About the Book
This volume incorporates all the articles and reviews published in volume 12 (2012) of the Journal of Hebrew Scriptures.
Table of Contents:
Table of Contents (page 5)
Preface (page 13)
Abbreviations (page 15)
The Meaning of SANTEROT (Zech 4:12) (Al Wolters) (page 23)
Female Slave vs Female Slave: AMH and SPHH in the HB (Edward J. Bridge) (page 41)
Literacy, Utopia and Memory: Is There a Public Teaching in Deuteronomy (Kare Berge) (page 65)
Archaeological Facts, Historical Speculations and the Date of the LMLK Storage Jars: A Rejoinder to David Ussishkin (Oded Lipschits) (page 87)
History in the Eye of the Beholder? Social Location & Allegations of Racial/Colonial Biases in Reconstructions of Sennacherib''s Invasion of Judah (Paul S. Evans) (page 103)
Foreign Marriages and Citizenship in Persian Period Judah (Wolfgang Oswald) (page 129)
'Oh that you were like a brother to me, one who had nursed at my mother's breasts' Breast Milk as a Kingship-Forging Substance (Cynthia R. Chapman) (page 147)
Making It Sound … The Performative Qatal and its Explanation (Alexander Andrason) (page 191)
The Morphology of the tG-Stem in Hebrew and TIRGALTI In Hos 11:3 (Jeremy M. Hutton & Safwat Marzouk) (page 253)
The Fallacy of True and False' in Prophecy Illustrated by Jer 28:8…9 (Matthijs J. De Jong) (page 299)
Micah's Teraphim (Benjamin D. Cox & Susan Ackerman) (page 331)
The Structure of Zechariah 8 and Its Meaning (Elie Assis) (page 373)
The Spring of the Year (2 Chronicles 36:10) and the Chronicler's Sources (Michael Avioz) (page 393)
Medieval Jewish Exegesis on Dual Incipits (Isaac B. Gottlieb) (page 403)
Psalm 68: Structure, Composition and Geography (Israel Knohl) (page 435)
Keeping the Faithful: Persuasive Strategies in Psalms 4 and 62 (Davida Charney) (page 459)
Stones on Display in Joshua 6: The Linguistic Tree Constructor as a PLOT Tool (Nicolai Winther-Nielsen) (page 473)
God and the Sea in Job 38 (Collin R. Cornell) (page 507)
Reviews (page 525)
Jacob Rudiger Schmitt, DER 'HEILIGE KRIEG' IM PENTATEUCH UND IM DEUTERONOMISTISCHEN GESCHICHTSWERK: STUDIEN ZUR FORSCHUNGS-, REZEPTIONS- UND RELIGIONSGESCHICHTE VON KRIEG UND BANN IM ALTEN TESTAMENT, Reviewed by Jacob L. Wright (page 525)
Anne Moore, MOVING BEYOND SYMBOL AND MYTH: UNDERSTANDING THE KINGSHIP OF GOD OF THE HEBREW BIBLE THROUGH METAPHOR, Reviewed by Beth M. Stovell (page 533)
Adolfo D. Roitman, BIBLIA, EXEGESIS Y RELIGION: UNA LECTURA, CRITICO-HISTORICA DEL JUDAISMO, Reviewed by Natalio Fernandez Marcos (page 538)
Rachelle Gilmour, REPRESENTING THE PAST: A LITERARY ANALYSIS OF NARRATIVE HISTORIOGRAPHY IN THE BOOK OF SAMUEL, Reviewed by Dan Pioske (page 541)
Kristin M. Saxegaard, CHARACTER COMPLEXITY IN THE BOOK OF RUTH, Reviewed by Peter Lau (page 549)
Michael W. Duggan, THE CONSUMING FIRE: A CHRISTIAN GUIDE TO THE OLD TESTAMENT, Reviewed by Sonya Kostamo (page 554)
Jeremy M. Hutton, THE TRANSJORDANIAN PALIMPSEST: THE OVERWRITTEN TEXTS OF PERSONAL EXILE AND TRANSFORMATION IN THE DEUTERONOMISTIC HISTORY, Reviewed by Klaus-Peter Adam (page 557)
Stephanie Dalley, ESTHER'S REVENGE AT SUSA: FROM SENNACHERIB TO AHASUERUS, Reviewed by Maria Brosius (page 562)
Marmut N. Rosel, JOSHUA, Reviewed by Philippe Guillaume (page 565)
Luke Gartner-Brereton, THE ONTOLOGY OF SPACE IN BIBLICAL HEBREW NARRATIVE: THE DETERMINATE FUNCTION OF NARRATIVE 'SPACE' WITHIN THE BIBLICAL HEBREW AESTHETIC, Reviewed by Robert C. Kashow (page 567)
Thomas B. Dozeman, EXODUS, Reviewed by William Morrow (page 572)
Jo Ann Hackett, A BASIC INTRODUCTION TO BIBLICAL HEBREW, Reviewed by Jason Jackson (page 576)
Anselm C. Hagedorn and Andrew Mein (eds), ASPECTS OF AMOS: EXEGESIS AND INTERPRETATION, Reviewed by M. Daniel Carroll (page 580)
Molly M. Zahn, RETHINKING REWRITTEN SCRIPTURE: COMPOSITION AND EXEGESIS IN THE 4QREWORKED PENTATEUCH MANUSCRIPTS, Reviewed by William A. Tooman (page 583)
John J. Ahn, EXILE AS FORCED MIGRATIONS: A SOCIOLOGICAL, LITERARY, AND THEOLOGICAL APROACH ON THE DISPLACEMENT AND RESETTLEMENT OF THE SOUTHERN KINGDOM OF JUDAH, Reviewed by Bob Becking (page 588)
John H. Walton, GENESIS 1 AS ANCIENT COSMOLOGY, Reviewed by Izaak J. de Hulster (page 592)
Takayoshi Oshima, BABYLONIAN PRAYERS TO MARDUK, Reviewed by Scott C. Jones (page 603)
Reinhard Kratz, PROPHETENSTUDIEN: KLEINE SCHRIFTEN II, Reviewed by Jakob Wohrle (page 610)
Magnar Kartveit, THE ORIGIN OF THE SAMARITANS, Reviewed by Reinhard Pummer (page 614)
Leigh M. Trevaskis, HOLINESS, ETHICS AND RITUAL IN LEVITICUS, Reviewed by Roy E. Gane (page 621)
Lukasz Niesiolowski-Spano, ORIGIN MYTHS AND HOLY PLACES IN THE OLD TESTAMENT: A STUDY OF AETIOLOGICAL NARRATIVES, Reviewed by Eric Ortlund (page 626)
Fiona Black, THE AARTIFICE OF LOVE: GROTESQUE BODIES AND THE SONG OF SONGS, Reviewed by Julia M. O'Brien (page 629)
Christopher R. Seitz, THE GOODLY FELLOWSHIP OF THE PROPHETS: THE ACHIEVEMENT OF ASSOCIATION IN CANON FORMATION, Reviewed by Mark E. Biddle (page 632)
Michael V. Fox, PROVERBS 10-31: A NEW TRANSLATION WITH INTRODUCTION AND COMMENTARY, Reviewed by Christine Roy Yoder (page 635)
Gordon K. Oeste, LEGITIMACY, ILLEGITIMACY, AND THE RIGHT TO RULE: WINDOWS ON ABIMELECH'S RISE AND DEMISE IN JUDGES 9, Reviewed by Lissa M. Wray Beal (page 638)
Tamara Cohn Eskenaz and Tikva Frymer-Kensky, RUTH, Reviewed by Timothy J. Stone (page 641)
Christian Frevel (ed), MIXED MARRIAGES: INTERMARRIAGE AND GROUP IDENTITY IN THE SECOND TEMPLE PERIOD, Reviewed by Steven J. Schweitzer (page 645)
Tod Linafelt, Claudia V. Camp, and Timothy Beal (eds), THE FATE OF KING DAVID: THE PAST AND PRESENT OF A BIBLICAL ICON, Reviewed by David B. Schreiner (page 650)
Andrew J. Dearman, THE BOOK OF HOSEA, Reviewed by Anna E. Sieges (page 655)
Jacob Stromberg, ISAIAH AFTER EXILE: THE AUTHOR OF THIRD ISAIAH AS READER AND REDACTOR OF THE BOOK, Reviewed by Lena-Sofia Tieymeyer (page 658)
Alica Wood, OFF WINGS AND WHEELS: A SYNTHETIC STUDY OF THE BIBLICAL, Reviewed by Michael B. Hundley (page 663)
Alberdina Houtman and Harry Sysling, ALTERNATIVE TARGUM TRADITIONS: THE USE OF VARIANT READINGS FOR THE STUDY IN ORIGIN AND HISTORY OF TARGUM JONATHAN, Reviewed by William A. Tooman (page 668)
Christina Kupfer, MIT ISRAEL AUF DEM WEG DURCH DIE WUSTE: EINE LESEORIENTIERTE EXEGESE DER REBELLIONSTEXTE IN EXODUS 15:22-17:7 UND NUMERI 11:1-20:13, Reviewed by Nathan MacDonald (page 672)
Michael B. Hundley, KEEPING HEAVEN ON EARTH: SAFEGUARDING THE DIVINE PRESENCE IN THE PRIESTLY TABERNACLE, Reviewed by Mark K. George (page 675)
Kenneth C. Way, DONKEYS IN THE BIBLICAL WORLD: CEREMONY AND SYMBOL, Reviewed by Gerald A. Klingbeil (page 679)
Bruce J. Harvey, YHWH ELOHIM: A SURVEY OF OCCURRANCES IN THE LENINGRAD CODEX AND THEIR CORRESPONDING SEPTUAGINTAL RENDERINGS, Reviewed by Michael P. Knowles (page 683)
Isaac Kalmimi (ed), NEW PERSPECTIVES ON EZRA-NEHEMIAH: HISTORY AND HISTORIOGRAPHY, TEXT, LITERATURE, AND INTERPRETATION, Reviewed by Steven J. Schweitzer (page 687)
James C. VanderKam, THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS AND THE BIBLE, Reviewed by Robert C. Kashow (page 691)
Matthew J. M. Coomber (ed), BIBLE AND JUSTICE: ANCIENT TEXTS, MODERN CHALLENGES, Reviewed by Shannon E. Baines (page 694)
Christopher B. Hay, DEATH IN THE IRON AGE II AND IN FIRST ISAIAH, Reviewed by Jacob L. Wright (page 699)
Kyong-Jin Lee, THE AUTHORITY AND AUTHORIZATION OF TORAH IN THE PERSIAN PERIOD, Reviewed by James W. Watts (page 703)
David M. Carr, THE FORMATION OF THE HEBREW BIBLE: A NEW RECONSTRUCTION, Reviewed by Timothy J. Stone (page 706)
John Van Seters, THE BIBLICAL SAGA OF KING DAVID, Reviewed by David B. Schreiner (page 714)
Michael R. Stead, THE INTERTEXTUALITY OF ZECHARIAH 1-8, Reviewed by Garrick V. Allen (page 720)
Ehud Ben Zvi and Diana V. Edelman (eds) WHAT WAS AUTHORITATIVE FOR CHRONICLES, Reviewed by Paul L. Redditt (page 723)
Isaac Kalimi (ed), JEWISH BIBLE THEOLOGY: PERSPECTIVES AND CASE STUDIES, Reviewed by Joseph Ryan Kelly (page 727)
Elie Assis, FLASHES OF FIRE: A LITERARY ANALYSIS OF THE SONG OF SONGS, Reviewed by Richard S. Hess (page 730)
Roger S. Nam, PORTRAYALS OF ECONOMIC EXCHANGE IN THE BOOK OF KINGS, Reviewed by Oded Lipschits and Ido Koch (page 733)
M. E. Stone, ANCIENT JUDAISM: NEW VISIONS AND VIEWS, Reviewed by Anthony R. Meyer (page 741)
Hallvard Hagelia, THREE OLD TESTAMENT THEOLOGIES FOR TODAY: HELGE S. KVANVIG, WALTER BRUEGGEMANN AND ERHARD GERSTENBERGER, Reviewed by James K. Mead (page 745)
Teresa J. Hornsby and Ken Stone (eds), BIBLE TROUBLE: QUEER READINGS AT THE BOUNDARIES OF BIBLICAL SCHOLARSHIP, Reviewed by Steven J. Schweitzer (page 748)
Eugene Ulrich and Peter W. Flint, with a contribution by Martin G. Abegg, Jr, QUMRAN CAVE 1, II: THE ISAIAH SCROLLS. PART 1: PLATES AND TRANSCRIPTIONS; PART 2: INTRODUCTIONS, COMMENTARY, AND TEXTUAL VARIANTS, Reviewed by Robert D. Holmstedt (page 752)
John Goldingay and Pamela J. Scalise, MINOR PROPHETS II, Reviewed by Robert C. Kashow (page 758)
Matthew A. Thomas, THESE ARE THE GENERATIONS: IDENTITY, COVENANT AND THE 'TOLEDOT' FORMULA, Reviewed by Carol Kamiski (page 761)
Timothy H. Lim and John J. Collins (eds), THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS, Reviewed by Eileen M. Schuller (page 765)
Paul M. Joyce and Andrew Mein (eds), AFTER EZEKIEL: ESSAYS ON THE RECEPTION OF A DIFFICULT PROPHET, Reviewed by Risa Levitt Kohn (page 770)
Megan Bishop Moore and Brad E. Kelle, BIBLICAL HISTORY AND ISRAEL'S PAST: THE CHANGING STUDY OF THE BIBLE AND HISTORY, Reviewed by John Van Seters (page 772)
Chris Franke and Julia O'Brien (eds), THE AESTHETICS OF VIOLENCE IN THE PROPHETS, Reviewed by Joel Barker (page 776)
Myrto Theocharous, LEXICAL DEPENDENCE AND INTERTEXTUAL ALLUSION IN THE SEPTUAGINT OF THE TWELVE PROPHETS: STUDIES IN HOSEA, AMOS AND MICAH, Reviewed by W. Edward Glenny (page 780)
Joel S. Baden, THE COMPOSITION OF THE PENTATEUCH. RENEWING THE DOCUMENTARY HYPOTHESIS, Reviewed by Mark A. O'Brien (page 783)
Bo H. Lim, THE 'WAY OF THE LORD' IN THE BOOK OF ISAIAH, Reviewed by Kevin Chau (page 787)
Assnat Bartor, READING LAW AS NARRATIVE: A STUDY IN THE CASUISTIC LAWS OF THE PENTATEUCH, Reviewed by Jonathan Vroom (page 790)
Antonion Finitsis, VISIONS AND ESCHATOLOGY: A SOCIO-HISTORICAL ANALYSIS OF ZECHARIAH 1-6, Reviewed by Wolter H. Rose (page 793)
Index (page 799)
