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Isaiah in context : studies in honour of Arie van der Kooij on the occasion of his sixty-fifth birthday / edited by Micha�el N. van der Meer, Percy van Keulen, Wido van Peursen, Bas ter Haar Romeny.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English, French, German Series: Supplements to Vetus Testamentum ; v. 138.Publication details: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010.Description: xx, 468 p. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9789004186576 (hardback : alk. paper)
  • 9004186573 (hardback : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 224/.106 22
LOC classification:
  • BS1515.52 .I585 2010
  • BS410 .V452 vol.138
Summary: "The present volume contains a collection of essays on the Book of Isaiah offered as a tribute to Arie van der Kooij on the occasion of his sixty-fifth birthday, which coincides with his retirement as Professor of Old Testament at Leiden University. The twenty-four contributions, written by leading scholars in the field of Old Testament studies, focus on the Book of Isaiah within the context of Hebrew and ancient Near-Eastern writings, particularly those from the Neo-Assyrian period, as well as on the book's reception history , particularly in its Greek and Syriac translations. Together these studies offer a rich and original contribution to the study of the Book of Isaiah in its Hebrew, Aramaic, Assyrian, Greek, Syriac, and Dutch contexts."--Dust jacket.
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"Bibliography of Arie van der Kooij"--P. [427]-438.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"The present volume contains a collection of essays on the Book of Isaiah offered as a tribute to Arie van der Kooij on the occasion of his sixty-fifth birthday, which coincides with his retirement as Professor of Old Testament at Leiden University. The twenty-four contributions, written by leading scholars in the field of Old Testament studies, focus on the Book of Isaiah within the context of Hebrew and ancient Near-Eastern writings, particularly those from the Neo-Assyrian period, as well as on the book's reception history , particularly in its Greek and Syriac translations. Together these studies offer a rich and original contribution to the study of the Book of Isaiah in its Hebrew, Aramaic, Assyrian, Greek, Syriac, and Dutch contexts."--Dust jacket.

Twenty contributions in English, 3 in French, and 1 in German.

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