Journal of Hebrew Scriptures (JHS)

Vol. 9 (2009)

Thomas Renz	A Perfectly Broken Acrostic in Nahum 1?

Karolien Vermeulen	To See or Not To See. The Polysemy of the Word עין in the Isaac Narratives (Gen 17-35)

Aron Pinker	Intrusion of Ptolemaic Reality on Cultic Practices in Qoh 4:17

Oded Lipschits	Persian Period Finds from Jerusalem: Facts and Interpretations

Robert D. Holmstedt	אני ולבי-The Syntactic Encoding of the Collaborative Nature of Qohelet’s Experiment

Ernst Axel Knauf	Observations on Judah’s Social and Economic History and the Dating of the Laws in Deuteronomy

Raymond F. Person Jr., ed.	In Conversation With Thomas Römer, The So-Called Deuteronomistic History: A Sociological, Historical And Literary Introduction (London: T. & T. Clark, 2005).

Philippe Guillaume	Lamentations 5: The Seventh Acrostic

Bob Becking	God-Talk for a Disillusioned Pilgrim in Psalm 121

Saul M. Olyan	The Ascription of Physical Disability as a Stigmatizing Strategy in Biblical Iconic Polemics

Andrew C. Gow	The Contested History of a Book: The German Bible of the Later Middle Ages and Reformation in Legend, Ideology, and Scholarship

James M. Kennedy	Psalm 29 as Semiotic System: A Linguistic Reading

Mark J. Boda (ed.)	*In Conversation with Steven Schweitzer, Reading Utopia in Chronicles* (LHBOTS, 442; London: T. & T. Clark International, 2007)**

Rachelle Gilmour	Suspense and Anticipation in 1 Samuel 9:1–14

Philippe Guillaume	Arguing under the Qiqayon: An Introduction to a Set of Articles on Jonah

Daniel Timmer	The Intertextual Israelite Jonah Face À L’empire: The Post-Colonial Significance of The Book’s Cotexts and Purported Neo-Assyrian Context

Klaas Spronk	Jonah, Nahum, and the Book of the Twelve: A Response to Jakob Wöhrle

Jakob Wöhrle	A Prophetic Reflection on Divine Forgiveness: The Integration of the Book of Jonah into the Book of the Twelve

Philippe Guillaume	Rhetorical Reading Redundant: A Response to Ehud Ben Zvi

Ehud Ben Zvi	Jonah 4:11 and the Metaprophetic Character of the Book of Jonah

Thomas M. Bolin	Eternal Delight and Deliciousness: The Book of Jonah After Ten Years

George Athas	In Search of the Seventy 'Weeks' of Daniel 9

Mark A. Christian	Priestly Power that Empowers: Michel Foucault, Middle-tier Levites, and the Sociology of “Popular Religious Groups” in Israel

Vol. 8 (2008)

Ian Young	Late Biblical Hebrew And The Qumran Pesher Habakkuk

Nadav Na'aman	Shaaraim - The Gateway To The Kingdom Of Judah

Andrew E. Steinmann	Letters of Kings about Votive Offerings, The God of Israel and the Aramaic Document in Ezra 4:8–6:18

Yosef Garfinkel and Saar Ganor	Khirbet Qeiyafa: Sha`arayim

Nadav Na'aman	In Search of the Ancient Name of Khirbet Qeiyafa

F. W. Dobbs-Allsopp	Psalm 133: A (Close) Reading

Elie Assis	The Temple in the Book of Haggai

Michael Avioz	Saul as a Just Judge in Josephus’ Antiquities of the Jews

Moshe Kline	“The Editor was Nodding” A Reading of Leviticus 19 in Memory of Mary Douglas

Jonathan Jacobs	Characterizing Esther from the Outset: The Contribution of the Story in Esther 2:1–20

Thomas Römer	Moses Outside the Torah and the Construction of a Diaspora Identity

Herb Basser	Did Rashi Notice a Janus Parallelism in Ezek 20:37?

Silvio Sergio Scatolini Apóstolo	Imagining Ezekiel

Ronald Hendel & Saul M. Olyan	Beyond Purity and Danger: Mary Douglas and The Hebrew Bible

David P. Wright	Deciphering a Definition: The Syntagmatic Structural Analysis of Ritual in the Hebrew Bible

Rüdiger Schmitt	The Problem of Magic and Monotheism in the Book of Leviticus

Saul M. Olyan	Mary Douglas’s Holiness/Wholeness Paradigm: Its Potential for Insight and its Limitations

Alfred Marx	The Relationship between the Sacrificial Laws and the Other Laws in Leviticus 19

Ronald Hendel	Mary Douglas and Anthropological Modernism

Aron Pinker	The Doings of the Wicked in Qohelet 8:10

Yael Shemesh	Elisha Stories as Saints' Legends

Yael Shemesh	Elisha and The Miraculous Jug of Oil(2 Kgs 4:1-7)

John A. Cook	The Vav-Prefixed Verb Forms in Elementary Hebrew Grammar

Raz Kletter	The Friends of Antiquities (in Heb. נאמני עתיקות): The Story of an Israeli Volunteer Group and Comparative Remarks

David E. S. Stein,	The Noun אִישׁ (’îš) in Biblical Hebrew: A Term of Affiliation

Reviews

Vol. 7 (2007)

Philippe Guillaume	A Reconsideration of Manuscripts Classified as Scrolls of the Twelve Minor Prophets (XII)

Philippe Guillaume	The Unlikely Malachi-Jonah Sequence (4QXII^a)

Ehud Ben Zvi (ed.)	Rereading Oracles of God: Twenty Years After John Barton, Oracles of God: Perceptions of Prophecy in Israel after the Exile (London: Darton, Longman and Todd, 1986)

Keith Bodner	Crime Scene Investigation: A Text-Critical Mystery and the Strange Death of Ishbosheth

Gary N. Knoppers (ed.)	Revisiting the Composition of Ezra-Nehemiah: In Conversation with Jacob Wright’s Rebuilding Identity: The Nehemiah Memoir and its Earliest Readers (BZAW, 348; Berlin: de Gruyter, 2004)

Elie Assis	Composition, Rhetoric and Theology in Haggai 1:1-11

Mark Leuchter (ed.)	Scribes Before and After 587 BCE: A Conversation

John Van Seters	Author or Redactor?

Aron Pinker	A Goat to Go to Azazel

Gary N. Knoppers (ed.)	Expatriates, Repatriates, and the Question of Zion’s Status – In Conversation with Melody D. Knowles, Centrality Practiced: Jerusalem in the Religious Practices of Yehud and the Diaspora in the Persian Period (Atlanta, SBL, 2006).

Roland Boer	Keeping It Literal: The Economy of the Song of Songs

Mark Sneed	“White Trash” Wisdom: Proverbs 9 Deconstructed

Scott B. Noegel	“Word Play” in Qoheleth

Lisbeth S. Fried	*Did Second Temple High Priests Possess the Urim* and Thummim?**

David Vanderhooft (ed.)	In Conversation with Oded Lipschits, The Fall and Rise of Jerusalem (Winona Lake, Ind.: Eisenbrauns, 2005)

David Henige	Found But Not Lost: A Skeptical Note on the Document Discovered in the Temple Under Josiah

Reviews

Vol. 6 (2006)

Robert D. Holmstedt	Issues in the Linguistic Analysis of a Dead Language, with Particular Reference to Ancient Hebrew

Jakob Wöhrle	The Formation and Intention of the Haggai-Zechariah Corpus

William K. Gilders	Why Does Eleazar Sprinkle the Red Cow Blood? Making Sense of a Biblical Ritual

Aron Pinker	Nahum and the Greek Tradition on Nineveh's Fall

Silvio Sergio Scatolini Apóstolo	On The Elusiveness and Malleability of "Israel"

Juan Manuel Tebes	"You Shall Not Abhor an Edomite, for He is Your Brother": The Tradition of Esau and the Edomite Genealogies from an Anthropological Perspective

Ronald Benun	Evil and the Disruption of Order: A Structural Analysis of the Acrostics in the First Book of Psalms

David M. Carr (ed.)	The State of the Field of Hebrew Bible Study: In Conversation with John J. Collins, The Bible After Babel: Historical Criticism in a Postmodern Age (Eerdmans, 2005)

Yung Suk Kim	Lex Talionis in Exod 21:22‑25: Its Origin and Context

Gary N. Knoppers (ed.)	Chronicles and the Chronicler: A Response to I. Kalimi, An Ancient Israelite Historian: Studies in the Chronicler, his Time, Place and Writing

Aron Pinker	The Core Story in the Prologue-Epilogue of the Book of Job

Reviews

Vol. 5 (2004-2005)

Melody D. Knowles (ed.)	New Studies in Chronicles: A Discussion of Two Recently-Published Commentaries

Elie Assis	“The Hand of a Woman”: Deborah and Yael (Judges 4)

Gary N. Knoppers (ed.)	*In Conversation with W. M. Schniedewind, How the Bible Became a Book: The Textualization of Ancient Israel* (Cambridge, 2003)**

Philip. R. Davies	The Origin of Biblical Israel

Michael Avioz	Could Saul Rule Forever? A New Look at 1 Samuel 13:13-14

Brian Britt	Death, Social Conflict, and the Barley Harvest in the Hebrew Bible

David Kummerow	Job, Hopeful or Hopeless? The Significance of גם in Job 16:19 and Job’s Changing Conceptions of Death

Philippe Guillaume	Tracing the Origin of the Sabbatical Calendar in the Priestly Narrative (Genesis 1 to Joshua 5)

Aron Pinker	On the meaning of קשת נחושה

Francis Landy	A Rejoinder to A. Brenner, "Regulating ‘Sons’ and ‘Daughters’ in the Torah and in Proverbs: Some Preliminary Insights"

Athalya Brenner	Regulating ‘Sons’ and ‘Daughters’ in the Torah and in Proverbs: Some Preliminary Insights

Philippe Guillaume	New Light on the Nebiim from Alexandria: A Chronography to Replace the Deuteronomistic History

Scott Noegel	Geminate Ballast and Clustering: An Unrecognized Literary Feature in Ancient Semitic Poetry

Aron Pinker	The Hard "Sell" in Nah 3:4

William M. Schniedewind	Prolegomena for the Sociolinguistics of Classical Hebrew

Greg Doudna	Ostraca KhQ1 and KhQ2 from the Cemetary of Qumran: A New Edition

A. Kirk Grayson	Shalmaneser III and the Levantine States: The Damascus Coalition Rebellion"

Ingrid M. Haase	Uzzah's Rebellion

James R. Linville	Letting the "Bi-word" "Rule" in Joel 2:17

S. Najm & Ph. Guillaume	Jubilee Calendar Rescued from The Flood Narrative

Reviews

Vol. 4 (2002-2003)

Meir Malul	L^edabbēr baššelî (2 Sam. 3:27) “to Talk Peace”

Aron Pinker	Upon an Attack in Nahum 2:2

Mark Leuchter	Something Old, Something Older: Reconsidering 1 Sam. 2:27-36

Raz Kletter	A Very General Archaeologist - Moshe Dayan and Israeli Archaeology

Hanna Liss	Undisclosed Speech: Patterns of Communication in the Book of Isaiah

Christine Mitchell	Accession in Chronicles: Transformations in Meaning: Solomon's Accession in Chronicles

R. Christopher Heard	Echoes of Genesis in 1 Chronicles 4:9-10: An Intertextual and Contextual Reading of Jabez's Prayer

Oded Lipschits	"Jehoiakim Slept with His Fathers..." - Did He?

Reviews

Vol. 3 (2000-2001)

Mark J. Boda Oil, Crowns and Thrones: Prophet, Priest and King in Zechariah 1:7-6:15

Tamara Cohn Eskenazi Nehemiah 9-10: Structure and Significance

Silvio Sergio Scatolini Delimiting the Countours of Israel in Ezek 12:21-15 and 12:26-28

John R. Huddlestun Unveiling the Versions: The Tactics of Tamar in Genesis 38:15

Vincent de Caën Hebrew Linguistics and Biblical Criticism:
A Minimalist Programme

Uwe F. W. Bauer A Metaphorical Etiology in Judges 18:12

Gary N. Knoppers "Great Among His Brothers," but Who is He?
Heterogeneity in the Composition of Judah?

Allan K. Jenkins Erasmus' Commentary on Psalm 2

Jan-Wim Wesselius Towards a New History of Israel

Niels Peter Lemche On the Problems of Reconstructing Pre-Hellenistic Israelite (Palestinian) History

Reviews

Vol. 2 (1998-1999)

Gary A. Rendsburg Confused Language as a Deliberate Literary
Device in Biblical Hebrew Narrative

Francis Landy Leviticus, Deconstruction and the Body

David A. Bergen Bakhtin Revisits Deuteronomy: Narrative Theory and the Dialogical Event of Deut 31:2 and 34:7

James R. Linville On the Nature of Rethinking Prophetic Literature:
Stirring a Neglected Stew
(A Response to David L. Petersen)

Uwe F. W. Bauer Anti-Jewish Interpretations of Psalm 1
in Luther and in Modern German Protestantism

Marvin A. Sweeney A Form-Critical Rereading of Hosea

Vol. 1 (1996-1997)

Bernon Lee A Specific Application of the Proverb in
Ecclesiastes 1:15

Philip R Davies Loose Canons. Reflections on the Formation of the Hebrew Bible

Michael V. Fox What Happens in Qohelet 4:13-16?

Caetano Minette de Tillesse The Conquest of Power: Analysis of
David and Solomon's Accession Histories

Cynthia L. Miller, Kenneth M. Craig Jr. and Raymond F. Person Jr., Conversation Analysis and the Book of Jonah: A Conversation

Helmut Utzschneider Text - Reader - Author.
Towards a Theory of Exegesis:
Some European Views