Vol. 5 (2005): Volume 5

Published: 2005-12-31

Articles

New Studies in Chronicles: A Discussion of Two Recently-Published Commentaries

Melody D. Knowles, Christine Mitchell, Klaus Baltzer, Ehud Ben Zvi, Steven J. Schweitzer, John W. Wright, Gary N. Knoppers, Steven L. Mackenzie
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“The Hand of a Woman”: Deborah and Yael (Judges 4)

Elie Assis
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In Conversation with W. M. Schniedewind, How the Bible Became a Book: The Textualization of Ancient Israel (Cambridge, 2003)

David M. Carr, Tamara Cohn Eskenazi, Christine Mitchell, William M. Schniedewind, Gary N. Knoppers, David M. Carr, Christine Mitchell, William M. Schniedewind
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The Origin of Biblical Israel

Philip R. Davies
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Could Saul Rule Forever? A New Look at 1 Samuel 13:13–14

Michael Avioz
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Death, Social Conflict, and the Barley Harvest in the Hebrew Bible

Brian Britt
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Job, Hopeful or Hopeless? The Significance of גם in Job 16:19 and Job’s Changing Conceptions of Death

David Kummerow
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Tracing the Origin of the Sabbatical Calendar in the Priestly Narrative (Genesis 1 to Joshua 5)

Philippe Guillaume
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On the meaning of קשת נחושה

Aron Pinker
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A Rejoinder to A. Brenner, “Regulating ‘sons’ and ‘daughters’ in the Torah and in Proverbs: Some Preliminary Insights”

Francis Landy
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Regulating ‘sons’ and ‘daughters’ in the Torah and in Proverbs: Some Preliminary Insights

Athalya Brenner
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New Light on the Nebiim from Alexandria: A Chronography to Replace the Deuteronomistic History

Ph. Guillaume
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Geminate Ballast and Clustering: An Unrecognized Literary Feature in Ancient Semitic Poetry

Scott Noegel
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The Hard ‘Sell’ in Nah 3:4b

Aron Pinker
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Prolegomena for the Sociolinguistics of Classical Hebrew

William M. Schniedewind
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Ostraca KhQ1 and KhQ2 from the Cemetery of Qumran: A New Edition

Greg Doudna
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Shalmaneser III and the Levantine States: The “Damascus Coalition Rebellion”

A. Kirk Grayson
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Uzzah’s Rebellion

Ingrid M. Haase
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Letting the “Bi-Word” “Rule” in Joel 2:17

James R. Linville
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Jubilee Calendar Rescued From the Flood Narrative

S. Najm, Ph. Guillaume
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Review Essays

Review of Walter Brueggemann, Worship in Ancient Israel: An Essential Guide

Brian P. Irwin
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Review of Jacob Milgrom, Leviticus: A Book of Ritual and Ethics

William K. Gilders
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Review of S. A. Nigosian, From Ancient Writings to Sacred Texts: The Old Testament and Apocrypha

John Kaltner
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Review of Elie Assis, Self-Interest or Communal Interest: An Ideology of Leadership in the Gideon, Abimelech and Jephthah Narratives (Judg 6-12)

Gord Oeste
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Review of M. Christine Tetley, The Reconstructed Chronology of the Divided Kingdom

Steven L. McKenzie
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Review of Sarah J. Dille, Mixing Metaphors: God as Mother and Father in Deutero-Isaiah

Mary Louise Mitchell
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Review of J. P. Fokkelman, Major Poems of the Hebrew Bible. At the Interface of Prosody and Structural Analysis. Volume IV: Job 15 – 42

Wesley Hu
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Review of Robert T. Anderson and Terry Giles, Tradition Kept: The Literature of the Samaritans

Alex Jassen
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Review of Mark S. Smith, The Memoirs of God: History, Memory and the Experience of the Divine in Ancient Israel

Ellen White
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Review of Roy L. Heller, Narrative Structure and Discourse Constellations: An Analysis of Clause Function in Biblical Hebrew Prose

Cristian G. Rata
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Review of Norbert Lohfink, Qoheleth

John L. McLaughlin
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Review of Frances Flannery-Dailey, Dreamers, Scribes, and Priests: Jewish Dreams in the Hellenistic and Roman Eras

Scott B. Noegel
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Review of Z. Talshir and D. Amara, eds., On the Border Line. Textual Meets Literary Criticism.

Ehud Ben Zvi
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Review of Bob Becking, Between Fear and Freedom. Essays on the Interpretation of Jeremiah 30–31

Kathleen M. O’Connor
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Review of Marc Bregman, The Tanhuma-Yelammedenu Literature: Studies in the Evolution of the Versions

Jason Kalman
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Review of Paul E. Fitzpatrick, S.M., The Disarmament of God: Ezekiel 38–39 in Its Mythic Context

T. M. Lemos
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Review of Isaac Kalimi, An Ancient Israelite Historian: Studies in the Chronicler, His Time, Place and Writing

Paul Evans
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Review of Isaac Kalimi, The Reshaping of Ancient Israelite History in Chronicles

Ken Ristau
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Review of Carol Meyers, Households and Holiness: The Religious Culture of Israelite Women

Ellen White
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Review of André LaCocque, Ruth

Lissa M. Wray Beal
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Review of Anthony F. Campbell, Joshua to Chronicles An Introduction

Patricia Dutcher-Walls
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Review of R. P. Gordon and J. C. de Moor, eds., The Old Testament in Its World

Mark W. Hamilton
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Review of Rüdiger Schmitt, Magie im Alten Testament

Scott B. Noegel
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Review of Philip S. Johnston, Shades of Sheol: Death and Afterlife in the Old Testament

John L. McLaughlin
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Review of William K. Gilders, Blood Ritual in the Hebrew Bible: Meaning and Power

Jan A. Wagenaar
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Review of John C. Reeves, ed., Bible and Qur’an: Essays in Scriptural Intertextuality

Christine Mitchell
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Review of L. Juliana M. Claassens, The God who Provides: Biblical Images of Divine Nourishment

Jane S. Webster
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Review of Stephen L. Cook and Corrine L. Patton, eds., Ezekiel’s Hierarchical World: Wrestling with a Tiered Reality

Dale Laundervile
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Review of Tammi J. Schneider, Sarah: Mother of Nations

Ellen White
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Review of Hyun Chul Paul Kim, Ambiguity, Tension, and Multiplicity in Deutero-Isaiah

Don Polaski
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Review of Lillian Klein, From Deborah to Esther: Sexual Politics in the Hebrew Bible

Ken Stone
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Review of John J. Collins, Introduction to the Hebrew Bible with CD-ROM

John Kaltner
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Review of Jodi Magness, The Archaeology of Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls

Madelyn Yribarren
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Review of Ian Young, ed., Biblical Hebrew: Studies in Chronology and Typology

Bernon P. Lee
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Review of Alfredo Fabio Borodowski, Isaac Abravanel on Miracles, Creation, Prophecy and Evil: The Tension Between Medieval Jewish Philosophy and Biblical Commentary

Michael Carasik
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Review of Rodney R. Hutton, Fortress Introduction to the Prophets

Paul Evans
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Review of Annette Schellenberg, Erkenntnis als Problem: Qohelet und die alttestamentliche Diskussion um das menschliche Erkennen

T. A. Perry
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Review of Heidi M. Szpek, ed., Voices from the University: The Legacy of the Hebrew Bible

Frank Anthony Spina
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Review of G. W. Lorein, The Antichrist Theme in the Intertestamental Period

R. Glenn Wooden
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Review of David Shepherd, Targum and Translation: A Reconsideration of the Qumran Aramaic Version of Job

Jean Duhaime
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Review of Marvin A. Sweeney, and Ehud Ben Zvi, eds., The Changing Face of Form Criticism in the Twenty-First Century

Yehoshua Gitay
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Review of William M. Schniedewind, How the Bible Became a Book: The Textualization of Ancient Israel

Alex Jassen
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Review of Steven L. McKenzie, 1–2 Chronicles

Ken Ristau
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Review of Leslie J. Hoppe, There Shall Be No Poor Among You: Poverty in the Bible

Michael S. Moore
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Review of Victor H. Matthews, Judges and Ruth

Dr. Lissa M. Wray Beal
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Review of M. Patrick Graham, Steven L. McKenzie and Gary N. Knoppers, eds., The Chronicler as Theologian: Essays in Honour of Ralph W. Klein

Mark J. Boda
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Review of Gerald A. Klingbeil, ed., Inicios, Paradigmas y Fundamentos: Estudios teológicos y exegéticos en el Pentateuco

Carluci dos Santos
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Review of Johan Renkema, Obadiah

Stephen L. Cook
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Review of John Pairman Brown, Israel and Hellas, Vol. III: The Legacy of Iranian Imperialism and the Individual

Jon L. Berquist
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Review of Philippe Guillaume, Waiting for Josiah: The Judges

Marie-France Dion
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Review of Marjo Korpel and Joseph Oesch, eds., Unit Delimitation in Biblical Hebrew and Northwest Semitic Literature

Gary Martin
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Review of J. J. M. Roberts, The Bible and the Ancient Near East: Collected Essays

Francisco V. Munoz
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Review of Bill T. Arnold and John H. Choi, A Guide to Biblical Hebrew Syntax

Bernon P. Lee
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Review of Oded Lipschits and Joseph Blenkinsopp, eds., Judah and the Judeans in the Neo-Babylonian Period

Mark W. Chavalas
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Review of Don C. Benjamin, The Old Testament Story: An Introduction

D. Dixon Sutherland
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Review of O. Lipschits, Jerusalem between Destruction and Restoration. Judah under Babylonian Rule

Michael Avioz
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Review of Richard S. Hess M. Daniel and R. Carroll., eds., Israel’s Messiah in the Bible and the Dead Sea Scrolls

Michael O. Wise
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Review of Sandra L. Richter, The Deuteronomistic History and the Name Theology: lešakkēn šemô šām in the Bible and the Ancient Near East

Victor Hurowitz
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Review of Johannes J. van Dijk and Markham J. Geller, with the collaboration of Joachim Oelsner, Ur III Incantations from the Frau Professor Hilprecht-Collection, Jena

Martin Worthington
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Review of Martin Kessler, Battle of the Gods: The God of Israel Versus Marduk of Babylon. A Literary/Theological Interpretation of Jeremiah 50–51

Dale Patrick
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Review of Michael V. Fox, JPS Torah Commentary: Ecclesiastes

Scott B. Noegel
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Review of Alberto R. W. Green, The Storm-God in the Ancient Near East

Steven J. Garfinkle
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Review of Gale A. Yee, Poor Banished Children of Eve: Woman as Evil in the Hebrew Bible

Tammi Schneider
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Review of Gregory L. Doudna, 4Q Pesher Nahum: A Critical Edition

Rob Kugler
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Review of Timothy Lim, Pesharim

Adam L. Porter
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Review of Frederick W. Knobloch, ed., Biblical Translation in Context

Paul S. Ash
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Review of Jack M. Sasson, Archie C. C. Lee, Craig Y. S. Ho, and Fook Kong Wong, Hebrew Origins: Historiography, History, Faith of Ancient Israel

Mark J. Boda
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Review of Carolyn J. Sharp, Prophecy and Ideology in Jeremiah: Struggles for Authority in the Deutero-Jeremianic Prose

Yair Hoffman
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Review of Max Rogland, Alleged Non-Past Uses of Qatal in Classical Hebrew

Agustinus Gianto
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Review of Duck-Woo Nam, Talking About God: Job 42:7–9 and the Nature of God in the Book of Job

Michael Carasik
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Review of Yohan Pyeon, You Have Not Spoken What Is Right About Me: Intertextuality and the Book of Job

Loren Fisher
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Review of V. Stephen Parrish, A Story of the Psalms: Conversation, Canon, and Congregation

B. J. Embry
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Review of Peter Ochs and Nancy Levene, eds., Textual Reasonings: Jewish Philosophy and Text Study at the End of the Twentieth Century

Martin S. Jaffee
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Review of Mark D. Futato, Beginning Biblical Hebrew

Bernon P. Lee
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Review of Marvin A. Sweeney, Zephaniah

John D. W. Watts
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Review of Richard J. Clifford, Psalms 73–150

Bruce A. Power
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Review of Gerlinde Baumann, Love and Violence: Marriage as Metaphor for the Relationship between YHWH and Israel in the Prophetic Books

Mark W. Hamilton
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Review of Jay F. Shachter, trans., The Commentary of Abraham ibn Ezra on the Pentateuch, volume 5: Deuteronomy

Martin Lockshin
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Review of J. P. Fokkelman, Major Poems of the Hebrew Bible: At the Interface of Prosody and Structural Analysis. Vol III: The Remaining 65 Psalms

Walter Brueggemann
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Review of L. Allen and T. Laniak, Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther

D. Harvey
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Review of Myung Soo Suh, The Tabernacle in the Narrative History of Israel from the Exodus to the Conquest

Michael M. Homan
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Review of William P. Brown, Seeing the Psalms: A Theology of Metaphor

Carleen Mandolfo
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Review of John Barton, Understanding Old Testament Ethics: Approaches and Explorations

Waldemar Janzen
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Review of Gernot Wilhelm, ed., Akten des IV. Internationalen Kongresses für Hethitologie. Würzburg, 4.–8. Oktober 1999

Gary Beckman
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Review of Kristin De Troyer, Judith A. Herbert, Judith Ann Johnson, and Anne-Marie Korte, eds., Wholly Woman, Holy Blood

Jon Baker
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Review of Donald R. Vance, A Hebrew Reader for Ruth

Carolyn J. Sharp
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Review of Israel Knohl, The Divine Symphony: The Bible’s Many Voices

Francis Landy
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Review of Danna Nolan Fewell, The Children of Israel: Reading the Bible for the Sake of Our Children

Marian Broida
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Review of Aron Dotan, ed., The Parallel Bible, Hebrew-English Old Testament: With the Biblia Hebraica Leningradensia and the King James Version

Clinton Moyer
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