Books in the The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies series

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.

Contains the papers read at symposia held by turns in Tel Aviv and Bochum in the course of a co-operation between the Lester und Sally Entin Faculty of Humanities, Chaim Rosenberg School of Jewish Studies, Department of Bible of Tel Aviv University and the Faculty of Protestant Theology in the University of the Ruhr, Bochum, since 1985.

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.

Represents the attempts of scholars to respond to the historical problems presented in the biblical testimony and their description of what this means for reading scripture. This book honors the work and life of Gerald Sheppard, who broke ground in biblical studies by describing what it means to read the Bible as Jewish and Christian Scripture.

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.

Provides an introduction to the background, structure and message of the biblical books. This commentary explains contentious issues. It is suitable for beginning students, lay people, and for scholars, clergy and others involved in helping people to understand the Bible.

Offers an examination of the evidence that the Festival of Weeks was the occasion for the celebration of the renewal of the covenant in the Second Temple period, encompassing chapters on the "Hebrew Bible", book of "Jubilees", "Qumran Scrolls", and the New Testament ("Luke", "Acts" and "Ephesians").

Hebrew tradition presents Haggai and Zechariah as prophetic figures arising in the wake of the Babylonian exile with an agenda of restoration for the early Persian period community in Yehud. This book investigates uses of the Hebrew tradition in the early Persian period as represented by the prophetic corpora of Haggai and Zechariah 1-8.

Examines some of the stories in "1 Sam" 16-25 with the particular focus placed on Saul, Doeg, Nabal and the 'son of Jesse'. This work seeks to discover fresh meaning in the structure as well as in the characters' functions in the narratives by studying the stories synchronically and diachronically.

Explores various aspects of prophecy in ancient Israel and its neighboring cultures. This book presents an overview of the state and future directions of scholarship on prophecy in the biblical world.

Examines the notion of the land and its conquest.

Uses a different approach to explore issues of disability in the Hebrew Bible. This book examines how disability functions in the David Story by focusing on Mephibosheth, the only biblical character with a disability as a sustained character trait.

Discusses various aspects of family in ancient Israel, including research on ancestors and the cult of the dead, configurations of family house structures, and family relational interactions. This book explores the advantages of seeing a topic from two different but complementary perspectives.

Contains essays on the Former Prophets and on the Latter Prophets.

Presents a heuristic reading strategy for a modern reader to engage with YHWH's threats against Israel in "Deuteronomy". This text attempts to discern the logic of YHWH's threats: what motivates the threats, what form the threats take, and what effect the threats expect to produce.

Joshua's characterization has received inadequate scholarly attention, largely because he is seen as a pale character, a mere stereotype in the biblical history. This title offers a narrative treatment of the conquest accounts, with specific attention given to the characterization of Joshua.

A collection that brings consideration of the human body onto the grid of theological studies. It explores three primary clusters of questions: To what extent did the biblical authors portray God as having a body or body parts? How does the medium of divine embodiment help ancient authors to express God beliefs?

At the 2006 annual meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, the Prophetic Texts in their Ancient Contexts section devoted a session to the theme 'The Aesthetics of Violence'. Participants were invited to explore multiple dimensions of prophetic texts and their violent rhetoric. This volume collects those essays.

Addresses some of the historical problems relating to the early history of Israel, from its first mention around 1200 BCE to the beginnings of the kingdoms of Israel and Judah.

Women throughout the centuries have sought to break out of the constraints that their societies deemed appropriate for them. For interpreters in the Christian tradition, this often meant examining biblical texts that had been understood in ways that demeaned women and using their interpretations to encourage women to break out of their spheres.