Where Is the Way to the Dwelling of Light?

Pierre Van Hecke, PhD in Oriental Studies (2000), KU Leuven, PhD in Theology (2006), Tilburg University – supervised by Ellen van Wolde, is Professor of Hebrew and Old Testament at KU Leuven. He has published on Biblical Hebrew linguistics, in particular on metaphor, and on the book of Job, including From Linguistics to Hermeneutics. A Functional and Cognitive Approach to Job 12-14 (Brill, 2011). Hanneke van Loon, PhD (2017), KU Leuven, is researcher in the Research Unit of Biblical Studies at that university. Her interests include the book of Job and Biblical Hebrew linguistics. Currently, she is working on a sequel to Metaphors in the Discussion on Suffering in Job 3-31 (Brill, 2018).

Preface

Part 1 Genesis



A Coat of Many Colors and a Range of Many Dates

The Origins of the Story of Joseph in Genesis 37–50

 Robert Rezetko



Yahweh’s Kin

A Comparative Linguistic and Mythological Analysis of ‘The Children of God’ in the Hebrew Bible

 Aren M. Wilson-Wright



Be My Knife

Representation and the Akedah Revisited

 Diana Lipton



The Symbolism of the Spatial-Temporal Concepts ‘in front of, before’ (לפני) and ‘behind, after’ (אחרי) in the Hebrew Bible, with a Special Focus on the Jacob Narratives

 Talia Sutskover



The πανοῦργος Problem

Semantic Change and Septuagint Self-Criticism

 James K. Aitken



Ways of Understanding Divine Creation in Late Antique and Medieval Piyyut

 Wout van Bekkum



Imago Dei and the Challenge of Racism

Soundings in the History of Interpretation of Genesis 1:26–27

 Matthijs den Dulk



Part 2 Book of Job



The State of the Text of Job

 David J.A. Clines



Syntax and Poetics in the Interpretation of Job

 Edward L. Greenstein



Theory of Mind and Cognitive Dissonance in the Book of Job

 Carol A. Newsom



“Let Me Sow and Another will Eat?”

The Meaning of the Cohortatives in Job 6:10 and Job 31:8

 Hanneke van Loon



What Are You Doing Here, Master Elihu?

The Role(s) of Elihu in the Book of Job

 Katharine J. Dell



The Fate of the Wicked in Job 38:13–15 and the Birth of the Sea

 Francis Landy



Part 3 Hebrew Language and Linguistics



Seeing and Shining

The Extramission Theory of Vision and Hebrew Polysemy

 Pierre Van Hecke



The Conceptualisation of Heart as an Active Zone Body Part in Biblical Hebrew

An Exploratory Study

 Christo H.J. van der Merwe



Conceptualizing Love in the Song of Songs

 J. Cheryl Exum



‘But a Few Days’

Ways of Intensification of Love and Affection in Biblical Hebrew

 Ruti Vardi



The Root נחם Niphal and Hitpael in the Hebrew Bible

Broken Continuity and Disengagement

 Françoise Mirguet



Voice, Discourse Prominence, and Aspect

The Niphal and Passive Qal of Yālad

 Camil Staps



Index Locorum