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This work assembles contributions from North America''s leading Hebrew Bible/Old Testament scholars in honor of a highly respected biblical scholar, whose work on biblical prophets has been especially influential. Within the list are former teachers, current colleagues, and former students who are now colleagues in their own right, representing a wide range of denominational traditions represented-Roman Catholics, Lutheran, Episcopal, Presbyterian, etc. The book is divided into major two sections with a brief introduction by the editors, John Ahn and the Stephen Cook. Here, a brief biography and the academic career of Robert Wilson''s contribution to the guild (with a bibliography at the end of this section) and more over, at a personal level, his ceaseless work in helping to transform and reform the "new" Yale Divinity School and his impact in molding the Ph.D. program in HB/OT in the Religious Studies Department of the Graduate School at Yale University. Part I hold the essays on the Former Prophets and Part II on the Latter Prophets.

Presents literary analysis of "Song of Songs" by employing the method of New Criticism. This book aims to uncover the messages conveyed by the poems, the inner world of the characters. It discerns poems of physical description, poems of adoration, and poems of yearning.

A comprehensive examination of the links between wisdom literature and prophecy. The book is divided into four sections. The first addresses methodological concerns such as identifying "wisdom," identifying potential sociological spheres for wisdom and prophecy in the ancient Near East, and recognizing potential textual relationships. The second examines the role of wisdom in the prophetic corpus more broadly in a book-by-book analysis of biblical texts, first examining the role of wisdom in the prophetic corpus of the Hebrew Bible. The third section looks at elements of prophecy within the traditional wisdom books such as Job, Proverbs and Qoheleth. Finally, the book continues the conversation by providing two concluding chapters that evaluate, critique, engage, and raise new questions that Hebrew Bible scholars will need to wrestle with as the search for the relationship between wisdom and prophecy moves forward.

Scholars of biblical law are already widely agreed that ancient Israel did not draft law-texts for legislative purposes. This study critiques and challenges the current consensus, and presents an alternative hypothesis.

The book examines conditionals in the Greek Pentateuch from the point of view of the study of translation syntax. It takes seriously into account the double character of Septuagintal Greek, both as a translation from Hebrew and as vernacular Greek.

A comprehensive examination of the rhetoric of Operation Rescue, a pro-life social protest group (prominent between 1988 and 1992) that orchestrated blockades of clinics where abortions are performed. This book shows how the group appealed to the convictions of conservative evangelical and fundamentalist Christians in the United States.

Presents the descriptions of the body in the Song of Songs as grotesque, alternative way of interpreting perplexing imagery and as a means to investigate the Song's politics of gender and love. This book addresses the problematic nature of the Song's body imagery by using the artistic and literary construct of the grotesque body as a heuristic.

Explores the literary and historical character of biblical texts in the Torah, Prophecy, and Writings. This book considers questions of composition and the writing of history. It situates biblical texts in their immediate and distant context and reflects upon their intertextuality and identifies their literary sources.

Proposes a different theory regarding the date and circumstances of the composition of the "Pentateuch". This book shows that the Hebrew "Pentateuch" was composed in its entirety about 273-272 BCE by Jewish scholars at Alexandria that later traditions credited with the Septuagint translation of the Pentateuch into Greek.

Explores 'word', rva-, and their relationship in the book of "Ezekiel". This book interprets the emphasis on rva- in "Ezekiel" in terms of the self-authentication of the ministry of the prophet. It examines the relationship between rva- and prophecy in "Ezekiel", and shows that the dominant paradigm requires modification.

Offers a narratological, intertextual reading of Jeremiah 37:1 to 40:6, a text that features the interaction between the prophet Jeremiah and King Zedekiah in the context of events surrounding the fall of Jerusalem. This book argues that the text develops complex images of both Zedekiah and Jeremiah, and invites sympathy and criticism for both.

Drawing on the literary insights of Mikhail Bakhtin, this study explores in detail the nature of the relationship between "Lamentations" and the pre-exilic/exilic prophetic literature. Drawing on the notions of dialogism, polyphony and double-voicing, it argues that "Lamentations" enters into a dialogic relationship with prophetic literature.

Honours the work of Old Testament scholar, Alan Millard. The contributors to this book take up all of Millard's concerns with the relationship between writing, the development, and Israel, and the ancient Near Eastern society.

Investigates the Solomonic narrative through the optics of propaganda and, specifically, subversion. This book explores examples of scribal subversion in "1 Kings" 1-11. It examines texts that undermine the legitimacy or the legacy of Solomon and explores the social context in which scribal subversion was not only possible, but perhaps necessary.

Aims to provide for Robert Lowth and Jean Astruc not only an account and evaluation of their life and work but also an understanding of the wider intellectual context of their scholarship and the reception and influence of their work.

Examines assumptions about history writing that historians of ancient Israel and Judah employ. This work aims to situate the study of ancient Israel and Judah in the broader intellectual context of academic history in general.

According to the Bible, among the last kings of the kingdom of Judah was one of the notorious kings-Manasseh-and one of the righteous-Josiah. This volume assesses the history of Judah in the 7th century BCE covering history and archaeology from Sennacherib to Nebuchadnezzar. It presents a view of the depictions of kindship in the Hebrew Bible.

A collection of essays that advance psalms studies through a concerted focus on the persuasive aim of psalmic poetry, and offers perspectives on rhetorical devices within the psalms. It includes discussions of structure, literary devices, and rhetorical strategies, psalms research, and trends in rhetoric and cognitive science.

Explores, by way of narrative analysis, the story of Jehu's revolt in 2 Kings 9 and 10, and the tensions and ambiguities surrounding the evaluation of Jehu that it contains. This book shows how the Jehu narrative connects linguistically, thematically, and analogically the larger Deuteronomistic history.

A collection of essays on the interpretation of the Old Testament on the topics of law and ethics.

A collection of essays on purification and atonement in the "Hebrew Bible" that provides insights into the discussion of these ideas by looking at the values of sociological and anthropological approaches to the topics. It also examines multivalence and polyvalence in ritual and asks to what extent it is possible to speak of the meaning of ritual.

Based on Baylor University Symposium on the Psalms, this work exposes readers to the variety of approaches as practiced by leading scholars in the field.

Even before biblical canon became fixed, writers have reworked its stories. The author of "Joshua" takes the haphazard settlement of Israel recorded in "Book of Judges" and retells it as an orderly military conquest. This book considers viability of the vocabularies of literary, midrashic, and translation theory for speaking about retelling.

Evaluates the relationship between "Samuel" and "Chronicles" in a single synoptic story: David's transfer of Israel's sacred ark to Jerusalem in "2 Samuel 6" and "1 Chronicles 13, 15-16". This work summarises research and perspectives on these books and their stories of David's ark transfer.

Organized by genre of biblical literature, this book provides a literary critical method focused on representation in the canonical form of the text and allows a comprehensive view of how images of disability operate in relation to major concepts.

The Song of Deborah celebrates a victory during the era of the Judges, and praises Jael and the Israelites for their defeat of a Canaanite coalition led by Sisera. This book offers an analysis of the song through a comparative study of heroic poetry that elucidates the otherwise enigmatic role of Yahweh.

For more than a decade, the European Seminar in Historical Methodology has debated the history of ancient Israel. A number of different topics have been the focus of discussion and published collections, but several have centered on historical periods. This book covers the Seminar session devoted entirely to archaeology.

Examines the character and function of the documents mentioned in the biblical texts in relation to comparable references in literature from wider antiquity. Citing various references to written documents in the Hebrew Bible, this work takes into consideration both those references that may point to external sources.

Provides a comprehensive study of "eternal covenant." This book answers questions involving eternal covenant in the Bible by beginning with an exegetical study of Berit Olam in the Pentateuch.