Perspectives on Hebrew Scriptures IV : : Comprising the Contents of ‹i›Journal of Hebrew Scriptures‹/i›, Vol. 7 / / ed. by Ehud Ben Zvi.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Gorgias Press Backlist eBook-Package 2001-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Albertz, Rainer,; Assis, Elie,; Barton, John,; Boda, Mark,; Bodner, Keith,; Boer, Roland,; Brenner, Athalya,; Carasik, Michael,; Carr, David M.,; Davies, Philip R.,; Dutcher-Walls, Patricia,; Eskenazi, Tamara Cohn,; Fried, Lisbeth S.,; Fulton, Deirdre N.,; Geoghegan, Jeffrey C.,; Guillaume, Philippe,; Hamilton, Mark W.,; Henige, David,; Hobbs, T. R.,; Hu, Wesley,; Janzen, David,; Klein, Ralph W.,; Knoppers, Gary N.,; Knowles, Melody D.,; Kugel, James,; Launderville, Dale,; Lee, Bernon P.,; Lee, Bernon,; Leuchter, Mark,; Linville, James,; Lipschits, Oded,; Macumber, Heather,; Manuel Tebes, Juan,; Master, Daniel M.,; McKenzie, Steven L.,; Miller, Daniel,; Mitchell, Christine,; Monroe, Lauren A. S.,; Najmann, Hindy,; Noegel, Scott B.,; Noegel, Scott,; O’Connor, Kathleen M.,; Patrick, Dale,; Pinker, Aron,; Porter, Adam L.,; Power, Bruce,; Provan, Iain,; Ristau, Ken,; Sneed, Mark,; Van Seters, John,; Vanderhooft, David S.,; Williamson, H. G. M.,; Wray Beal, Lissa M.,; Wright, Jacob L.,; Zvi, Ehud Ben,
• HerausgeberIn: Zvi, Ehud Ben,
• Place / Publishing House: Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2008]; ©2008
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Language: English
• Series: Perspectives on Hebrew Scriptures and its Contexts
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (573 p.)

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

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- 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