Dimensionen der Theologie im Alten Testament und in seinem Umfeld.

The Ugarit-Verlag would like to announce the publication of

AOAT 359
Christiane Karrer-Grube / Jutta Krispenz / Thomas Krüger / Christian Rose / Annette Schellenberg (Hrsg.): Sprachen – Bilder – Klänge.
Dimensionen der Theologie im Alten Testament und in seinem Umfeld.
Festschrift für Rüdiger Bartelmus zu seinem 65. Geburtstag.
AOAT 359
2009. viii + 405 pp. (ISBN 978-3-86835-017-3) 84,- EUR

Two dozens of articles celebrate the 65. birthday of Old Testament scholar Prof. R. Bartelmus. Among others exegeticcal studied devoted to Jeremiah, Isaiah and Job. Linguistic studies concentrate on exaggerations in Hebrew and the famous Hebrew verb hishtahaweh.
Cultural studies examine life and death of children in ancient Palestine and Ancient Near Eastern and Biblical conceptions of the paradise. Special attention is also paid to the musical history of the Old Testament and its musical reception in modern times.