Sunday, September 20, 2015

Ben Zvi Festschrift

NEW BOOK FROM EISENBRAUNS:
History, Memory, Hebrew Scriptures
A Festschrift for Ehud Ben Zvi


edited by
Ian Douglas Wilson and Diana V. Edelman

Ehud Ben Zvi is one of the foremost scholars in the field of Hebrew Bible today. He has had a global impact both as a researcher and as a teacher, and he continues to create cutting-edge research that is helping to shape the future of the field. This volume marks his upcoming retirement from the University of Alberta and honors him and his career as a scholar and educator. Thirty-one papers written by a select group of colleagues, including several former students and a former teacher, are presented in three categories: History and Historiography; Prophecy and Prophetic Books; and Methods, Observations, (Re)Readings. These categories represent the wide-ranging interests of Ehud himself and include contributions on the Bible as social memory, for which he has been a leading advocate and theorist in the past decade. Readers, regardless of their areas of specialization, will find many stimulating and thought-provoking contributions in the collection, which is fitting, given the boundary-pushing work of the honoree.

Eisenbrauns, 2015. Pp. vii + 474. English. Cloth.
ISBN: 978-1-57506-391-1 List Price: $64.50
http://www.eisenbrauns.com/item/WILHISTOR
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