Agostini Domenico

“Biblica et Orientalia” 50

2013, pp. 542

978-88-7653-353-2 

Dubovský Peter
“Biblica et Orientalia” 49

2006 pp. XVIII – 308 978-887653-352-4

Gianto Agustinus (ed.)
“Biblica et Orientalia” 48

2005 pp. X-204
978-887653-351-8 

Gzella Holger
“Biblica et Orientalia” 47
2003 pp. XIV-190
978-887653-350-1

Corral, Martin Alonso
“Biblica et Orientalia” 46
2002 pp. XIV-250
978-887653-349-5

This work is a study of the historical reality and motivations of the Tyrian oracles in Ezekiel 26:1-28:19. It shows that economic and political reasons are the main causes for the condemnation. Judah's economic stagnation was the direct result of Tyre's economic policies and trade practices, which may have included selling Judean slaves after Jerusalem's destruction in 586. Social factors are important as well. Tyrian products were status symbols representing the oppression of a dishonest Tyrian elite. A clear connection between Tyre's religion and her economic activities is also observable. Tyrian colonizing activities were a continuation of her Canaanite religion. The study provides a new interpretation of Ezekiel 26:2, the clue for understanding the oracles, showing that the text describes the situation of desolation that resulted from Nebuchadnezzar's destruction of the Philistine ports at the end of the 7ch century. Tyre anticipated a major trade shift to her own ports that would mean Judah's economic ruin.

Martin Corral, born in 1961, completed a Ph.D. in Hebrew Bible at New York University in 2000. He was a lecturer of religion at St. John's University, New York during the same year and a visiting professor of religion at Siena College, Albany in 2001. He is the recipient of a post doctoral fellowship of the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture for a study covering the prophecies against the Phoenicians in the Hebrew Bible.

Althann Robert
"Biblica et Orientalia" 45
1997 pp. XII-208
978-887653-348-8

The late Mitchell Dahood who lectured in Northwest Semitic languages at the Pontifical Biblical Institute from 1956-1982 made numerous, often very original suggestions for interpreting the Hebrew text of the Old Testament. His proposals provoked much controversy at the time. Fifteen years after his sudden death, it seems appropriate to consider some of them again with a view to establishing how far they may be judged plausible.

Robert Althann completed theological studies at Heythrop college, London and at the Pontifical Biblical Institute after which he taught Sacred Scripture at the Regional Seminary of Zimbabwe.
He is a director of the review Elenchus of Biblica.

Dobbs-Allsopp F.W.
"Biblica et Orientalia" 44
1993 pp. XIV-230
978-887653-346-4

The present study seeks to call attention to a literary genre whose existence in the Hebrew Bible, has gone largely unnoticed or at least not fully appreciated. The city lament is a genre well-known fron ancient Mesopotomia. The laments that make up this genre vividly depict and mournfully lament the destruction of some of the most important cities in Mesopotamia and their chief shrines.

F.W. Dobbs-Allsopp, 1962, received a B.A. in History from Furman University, with a concentration in Biblical Studies from Princeton Theological Seminary and a Ph.D. in Hebrew Bible and Northwest semitic studies from The John Hopkins University.

Zurro Eduardo
"Biblica et Orientalia" 43
1987 pp. XVI-396
978-887653-344-0

En la critica del texto biblico ha ejercido profunda influencia un postulado segùn el cual la repeticiòn literal de un término en miembros paralelos contrasta con una regla estilistica de la poesia hebrea y, por conseguiente, denota corrupcion textual. De los procedimientos aquì estudiados se deduce la arbitrariedad de tal supuesto que ha servido de base a infinidad de enmiendas.


Eduardo Zurro Rodriguez en sus publicaciones estudia el texto hebreo de la Biblia a luz de la filologia semitica noroccidental e indaga aspectos estilisticos de la poesia hebrea.