Words and meanings : essays presented to David Winton Thomas on his retirement from the Regius Professorship of Hebrew in the University of Cambridge, 1968

Foreword Archbishop of York Preface Abbreviations 1. Meaning and exegesis Peter R. Ackroyd 2. On the syntax in Exodus 3:14 Bertil Albrektson 3. Job 39:25 P. A. H. de Boer 4. Words and meanings in early Hebrew inscriptions David Diringer and S. P. Brock 5. 'Another little drink' - Isaiah 28: 1-22 G. R. Driver 6. Renaming in the Old Testament Otto Eissfeldt 7. Some difficult words in Genesis 49 J. A. Emerton 8. Twofold aspects of Hebrew words Georg Fohrer 9. The linguistic tradition of the Psalter A. E. Goodman 10. Torah in Deuteronomy Barnabas Lindars 11. Divine frustration exegetically frustrated Raphael Loewe 12. The intercession of the covenant mediator James Muilenburg 13. The ecstatics' father Anthony Phillips 14. Bible Exegesis and fulfilment in qumran Bleddyn J. Roberts 15. Genesis 15:7 J. Weingreen Bibliography Index of references.