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The theme of this volume in honour of Eep Talstra is ‘Tradition and Innovation in Biblical Interpretation’, with an emphasis on the innovative role of computer-assisted textual analysis. It focusses on the role of tradition in biblical interpretation and of the innovations brought about by ICT in reconsidering existing interpretations of texts, grammatical concepts, and lexicographic practices. Questions addressed include: How does the role of exegesis as the ‘clarification of one’s own tradition, in order to understand choices and preferences’ (Talstra) relate to the critical role which Scripture has towards this tradition? How does the indebtedness to tradition of computer-driven philology relate to its innovative character? And how does computer-assisted analysis of the biblical texts lead to new research methods and results?

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Author:   Willem Th. van Peursen ,  Janet Dyk
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   57
Dimensions:   Width: 16.00cm , Height: 3.30cm , Length: 24.00cm
Weight:   1.039kg
ISBN:  

9789004210615

ISBN 10:   900421061
Pages:   502
Publication Date:   07 October 2011
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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Table of Contents

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 hāyāh: Etymology, Bleaching, and Discourse Structure Frank Polak 22. The Lexeme סָבִיב Christo H. J. van der Merwe 23. Language, Structure, and Strategy in Isaiah 53:1–6: אָכֵן , Word Order, and the Translator Lénart J. de Regt 24. אָבִי 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

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Willem Th. van Peursen, Ph.D. (1999) in Semitic Languages, Leiden University, is associate professor of Old Testament at Leiden University. His publications include The Verbal System in the Hebrew Text of Ben Sira (Brill, 2004) and Language and Interpretation in the Syriac Text of Ben Sira (Brill, 2007). Janet W. Dyk, Ph.D. (1994) in General Linguistics, VU University Amsterdam, is assistant professor of Bible Translation at the VU University and senior researcher at the Werkgroep Informatica, with emphasis on Hebrew and Syriac syntax. Her publications include Participles in Context (Amsterdam, 1994).

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