Papers

At the Pollock Halls of Residence, University of Edinburgh, Monday to Thursday, 18-21 July 1994

Professor R. Davidson (Bearsden): Isaiah 40.6-8 in Translation and Tradition

Professor J. C. Exum (Sheffield): What Does Judges Say to Women?

Dr H. A. McKay (Ormskirk): Sarahs Laughter Silenced: Reinscription of Patriarchy in New Testament Images of Hebrew Women

Dr J. Munro (Strasbourg): Metaphor in the Song of Songs

Rev Dr J. Goldinay: A Masculinist Reading of Hosea 6:1-3

Dr C. Bultmann (Göttingen): Creation at the Beginning of History: J. G. Herder’s Interpretation of Genesis 1

Dr K. J. Dell (Oxford): Green Ideas in the Wisdom Tradition

Dr R. W. E. Forrest (Lennoxville): Creation and Destruction: The Earthquake Imagery in Amos

The Revd J. B. Geyer (Dundee): Devastation in the Zion Theology

Dr M. Butterworth (London): Selected Structural Soundings in Isaiah

Dr P. R. Davies and Professor J. W. Rogerson (Sheffield): Was the Siloam Tunnel Built by Hezekiah? (Illustrated)

Dr J. N Lawson (Folkestone): The God who Reveals Secrets: A Consideration of a Mesopotamian Background to Daniel 2.47

Professor A. Malamat (Jerusalem): The Exodus: Egyptian Analogies

Dr I. W. Provan (Edinburgh): Ideologies: Literary and Critical: Some Reflections on the Newer Histories of Israel

Mrs M Barker (Borrowash): Atonement

Professor A. Brenner (Haifa): Who’s Afraid of Feminist Criticism? Who’s Afraid of Humour in the Bible? The Case of the Obtuse Foreign Ruler

Professor I. Campbell (Edinburgh): Scott and Scripture

Professor D. Pardee (Chicago): Marzihu, Kispu and the Ugaritic Funerary Cult: A Minimalist View