Download or read book Ve-’Ed Ya‘aleh (Gen 2:6), Volume 2 written by Peter Machinist and published by SBL Press. This book was released on 2021-09-17 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sixty-six colleagues, friends, and former students of Edward L. Greenstein present essays honoring him upon his retirement. Throughout Greenstein's half-century career he demonstrated expertise in a host of areas astonishing in its breadth and depth, and each of the essays in these two volumes focuses on an area of particular interest to him. Volume 1 includes essays on ancient Near Eastern studies, Biblical Hebrew and Northwest Semitic languages, and biblical law and narrative. Volume 2 includes essays on biblical wisdom and poetry, biblical reception and exegesis, and postmodern readings of the Bible.