Bring Them into the Land

Studies in Honor of R. Steven Notley

Jeffrey P. Arroyo Garcia, Daniel Machiela, Chad Pierce, Benjamin Wold

• Publisher: Pickwick Publications
• Year: 2025
• Print ISBN: 9781666787726, 9781666787733
• eBook ISBN: 9781666787740
• Edition: 0
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Biblical Studies

This collection of studies honors Professor R. Steven Notley's research, collegiality, and friendship. In this volume, scholars--including Dr. Notley's academic peers, colleagues, and former students--engage issues gathered around the study of biblical texts within their geographical, archaeological, and linguistic contexts. Throughout his career, Professor Notley has distinguished himself as a world-renowned historical geographer and researcher of the cultural and linguistic context of the Gospels. His voice has been influential in the so-called Jerusalem School of Synoptic Research, typified by an approach to the Gospels in which their Jewish historical and social contexts are central. This basic approach has grown significantly over recent decades and now constitutes a major area of New Testament study. Additionaly, Professor Notley has spent nearly forty years introducing groups of students and scholars to the land of Israel, stressing the importance of historical geography for study of the Bible. Especially noteworthy is his extensive scholarly collaboration over several decades with both Christian and Jewish scholars.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Introduction
• Select Publications of R. Steven Notley
• Abbreviations
• 1. Shed a Little Light
• 2. Ruins of Byzantine Churches in the Thicket of Upper Western Galilee
• 3. John 2:6: Stone Jars and the Greek Preposition κατά
• 4. Being a Good Boy in Ugarit
• 5. Psalm 147 and the Poetics of Repopulating Jerusalem
• 6. How Much Christianity in Rabbinic Judaism?
• 7. Zion as the World
• 8. “If You Desire to Be Perfect”
• 9. As Though Through Enemies’ Eyes
• 10. Daughters of Jerusalem
• 11. Opening Eyes in Nazareth
• 12. Where is Salecah/סַלְכָה?
• 13. A Biblical City on the Border
• 14. David’s Battle with the Philistines
• 15. The Land of Israel at the Center of Messianic Redemption
• 16. Studying Torah in the “Aliyah” (Upper Floor)
• 17. “Thy Kingdom Come”
• 18. The New Testament as a Source for the History of Jewish Law
• 19. Historical Geography, Suspicion, and the So-Called Jehoash Inscription
• 20. A Reconsideration of Jesus’ Anger and Weeping in the Story of Lazarus (John 11:33–38)
• 21. The Bible and the Land through Women’s Eyes in the Nineteenth Century
• 22. “The Things that Make for Peace”
• 23. Questions of Evil Spirits in Philo’s Eschatology
• 24. “The Stones Cry Out”
• Contributors