Journal of Hebrew Scriptures
ISSN 1203-1542

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Volume 5 (2004-2005)

 

Assis, Elie, Self-Interest or Communal Interest: An Ideology of Leadership in the Gideon, Abimelech and Jephthah Narratives (Judg 6-12) (Vetus Testamentum Supplements, 106; Leiden\Boston: Brill Academic Publishers, 2005). (click here)
Tetley, M. Christine, The Reconstructed Chronology of the Divided Kingdom (Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 2005). (click here)
Dille, Sarah J., Mixing Metaphors: God as Mother and Father in Deutero-Isaiah (Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement Series, 398; Gender, Culture, Theory, 13; London/New York: T & T Clark International, 2004). (click here)
Fokkelman, J. P., Major Poems of the Hebrew Bible. At the Interface of Prosody and Structural Analysis. Volume IV: Job 15 – 42 (Studia Semitica Neerlandica, vol. 47; Assen, The Netherlands: Royal Van Gorcum, 2004). (click here)
Anderson, Robert T. and Terry Giles, Tradition Kept: The Literature of the Samaritans (Peabody: Hendrickson, 2005). (click here)
Smith, Mark S., The Memoirs of God: History, Memory and the Experience of the Divine in Ancient Israel (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2004). (click here)
Heller, Roy L., Narrative Structure and Discourse Constellations: An Analysis of Clause Function in Biblical Hebrew Prose.  (Harvard Semitic Studies 55; Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 2004). (click here)
Lohfink, Norbert, Qoheleth (A Continental Commentary; trans. Sean McEvenue; Minneapolis: Fortress, 2003). (click here)
Flannery-Dailey, Frances, Dreamers, Scribes, and Priests: Jewish Dreams in the Hellenistic and Roman Eras (Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism, 90; Leiden\Boston: Brill Academic Publishers, 2004). (click here)
Talshir Z. and D. Amara, eds., On the Border Line. Textual Meets Literary Criticism. Proceedings of a Conference in Honor of Alexander Rofé on the Occasion of  his Seventieth Birthday (Beer-Sheva 18; Beer-Sheva: Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Press, 2005). (click here)
Becking, Bob, Between Fear and Freedom. Essays on the Interpretation of Jeremiah 30-31(Oudtestamentische Studiën 51; Leiden/Boston: Brill Academic Publishers, 2004). (click here)
Bregman, Marc, The Tanhuma-Yelammedenu Literature: Studies in the Evolution of the Versions (Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2003).  (click here)
Fitzpatrick, Paul E., S.M., The Disarmament of God: Ezekiel 38-39 in Its Mythic Context.  (The Catholic Biblical Quarterly Monograph Series, 37; Washington: The Catholic Biblical Association of America, 2004) (click here)
Kalimi, Isaac, An Ancient Israelite Historian: Studies in the Chronicler, His Time, Place and Writing (Studia Semitica Neerlandica, 46; Assen: Van Gorcum, 2005). (click here)
Kalimi, Isaac, The Reshaping of Ancient Israelite History in Chronicles (Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 2005. (click here)
Meyers, Carol, Households and Holiness: The Religious Culture of Israelite Women (Facets; Minneapolis: Fortress, 2005). (click here)
LaCocque, André, Ruth (trans. K. C. Hanson; A Continental Commentary; Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2004). (click here)
Campbell, Anthony F. Joshua to Chronicles An Introduction (Louisville: Westminster/John Knox, 2004). (click here)
Gordon, R. P. and J. C. de Moor, eds., The Old Testament in Its World (Oudtestamentische Studiën 52; Leiden/Boston: Brill Academic Publishers, 2005). (click here)
Schmitt, Rüdiger, Magie im Alten Testament (Alter Orient und Altes Testament, 313; Münster: Ugarit-Verlag, 2004). (click here)
Johnston, Philip S.  Shades of Sheol: Death and Afterlife in the Old Testament (Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 2002). (click here)
Gilders, William K., Blood Ritual in the Hebrew Bible: Meaning and Power (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004). (click here)
Reeves, John C., ed. Bible and Qur’an: Essays in Scriptural Intertextuality (Society of Biblical Literature Symposium Series 24; Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2003).  (click here)
Claassens, L. Juliana M., The God who Provides: Biblical Images of Divine Nourishment (Nashville: Abingdon, 2004). (click here)
Cook Stephen L. and Corrine L. Patton, eds., Ezekiel’s Hierarchical World: Wrestling with a Tiered Reality (Society of Biblical Literature Symposium Series 31; Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature Press, 2004). (click here)
Schneider, Tammi J., Sarah: Mother of Nations (New York/London: Continuum, 2004). (click here)
Kim, Hyun Chul Paul, Ambiguity, Tension, and Multiplicity in Deutero-Isaiah (Studies in Biblical Literature, 52; New York: Peter Lang, 2003). (click here)
Klein, Lillian, From Deborah to Esther: Sexual Politics in the Hebrew Bible (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2003). (click here)
Collins, John J., Introduction to the Hebrew Bible with CD-ROM (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2004). (click here)
Magness, Jodi, The Archaeology of Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2002). (click here)
Young, Ian, ed. Biblical Hebrew: Studies in Chronology and Typology (Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement Series 369; London/New York: T. & T. Clark, 2003). (click here)
Borodowski, Alfredo Fabio, Isaac Abravanel on Miracles, Creation, Prophecy and Evil: The Tension Between Medieval Jewish Philosophy and Biblical Commentary (Studies in Biblical Literature 53; New York: Peter Lang, 2003). (click here)
Hutton, Rodney R., Fortress Introduction to the Prophets (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2004). (click here)
Schellenberg, Annette, Erkenntnis als Problem: Qohelet und die alttestamentliche Diskussion um das menschliche Erkennen (Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis 188; Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2002). (click here)
Szpek, Heidi M., ed. Voices from the University: The Legacy of the Hebrew Bible (New York\Lincoln\Shanghai: Writers Club Press, 2002). (click here)
G. W. Lorein, The Antichrist Theme in the Intertestamental Period (Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha Supplement Series, 44; London/New York: T&T Clark, 2003). (click here)
Shepherd, David, Targum and Translation: A Reconsideration of the Qumran Aramaic Version of Job (Assen, Neth: Van Gorcum, 2004). (click here)
Sweeney, Marvin A. and Ehud Ben Zvi, eds. The Changing Face of Form Criticism in the Twenty-First Century (Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2003). (click here)
Schniedewind, William M., How the Bible Became a Book: The Textualization of Ancient Israel (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004). (click here)
McKenzie, Steven L., 1-2 Chronicles (Abingdon Old Testament Commentaries; Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2004). (click here)
Hoppe, Leslie J., There Shall Be No Poor Among You: Poverty in the Bible (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2004). (click here)
Matthews, Victor H., Judges and Ruth (New Cambridge Bible Commentary; Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004). (click here)
Graham, M. Patrick, Steven L. McKenzie and Gary N. Knoppers, eds. The Chronicler as Theologian: Essays in Honour of Ralph W. Klein. (JSOTS 371; London/New York: T. & T. Clark, 2003). (click here)
Klingbeil, Gerald A., ed. Inicios, Paradigmas y Fundamentos: Estudios teológicos y exegéticos en el Pentateuco (River Plate Adventist University Monograph Series in Biblical and Theological Studies 1; Entre Ríos, Argentina: River Plate Adventist University, 2004). (click here)

Renkema, Johan, Obadiah (trans. Brian Doyle; Historical Commentary on the Old Testament; Leuven: Peeters, 2003). (click here)

Brown, John Pairman, Israel and Hellas, Vol. III: The Legacy of Iranian Imperialism and the Individual  (BZAW 299; Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2001). (click here)

Guillaume, Philippe, Waiting for Josiah: The Judges (London/New York: T &T Clark International, 2004). (click here)

Korpel Marjo and Joseph Oesch, eds., Unit Delimitation in Biblical Hebrew and Northwest Semitic Literature (Pericope 4; Assen: Van Gorcum, 2003). (click here)

Roberts, J. J. M., The Bible and the Ancient Near East: Collected Essays (Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2002). (click here)
Arnold, Bill T., and John H. Choi. A Guide to Biblical Hebrew Syntax (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003). (click here)
Lipschits Oded, and Joseph Blenkinsopp, eds., Judah and the Judeans in the Neo-Babylonian Period (Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 2003). (click here)
Benjamin, Don C. , The Old Testament Story: An Introduction (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2004). (click here)
Lipschits, Oded, Jerusalem between Destruction and Restoration. Judah under Babylonian Rule (Jerusalem: Yad Ben-Zvi, 2004). (click here)
Hess, Richard S. and M. Daniel Carroll R., eds., Israel's Messiah in the Bible and the Dead Sea Scrolls (Grand Rapids, MI.: Baker Academic, 2003). (click here)
Richter, Sandra L., The Deuteronomistic History and the Name Theology: lešakkēn šemô šām in the Bible and the Ancient Near East (Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft, 318; Berlin/New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2002).(click here)
Van Dijk, Johannes J. and Markham J. Geller, with the collaboration of Joachim Oelsner, Ur III Incantations from the Frau Professor Hilprecht-Collection, Jena (Texte und Materialien der Frau Professor Hilprecht Collection of Babylonian Antiquities im Eigentum der Friedrich Schiller-Universität Jena 6; Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2003). (click here)
Kessler, Martin, Battle of the Gods: The God of Israel Versus Marduk of Babylon. A Literary/Theological Interpretation of Jeremiah 50-51 (Studia Semitica Neerlandica, 42; Assen: Royal Van Gorcum, 2003). (click here)
Fox, Michael V., JPS Torah Commentary: Ecclesiastes (Philadelphia, PA.: Jewish Publication Society, 2004). (click here)
Green, Alberto R. W. , The Storm-God in the Ancient Near East (Biblical and Judaic Studies from the University of California, San 8; Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2003). (click here)
Yee, Gale A., Poor Banished Children of Eve: Woman as Evil in the Hebrew Bible (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2003). (click here)
Doudna, Gregory L., 4Q Pesher Nahum: A Critical Edition (Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha Supplement Series 35/Copenhagen International Series 8; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2001). (click here)
Lim, Timothy, Pesharim (Companion to the Qumran Scrolls 3; London: Sheffield Academic Press, 2002). (click here)
Knobloch, Frederick W., ed., Biblical Translation in Context (Studies and Texts in Jewish History and Culture 10; Bethesda, MD: University of Maryland Press, 2002). (click here)
Sasson,Jack M., Archie C. C. Lee, Craig Y. S. Ho, and Fook Kong Wong. Hebrew Origins: Historiography, History, Faith of Ancient Israel (Chuen King Lecture Series 4; Hong Kong: Theology Division, Chung Chi College, 2002). (click here)
Sharp, Carolyn J., Prophecy and Ideology in Jeremiah: Struggles for Authority in the Deutero-Jeremianic Prose (Old Testament Studies; London/New York: T & T Clark, 2003). (click here)
Rogland, Max, Alleged Non-Past Uses of Qatal in Classical Hebrew (Studia Semitica Neerlandica, vol. 44; Assen: Royal van Gorcum, 2003). (click here)
Nam, Duck-Woo, Talking About God: Job 42:7-9 and the Nature of God in the Book of Job (Studies in Biblical Literature 49; New York: Peter Lang, 2003). (click here)
Pyeon, Yohan, You Have Not Spoken What Is Right About Me: Intertextuality and the Book of Job (Studies in Biblical Literature, 45; New York: Peter Lang, 2003). (click here)
Parrish, V. Stephen, A Story of the Psalms: Conversation, Canon, and Congregation (Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 2003). (click here)
Ochs, Peter  and Nancy Levene, eds., Textual Reasonings: Jewish Philosophy and Text Study at the End of the Twentieth Century (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2002). (click here)
Futato, Mark D., Beginning Biblical Hebrew (Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 2003). (click here)
Sweeney, Marvin A., Zephaniah (Hermeneia; Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2003). (click here)
Clifford, Richard J., Psalms 73-150 (Abingdon Old Testament Commentaries; Nashville: Abingdon, 2003). (click here)
Baumann, Gerlinde, Love and Violence: Marriage as Metaphor for the Relationship between YHWH and Israel in the Prophetic Books (trans. Linda M. Maloney; Collegeville, Minn.: Liturgical Press, 2003). (click here)
Shachter, Jay F., trans. The Commentary of Abraham ibn Ezra on the Pentateuch, volume 5: Deuteronomy (Hoboken, N.J.: KTAV, 2003). (click here)
Fokkelman, J. P., Major Poems of the Hebrew Bible: At the Interface of Prosody and Structural Analysis. Vol III: The Remaining 65 Psalms (Studia Semitica Neerlandica 43; Assen: Royal Van Gorcum, 2003). (click here)
Allen L. and T. Laniak, Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther (New International Biblical Commentary – Old Testament Series, 9; Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 2003). (click here)
Suh, Myung Soo, The Tabernacle in the Narrative History of Israel from the Exodus to the Conquest. (Studies in Biblical Literature 50; New York: Peter Lang, 2003. (click here)
Brown, William P., Seeing the Psalms: A Theology of Metaphor (Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2002). (click here)
Barton, John, Understanding Old Testament Ethics: Approaches and Explorations (Louisville, KY: Westminster/John Knox Press, 2003). (click here)
Wilhelm, Gernot, ed., Akten des IV. Internationalen Kongresses für Hethitologie. Würzburg, 4.-8. Oktober 1999. (Studien zu den Boğazköy-Texten, 45; Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2001). (click here)
De Troyer, Kristin, Judith A. Herbert, Judith Ann Johnson, and Anne-Marie Korte, eds., Wholly Woman, Holy Blood (Harrisburg, PA: Trinity Press International, 2003). (click here)
Vance, Donald R., A Hebrew Reader for Ruth (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 2003). (click here)
Knohl, Israel, The Divine Symphony: The Bible's Many Voices (Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society). (click here)
Fewell, Danna Nolan, The Children of Israel: Reading the Bible for the Sake of Our Children (Nashville, TN: Abingdon Press, 2003). (click here)
Dotan, Aron, ed., The Parallel Bible, Hebrew-English Old Testament: With the Biblia Hebraica Leningradensia and the King James Version (Peabody, MA.: Hendrickson, 2003). (click here)  

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Volume 4 (2002-2003)

Fritz, Volkmar, 1 & 2 Kings (Continental Commentary; Minneapolis, MN: Fortress, 2003). (click here)
Balentine, Samuel E., Leviticus (Interpretation; Louisville: John Knox Press, 2002).
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Cook, Stephen L., The Apocalyptic Literature (Interpreting Biblical Texts; Nashville: Abingdon, 2003). (click here)
Lang, Bernhard, The Hebrew God: Portrait of an Ancient Deity (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002). (click here)
Smith, Mark S., The Early History of God: Yahweh and the Other Deities in Ancient Israel  (with a foreword by Patrick D. Miller. 2nd ed.; Grand Rapids, MI.: Eerdmans; Dearborn, Mich.: Dove, 2002). (click here)
 Davies, Philip R and John M. Halligan, eds., Second Temple Studies III: Studies in Politics, Class and Material Culture (JSOTS 340; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2002).
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Bauer, David R., An Annotated Guide to Biblical Resources for Ministry (Peabody: Hendrickson, 2003). (click here)
Charlesworth, J. H. and M. A. Daise, eds., Light in a Spotless Mirror: Reflections on Wisdom Traditions in Judaism and Early Christianity (Faith and Scholarship Colloquies; Harrisburg, PA.: Trinity Press, 2003). (click here)
Korpel, Marjo C. A., The Structure of the Book of Ruth (Pericope: Scripture as Written and Read in Antiquity, 2; AA Assen, The Netherlands: Koninklijke Van Gorcum, 2001).
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Kalimi, Isaac, Early Jewish Exegesis and Theological Controversy: Studies in Scripture in the Shadow of Internal and External Conflicts (Jewish and Christian Heritage Series 2; Assen: Van Gorcum, 2002). (click here)
Fishbane, Michael, Haftarot: The Traditional Hebrew Text with the New JPS Translation (Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 2002). (click here)
Maussion, Marie, Le mal, le bien et le jugement de Dieu dans le livre de Qohélet (Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis 190; Göttingen/ Fribourg, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2003). (click here)
Nelson, Richard D., Deuteronomy. A Commentary (Old Testament Library; Louisville--London: Westminster John Knox Press, 2002). (click here)
Albertz, Rainer and Bob Becking, eds, Yahwism after the Exile: Perspectives on Israelite Religion in the Persian Era (Studies in Theology and Religion 5; Assen: Van Gorcum, 2003) click here)
Cotter, David W., Genesis (Berit Olam: Studies in Hebrew Narrative and Poetry: Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 2003). Pp. xxxviii, 366. ISBN 0-8146-5040-6. $49.95.
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Korpel, Marjo and Josef Oesch, eds., Studies in Scriptural Unit Division (Pericope 3; Assen: Van Gorcum, 2002), Pp. vii, 288. Hardcover, ISBN 9023238400. $ 70. (click here)
Noll, K. L., Canaan and Israel in Antiquity: An Introduction (The Biblical Seminar, 83; London: Continuum, 2001). (click here)
Clifford, Richard J., Psalms 1-72 (Abingdon Old Testament Commentaries; Nashville, TN.: Abingdon, 2002). (click here)
Murphy, Catherine M.Wealth in the Dead Sea Scrolls and in the Qumran Community (STDJ 40: Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2002). (click here)
Smith, Mark S., The Origins of Biblical Monotheism: Israel’s Polytheistic Background and the Ugaritic Texts (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001). (click here)
Lehmann, Reinhard, ed., Kleine Untersuchungen zur Sprache des Alten Testaments und seiner Umwelt (KUSATU, Vols. 2-3; Waltrop: Harmut Spenner, 2001, 2002). (click here)
Sparks, Kenton L., The Pentateuch: An Annotated Bibliography (IBR Bibliographies 1; Grand Rapids: Baker, 2002). (click here)
Gillingham, Susan E., The Image, the Depths and the Surface: Multivalent Approaches to Biblical Study (JSOTS 354. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2002). (click here)
Shimasaki,  Katsuomi, Focus Structure in Biblical Hebrew. A Study of Word Order and Information Structure (Bethesda, MD.: CDL Press, 2002). (click here)
McCann, J. Clinton, Judges (Interpretation; Louisville: Westminster/ John Knox Press, 2003). (click here)
Ilan, Tal, Integrating Women into Second Temple History (Tübingen: J.C.B. Mohr [Paul Siebeck], 1999/ Peabody: Hendrickson, 2001). (click here)
Chisholm, Robert B., Handbook on the Prophets (Grand Rapids: Baker, 2002). (click here)
Frymer-Kensky, Tivka, Reading the Women of the Bible: A New Interpretation of Their Stories (New York: Schocken, 2002). (click here)
Levine, Lee I., Jerusalem: Portrait of the City in the Second Temple Period (538 BCE-70 CE) (Philadelphia, PA.: Jewish Publication Society, 2002). (click here)
Seow, C. L., Daniel (Westminster Bible Companion; Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2003). (click here)
Goldingay, John, Isaiah (New International Biblical Commentary; Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson, 2001). (click here)
Milgrom, Jacob, Leviticus 23-27 (Anchor Bible Series 3B, New York: Doubleday, 2001).
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Donner, Herbert and Wolfgang Röllig, Kanaanäische und aramäische Inschriften. Band 1, 5., erweiterte und überarbeitete Auflage (Wiesbaden: Harrassowiz Verlag, 2002). (click here)
Arnold Bill T., and Bryan E. Beyer, eds., Readings from the Ancient Near East: Primary Sources for Old Testament Study (Grand Rapids, MI.: Baker Academic, 2002). (click here)  
O'Brien, Julia Myers, Nahum (Readings: A New Biblical Commentary; Sheffield: Academic Press, 2002). (click here)  
Matthews, Victor H., A Brief History of Ancient Israel (Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2002). (click here)
Charlesworth, James H. et al., eds., The Dead Sea Scrolls: Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek Texts with English Translations, vol. 6B Pesharim, Other Commentaries, and Related Documents (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck/ Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2002. (click here)
Talshir, Z., S. Yona and D. Sivan (eds.) Homage to Shmuel. Studies in the World of the Bible (Jerusalem: Bialik Institute/Ben-Gurion University Press, 2001). (click here)  

Friedmann, Daniel, To Kill and Take Possession: Law, Morality, and Society in Biblical Stories (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 2002). (click here)

Lyons, William John, Canon and Exegesis: Canonical Praxis and the Sodom Narrative (JSOTS 352; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2002). (click here)
Harris, J. Gordon, Cheryl A. Brown, and Michael S. Moore; Robert L. Hubbard Jr., and Robert K. Johnston, eds., Joshua, Judges, Ruth (New International Biblical Commentary: Old Testament Series, Volume 5; Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 2000). (click here)

Evans, M. J., 1 and 2 Samuel (New International Biblical Commentary, Old Testament Series, Volume 6; Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 2000). (click here)

Chavalas, Mark W. and K. Lawson Younger, eds., Mesopotamia and the Bible: Comparative Explorations (Grand Rapids, MI.: Baker, 2002). (click here)
Wesselius, Jan-Wim, The Origin of the History of Israel: Herodotus's Histories as Blueprint for the First Books of the Bible (JSOTS, 345; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press/Continuum, 2002). (click here)
Ciraolo, Leda and Jonathan Seidel, eds., Magic and Divination in the Ancient World (Ancient Magic and Divination II; Leiden: Brill, 2002) (click here)  
Simkins Ronald A. and Stephen L. Cook, eds., The Social World of the Hebrew Bible: Twenty-Five Years of the Social Sciences in the Academy (Semeia, 87; Atlanta: The Society of Biblical Literature, 1999). (click here)  
Ben-Dov, Meir, Historical Atlas of Jerusalem. (Translated by David Louvish; New York and London: Continuum, 2002). (click here)
Stordalen, T., Echoes of Eden: Genesis 2-3 and Symbolism of the Eden Garden in Biblical Hebrew Literature (Contributions to Biblical Exegesis and Theology, 25; Leuven: Peeters, 2000). (click here)
Linafelt, Tod, Ruth, and Timothy K. Beal, Esther (Berit Olam: Studies in Hebrew Narrative and Poetry; Collegeville, MN: The Liturgical Press, 1999). (click here)  
Burstein, Chaya M., The Kids Cartoon Bible (Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 2002). (click here)  
Gerstenberger, Erhard S., Theologies in the Old Testament. Translated by John Bowden (Minneapolis: Fortress, 2002). (click here)
Brueggemann, Walter, Deuteronomy (Abingdon Old Testament Commentaries; Nashville, TN: Abingdon, 2001). (click here)
Jobling, David, Tina Pippin and Ronald Schleifer, eds., The Postmodern Bible Reader (Oxford: Blackwell, 2001) (click here)  
Pressler, Carolyn, Joshua, Judges, and Ruth (Louisville, KY: Westminster/John Knox, 2002). (click here)
Willis, Timothy M., The Elders of the City: A Study of the Elders-Laws in Deuteronomy (SBLMS 55; Atlanta, GA: Society of Biblical Literature, 2001). (click here)  
Stiebert, Johanna, The Construction of Shame in the Hebrew Bible: The Prophetic Contribution (JSOTS 346; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2002). (click here)
Matthews, Victor H., Social World of the Hebrew Prophets (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 2001). (click here)
Chilton, Bruce, Redeeming Time: The Wisdom of Ancient Jewish and Christian Festal Calendars (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 2002). (click here)  
Hilprecht, H. V., Explorations in Bible Lands During the 19th Century. Vol. 1. Assyria and Babylonia. Vol. 2. Palestine, Egypt, Arabia and Hittite Areas (originally published, Philadelphia: A. J. Molman, 1903) (Reprint; Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2002).
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Soggin, J. Alberto, Israel in the Biblical Period. Institutions, Festivals, Ceremonies, Rituals (transl. John Bowden; Edinburgh-New York: T & T Clark, 2001). (click here)
Metzger, Bruce M., The Bible in Translation: Ancient and English Versions (Grand Rapids, MI.: Baker, 2001). (click here)
Abusch, T., Mesopotamian Witchcraft: Toward a History and Understanding of Babylonian Witchcraft Beliefs and Literature (Ancient Magic and Divination V; Leiden: Styx-Brill, 2002) (click here)
Wood, Joyce Rilett, Amos in Song and Book Culture (JSOTS 337; Sheffield: Sheffield University Press, 2002) (click here)
Smith, Mark S., Untold Stories: The Bible and Ugaritic Studies in the Twentieth Century (Peabody, MA.: Hendrikson, 2001). (click here)
Anderson, Robert T. and Terry Giles, The Keepers: An Introduction to the History and Culture of the Samaritans (Peabody, MA.: Hendrickson, 2002). (click here)  
Drane, John , Introducing the Old Testament (Completely Revised and Updated; Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2001). (click here)  
Bellinger, W. H., Leviticus, Numbers (New International Biblical Commentary, 3; Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson, 2001). (click here)  
Sherwood, Yvonne, A Biblical Text and Its Afterlives: The Survival of Jonah in Western Culture (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000). (click here) 
Hadley, Judith M., The Cult of Asherah in Ancient Israel and Judah: Evidence for a Hebrew Goddess (University of Cambridge Oriental Publications, 57; Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2000). (click here)
Baltzer, Klaus, Deutero-Isaiah: A Commentary on Isaiah 40-55 (Trans. Margaret Kohl; Hermeneia; Minneapolis: Fortress, 2001). (click here)  
Korpel, Marjo and Josef Oesch, eds., Delimitation Criticism. A New Tool in Biblical Scholarship (Pericope. Scripture as Written and Read in Antiquity 1; Assen: Van Gorcum, 2000). (click here)  
Kalimi, Isaac, The Book of Chronicles. Historical Writing and Literary Devices (The Biblical Encyclopaedia Library 18; Jerusalem: Mosad Bialik, 2000; in Modern Hebrew, no English Summary) (click here)  
Bartelmus, Rüdiger and Norbert Nebes, eds., Sachverhalt und Zeitbezug: Semitistische und alttestamentliche Studien Adolf Denz zum 65.Geburtstag (Jenaer Beiträge zum Vorderen Orient, 4; Wiesbaden: Harassowitz, 2001). (click here)  
Brueggemann, Walter, Spirituality of the Psalms (Minneapolis, MI.: Augsburg Fortress, 2001). (click here)
Cogan, Mordecai, 1 Kings. A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary (Anchor Bible 10; New York: Doubleday, 2001). (click here)
Ross, Allen P., Introducing Biblical Hebrew (Grand Rapids, MI.: Baker Academic, 2001). (click here)
Gunkel, Hermann, Water for a Thirsty Land: Israelite Literature and Religion (Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress, 2001). (click here)
Arthur, David, A Smooth Stone: Biblical Prophecy in Historical Perspective (New York, NY: University Press of America, 2001).(click here)

Weitzman, M. P., The Syriac version of the Old Testament. An Introduction (University of Cambridge Oriental Publications 56; Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999).
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Andersen, Francis I., Habakkuk: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary (Anchor Bible, 25; New York: Doubleday, 2001). (click here)

Broyles, Craig C., ed., Interpreting the Old Testament: A Guide for Exegesis (Grand Rapids, MI.: Baker, 2001). (click here)

Walsh, Jerome T., Style and Structure in Biblical Hebrew Narrative (Collegeville, MN: The Liturgical Press, 2001). (click here)

de Lange, Nicholas, ed., Hebrew Scholarship and the Medieval World (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001). (click here)

Hartley, John E., Genesis (New International Commentary- Old Testament Series, 1; Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 2000). (click here)

Thiede, C. P. The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Jewish Origins of Christianity (New York: Palgrave, 2000). (click here)

Boccaccini, Gabrielle, Roots of Rabbinic Judaism: An Intellectual History, from Ezekiel to Daniel (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2002). (click here)

Dobbs-Allsopp, F. W., Lamentations (Interpretation; Louisville: John Knox, 2002).
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Lipínski, Edward, The Aramaeans: Their Ancient History, Culture, Religion (Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta, 100; Leuven: Peeters, 2000). (click here)

Sarna, Nahum M., Studies in Biblical Interpretation (Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society, 2000). (click here)  
Gardner, Bruce K., The Genesis Calendar: The Synchronistic Tradition in Genesis 1-11 (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2001) (click here)  
Isserlin, B. J. S. I, The Israelites (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2001). (click here)

Zevit, Ziony, The Religions of Ancient Israel: A Synthesis of Parallactic Approaches (London and New York: Continuum, 2001). (click here)

Smith, Mark S., The Origins of Biblical Monotheism: Israel's Polytheistic Background and the Ugaritic Texts (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001). (click here)

Greenspoon, Leonard J.  and Bryan F. LeBeau, eds., Sacred Text, Secular Times: The Hebrew Bible in the Modern World (Studies in Jewish Civilization, 10; Omaha, Nebraska: Creighton University Press, 2000). (click here)

Brettler, Marc Zvi, The Book of Judges (Old Testament Readings; London/New York: Routledge, 2002). (click here)

Gowan, Donald E., Daniel (Abingdon Old Testament Commentaries; Nashville, TN: Abingdon, 2001). (click here

Bergant, Dianne, Song of Songs. (Berit Olam, Studies in Hebrew Narrative and Poetry; Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 2001).(click here)

Tov, Emanuel, Textual Criticism of the Hebrew Bible (2nd revised edition; Minneapolis, MI: Augsburg Fortress, 2001). (click here)

Staubli, Thomas and Silvia Schroer, Body Symbolism in the Bible (Translated by Linda M. Maloney; Collegeville, Minnesota: Liturgical Press, 2001) (click here)

Schroer, Silvia, Wisdom Has Built Her House: Studies on the Figure of Sophia in the Bible Translated by Linda M. Maloney and William McDonough (Collegeville, MI: Liturgical Press, 2000). (click here)

Schwemer, Daniel, Wettergottgestalten. Die Wettergottgestalten Mesopotamiens und Nordsyriens im Zeitalter der Keilschriftkulturen: Materialien und Studien nach den schriftlichen Quellen (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2001) (click here)

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  Volume 3 (2002-2001)

Berlin, Adele, JPS Torah Commentary: Esther (Philadelphia, PA.: Jewish Publication Society, 2001). (click here)  

Cohn, R. L., 2 Kings (Berit Olam; Collegeville, Minnesota: The Liturgical Press, 2000).
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Schultz, R. L., The Search for Quotation: Verbal Parallels in the Prophets (JSOTS 180; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1999) (click here)  
Loning Karl and Erich Zenger, To Begin With, God Created . . . Biblical Theologies of Creation (ET Omar Kaste; Collegeville: The Liturgical Press, 2000). (click here)
Hawk, L. Daniel, Joshua (Berit Olam; Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 2000. (click here)  
Kutsko, John F., Between Heaven and Earth: Divine Presence and Absence in the Book of Ezekiel (Biblical and Judaic Studies from the University of California, San Diego, 7; Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2000). (click here)    
Nasuti, Harry P., Defining the Sacred Songs: Genre, Tradition and the Post-Critical Interpretation of the Psalms, (JSOT Supplement Series 218; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1999). (click here)  
Eusebius, Eusebius' Ecclesiastical History, C.F. Cruse trans. (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 1998). (click here

Kugel, James L., The Bible as It Was (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1997). (click here)  

Sternberg, Meir, Hebrews Between Cultures: Group Portraits and National Literature (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998). (click here)
Doukhan, Jacques B., Hebrew for Theologians: A Textbook for the Study of Biblical Hebrew in Relation to Hebrew Thinking (Lanham, New York & London: University Press of America, 1993). (click here)  
Lehmann, Winfred P., Esther Raizen, and Helen-Jo Jakusz Hewitt, Biblical Hebrew: An Analytical Introduction (San Antonio, TX.: Wings Press, 1999). (click here)  
Schneider, Tammi, J. Judges (Berit Olam; Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 2000).
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Kee, Howard Clark, and Lynn H. Cohick, eds., Evolution of the Synagogue: Problems and Progress (Harrisburg, PA: Trinity Press, 1999). (click here)  
Husser, Jean-Marie, Dreams and Dream Narratives in the Biblical World (Biblical Seminar, 63; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1999). (click here)  
Greenspahn, Frederick E., An Introduction to Aramaic (Society of Biblical Literature Resources for Biblical Study, 38; Atlanta, GA: Scholars Press, 1999). (click here)  
Black, Jeremy, Andrew George, and Nicholas Postgate, eds., A Concise Dictionary of Akkadian (SANTAG, 5; Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 1999). (click here)  
Abusch ,T. and Karel van der Toorn, eds., Mesopotamian Magic: Textual, Historical, and Interpretive Perspectives (Studies in Ancient Magic and Divination, 1; Styx, 1998).
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Hengel, Martin and C. K. Barrett, Conflicts and Challenges in Early Christianity. Donald A. Hagner, ed. (Harrisburg, PA: Trinity Press, 1999). (click here
Simon, Uriel, Jonah ( JPS Bible Commentary; Philadelphia, PA.: Jewish Publication Society, 1999). (click here)  
The JPS Hebrew-English Tanakh (Philadelphia, PA: Jewish Publication Society, 1999). (click here)  
Prosecky, Jiri, ed., Intellectual Life in the Ancient Near East: Papers Presented at the 43rd Rencontre assyriologique internationale, Prague, July 1-5, 1996 (Prague: Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Oriental Institute, 1998). (click here)  
Van de Mieroop, Marc, Cuneiform Texts and the Writing of History (Approaching the Ancient World, 6; Routledge: London, 1999). (click here)  

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