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• Acknowledgments Introduction
• Chapter 1: Knowledge and Nakedness: Eve in the Garden of Signs
• Chapter 2: Sarah's Laughter: Matriarchal Incoherence and the Vexed Sign of Woman
• Chapter 3: Passing as a Man: Patriarchal Gender Performances
• Chapter 4: Leah Behind the Veil: Sex with Sisters from the Bible through Woody Allen
• Chapter 5: Coats and Tales: Joseph and Myths of Jewish Masculinity
• Chapter 6: Miriam's Fluid Identity
• Chapter 7: Bedrooms and Battlefields: Command Performances of Femininity
• Chapter 8: Bodies Politic: Violence and Mediated Boundaries
• Chapter 9: Oy! Was that a Close Call: Ruth and the Fundamental Jewish Story.
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Applying psychoanalytic and gender theory to selected Biblical narratives from Genesis to the Book of Ruth, Lefkovitz interprets the Bible's stories as foundation texts in the development of sexual identities. In Scripture is an exploration of the Biblical origins of a series of unstable ideas about the sexes, human sexuality, family roles, and Jewish sexual identities, in particular, and by extension, changing attitudes towards Jewish men and women.
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• Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction: The Constitutive Divide of Reception History
• 1. The Miltonesque Concept of the Original Text
• 2. Living in Pottersville: An Alternate Approach to Textual Criticism
• 3. Anchor or Spandrel: The Concept of the Original Context
• 4. On Tigers and Cages: Re-Thinking Context
• 5. Mapping the Garden of Forking Paths: A Nomadic Reception History
• 6. Justice, Survival, Presence: Job 19:25-27
• 7. Trajectories of Job 19:25-27: The Example of Survival Conclusion: Nomadology and the Future of Biblical Studies Notes Bibliography Index.
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Brennan W. Breed claims that biblical interpretation should focus on the shifting capacities of the text, viewing it as a dynamic process rather than a static product. Rather than seeking to determine the original text and its meaning, Breed proposes that scholars approach the production, transmission, and interpretation of the biblical text as interwoven elements of its overarching reception history. Grounded in the insights of contemporary literary theory, this approach alters the framing questions of interpretation from "What does this text mean?" to "What can this text do?".
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• The lateness of the text
• Linguistic differentiation
• The comparative material
• Genre.

• Introduction
• God as creator of the world
• Wisdom
• God in covenant relationship
• Israel's religious life
• The Davidic covenant
• Internationalism
• The relation between creation and covenant
• New Testament factors.

• Title; Contents; Preface;
• Chapter 1 The Law and the Prophets: Models of Interpretation;
• Chapter 2 Mantic and Magic: Prophecy in the Ancient Near East;
• Chapter 3 Kingmakers and Miracle Workers: Prophets in Israel and Judah;
• Chapter 4 Inspiration and Interpretation: The Books of the Prophets;
• Chapter 5 "The End Has Come": The Beginnings of the Prophetic Tradition;
• Chapter 6 "Behold, I Put My Words in Your Mouth": The Formation of the Prophetic Tradition;
• Chapter 7 "Comfort, Comfort My People": The Endings of the Prophetic Tradition.

• Chapter 8 "The End Is yet to Come": The Book of Daniel and Jewish Apocalypticism
• Chapter 9 "Its Interpretation Is": The Prophets in the Dead Sea Scrolls;
• Chapter 10 "Not to Abolish But to Fulfill": The Prophets in the New Testament;
• Chapter 11 Research on the Prophets: Problems and Perspectives; Chronology; Index of Authors; Index of Scripture; Index of Other Ancient Sources.

The book offers an up-to-date and readable introduction to the manifold literary and historical problems of biblical prophecy. Reinhard Gregor Kratz provides the reader with a clear analysis of the development of the institution of prophecy in ancient Israel and Second Temple Judaism. Through a close reading of the prophetic corpus he demonstrates that in biblical tradition we have to distinguish between the historical and the literary prophet. The historical prophet is a representative of ancient Israelite religion while the literary prophet - as presented in the biblical books--is part of the tradition of emerging Judaism. This development from historical representative to literary figure guides the analysis and it becomes clear that the special character of biblical prophecy as encountered in the books of the Bible is the result of a long process of tradition during which older material is reworked, restructured, and applied to new situations. The book takes the distinction between the historical and the literary phenomenon of prophecy seriously and, therefore, will focus primarily on the literary tradition. This tradition will be recognized as such and should not be confused with the historical prophet and his words. After an overview of various models of interpretation of biblical prophecy, Kratz will consider first the broader historical background and the phenomenology of prophecy in the ancient Near East and ancient Israel. Then he moves on to the literary evidence of prophecy in biblical tradition and its historical context, including the earliest commentaries on prophetic books, the Pesharim from Qumran. The study concludes with an appendix that will introduce the reader to the scholarship on the prophets and provide some suggestions for further reading.
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• List of Illustrations Photographic Acknowledgements Contributors Acknowledgements Abbreviations Eyal Poleg and Laura Light, Introduction
• Diane Reilly, The Bible as Bellwether: Manuscript Bibles in the Context of Spiritual, Liturgical and Educational Reform, 1000-1200
• Paul Saenger, The Twelfth-Century Reception of Oriental Languages and the Graphic Mise en Page of Latin Vulgate Bibles Copied in England Richard Gameson, Durham's Paris Bible and the Use of Communal Bibles in a Benedictine Cathedral Priory in the Later Middle Ages
• Chiara Ruzzier, The miniaturization of Bible manuscripts in the XIIIth century. A comparative study Giovanna Murano, The Epistles of St. Paul of the Convent of San Domenico (Bologna, Biblioteca Universitaria, MS 1545)
• Cornelia Linde, John Pecham on the Form of Lamentations
• Lucie Dolezalova, The Summarium Biblicum: A Biblical Tool both Popular and Obscure
• Laura Light, The Thirteenth-Century Pandect and the Liturgy Eyal Poleg, The Interpretations of Hebrew Names in Theory and Practice
• Sabina Magrini, Vernacular Bibles, Biblical Quotations and the Paris Bible in Italy from the Thirteenth to the Fifteenth Century: a First Report Sabrina Corbellini, Vernacular Bible Manuscripts in Late Medieval Italy: Cultural Appropriation and Textual Transformation
• Margriet Hoogvliet, The Medieval Vernacular Bible in French as a Flexible Text: Selective and Discontinuous Reading Practices Guy Lobrichon, The Story of a Success: The Bible historiale in French (1295-ca. 1500) Elizabeth Solopova, Manuscript Evidence for the Patronage, Ownership and Use of the Wycliffite Bible Matti Peikola, Table of Lections in Manuscripts of the Wycliffite Bible Peter Stallybrass, Epilogue Bibliography Index.
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Thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Latin Bibles survive in hundreds of manuscripts, one of the most popular books of the Middle Ages. Their innovative layout and organization established the norm for Bibles for centuries to come. This volume is the first study of these Bibles as a cohesive group. Multi- and inter-disciplinary analyses in art history, liturgy, exegesis, preaching and manuscript studies, reveal the nature and evolution of layout and addenda. They follow these Bibles as they were used by monks and friars, preachers and merchants. By addressing Latin Bibles alongside their French, Italian and English counterparts, this book challenges the Latin-vernacular dichotomy to show links, as well as discrepancies, between lay and clerical audiences and their books. Contributors include Peter Stallybrass, Diane Reilly, Paul Saenger, Richard Gameson, Chiara Ruzzier, Giovanna Murano, Cornelia Linde, Lucie Dolezalova, Laura Light, Eyal Poleg, Sabina Magrini, Sabrina Corbellini, Margriet Hoogvliet, Guy Lobrichon, Elizabeth Solopova, and Matti Peikola.
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• pt. I. Preliminaries : what are we talking about?
• pt. II. Reading and hearing
• pt III. Some major approaches to reading a parashah
• pt. IV. How to read a weekly Torah portion
• pt. V. Commentaries : a concise guide.

• Genesis. A goddess in the garden? : the fall of Eve / Shawna Dolansky ; Jacob's bargain with God (Genesis 28:20-22) and its implications for the documentary hypothesis / Jeffrey C. Geoghegan ; Do not interpretations belong to God? : a narrative assessment of Genesis 40 as it elucidates the persona of Joseph / Miriam Sherman
• Poetry and prophecy. Quantitative analysis of the tribal sayings in Deuteronomy 33 and its significance for the poem's overall structure / Brian Kelly ; The lion has roared : rhetorical structure in Amos 1:2-3:8 / Jack R. Lundbom ; On the use of the name of God in the Book of Jonah / Elizabeth Goldstein
• Narrative and history. The good book and the bad movies : Moses and the failure of biblical cinema / Michael M. Homan ; What happened in the fourteenth year of Hezekiah? : a historical analysis of 2 Kings 18-20 in the light of new textual considerations / David Miano ; Where is God? : divine presence in the absence of the temple / Risa Levitt Kohn and Rebecca Moore
• Lexicon. The first halleluyah / Ziony Zevit ; Spice roots in the Song of Songs / Sarah Malena ; The participle in Biblical Hebrew and the overlap of grammar and lexicon / Francis I. Andersen and A. Dean Forbes
• Archaeology and paleography. Biomolecules, Bedouin, and the Bible : reconstructing ancient foodways in Israel's northern Negev / Margie Burton ; From the Wilderness of Zin alongside Edom : Edomite territory in the eastern Negev during the eighth-sixth centuries B.C.E. / Laura M. Zucconi ; The Gamla coin : a new perspective on the circumstances and date of its minting / Yoav Arbel.

• ""Front Cover""; ""Series Page""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""Chapter 1""; ""Indexes""; ""Back Cover""

• Part 1. Literary/exegetical readings
• part 2. Ideological-critical readings
• part 3. Language and lexicography
• part 4. Reception history.

• The disgrace of Egypt: Joshua 5.9a and its context / Ed Noort
• La Genèse d'Alexandrie, les Rabbins et Qumrân / Florentino García Martínez
• The birth of Moses in Egypt according to the Book of Jubilees (Jub 47.1-9) / Jacques T.A.G.M. van Ruiten
• Hearing the story of Moses in Ptolemaic Egypt: Artapanus accommodates the tradition / Rob Kugler
• Egypt as the setting for Joseph and Aseneth: accidental or deliberate? / János Bolyki
• The Wisdom of Solomon and the gnostic Sophia / Bert Jan Lietaert Peerbolte
• Cleopatra in Josephus: from Herod's rival to the wise ruler's opposite / Jan Willem van Henten
• 'The God who drowned the king of Egypt': a short note on an exorcistic formula / Pieter W. van der Horst
• 'Out of Egypt I have called my son': some observations on the quotation from Hosea 11.1 in Matthew 2.15 / Maarten J.J. Menken
• 'And Moses was instructed in all the wisdom of the Egyptians' (Acts 7.22) / Ton Hilhorst
• 'Wrath will drip in the plains of Macedonia': expectations of Nero's return in the Egyptian Sibylline oracles (book 5), 2 Thessalonians, and ancient historical writings / George H. van Kooten
• Looking at the condemning heart of 1 John 3.18-20 through the eyes of an ancient Egyptian / Herman te Velde
• The Egyptian background of the 'ointment' prayer in the Eucharistic rite of the Didache (10.8) / Huub van de Sandt
• The Letter of Barnabas in early second-century Egypt / Janni Loman
• Paul's rapture to paradise in early Christian literature / Riemer Roukema
• The Sphinx: sculpture as a theological symbol in Plutarch and Clement of Alexandria / John Herrmann and Annewies van den Hoek
• Foolish Egyptians: Apion and Anoubion in the Pseudo-Clementines / Jan N. Bremmer
• Potamiaena: some observations about martyrdom and gender in ancient Alexandria / Henk Bakker
• 'Mulier est instrumentum diaboli': women and the desert fathers / Monika Pesthy
• Le gnosticisme Alexandrin aux premiers temps du Christianisme / Attila Jakab
• The Gospel of Thomas and the historical Jesus: the case of eschatology / Albert L.A. Hogeterp
• Basilides of Alexandria: Matthias (Matthew) and Aristotle as the sources of inspiration for his gnostic theology in Hippolytus' Refutatio / Abraham P. Bos
• Early Christian apocrypha and the secret books of ancient Eygpt / Jacobus van Dijk
• Baraies on Mani's rapture, Paul, and the antediluvian apostles / Eibert Tigchelaar
• Devolution and recollection, deficiency and perfection: human degradation and the recovery of the primal condition according to some early Christian texts / F. Lautaro Roig Lanzillotta
• Reisewege der apostel in den Acta Petri aus Nag Hammadi / Jürgen Tubach
• The identity of Lithargoel in the Acts of Peter and the Twelve / István Czachesz
• Gnōsis, mageia, and The holy book of the great invisible spirit / Marvin Meyer
• Fate, magic and astrology in Pistis Sophia, chaps 15-21 / Jacques van der Vliet.

This collection of essays gives a vivid impression of Egypt as background and stage of Jewish, Christian, and Gnostic thought and life in antiquity. It demonstrates Egypt's important role in the history, literature and culture of these religions.

• Preface; Abbreviations; PART ONE: HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY; PART TWO: BIBLICAL HISTORY AND HISTORIOGRAPHY; PART THREE: TEXTS AND TEXTUAL STUDIES; Bibliography of the Works of Zecharia Kallai; Index of Authors; Index of Old Testament References.

This book is presented to Professor Zecharia Kallai, one of the leading scholars of Historical Geography of the Bible, by his students and friends. It contains a collection of studies in Historical Geography and Biblical Historiography. The book is divided into three parts: Historical Geography, Biblical History and Historiography, and Texts and Textual Studies. The book is concluded with a list of Kallai's publications. Part one contains articles by Shmuel Ahituv, Aaron Demsky, Volkmar Fritz, Gershon Galil, M. Heltzer, Andre Lemaire, Zeev Safrai, B. Oded and Joshua Schwartz. Part two contains articles by Yairah Amit, Graeme Auld, David Elgavish, Moshe Garsiel, E.L. Greenstein, A.F. Rainey, Shmuel Vargon. And part three contains articles by Yitzhak Avishur, Bob Becking, Moshe Elat, Bezalel Porten & Ada Yardeni, Moshe Weinfeld and Ze'ev Weisman.
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• Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; 2 Simon, the climax of the Praise of the Fathers; 3 Simon in the Hebrew version of Ben Sira; 4 Simon in the Greek version of Jesus Sirach; 5 Simon, the Righteous High Priest; Bibliography; Abbreviations; Indices.

The present exegetical study in the Hebrew and Greek versions of Sirach 50 deals with the wisdom tradition, personified in Simon the High Priest, who is called "the Just" in the rabbinical tradition. As a genuine eyewitness Ben Sira offers proof of Simons significance in the re-building of Jerusalem as climax of the Praise of the Fathers on Rosh Hashanah. His re-writing of Israels history ends with a polemic against the legality of the Samaritan temple and a direct allusion to the author's name. The volume examines three new pictures of the original Geniza-fragments found in 1896. The comparison of both versions provides an impressive picture of the development of Israels religion in the Second Temple period from 200-132 BCE.
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• Presidential address : the city of Babel and Assyrian imperialism : Genesis 11:1-9 interpreted in the light of Mesopotamian sources / Arie van der Kooij
• The twelve Minor Prophets and the Dead Sea scrolls / George J. Brooke
• La reconstruction du Temple selon la Septante de Zacharie / Cécile Dogniez
• Die Textgeschichte der Königsbücher und ihre Konsequenzen für die Textgeschichte der hebräischen Bibel, illustriert am Beispiel von 2 Kön 23:1-3 / Adrian Schenker
• Beersheba Valley archaeology and its implications for the biblical record / Zeev Herzog
• Die Geschichte der Abrahamüberlieferung / Matthias Köckert
• The Temple library of Jerusalem and the composition of the book of Kings / Nadav Naʼaman
• Der reissende Wolf : Josua in Überlieferung und Geschichte / Ed Noort
• "God" in Old Testament theology / Graham I. Davies
• Scribes inspirés et écrits célestes / Jean-Marie Husser
• Rhyme and reason : the historical résumé in Israelite and early Jewish thought / Carol A Newsom
• Anciens et modernes face au Cantique des cantiques : un impossible dialogue? / Jean-Marie Auwers
• Biblical exegesis, cognitive linguistics, and hypertext / Christo H.J. van der Merwe
• The manumission of hermeneutics : the slave laws of the Pentateuch as a challenge to contemporary Pentateuchal theory / Bernard M. Levinson
• The role and significance of dbry ḥpṣ (Qoh. 12:10a) for understanding Qohelet / J.S.Y. Pahk
• Towards an "integrated approach" in biblical studies, illustrated with a dialogue between Job 28 and Job 38 / Ellen van Wolde
• Reading the Pentateuch as counter-text : a new interpretation of Genesis 1:14-19 / J. Severino Croatto
• Lire la Bible dans le contexte africain : approche et perspectives / André Kabasele Mukenge
• The cross-textual method and the J stories in Genesis in the light of a Chinese philosophical text / Craig Y.S. Ho
• Responses to Kabasele Mukenge and Craig Y.S. Ho / John Barton.

This volume presents all the main lectures of the XVIIIth Congress of the International Organization for the Study of the Old Testament (IOSOT) held in Leiden (August 2004). It is a very good sample of the main trends and progress of current biblical research on textual criticism (Qumran and Septuagint), biblical archaeology, literary criticism (especially Pentateuch, Joshua, Kings), biblical themes (especially in wisdom literature), as well as about the light thrown on biblical exegesis by current cognitive linguistics. An appendix deals with the connection between world Christianity and the study of the Old Testament. The twenty authors are among the main international figures of current biblical exegesis and their contributions are representative of the study of the Old Testament at the beginning of the third millenium.
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• Acknowledgments
• Chapter 1. How to Do Things with Theological Words
• Chapter 2. An Overview of Perspectives on the Function of 2 Sam 14-20To Record Historical Events1To Answer the Question of the Succession to David's ThroneTo Serve a Political AgendaTo Provide a Work of ArtTo Portray DavidTo TeachA Proposal: To Portray David's Faith in Yhwh
• Chapter 3. Speech Act Theory and David's Departure and ReturnSpeech Act TheoryThe Application of SAT to Narrative DiscourseStorytelling as Speech ActRecent Applications of SAT to Stories of King DavidAn Application of SAT to the Story of David's Departure and Return
• Chapter 4. Theological Words from the Wise2 Samuel 14:1-23Storyteller Level
• Chapter 5. Theological Words from the Banished2 Samuel 15:1-22Words from Absalom: 2 Samuel 15:1-12Words from Ittai the Gittite: 2 Samuel 15:13-22
• Chapter 6. Theological Words from a Banished King2 Samuel 15:23-37Words to Zadok: 2 Samuel 15:23-29Words to Yhwh: 2 Samuel 15:30-37
• Chapter 7. Theological Words from Opponents2 Samuel 16:1-19Words from Ziba: Opponent of Mephibosheth (2 Sam 16:1-4)Words from Shimei: An Opponent of David (16:5-15)Words from Hushai: Opponent to Absalom (16:16-19)
• Chapter 8. Words from a Storyteller: 2 Samuel 16:20-17:24
• Chapter 9. Words for the Return of a King: 2 Samuel 17:25-20:25
• Chapter 10. David's Departure and Return as Illocutionary and Perlocutionary ActTelling a Story that Portrays David's Faith: An Illocutionary ActRunning with David: A Perlocutionary ActSelect BibliographyIndexes.
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In this book, Steven Mann highlights the role of theology in the story of David's departure and return as told in 2 Samuel 14-20. Mann's method of narrative analysis employs a philosophy of language called speech act theory. His primary interest is ways in which speech act theory has been applied to biblical narrative, and he concentrates specifically on speech acts that include theological propositional content, that is, words used to denote God. In this way, Mann analyzes the theological speech acts of the narrative and then suggests a way to view the narrative itself as a speech act. The thesis of this study is that speech act theory illuminates the integral role of theology in the story of David's departure and return. Theology is not merely one aspect of the story but is in fact a catalyst necessary to the plot. Furthermore, the act of telling the story as 2 Sam 14-20 does is the very act of portraying David's faith in Yhwh. David's speech acts demonstrate that he believes that Yhwh is someone who intervenes and who finds ways to bring his banished ones back to him. The narrative portrayal of David's faith can be understood as an illocutionary act, with the potential effect of encouraging an audience, a perlocutionary act. In other words, Man demonstrates that this story can inspire any readers who see this narrative as a story not only about David but about themselves.
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