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List of Contributors
Foreword
WRITING TIME AND ETERNITY IN SAMUEL AND KINGS - Graeme Auld
WHEN YHWH TESTS PEOPLE: GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS AND PARTICULAR OBSERVATIONS REGARDING THE BOOKS OF CHRONICLES AND JOB -Ehud Ben Zvi
FORMLESS BUT NOT VOID: SOME REFLECTIONS ON THE PSALMIST-SUBJECT FROM CLAY-LEVEL -Fiona C. Black
THE SERVANT OF THE LORD, THE TEACHER OF RIGHTEOUSNESS, AND THE EXALTED ONE OF 4Q491C -Joseph Blenkinsopp
A FLESHLY READING: MASOCHISM, ECOCRITICISM AND THE SONG OF SONGS -Roland Boer
RULES FOR MARTYRS: THE SACRIFICE OF THE BELOVED SON IN RABBINIC JUDAISM, PATRISTIC CHRISTIANITY, SUNNI ISLAM - Bruce Chilton
IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN: WHOSE BIBLICAL STUDIES IS IT ANYWAY? - Edgar Conrad
1 WERE ZERUBBABEL AND NEHEMIAH THE SAME PERSON? -Diana Edelman
FOUR NOTES ON CONSERVATIVE BIBLICAL ARCHAEOLOGY: REHOV, MEGIDDO, JERUSALEM AND ROSH ZAYIT - Israel Finkelstein
PROPHECY AS INSPIRED BIBLICAL INTERPRETATION: THE TEACHER OF RIGHTEOUSNESS AND DAVID KORESH - Lester L. Grabbe
PRUDENT ABIGAIL, SUBMISSION, AND THE FORCE OF BEAUTY: VOLTAIRE'S VERSION OF THE BIBLE IN HIS SAÜL, 1763 - David M. Gunn
WHY WAS THE SECOND TEMPLE BUILT? - John M Halligan
DIVINE KNOWLEDGE IN JOB AND 4QINSTRUCTIONS - James E. Harding
TURNING A SOW'S EAR INTO A SILK PURSE: THE ARGUMENT AGAINST SILENCE IN THE QUEST FOR "EARLY ISRAEL" - David Henige
ONLY FOOLS AND CHILDREN: BELIEF IN GOD AS A PROBLEM FOR THE PSALMIST IN PSALMS 8-14 - Alastair Hunter
1 THE STINGS IN THE TALES OF THE KINGS OF JUDAH - John Jarick
THE POWER OF PARENTHESIS: 2 SAMUEL 4:4 IN ITS LITERARY CONTEXT - David Jobling
Meroz (Judges 5.23) - Axel Knauf
ISAIAH 2: TORAH AND TERROR - Francis Landy
JOSHUA AND WESTERN VIOLENCE - Niels Peter Lemche
A STUDY IN METHODOLOGICAL (IN)CONSISTENCY, OR HOW I STOPPED WORRYING AND LEARNED TO LOVE THE WORK OF THE JESUS SEMINAR - William John Lyons
'JEWS BY NATURE': PAUL, ETHNICITY AND GALATIANS - R. Barry Matlock
THE SECOND TEMPLE ORIGINS OF THE HALAKHAH OF BESAH - Jacob Neusner
THE DECONSTRUCTION OF DEUTERONOMISM IN THE FORMER PROPHETS: MICAIAH BEN IMLAH AS EXAMPLE - K.L. Noll
1 PRODUCTIVE PRESUPPOSITIONS, EXUBERANT COMMENTARIES? THE NEW TESTAMENT DISCIPLINE READ THROUGH THE LENS OF FOUCAULT'S 'L'ORDRE DU DISCOURS' - Jorunn Økland
THE GREEK OF THE JEWS AND EARLY CHRISTIANS: THE LANGUAGE OF THE PEOPLE FROM A HISTORICAL SOCIOLINGUISTIC PERSPECTIVE - Stanley E. Porter
THE BOOK OF DANIEL, THE CANON AND THE GRAND NARRATIVE OF CHRISTIANITY - I.J.J. Spangenberg
THE VERB(S) lgr IN CLASSICAL HEBREW AND THE TASK OF THE LEXICOGRAPHER - David M. Stec
WITHOUT EVIDENCE OR METHOD - Thomas L. Thompson
COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY AS IMPETUS FOR A MULTILEVEL HEBREW-ENGLISH INTERLINEAR TRANSLATION - Christo H J van der Merwe
THE RHETORIC OF 2 PETER: AN APOLOGIA FOR EARLY CHRISTIAN ETHICS (AND NOT 'PRIMITIVE CHRISTIAN ESCHATOLOGY') - Robert L. Webb
SOME RECENT DISCUSSION ON THE HEREM - K. Lawson Younger, Jr.
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