Perspectives on Hebrew Scriptures IV

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This volume incorporates all the articles and reviews published in the Journal of Hebrew Scriptures in 2007. Contributors include D. Henige, D. Vanderhooft, R. Albertz, T. Eskenazi, G. Knoppers, D. Master, H. Williamson, O. Lipschits, L. Fried, S. Noegel, M. Sneed, R. Boer, D. Fulton, D. Janzen, R. W. Klein, M. Knowles, J. Van Seters, A. Pinker, M. Leuchter, J. Wright, J. Geoghegan, L. Monroe, E. Assis, D. N. Fulton, D. Carr, K. Bodner, E. Ben Zvi, P. R. Davies, J. Kugel, H. Najman, J. Barton, and P. Guillaume. The review section includes more than twenty reviews. Table of Contents Preface Abbreviations Found But Not Lost: A Skeptical Note on the Document Discovered in the Temple Under Josiah In Conversation with Oded Lipschits, The Fall and Rise of Jerusalem (Winona Lake, Ind.: Eisenbrauns, 2005) Introduction A Response to Oded Lipschits, The Fall and Rise of Jerusalem: Judah under Babylonian Rule, Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 2005 Reflections on Oded Lipschits, The Fall and Rise of Jerusalem The Demise of Jerusalem, the De-urbanization of Judah, and the Ascent of Benjamin: Reflections on Oded Lipschits’ The Fall and Rise of Jerusalem Comments on Oded Lipschits, The Fall and Rise of Jerusalem Comments on Oded Lipschits, The Fall and Rise of Jerusalem The Babylonian Period in Judah: In Search of the Half Full Cup Did Second Temple High Priests Possess the Urim and Thummim? “Word Play” in Qoheleth “White Trash” Wisdom: Proverbs 9 Deconstructed Keeping It Literal: The Economy of the Song of Songs Expatriates, Repatriates, and the Question of Zion’s Status—In Conversation with Melody D. Knowles, Centrality Practiced: Jerusalem in the Religious Practices of Yehud and the Diaspora in the Persian Period (Archaeology and Biblical Studies 16; Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2006) Introduction A Response A Response A Response Flames, Candles, and Humility: A Response to the Session Discussing Centrality Practiced A Goat to Go to Azazel Author or Redactor? Scribes Before and After 587 BCE: A Conversation Introduction Zadokites, Deuteronomists, and the Exilic Debate Over Scribal Authority Writing the Restoration: Compositional Agenda and the Role of Ezra in Nehemiah 8 The Levites and the Literature of the Late-Seventh Century A “Holiness” Substratum in the Deuteronomistic Account of Josiah’s Reform Composition, Rhetoric and Theology in Haggai 1:1–11 Revisiting the Composition of Ezra-Nehemiah: In Conversation with Jacob Wright’s Rebuilding Identity: The Nehemiah Memoir and its Earliest Readers (BZAW, 348; Berlin: de Gruyter, 2004) Introduction A Response: In Search of Nehemiah’s Reform(s) A Response A Response Looking Back at Rebuilding Identity Crime Scene Investigation: A Text-Critical Mystery and the Strange Death of Ishbosheth Rereading Oracles of God: Twenty Years After John Barton, Oracles of God: Perceptions of Prophecy in Israel after the Exile (London: Darton, Longman and Todd, 1986) Introduction ‘Beginning at the End’ The Bible of Changed Meanings: Some Thoughts on John Barton’s Oracles of God Reflections on John Barton’s Oracles of God Oracles of God revisited The Unlikely Malachi-Jonah Sequence (4QXIIa) A Reconsideration of Manuscripts Classified as Scrolls of the Twelve Minor Prophets (XII) Reviews Vol. 7 (2007) Piotr Bienkowski, Christopher Mee, and Elizabeth Slater (eds.), Writing and Ancient Near East Society: Papers in Honor of Alan R. Millard Antony F. Campbell and Mark A. O’Brien, Rethinking the Pentateuch: Prolegomena to the Theology of Ancient Israel JoAnn Scurlock and Burton Andersen, Diagnoses in Assyrian and Babylonian Medicine: Ancient Sources, Translations, and Modern Medical Analyses Mary Douglas, Jacob’s Tears: The Priestly Work of Reconciliation Oded Lipschits and Manfred Oeming, eds. Judah and the Judeans in the Persian Period George Athas, The Tel Dan Inscription: A Reappraisal and a New Interpretation Wesley J. Bergen, Reading Ritual: Leviticus in Postmodern Culture Mark W. Hamilton, The Body Royal: The Social Poetics of Kingship in Ancient Israel Cheryl Anderson, Women, Ideology and Violence: Critical Theory and the Construction of Gender in the Book of the Covenant and Deuteronomic Law Marvin A. Sweeney, Form and Intertextuality in Prophetic and Apocalyptic Literature Diana Edelman, The Origins of the Second Temple: Persian Imperial Policy and the Rebuilding of Jerusalem David H. Aaron, Etched in Stone: The Emergence of the Decalogue Oded Lipschits, The Fall and Rise of Jerusalem: Jerusalem under Babylonian Rule Peter B. Dirksen, 1 Chronicles Philip F. Esler, ed. Ancient Israel: The Old Testament in its Social Context Jerome T. Walsh, Ahab: The Construction of a King Gershom M. H. Ratheiser, Mitzvoth Ethics and the Jewish Bible: The End of Old Testament Theology Richard M. Davidson, Flame of Yahweh: Sexuality in the Old Testament Ronald Hendel, Remembering Abraham: Culture, Memory, and History in the Hebrew Bible Carol Dempsey, Jeremiah: Preacher of Grace, Poet of Truth Eric A. Seibert, Subversive Scribes and the Solomonic Narrative: A Rereading of I Kings 1–11 Alice Hunt, Missing Priests: The Zadokites in Tradition and History Victor H. Matthews, Manners and Customs in the Bible: An Illustrated Guide to Daily Life in Bible Times Diane Banks, Writing the History of Israel Joseph Azize and Noel Weeks, eds., Gilgameš and the World of Assyria. Proceedings of the Conference held at Mandelbaum House, The University of Sydney, 21–23 July 2004 David Toshio Tsumura, The First Book of Samuel J. Maxwell Miller and John H. Hayes, A History of Ancient Israel and Judah Alice Mouton, Rêves hittites: Contribution à une histoire et une anthropologie du rêve en Anatolie ancienne Index