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Friendship in the Hebrew Bible

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Friendship in the Hebrew Bible

SAUL M. OLYAN

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For Lorne Sabsay, my oldest friend

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Acknowledgments

It is a great pleasure to acknowledge the contributions of friends, colleagues, and institutions to the development of this book. I am indebted to David Konstan and Nathaniel Levtow for reading individual chapters and providing valuable critical and bibliographic suggestions. I also thank Michael Satlow, Matthew Rutz, Jacob L. Wright, and Susan Harvey for providing additional bibliographic references, and John Huehnergard, Zackary Wainer, and Nathaniel DesRosiers for suggestions regarding aspects of the books content or argument. I am grateful to John J. Collins for the helpful suggestions he made while editing the manuscript for Yale University Press. This is a better book as a result of his efforts. In addition to the contributions made by these individuals, I have also benefited from the feedback of the presss anonymous referees. Needless to say, all errors of fact or judgment that remain are my responsibility alone.

Brown University awarded me a fellowship at the Cogut Center for the Humanities during the spring semester of 2014, during which I was able to write several chapters of the book. I am grateful to the university for this opportunity, as well as for sabbatical time during the fall semester of 2010 when I began to work in earnest on this project. Some of the content in appeared in a different form in my essay The Roles of Kin and Fictive Kin in Biblical Representations of Death Ritual, in Family and Household Religion: Toward a Synthesis of Old Testament Studies, Archaeology, Epigraphy, and Cultural Studies (ed. Rainer Albertz et al.; Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2014), 25163. I thank James Eisenbraun for permission to reproduce this material in this volume. Finally, I am immensely grateful to my husband, Frederik Schockaert, for his unwavering support at every stage of the writing of this book.

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