Perspectives on Hebrew Scriptures IV

Comprising the Contents of Journal of Hebrew Scriptures , Vol. 7

Ehud Ben Zvi

• Publisher: Gorgias Press
• Year: 2008
• eBook ISBN: 9781463216238
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Biblical Criticism & Interpretation

This volume incorporates all the articles and reviews published in Volume 7 (2007) of the Journal of Hebrew Scriptures.

Table of contents

• 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