Tradition and Innovation in Biblical Interpretation

List of Contributors

Preface
Janet Dyk and Wido van Peursen

1. Tradition and Innovation in Biblical Scholarship: An Introduction
Wido van Peursen and Janet Dyk

PART ONE: TRADITION AND INNOVATION IN THE BIBLE ITSELF
2. A Story of Three Prophets: Synchronic and Diachronic Analysis of Jeremiah 26
Joep Dubbink
3. 'Against you, Daughter of Babylon!' A Remarkable Example of Text-Reception in the Oracle of Jeremiah 50-51
Eric Peels
4. 'Reading Jeremiah Makes Me Angry!' The Role of Jeremiah 32[39]:36-41 in Transformation within the 'Jeremianic'
Tradition
Janneke Stegeman
5. Beyond 'Singers and Syntax': Theological and Canonical Reflections on Psalm 8
Carl J. Bosma
6. Where is God? Romans 3:13-18 as an Addition to Psalm 14
Eveline van Staalduine-Sulman
7. Reading Qohelet as Text, Author, and Reader
Timothy Walton
8. Tradition through Reading-Reading the Tradition: Reflections on Eep Talstra's Exegetical Methodology
Louis Jonker

PART TWO: TRADITION AND INNOVATION IN THE RECEPTION OF THE BIBLE
9. Between Stigmatizing and Idolizing the Bible: On the Reception of Genesis 12:10-20; 20; 26:1-11
Cornelis Houtman
10. 'Out of Egypt I Have Called My Son': Matthew 2:15 and Hosea 11:1 in Dutch and American Evangelical
Interpretation
Gert Kwakkel
11. Daniel's Four Kingdoms in the Syriac Tradition
Wido van Peursen
12. The Identity of Israel's God: The Potential of the So-called Extra-Calvinisticum
Cornelis van der Kooi
13. A Jewish Childbirth Amulet from the Bibliotheca Rosenthaliana
Margaretha Folmer

PART THREE: TRADITION AND INNOVATION IN LINGUISTIC AND COMPUTATIONAL APPROACHES TO THE BIBLE
14. Computer-Assisted Tools for Textual Criticism
Emanuel Tov
15. On Biblical Hebrew and Computer Science: Inspiration, Models, Tools, and Cross-Fertilization
Ulrik Sandborg-Petersen
16. Persuasive Hebrew Exercises: The Wit of Technology-Enhanced Language Learning
Nicolai Winther-Nielsen
17. Judging Jephthah: The Contribution of Syntactic Analysis to the Interpretation of Judges 11:29-40
Klaas Spronk
18. Masoretic Tradition and Syntactic Analysis of the Psalms
Luis Vegas Montaner
19. Who is Speaking-Who is Listening? How Information Technology Can Confirm the Integrity of the Text
Oliver Glanz
20. Jerusalem's Comforters in Isaiah 40:1-2: Participant Tracking in a Prophetic Text
Reinoud Oosting
21. Hebrew hayah: Etymology, Bleaching, and Discourse Structure
Frank Polak
22. The Lexeme ??????
Christo H. J. van der Merwe
23. Language, Structure, and Strategy in Isaiah 53:1-6: ????? , Word Order, and the Translator
Lenart J. de Regt
24. ????? in Job 34:36
Constantijn J. Sikkel

Dissertations under the Guidance of Eep Talstra
Publications by Eep Talstra
Index of Sources
Index of Modern Authors