelology, but the ambivalence between God and his angel remains in many interpretations. In Philo's works and Wisdom of Solomon, the Logos' and Lady Wisdom' respectively have assumed the role of the biblical angel of the Lord'. Although the angelology of Second Temple Judaism had developed in the direction of seeing angels as distinct personalities, Judaism still had room for the idea of divine hypostases.

Subjects the conventional processes of literary criticism to a critical analysis which shows up the weaknesses of arguments from literary criticism in the Old Testament. It explores new ways for literary criticism using a concept of text derived from modern literary theories and statistics.

This volume draws together the author's studies on the concept of the Messiah in the Old Testament, and is primarily a revision of his up to now unpublished 1986 inaugural dissertation, as well as other essays.

The series Beihefte zur Zeitschrift fur die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft (BZAW) covers all areas of research into the Old Testament, focusing on the Hebrew Bible, its early and later forms in Ancient Judaism, as well as its branching into many neighboring cultures of the Ancient Near East and the Greco-Roman world.

The series Beihefte zur Zeitschrift fur die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft (BZAW) covers all areas of research into the Old Testament, focusing on the Hebrew Bible, its early and later forms in Ancient Judaism, as well as its branching into many neighboring cultures of the Ancient Near East and the Greco-Roman world.

Exegetical study of Proverbs 10:1 22:16. Proverbs are neither statements of this-worldly cause and effect nor universally applicable doctrines of divine order. Rather, a proverb's meaning and truth' are conditioned by the context. The author delimits sections which the editor(s) of the collection consciously grouped together in their present sequence. He then examines how these literary arrangements both influence the meaning of the individual proverbs and determine their function in context. Indexes of names, passages and subjects are included.

The series Beihefte zur Zeitschrift fur die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft (BZAW) covers all areas of research into the Old Testament, focusing on the Hebrew Bible, its early and later forms in Ancient Judaism, as well as its branching into many neighboring cultures of the Ancient Near East and the Greco-Roman world.

The series Beihefte zur Zeitschrift fur die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft (BZAW) covers all areas of research into the Old Testament, focusing on the Hebrew Bible, its early and later forms in Ancient Judaism, as well as its branching into many neighboring cultures of the Ancient Near East and the Greco-Roman world.

The series Beihefte zur Zeitschrift fur die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft (BZAW) covers all areas of research into the Old Testament, focusing on the Hebrew Bible, its early and later forms in Ancient Judaism, as well as its branching into many neighboring cultures of the Ancient Near East and the Greco-Roman world.

The series Beihefte zur Zeitschrift fur die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft (BZAW) covers all areas of research into the Old Testament, focusing on the Hebrew Bible, its early and later forms in Ancient Judaism, as well as its branching into many neighboring cultures of the Ancient Near East and the Greco-Roman world.

The series Beihefte zur Zeitschrift fur die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft (BZAW) covers all areas of research into the Old Testament, focusing on the Hebrew Bible, its early and later forms in Ancient Judaism, as well as its branching into many neighboring cultures of the Ancient Near East and the Greco-Roman world.

The series Beihefte zur Zeitschrift fur die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft (BZAW) covers all areas of research into the Old Testament, focusing on the Hebrew Bible, its early and later forms in Ancient Judaism, as well as its branching into many neighboring cultures of the Ancient Near East and the Greco-Roman world.