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From the Preface: “The alphabetic acrostic is one of the most easily identifiable poetic forms in the Hebrew Bible. Examples can be found in prophetic discourse (Nahum), the lament over the destruction of Jerusalem (Lamentations), liturgical song (Psalms), and wisdom literature (Proverbs). Yet its very obviousness has tended to deflect deeper exploration of its structure and purpose. Since Mowinckel denigrated the acrostics in the Psalms as a “disintegration of style,’ too often scholars have simply noted and then ignored the form.“There is no a priori reason that alphabetic acrostics should be less creative, expressive, or complex than other psalms. Thus the essays collected here investigate the acrostic format as a legitimate option for Israelite poets rather than as the refuge of uninspired epigones.The fruit of over twenty years’ close reading of these psalms, the following essays reveal the poets’ consummate mastery of the demanding acrostic form and deserve incorporation in future discussions of biblical poetic art.

Acrostics in the Bible. --- Bible. --- Chumash --- Five Books of Moses --- Ḥamishah ḥumshe Torah --- Ḥumash --- Kitāb-i Muqqadas --- Mose Ogyŏng (Book of the Old Testament) --- Pentateuch --- Pi︠a︡toknizhīe Moiseevo --- Sefer Ḥamishah ḥumshe Torah --- Tawrāh --- Torà (Pentateuch) --- Torah (Pentateuch) --- Tʻoris xutʻcigneuli --- Ureta --- תורה --- Haftarot --- Language, style. --- Relation to the Pentateuch. --- Relation to Psalms. --- Acrostics in the Bible --- 223.3 --- Psalmen --- "Bible. --- Relation avec les Psaumes. --- Relation avec le Pentateuque. --- Style. --- Langue. --- HISTORY / Ancient / General.

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For the past half-century, David Noel Freedman has had an enormous impact on the study of the Bible, both as an author and as an editor of the writings of others. As his colleagues note in their comments at the beginning of this volume, "You are quintessentially the man of the book. And perhaps what impresses us most is that your bibliography of hundreds of books is not limited to the extraordinary number of important books that you've written yourself. It also contains the books that you've edited for others. And we know what it means to have David Noel Freedman as one's editor. For every page of manuscript that the author sends you, you send back almost an equal number of pages of advice, criticism, corrections, and improvements. You can make a bad book good, and a good book better. And you can make its author a better scholar and a better writer." In this volume, his compatriots at the University of California, San Diego, contribute eight varied essays in celebration of his impact on them and in honor of his varied contributions to biblical studies.

Bible. --- Antico Testamento --- Hebrew Bible --- Hebrew Scriptures --- Kitve-ḳodesh --- Miḳra --- Old Testament --- Palaia Diathēkē --- Pentateuch, Prophets, and Hagiographa --- Sean-Tiomna --- Stary Testament --- Tanakh --- Tawrāt --- Torah, Neviʼim, Ketuvim --- Torah, Neviʼim u-Khetuvim --- Velho Testamento --- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- Biblia. --- Interpretacija. --- 221.06 --- 221 <082> --- 221.06 Oud Testament: hermeneutiek; exegese --- Oud Testament: hermeneutiek; exegese --- Bijbel: Oud Testament--Feestbundels. Festschriften --- HISTORY / Ancient / General.

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