• Tracking the trail of scent: an introduction
• The aroma of daily life: aromatics in Roman and rabbinic culture
• Election and the erotic: biblical portrayals of perfume and incense
• Spicy ideologies: fragrance and rabbinic beliefs
• Soothing odors: death, suffering, and sacrifice
• Ephemerality and fragrance: desire for divine immanence.

"Studies aroma in Jewish life and literature in Palestine in the late Roman and early Byzantine periods. Uses the history and material culture of perfume and incense as a lens to view daily activities"--Provided by publisher.

• Contents
• Acknowledgments Note on the Text
• Introduction: Another Bible that Is Borderline
• 1 Into the Whirlwind: God's Answer to Job's Complaint
• 2 The Economy, Stupid! The Teaching of Jesus in the Gospel of Matthew Interlude: Displaced Exegete: A Scriptural Biography
• 3 Such a Little Thing! The Tongue and Alternate Subjectivity in the Epistle of James
• 4 Interrupting Hope: The Book of Revelation Conclusion: After the Bible: Life's Largesse
• Notes Bibliography Index.
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In Borderline Exegesis, Leif Vaage presents an alternative approach to biblical interpretation, or exegesis--an approach that bends the boundaries of the traditional North American methodology to analyze the meaning of biblical texts for a wider audience. To accomplish this, Vaage engages in a practice he calls "borderline exegesis." Adapting anthropological notions of borderlands, borderline exegesis writes biblical scholarship peripherally, unearthing the Bible's textual and discursive borderlands and allowing biblical texts to be at play with the utopian imagination. The book's main chapters comprise four case studies that engage in a "divergent reading" of the book of Job, the Gospel of Matthew, the Epistle of James, and the book of Revelation. Informed by the author's time in war-torn Peru, these chapters take on themes that the poor and disenfranchised have historically claimed--themes of social justice, the legitimacy (or lack thereof) of prevailing social practices, and, most importantly, utopian demand for another possible world. The chapters are held together by the presentation of a greater theoretical framework that provides reflection on the exegetical practices within and confronts biblical scholars with important questions about the aims of the work they do. Taken as a whole, Borderline Exegesis seeks to disclose what the professional practice of textual interpretation might become if we refuse the conventional distances between academic practice and lived experience.
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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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• Acknowledgments Read Me First Whose Bible Is It?
• 1. The Sound of the Biblical Voices
• 2. Historical Voices
• 3. Theological Voices
• 4. Legal Voices
• 5. Prophetic Voices
• 6. Women's Voices
• 7. Voices of the Wise
• 8. Foreign Voices
• 9. Voices of Song and Legend
• 10. Echoes and Reverberations Index.
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The most common English translations of the Bible often sound like a single, somewhat archaic voice. In fact, the Bible is made up of many separate books composed by multiple writers in a wide range of styles and perspectives. It is, as Michael Carasik demonstrates, not a remote text reserved for churches and synagogues but rather a human document full of history, poetry, politics, theology, and spirituality. Using historic, linguistic, anthropological, and theological sources, Carasik helps us distinguish between the Jewish Bible's voices-the mythic, the historical, the prophetic, the theological, and the legal. By articulating the differences among these voices, he shows us not just their messages and meanings but also what mattered to the authors. In these contrasts we encounter the Bible anew as a living work whose many voices tell us about the world out of which the Bible grew-and the world that it created. Listen to the author's podcast.
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• AbbreviationsPreface Part I The Bible and History1 Israel Without the Bible Gary A. Rendsburg2 Bible, Archaeology, and the Social Sciences: The Next Generation Elizabeth Bloch-SmithPart II New Approaches to the Bible3 Literary Approaches to Biblical Literature: General Observations and a Case Study of Genesis 34 Adele Berlin4 Feminist Approaches to the Hebrew Bible Esther FuchsPart III Ancient Practice5 The Laws of Biblical Israel Raymond Westbrook6 The Study of Ritual in the Hebrew Bible David P. WrightPart IV Judaism and the Bible7 By the Letter?/Word for Word? Scripture in the Jewish Tradition Leonard Greenspoon8 From Judaism to Biblical Religion and Back Again Ziony Zevit9 Jewish Biblical Theology Marvin A. SweeneyEpilogue: Let a Hundred Flowers Bloom: Some Re?ections on Reading and Studying the Hebrew Bible Peter MachinistAbout the Contributors Index Index of Biblical Passages.
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In April of 2001, the headline in the Los Angeles Timesread, "Doubting the Story of the Exodus." It covered a sermon that had been delivered by the rabbi of a prominent local congregation over the holiday of Passover. In it, he said, "The truth is that virtually every modern archeologist who has investigated the story of the exodus, with very few exceptions, agrees that the way the Bible describes the exodus is not the way it happened, if it happened at all." This seeming challenge to the biblical story captivated the local public. Yet as the rabbi himself acknowledged, his sermon contained nothing new. The theories that he described had been common knowledge among biblical scholars for over thirty years, though few people outside of the profession know their relevance.New understandings concerning the Bible have not filtered down beyond specialists in university settings. There is a need to communicate this research to a wider public of students and educated readers outside of the academy. This volume seeks to meet this need, with accessible and engaging chapters describing how archeology, theology, ancient studies, literary studies, feminist studies, and other disciplines now understand the Bible.
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• Cover; Contents; Preface;
• 1. PRELIMINARY REMARKS;
• 2. INTRODUCTION; 2.1 From what context do we consider the Old Testament?; 2.2 What is the status of the Old Testament writings?; 2.3 What are our aims in interpreting the ancient traditions?;
• 3. A SKETCH OF THE SOCIAL HISTORY OF ISRAEL; 3.1 Family and clan; 3.2 Village and small town; 3.3 Tribal alliances; 3.4 The monarchical state; 3.5 Confessional and parochial communities;
• 4. THE DEITY IN THE CIRCLE OF FAMILY AND CLAN; 4.1 The horizon of faith; 4.2 Cultic actions; 4.3 Ideas of God; 4.4 The ethic of family and clan.

• 4.5 Theology from the family
• theology of the individual5. DEITIES OF THE VILLAGE (SMALL-TOWN) COMMUNITY; 5.1 The social history of Palestine; 5.2 Village structures; 5.3 Rituals and cults; 5.4 Ethics and the administration of justice; 5.5 The theology of the settled community;
• 6. GOD AND GODDESS IN THE TRIBAL ALLIANCE; 6.1 The biblical picture of the tribal system; 6.2 The origin of Israel; 6.3 The structure of the tribes; 6.4 Cultic actions; 6.5 Ideas of God; 6.6 Faith and ethics; 6.7 Ideologies of war? Liberation theology?; 6.8 How were larger societies organized?

• 7. KINGDOM THEOLOGIES IN ISRAEL7.1 The sources; 7.2 Internal organization; 7.3 Foreign policy; 7.4 Theology of king and state; 7.5 The opposition from peripheral groups (prophecy); 7.6 Were there special features in the northern kingdom of Israel?; 7.7 The theology of the southern kingdom after David (Jerusalem theology); 7.8 Popular belief; 7.9 National religion?;
• 8. THE FAITH COMMUNITY OF ''ISRAEL'' AFTER THE DEPORTATIONS; 8.1 The political and social situation: internal structures; 8.2 The origin of the holy scriptures; 8.3 Yahweh, the only God; The name and exclusiveness of Yahweh.

• The legacy of family and village religionThe power and impotence of God; Justice and peace; Creation and history; Guilt and atonement; Summary; 8.4 The cult: temple and synagogue; 8.5 Popular belief; 8.6 The ethic of the Yahweh community; 8.7 What remains?;
• 9. POLYTHEISM, SYNCRETISM AND THE ONE GOD; 9.1 Conceptual clarifications; 9.2 Changes: the accumulation and interdependence of images of God; 9.3 Tensions between the theologies of ancient Israel;
• 10. EFFECTS AND CONTROVERSIES; 10.1 Christian perspectives?; 10.2 The ecumenicity of our theology; 10.3 The autonomous human being.

• 10.4 The unjust, unredeemed world10.5 God: personal or impersonal?; 10.6 The liberating God; 10.7 An ethic of responsibility; 10.8 Images of God today; 10.9 Parallel theologies (pluralism)?; 10.10 Relativity, absoluteness, globalization; 10.11 Monism and dualism; 10.12 Anthropology; 10.13 History and eschaton; 10.14 Our God today; 10.15 God for all; APPENDIX: GOD IN OUR TIME; Abbreviations; Bibliography; Index of Biblical References; Index of Modern Authors; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z.

The author here offers a radical departure from traditional treatments of Old Testament theology. Rather than offering a systematic approach, he discusses the various theological voices coming from different social settings within ancient Israel: the family and the clan, village, tribal alliance, and kingdom. Gerstenberger concludes with his reflections on how the biblical witness informs contemporary theology, and must be contextual and ecumenical in order to be authentic.

• Acknowledgments;
• Chapter 1 Introduction; 1.1 Biblical Hebrew: Variety in the Face of Unifying Forces; 1.2 Fundamental Difficulties in the Description of Biblical Hebrew; 1.3 Historical Development as a Factor in Biblical Hebrew Variety; 1.4 Non-Diachronic Factors and Linguistic Variety in the Hebrew Bible; 1.5 Recent Criticism of the Diachronic Approach to Biblical Hebrew and the Linguistic Dating of Biblical Texts;
• Chapter 2 The Language of the Book of Jeremiah; 2.1 History of Research; 2.2 The Language of the Book of Jeremiah from a Diachronic Perspective.

In Ancient Hebrew Periodization and the Language of the Book of Jeremiah, Aaron Hornkohl defends the diachronic approach to Biblical Hebrew and the linguistic dating of biblical texts. Applying the standard methodologies to the Masoretic version of the biblical book of Jeremiah, he seeks to date the work on the basis of its linguistic profile, determining that, though composite, Jeremiah is likely a product of the transitional time between the First and Second Temple Periods. Hornkohl also contributes to unraveling Jeremiah's complicated literary development, arguing on the basis of language that its 'short edition', as reflected in the book's Old Greek translation, predates that 'supplementary material' preserved in the Masoretic edition but unparalleled in the Greek. Nevertheless, he concludes that neither is written in Late Biblical Hebrew proper.
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• Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; What Does Salvation Have to Do with Childbearing?; Greco-Roman Childbearing Discourse; Chapter Outline; Chapter One. On Waves, Discourses and Intersections; Introduction; Continuity and Change in Feminist Readings; Women at the Center; Celibacy as Autonomy; Class
• a Blind Spot?; A Third-Wave Approach; Discourse; Gender; Intersectionality; Conclusion; Chapter Two. Greco-Roman Childbearing Discourse; Introduction; The Origin of Woman; Marriage for Procreation; Slaves and Procreation; The Fecundity of the Roman Empire.

• Deviant Women Don't Want ChildrenA Pronatalistic Gynecology; Childbearing Imagery; Conclusion; Chapter Three. The Pastoral Epistles; Introduction; Date, Place, Authorship, Genre; What Do Scholars Say about 1Tim 2:15?; Salvation in the Pastoral Epistles; The Centrality of Salvation; Salvation, Sound Teaching and Good Deeds; Constructions of Gender and Class; The Kyriarchal Structure of the Household of God; Female Virtue and Vice; Protocols of Masculinity; Slaves and Constructions of Gender; Salvation and Childbearing in the Pastoral Epistles; The Context of the Passage.

• Men's Temper and Women's DressKyriarchally Stratified Teaching Roles; The Gullibility of Women; Salvation through Childbirth; Conclusion; Chapter Four. The Acts of Andrew; Introduction; Date, Place, Authorship, Genre; Summary of the Story; Salvation in the Acts of Andrew; The Significance of Words; Platonic Influence; An Encratite Gospel?; Constructions of Gender and Class; The Manly Apostle; Philosopher Masculinity; The Ideal Woman; Good and Bad Slaves; Salvation and Childbearing in the Acts of Andrew; The Male Birthing of the Word; Reproductive Homoeroticism; Maximilla as Christ's Wife.

• Maximilla as New EveBecoming Male, Becoming Words; The Wanton Slave Girl; Conclusion; Chapter Five. The Martyrdom of Perpetua and Felicitas; Introduction; Date, Place, Authorship, Genre; Summary of the Story; Felicitas in Labor; Martyrdom as Salvation; Salvation Guaranteed; Defeating the Devil; The Blood of the Martyrs: Sacrifice and Seed; Constructions of Gender and Class; Matron, Mother, Martyr; Perpetua and Her Father; Perpetua's Transgender Performances; Agonistic Masculinity; Transforming a Matron, Fixing a Slave; Female Bodies in the Arena.

• Salvation and Childbearing in the Martyrdom of Perpetua and FelicitasMartyrdom or Motherhood?; God's Transgender Performances; Conclusion; Conclusion; Introduction; Salvation and Childbearing; Intersections of Gender and Class; Masculinity and Gender Models; Exemplary Women; Women, Eve, Sex; Birthing Salvation; Bibliography; Index of Ancient Sources; Index of Subjects and Names.

In Birthing Salvation Anna Rebecca Solevag explores the theme of childbearing in early Christian discourse. The book maps the importance of women's childbearing in Greco-Roman culture and shows how childbearing discourse interfaces with salvation discourse in three early Christian texts: the Pastoral Epistles, the Acts of Andrew and the Martyrdom of Perpetua and Felicitas. Issues of gender and class are explored through an intersectional analysis. In particular, the institution of slavery, and its implications for ideas about salvation in these texts are drawn out. Birthing Salvation offers fresh interpretations of these texts, including the peculiar statement in 1 Tim 2:15 that women "will be saved through childbearing.".
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• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Foreword
• List of Abbreviations
• Chapter 1
• Introduction
• 1.1. Situating the Issue
• 1.2. Relevance
• 1.3. Goals and Methodology
• Chapter 2
• The Zion Text of Isaiah 28:16 in the History of Exegesis
• 2.1. Introduction
• 2.2. Septuagint
• 2.3. New Testament
• 2.3.1. Romans 9:32b 8211; 33 and 10
• 2.3.2. 1 Peter 2:6
• 2.3.3. Evaluation
• 2.4. Judaism
• 2.4.1. Qumran
• 2.4.2. Targum
• 2.4.3. Talmud
• 2.4.4. Evaluation
• 2.5. Early Church
• 2.5.1. The Letter of Barnabas
• 2.5.2. Tertullian and Cyprian
• 2.5.3. Jerome and Augustine
• 2.5.4. Cyril and Theodoret
• 2.5.5. Evaluation
• 2.6. Middle Ages
• 2.7. Reformation
• 2.8. Modern Biblical Research
• 2.8.1. The future kingdom of God
• 2.8.2. The new Israel
• 2.8.3. The true religion of yhwh
• 2.8.4. The new temple / new Zion
• 2.8.5. Metaphorical interpretation
• 2.8.6. The existing temple / Zion
• 2.9. Conclusions
• Chapter 3
• The Literary and Historical Context of the Zion Text of Isaiah 28:16
• 3.1. Introduction
• 3.2. Colometric Subdivision of Isaiah 28
• 3.3. Pericope Delineation within Isaiah 28
• 3.4. Isaiah 28:148211; 22 as Original Unity
• 3.5. Isaiah 28:148211; 22 as Isaianic Prophecy
• 3.6. Dating Isaiah 28:148211; 22
• 3.7. Dating the Reign of Hezekiah
• 3.8. Hezekiah's revolt and Sennacherib's campaign
• Excursus
• 1: Prophetic historiography in 2 Kings 188211; 19
• Chapter 4
• Exegesis of Individual Pericopes within Isaiah 28 and their Reciprocal Relationships
• 4.1. Introduction
• 4.2. Isa. 28:148211; 22
• 4.2.1. Isa. 28:148211; 15
• 4.2.2. Isa. 28:16
• 4.2.3. Isa. 28:17a
• 4.2.4. Isa. 28:17b8211; 18
• 4.2.5. Isa. 28:198211; 21
• 4.2.6. Isa. 28:22
• 4.3. Isa. 28:78211; 13
• 4.3.1. Isa. 28:78211; 8
• 4.3.2. Isa. 28:98211; 10
• 4.3.3. Isa. 28:118211; 13
• 4.4. Evaluation
• 4.5. Is a . 28:18211; 6 and 28
• 4.5.1. Isa. 28:18211; 6
• 4.5.2. Isa. 28:238211; 29
• 4.5.3. Evaluation
• Chapter 5
• The Place and Function of Isaiah 28:148211; 22 in the Context of Isaiah 288211; 33
• 5.1. Introduction
• 5.2. Isaiah 288211; 33 as a Redactional Unit
• 5.2.1. Structural Cohesion
• 5.2.2. Content Based Cohesion
• 5.2.3. Evaluation
• 5.3. Isaiah 28 as Overture
• 5.4. Isaiah 28:148211; 22 as key text and guide
• Chapter 6
• The Zion Text of Isaiah 28:16 and the Zion Tradition in Isaiah
• 6.1. Introduction
• 6.2. Zion in the First Part of the Book of Isaiah (18211; 39)
• 6.3. Results of the Exegesis of the Zion Text of Isaiah 28:16
• 6.4. The Place of the Zion Tradition in the Preaching of Isaiah
• 6.4.1. Research into the Zion Tradition
• 6.4.2. Further Research into the Zion Preaching of Isaiah
• Chapter 7
• Summary and Conclusions
• 1. The Zion Text of Isa. 28:16 in the Septuagint, the New Testament and Judaism
• 2. The Zion Text of Isa. 28:16 in the History of Interpretation
• 3. The Zion Text of Isa. 28:16 in its Literary and Historical Context
• 4. Exegetical Conclusions with Respect to the Zion Text of Isa. 28:16
• 5. The Covenant with Death
• 6. Isa. 28:148211; 22 in the Context of Isaiah 28 and Isaiah 288211; 33
• 7. Zion in Isaiah 18211; 39
• 8. Research into the Zion Tradition and its Origins.

No other biblical book ascribes such a prominent place to the theme of `Zion' as the book of Isaiah does. One of the most important statements regarding Zion is to be found in Isa. 28:16. The text speaks of the laying of a foundation stone in Zion and enjoys an important place in New Testament preaching since it is associated with the advent of Jesus Christ. The present study addresses the interpretation of Isa. 28:16 in its Old Testament context. Its significance lies in the fresh contribution it makes to our understanding of the Zion text in question and its importance for establishing the role played by Zion and the so-called Zion tradition in the preaching of Isaiah.
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• Acknowledgments Abbreviations Translation Chapter One Introduction 1.1. Introduction 1.2. Poetics 1.2.1. The Relationship between Form and Function 1.2.2. Structure or Progression in Addition to the Acrostic Form 1.3. Genre 1.3.1. A Lament Psalm? 1.3.2. A Wisdom Psalm? 1.3.3. A Torah Psalm? 1.3.4. An Anthological Psalm? 1.3.5. Conclusion Chapter Two The Use of Traditional Religious Language 2.1. Introduction 2.2. The Language of Piety 2.2.1. Clinging to Torah- 2.2.2. Trusting in Torah- 2.2.3. Hoping in Torah- 2.2.4. Believing in Torah- 2.2.5. Loving Torah- 2.2.6. Fearing Torah- 2.2.7. Seeking Torah- 2.2.8. Setting Torah Before Me 2.2.9. Raising My Hands to Torah 2.3. The Language of Lament 2.3.1. Petitions 2.3.2. Enemies 2.3.3. Claims of Innocence 2.3.4. Adaptations 2.4. The Language of Wisdom Literature 2.4.1. Locutions Borrowed from Wisdom Literature 2.4.2. Metaphors and Motifs that are Characteristic of Wisdom Literature Chapter Three The Exemplary Torah Student 3.1. Introduction 3.2. Exemplary Types 3.2.1. The Righteous in Psalms 3.2.2. David 3.2.3. Exemplary Women in Proverbs 3.2.4. The Wise in Proverbs 3.2.5. The Suasive Force of Exemplary Types 3.3. The Portrayal of the Exemplary Torah Student-Its Construction 3.3.1. The Introductory Function of Verses 1-3 3.3.2. The Use of First-person Language 3.3.3. The Language of Devotion 3.3.3.1. Adverbial Phrases 3.3.3.2. Verbs of Emotion 3.3.3.3. The Speaker's Relationship with God 3.3.4. The Language of Distress 3.3.4.1. Repeated Petitions 3.3.4.2. Enemies as a Foil 3.3.4.3. The Speaker's Longing for Torah 3.3.5. The Language of Character Formation 3.3.6. Inconsistencies in the Portrayal 3.3.7. The Portrayal of Settings 3.3.8. Repetition 3.4. The Portrayal of the Exemplary Torah Student-Its Suasive Force 3.4.1. Advantages and Benefits of Torah Observance 3.4.2. A Secondary Function of Traditional Religious Language 3.4.3. The Suasive Force of Logical Gaps Chapter Four The Concept of Torah 4.1. Introduction 4.2. What Psalm 119 Expresses 4.2.1. The Torah Terms 4.2.1.1. Excursus-
• 4.2.1.2. Instantiations and an Abstract Concept 4.2.1.3. Interchangeable Usage? 4.2.1.4. "According to Your Word"-
• 4.2.1.5. "Word"-
• 4.2.1.6. "Regulations"-
• 4.2.2. Attributes of Torah 4.2.3. Torah Study 4.3. What Psalm 119 Does Not Express 4.3.1. Concepts that are Avoided 4.3.2. The Relationship Between Torah and Wisdom 4.3.3. Torah as a Hypostasis? 4.4. A Concept that is Greater than the Sum of the Parts 4.4.1. Definition 4.4.2. Evidence that the Concept is Greater than the Sum of the Parts Chapter Five Psalm 119 in Context 5.1. Introduction 5.2. The Place of Psalm 119 in the Psalter 5.2.1. The Problem of Integrating Psalm 119 into the Structure of the Psalter 5.2.2. The Frequency and Placement of the Theme of Torah in the Psalter 5.2.3. Zenger's Proposal 5.2.4. Psalm 119's Contribution to the Theology of the Psalter 5.3. The Place of Psalm 119 in the Hebrew Bible 5.4. The Place of Psalm 119 in Developing Judaism Conclusion Commentary Bibliography Index of References Author Index Subject Index.
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Despite extensive study of the poetic features of Psalm 119, the conceptions it advocates and its contribution to developing Judaism have not been well understood; indeed some scholars have dismissed the psalm as containing little more than wearisome repetition. Reynolds distinguishes between the psalmist and the speaker within the psalm. The psalmist portrays the speaker as an exemplary Torah student and thereby promotes the contemplation of Torah as a facet of ethical instruction. Using this new perspective, Reynolds contributes a fresh and coherent understanding of the ideas in Psalm 119. He explains the function of its length and highlights its emphasis on Torah study that became axiomatic in Rabbinic Judaism.
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• Part One: Relating to David-- "David and Tidings of Death: Crises and Characterizations in 2 Samuel" - Jan Quesada-- "The Women in David's Life" - Toni Craven-- "Michal and David: Love Between Enemies?" - Athalya Brenner-- "Three Vignettes From the Life of David: Recollections From the Royal Court" - David Penchansky-- ""Abigail and David" - Mary Shields-- "A Literary Pattern for David's Marriages and Why We Don't See It" - Randall C. Bailey-- Part Two: Reading David-- "A Broken Hallelujah: Remembering Justice and the Cost of David's House" - Danna Nolan Fewell-- "Heir and Land: the Royal 'Envelope' of the Books of Kings" - Walter Brueggemann-- "David Encounters Etai" - Francis Landy-- "Son of David, Son of Saul: Paul's Vanished Messiah" - Philip R. Davies-- Part Three: Singing David
• "Danger and Rescue: David in the Titles of Psalms" - Robert Culley-- "Psalm 23 and Method: Reading a David Psalm" - David J. A. Clines-- "Penitent to a Fault: Reading 2 Samuel's David in Psalm 51" - Christopher Heard-- "A Sharper Harper: the Visual Context of 1 Samuel 16:14-23" - Carole Fontaine-- Part Four: Receiving David-- "A Renaissance/Reformation David and Bathsheba, or the Bible's Classical Cringe" - Yvonne Sherwood-- "From the 'Waters of Babylon' to 'King David': The Sexually Charged History of a Victorian Drawing" - Burke Long-- "Brecht's David" - David Jobling-- "A King Fit for a Child: the David Story in Modern Children's Literature" - J. Cheryl Exum-- Part Five: Re-Locating David-- "Through a Window: A Postcolonial Reading of Michal" - Judith McKinlay-- "Taking Tamar into Local Communities: Reading 2 Samuel 13:1-22 in Context" - Gerald West-- "Waving David Off" - Jione Havea-- "David in Palestine" - Alice Bach (Title to be finalized).
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Celebrating the five hundredth volume, this Festschrift honors David M. Gunn, one of the founders of the Journal of Old Testament Studies, later the Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies, and offers essays representing cutting-edge interpretations of the David material in the Hebrew Bible and later literary and popular culture. Essays in Part One, Relating to David, present David in relationship to other characters in Samuel. These essays demonstrate the value of close reading, analysis of literary structure, and creative, disciplined readerly imagination in interpreting biblical texts in general and understanding the character of David in particular. Part Two, Reading David, expands the narrative horizon. These essays analyze the use of the David character in larger biblical narrative contexts. David is understood as a literary icon that communicates and disrupts meaning in different ways in different context. More complex modes of interpretation enter in, including theories of metaphor, memory and history, psychoanalysis, and post-colonialism. Part Three, Singing David, shifts the focus to the portrayal of David as singer and psalmist, interweaving in mutually informative ways both with visual evidence from the ancient Near East depicting court musicians and with the titles and language of the biblical psalms. Part Four, Receiving David, highlights moments in the long history of interpretation of the king in popular culture, including poetry, visual art, theatre, and children's literature. Finally, the essays in Part Five, Re-locating David, represent some of the intellectually and ethically vital interpretative work going on in contexts outside the U.S. and Europe.
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• Preface; Abbreviations; List of Major Manuscripts; Map; Introduction; The Book of Tobit in Codex Sinaiticus; The Book of Tobit in Codex Vaticanus; Illustration: A Fish from the Tigris River; Bibliography; General Index; Index of Biblical References.

"Tobit" is one of the "Apocrypha", a collection of books rejected from their canon by the Jews but accepted by some of the Christian church fathers. This work contains the text from two fourth century CE manuscripts, the Codex Sinaiticus (long version) and Codex Vaticanus (short version) as well as a translation into English and a commentary.

• Shechem in Deuteronomy: a seemingly hidden polemic / Yairah Amit
• Menachem's massacre of Tiphsah: at the crossroads of grammar and memory (2 Kings 15:16) / Bob Becking
• Male royals and their ethnically foreign mothers: the implications for textual politics / Athalya brenner-Idan
• Images of tranquility in the Book of Judges / Susanne Gillmayer-Bucher
• When the foreign monarch speaks about the Israelite tabernacle / Gary N. Knoppers
• Putting the neighbors in the place: memory and mindscape in Deuteronomy 2:10-12. 20-23 / William morrow
• Righteous kings, evil kings, and Israel's non-monarchic identity: different voices on the failure of Israelite kingship in the Book of Kings / Reinhard Müller
• A request for blessing and prosperity in an inscription from Samaria / Nadav Na'aman
• Solomon's administrative districts: a scholarly illusion / Richard D. Nelson
• Conceptions of the past and sociocultural grounding in the Books of Samuel / Frank H. Polak
• "In the house of Judah, my father's house": The character of Joab in the Book of Chronicles / Kenneth A. Ristau
• Chronicles and Utopia: likely bedfellows? / Ian Douglas Wilson
• When God's voice breaks through: shifts in revelatory rhetoric in Zechariah 1-8 / Mark J. Boda
• The chronological limits of reshaping social memory in the presence of written sources: the case of Ezekiel in late Persian and early Hellenistic Yehud / Philippe Guillaume
• Who's speaking? On whose behalf? The Book of Haggai from the perspective of identity formation in the Persian Period / Louis Jonker
• Mind the gap: reading Isa 39:8-Isa 40:1 within early Second Temple Judah / Sonya K. Kostamo
• The nāśiʼ and the future of royalty in Ezekiel / Christiohe Nihan
• These seventy years: intertextual observations and postulations on Jeremiah and the Twelve / James Nogalski
• The metaprophetic God of Jonah / Carey Walsh
• Some sort of "chronistic" additions to the Torah? New perspectives in the formation of Exod 19-20 / Rainer Albertz
• Sites of memory and the presence of the past in Ehud Ben Zvi's "social memory" / Kåre Berge
• The Jerusalem literary circle / Philip R. Davies
• The metaphor of Torah as a life-giving well in the Book of Deuteronomy / Diana V. Edelman
• The ritual of reading andt he dissemination of prophetic and other authoritative texts in Second Temple Judaism / Michael H. Floyd
• History and the nature of cultural memory: The Alamo and the "Masada complex" / Lester L. Grabbe
• Between the words I write / Francis Landy
• Hybrids, purification, and multidirectional memory in Exra-Nehemiah / Tim Langille
• Is DEhud also among the prophets? Prophecy in the Book of Judges / Christoph Levin
• Mythoprophetics: some thoughts / James R. Linville
• More geminate ballast and clustering in biblical Hebrew / Scott B. Noegel
• Blurred boundaries in the Lot story / P.J. Sabo.

Ehud Ben Zvi is one of the foremost scholars in the field of Hebrew Bible today. He has had a global impact both as a researcher and as a teacher, and he continues to create cutting-edge research that is helping to shape the future of the field. This volume marks his upcoming retirement from the University of Alberta and honors him and his career as a scholar and educator. Thirty-one papers written by a select group of colleagues, including several former students and a former teacher, are presented under three sub-headings: History and Historiography; Prophecy and Prophetic Books; and Methods, Observations, (Re)Readings. These categories represent the wide-ranging interests of Ehud himself and include contributions on the Bible as social memory, for which he has been a leading advocate and theorist in the past decade. Contributors include R. Albertz, Y. Amit, B. Becking, K. Berge, M. J. Boda, A. Brenner-Idan, P. R. Davies, D. V. Edelman, M. H. Floyd, S. Gilmayr-Bucher, L. L. Grabbe, P. Guillaume, L. Jonker, G. N. Knoppers, S. Kostamo, F. Landy, T. Langille, C. Levin, J. R. Linville, W. Morrow, C. Nihan, S. B. Noegel, J. Nogalski, R. M ller, N. Na?aman, R. Nelson, F. Polak, K. Ristau, P. J. Sabo, C. Walsh, and I. D. Wilson. Readers, regardless of their areas of specialization, will find many stimulating and thought-provoking contributions in the collection, which is fitting, given the boundary-pushing work of the honoree.
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• Introduction / Christopher D. Stanley
• The historical context. By the letter? Word for word? Scriptural citation in Paul / Leonard Greenspoon
• Identity, memory, and scriptural warrant : arguing Paul's case / Jeremy Punt
• Paul among the storytellers : reading Romans 11 in the context of rewritten Bible / Bruce N. Fisk
• Text and context. Does Paul respect the context of his quotations? / Steve Moyise
• Respect for context and authorial intention : setting the epistemological bar / Mitchell Kim
• Latency and respect for context : a response to Mitchell Kim / Steve Moyise
• Beyond the Hauptbriefe. Paul's reliance on Scripture in 1 Thessalonians / E. Elizabeth Johnson
• The use of Scripture in Philippians / Stephen Fowl
• Writing "in the image" of Scripture : the form and function of references to Scripture in Colossians / Jerry L. Sumney
• Scripture in Paul's theology. Scripture and other voices in Paul's theology / Linda L. Belleville
• Beyond Hays's Echoes of Scripture in the letters of Paul : a proposed diachronic intertextuality with Romans 10:16 as a test case / Matthew W. Bates
• Approaching Paul's use of Scripture in light of translation studies / Roy E. Ciampa
• Conclusions. What we learned, and what we didn't / Christopher D. Stanley.

• Aquinas on Paul's flesh/spirit anthropology in Romans / Bernhard Blankenhorn
• Aquinas on Abraham's faith in Romans 4 / Markus Bockmuehl
• Ressourcement of mystery : the ecclesiology of Thomas Aquinas and the letter to the Romans / Hans Boersma
• On the relation of St. Thomas's commentary on Romans to the Summa theologiae / John F. Boyle
• Thomas's theology of preaching in Romans : a Lascasian application / Edgardo Antonio Colón-Emeric
• Romans 9-11 : rereading Aquinas on the Jews / Holly Taylor Coolman
• Degrading the body, suppressing the truth : Aquinas on romans 1:18-25 / Adam G. Cooper
• The Holy Spirit in Aquinas's commentary on Romans / Gilles Emery
• The multiple literal sense in Thomas Aquinas's commentary on Romans and modern Pauline hermeneutics / Scott W. Hahn and John Kincaid
• Aquinas's use of the Old Testament in his commentary on Romans / Mary Healy
• Aquinas on Romans 8 : predestination in context / Matthew Levering
• Beatus vir : Aquinas, Romans 4, and the role "reckoning" in justification / Bruce Marshall
• Portraits of Paul : Aquinas and Calvin on Romans 7:14-25 / Charles Raith II
• Rendering God's glory : St. Paul and St. Thomas on worship / Geoffrey Wainwright
• The trinitarian, spousal, and ecclesial logic of justification / Michael Waldstein
• Origen, Augustine, and Thomas : interpreters of the letter to the Romans / Robert Louis Wilken.

St. Thomas Aquinas produced his Commentary on the Romans near the end of his life while working on the Summa theologiae and commenting on Aristotle. The doctrinal richness of Paul's Letter to the Romans was well known to the church fathers, including Origen and Augustine, on whom Aquinas drew for his commentary. With this rich collection of essays by leading scholars, both Catholic and Protestant, Aquinas's commentary will become a major resource for ecumenical biblical and theological discussion. Authored by theologians, historians, and biblical scholars, Reading Romans with St. Thomas Aquinas contributes to a historical reconstruction of Aquinas's exegesis and theology by addressing such topics as: the Holy Spirit, the Church, the faith of Abraham, worship, preaching, justification, sin and grace, predestination, Paul's apostolic vocation, the Jewish people, human sexuality, the relationship of flesh and spirit in the human person, the literal sense of Scripture, Paul's use of the Old Testament, and the relationship of Aquinas's commentary on Romans to his Summa theologiae. This volume fits within the contemporary reappropriation of St. Thomas Aquinas, which emphasises his use of Scripture and the teachings of the church fathers without neglecting his philosophical insight. Contributors are Bernhard Blankenhorn, Markus Bockmuehl, Hans Boersma, John F. Boyle, Edgardo Colon-Emericr, Holly Taylor Coolman, Adam Cooper, Michael Dauphinais, Gilles Emery, Scott W. Hahn, Mary Healy, John A. Kincaid, Matthew Levering, Bruce Marshall, Charles Raith II, Geoffrey Wainwright, Michael Waldstein, and Robert Louis Wilken. In On the Cessation of the Laws, Grosseteste draws out the theological, christological, and soteriological issues implicit in the question of the relationship between the Old and New Covenants.
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