The title, Marbeh Ḥokmah, meaning “increases wisdom,”
reflects the fact that Victor Avigdor Hurowitz was a scholar who
increased wisdom and who continues to increase the wisdom of
scholars throughout the world even after his untimely death at the
age of 64. The book was edited by five of Professor Hurowitz’s
colleagues: Profs. Shamir Yona and Mayer I. Gruber of Ben-Gurion
University of the Negev, Edward L. Greenstein of Bar-Ilan
University, Peter Machinist of Harvard University, and Shalom M.
Paul of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The two-volume
collection contains 49 groundbreaking essays written by 53
distinguished authors from various institutions of higher learning
in Israel and around the world. The authors include Victor’s
teachers, colleagues, and students, and the essays deal with a
great variety of subjects. The breadth of subject matter featured
in Marbeh Ḥokmah is a most appropriate tribute to Victor Avigdor
Hurowitz, whose published scholarship encompassed a wide variety of
fields of interest pertaining to the study of the Hebrew Bible and
the ancient Near East: Wisdom Literature, Psalmody, prophecy and
prophets, the priesthood, eschatology, historiography, ancient
inscriptions, medieval Hebrew biblical exegesis, religious rites,
building and architecture, temples, the art of warfare, Semitic
philology, Sumerian proverbs, epigraphy, rhetoric and stylistics,
poetry, lamentations, the interconnections between Hebrew Scripture
and the ancient Near East, the cultures of ancient Egypt and
ancient Mesopotamia, innerbiblical parallels, and many other
subjects.
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