Recently added articles from Journal of Biblical Literature:
Shattering the Image of God: A Response to Theodore Hiebert's Interpretation of the Story of the Tower of Babel
Dec 01, 2008; ... (ProQuest: ... denotes non-USASCII text omitted.) It was with rapt attention that I read Theodore Hiebert's recent article "The Tower of Babel and the Origin of the World's Cultures,"1 for he made an important argument that has been missed heretofore in the study of Genesis 11 and ...
The Manumission Laws in Leviticus and Deuteronomy: The Jeremiah Connection
Dec 01, 2008; ... (ProQuest: ... denotes non-USASCII text omitted.) The complex relationship between the legislation in Deuteronomy (D) and the Holiness Code (H) in Leviticus continues to provide fruitful avenues of inquiry for researchers into the formation and function of biblical law. These two legal ...
The "Root of Jesse" in Isaiah 11:10: Postexilic Judah, or Postexilic Davidic King?
Dec 01, 2008; ... (ProQuest: ... denotes non-USASCII text omitted.) Many fascinating issues of interpretation surround Isaiah 11:10. It reads, ... On that day, as for the root of Jesse who stands as a signal to the nations- him the nations will seek and his place of rest will be ...
The Interpretation of Isaiah 56:1-9: Comfort or Criticism?
Dec 01, 2008; ... (ProQuest: ... denotes non-USASCII text omitted.) Isaiah 56:1-8 is described as a promise of salvation,1 an exhortation contain- ing a prophetic Torah,2 or a prophetic oracle that introduces a new cultic norm.3 Its origin is to be found in the cultic context of the temple, in which the ...
Were Joshua, Zerubbabel, and Nehemiah Contemporaries? A Response to Diana Edelman's Proposed Late Date for the Second Temple
Dec 01, 2008; ... In her recent monograph The Origins of the 'Second' Temple: Persian Imperial Policy and the Rebuilding of Jerusalem,1 Diana Edelman proposed a drastic revision of the postexilic chronology, moving the dedication of the Second Temple from 516 b.c.e. to a time early in the reign of Artaxerxes I ...
Who Constitutes Society? Yehud's Self-understanding in the Late Persian Era as Reflected in the Books of Chronicles
Dec 01, 2008; ... (ProQuest: ... denotes non-USASCII text omitted.) I. LITERATURE AND SELF-UNDERSTANDING Many studies have already been devoted to a description of Jewish society in the Persian province of Yehud. It has been righdy pointed out that one cannot merely use biblical records such as ...
Simply Irresistible: Augustus, Herod, and the Empire
Dec 01, 2008; ... Recent scholarship has been arriving at increasingly appreciative evaluations of Herod the Great. A generation ago the consensus about Herod could be summed up with words and phrases like "ruthless," "little more than a creature of cruelty," or "one of the most wicked of men . . . ignorant [and] ...
Luke 16:16: The Good News of God's Kingdom Is Proclaimed and Everyone Is Forced into It
Dec 01, 2008; ... (ProQuest: ... denotes non-USASCII text omitted.) In Luke 16:16 Jesus declares: ? ??µ?? ?a? ?? p??f?ta? µ???? ???????* ?p? t?te ? ßas??e?a t?? Te?? e?a??e???eta? ?a? pa? e?? a?t?? ß???eta?. The last words, ?a? pa? e?? a?t?? ß???eta?, are lacking in some manuscripts;1 this may be a sign ...
"I Left You in Crete": Narrative Deception and Social Hierarchy in the Letter to Titus
Dec 01, 2008; ... (ProQuest: ... denotes non-USASCII text omitted.) Behind every letter is a story, but behind a forged letter there are at least twoand one is a lie. The technique of the pseudonymous letter is to bridge surreptitiously the gap between the fiction it tells and the historical situation in ...
Us or You? Persuasion and Identity in 1 John
Dec 01, 2008; ... (ProQuest: ... denotes non-USASCII text omitted.) The dominant model for interpreting the Johannine Epistles over recent decades has been to locate them in a very specific context, to determine their Sitz im Leben. Of necessity this external world is reconstructed by reference to the ...
Who Led the Scapegoat in Leviticus 16:21?
Oct 01, 2008; ... (ProQuest: ... denotes formulae omitted.) A celebrated passage in the book of Leviticus prescribes the ritual of public atonement for the collective sins of the Israelites, to be performed by Aaron, the high priest, as part of the Yom Kippur purgation. It involves two goats, one to be ...
Reconstructing Meaning in Deuteronomy 22:5: Gender, Society, and Transvestitism in Israel and the Ancient Near East
Oct 01, 2008; ... (ProQuest: ... denotes formulae omitted.) Deuteronomy 22:5, the Hebrew Bible's anti-transvestitism clause, has long presented translators and scholars with difficulty.1 The verse reads as follows: Although scholars are in general agreement on the translation (if not the exact ...
Warfare and Wanton Destruction: A Reexamination of Deuteronomy 20:19-20 in Relation to Ancient Siegecraft
Oct 01, 2008; ... (ProQuest: ... denotes formulae omitted.) To Michael Walzer, with admiration In January 1865, Henry Halleck, chief of staff in Washington, D.C., wrote to Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman in Savannah, Georgia: "Should you capture Charleston, I hope by some accident the place may be ...
In Search of the Narrator's Voice: A Discourse Analysis of 2 Kings 18:13-16
Oct 01, 2008; ... (ProQuest: ... denotes formulae omitted.) The accounts of Sennacherib's invasion of Judah in 2 Kgs 18:13-19:37 have been the subject of much scholarly debate.1 We can discern at least two distinct accounts in the story of Sennacherib's invasion. In the first, shorter account (account A; ...
Dismantling the Deconstruction of Job
Oct 01, 2008; ... (ProQuest: ... denotes formulae omitted.) In a recent article, André LaCocque argues that the "divine discourse in Job 38-41 does as much to reveal flaws in the created universe as to celebrate the wisdom of the Creator."1 In a previous article on the same subject, LaCocque considered ...
Turban and Crown Lost and Regained: Ezekiel 21:29-32 and Zechariah's Zemah
Oct 01, 2008; ... (ProQuest: ... denotes formulae omitted.) The visions and prophecies recorded in the book of Zechariah have long puzzled scholars.1 Among the more challenging ones are the prophetic sign-acts connected to the appearance of ... in Zechariah 3 and 6:9-15. Who is this enigmatic figure? What ...
Marcion's Gospel and Luke: The History of Research in Current Debate
Oct 01, 2008; ... The issue of the relationship between Luke and Marcion's Gospel has been revived recently in several discussions of Marcion and Luke-Acts.1 Although this renewed interest is to be welcomed because of the importance of the question for the study of the canon, the fourfold Gospel collection, the ...
Three More Fish Stories (John 21:11)
Oct 01, 2008; ... (ProQuest: ... denotes formulae omitted.) The perennially interesting conundrum of the 153 fish finds its most complete recent treatment in the commentary of Craig Keener.1 Of the approximately dozen suggestions that are highlighted there, it is probably fair to say that the one holding ...
The Acts of the Apostles, Greek Cities, and Hadrian's Panhellenion
Oct 01, 2008; ... (ProQuest: ... denotes formulae omitted.) "This was not done in a corner," asserts Paul in the Acts of the Apostles about the ideas and origins of his movement (Acts 26:26).' In this brief sentence Luke's geographical imagination spills from Paul's mouth. Paul has just explained his own ...
Paul's "Partisan ék" and the Question of Justification in Galatians
Oct 01, 2008; ... (ProQuest: ... denotes formulae omitted.) In pursuing a final revision of my commentary on Galatians,1 while concurrently lecturing once more on the letter, I was forced to tackle again the issue of whether Paul depicts his opponents in Galatia as "legalists" rather than "reacting ...