Recently added articles from Journal of Biblical Literature:

Whose Text Is It?

Apr 01, 2008; Sakenfeld, Katharine Doob ... It was exactly twenty years ago that Professor Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza gave her landmark presidential address entitled "The Ethics of Biblical Interpretation: Decentering Biblical Scholarship."1 There she argued for the need for biblical scholarship to "continue its descriptive-analytic ...

Presidential Address

Apr 01, 2008; Sakenfeld, Katharine Doob ... President of the Society of Biblical Literature 2007 Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature November 18, 2007 San Diego, California Introduction given by Jonathan Z. Smith Vice President, Society of Biblical Literature Good evening, ...

Building Houses and Planting Vineyards: The Early Inner-Biblical Discourse on an Ancient Israelite Wartime Curse

Apr 01, 2008; Smoak, Jeremy D ... (ProQuest: ... denotes non-USASCII text omitted.) Notions of building and planting have profound significance in the discourse of biblical literature. One important indication of this is the inner-biblical discourse of a wartime curse, which threatens Israel in the following words, "You ...

Job's Wives in the Testament of Job: A Note on the Synthesis of Two Traditions

Apr 01, 2008; Legaspi, Michael C ... (ProQuest: ... denotes non-USASCII text omitted.) When it comes to biblical heroes, biographical details fall into two categories. On the one hand, there are the few details provided explicitly in the biblical text. On the other hand, there are the many facts, episodes, and events that ...

A Neglected Rabbinic Parallel to the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 6:22-23; Luke 11:34-36)

Apr 01, 2008; Turan, Sinai (Tamas) ... (ProQuest: ... denotes non-USASCII text omitted.) One of the most difficult sayings in the Sermon on the Mount is the one about the light and the body (Matt 6:22-23): (22a) The lamp of the body is the eye. (22b) If, then, your eye is healthy/good, your whole body will be full of ...

Invoking the Council as Witnesses in Amos 3:13

Apr 01, 2008; Bokovoy, David E ... (ProQuest: ... denotes non-USASCII text omitted.) One of the chief perils in the exegesis of ancient writings is that we should take figuratively that which in origin was meant quite realistically. -H. Wheeler Robinson, "The Council of Yahweh," JTS 45 (1944): ...

Praxis of the Voice: The Divine Name Traditions in the Apocalypse of Abraham

Apr 01, 2008; Orlov, Andrei A ... (ProQuest: ... denotes non-USASCII text omitted.) A large portion of the Apocalypse of Abraham, a Jewish work known only in its Slavonic translation, deals with the celestial tour of the eponymous hero of the text. In the work's elaborate account of the tour, which depicts Abraham's ...

touto proton ginoschontes oti in 2 Peter 1:20 and Hellenistic Epistolary Convention

Apr 01, 2008; Porter, Stanley E; Pitts, Andrew W ... (ProQuest: ... denotes non-USASCII text omitted.) In a recent issue of/BL, Terrance Callan argues against a general consensus among commentators that ... in 2 Pet 1:19 modifies the previous verb ....1 He suggests instead that ... modifies what follows in 1:20, .... He insists that ...

Cannibalistic Language in the Fourth Gospel and Greco-Roman Polemics of Factionalism (John 6:52-66)

Apr 01, 2008; Harrill, J Albert ... J. ALBERT HARRILL jharrill@indiana.edu Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405 (ProQuest: ... denotes non-USASCII text omitted.) This essay names the elephant in the room around which scholarly interpreters of John 6:52-66 have long been tiptoeing with their ...

Table Fellowship and the Translation of 1 Corinthians 5:11

Apr 01, 2008; Schwiebert, Jonathan ... (ProQuest: ... denotes non-USASCII text omitted.) In a commonsense reading of 1 Cor 5:11, Paul adds insult to injury: But now I am writing to you not to associate with anyone who bears the name of brother or sister who is sexually immoral or greedy, or is an idolater, reviler, ...

Rethinking Early Jewish-Christian Relations: Matthean Community History as Pharisaic Intragroup Conflict

Apr 01, 2008; Runesson, Anders ... (ProQuest: ... denotes non-USASCII text omitted.) Anyone interested in the religio-ethnic identity and social location of the community/communities that produced the Gospel of Matthew must contend not only with multilayered composition but also with the complex reception history of this ...

Hierarchy, Prophecy, and the Angelomorphic Spirit: A Contribution to the Study of the Book of Revelation's Wirkungsgeschichte

Apr 01, 2008; Bucur, Bogdan G ... (ProQuest: ... denotes non-USASCII text omitted.) Thanks to the work of scholars such as Ulrich Luz and Dale C. Allison, Jr., Wirkungsgeschichte (usually rendered into English as "reception history") has come to be regarded as a necessary part of biblical scholarship.1 Recent years have ...