Journal of Hebrew Scriptures - Volume 9 (2009) - Review

Othmar Keel, Die Geschichte Jerusalems und die Entstehung des Monotheismus (Orte und Landschafte der Bibel 4,1-2; Göttingen: Van­den­hoeck & Ruprecht, 2007).

Nathan MacDonald, Not Bread Alone: The Uses of Food in the Old Testament (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008).

Ernst Axel Knauf, Josua (Zürich: Theologischer Verlag, 2008).

Deborah L. Ellens, Women in the Sex Texts of Leviticus and Deuteronomy: A Comparative Conceptual Analysis (Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies, 458; New York/London: T & T Clark, 2008).

Joel Kaminsky, Yet I loved Jacob: Reclaiming the Biblical Concept of Election (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2007).

Dell, Katherine J. Opening the Old Testament (Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2008).

Daniel K. Falk, The Parabiblical Texts: Strategies for Extending the Scriptures among the Dead Sea Scrolls (Companion to the Qumran Scrolls, 8; Library of Second Temple Texts, 63; London/New York: T & T Clark, 2007).

John Goldingay. Psalms. Vol. 2: Psalms 42-89 (Baker Commentary on the Old Testament Wisdom and Psalms; Grand Rapids: Baker Academic Press, 2007).

William Loader, Enoch, Levi, and Jubilees on Sexuality: Attitudes towards Sexuality in the Early Enoch Literature, the Aramaic Levi Document, and the Book of Jubilees (Grand Rapids/Cambridge: Eerdmans, 2007).

Daniel R. Schwartz, 2 Maccabees (Commentaries on Early Jewish Literature [CEJL] Berlin/New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2008).

Philip R. Davies, The Origins of Biblical Israel (LHBOTS, 485; New York/London: T & T Clark, 2007).

Gary N. Knoppers and Bernard M. Levinson (eds), The Pentateuch as Torah: New Models for Understanding Its Promulgation and Acceptance (Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2007).

R. J. R. Plant, Good Figs, Bad Figs: Judicial Differentiation in the Book of Jeremiah (LHBOTS, 48; New York: T & T Clark, 2008).

David Goodblatt, Elements of Ancient Jewish Nationalism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006).

Michael Thomas Davis & Brent A. Strawn (eds), Qumran Studies: New Approaches, New Questions (Grand Rapids/Cambridge: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2007).

Adele Berlin, The Dynamics of Biblical Parallelism (Revised and expanded edition, Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2008).

Michael Carasik, Theologies of the Mind in Biblical Israel (Studies in Biblical Literature, 85; New York: Peter Lang, 2006).

W. Randolph Tate, Biblical Interpretation: An Integrated Approach (3rd Edition; Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Publishers, 2008).

Gina Hens-Piazza, 1-2 Kings (Abingdon Old Testament Commentaries; Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2006).

Saul M. Olyan, Diasability in the Hebrew Bible: Interpreting Mental and Physical Differences (Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008).

Miriam von Nordheim, Geboren von der Morgenröte? Psalm 110 in Tradition, Redaktion und Rezeption (Neukirchen-Vluyn: Neukirchener Verlag, 2008).

Gideon Bohak, Ancient Jewish Magic (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008).

Robert L. Foster and David M. Howard (eds.), My Words Are Lovely: Studies in the Rhetoric of the Psalms. (Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies 467; New York, London: T & T Clark, 2008).

Bob Becking and Eric Peels (eds.), Psalms and Prayers (OTS 55; Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2007).

Rhonda Burnette-Bletsch, Studying the Old Testament: A Companion (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2007).

Raymond de Hoop, Marjo C.A. Korpel, and Stanley E. Porter (eds.), The Impact of Unit Delimitation on Exegesis (Pericope; Scripture as Written and Read in Antiquity 7; Leiden, Boston Brill, 2009).

Martin Leuenberger, Segen und Segenstheologien im alten Israel: Untersuchungen zu ihren religions- und theologiegeschichtlichen Konstellationen und Transformationen.(AThANT 90; Zürich: TVZ, 2008).

Steven L. McKenzie and John Kaltner, The Old Testament: Its Background, Growth, & Content (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2007).

Mark S. Gignilliat, Karl Barth and the Fifth Gospel: Barth's Theological Exegesis of Isaiah (Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2009).

BibleWorks 8. Norfolk, VA: BibleWorks, LLC, 2009.

Larry L. Lyke, I Will Espouse You Forever: The Song of Songs and the Theology of Love in the Hebrew Bible (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2007).

Alex P. Jassen, Mediating the Divine: Prophecy and Revelation in the Dead Sea Scrolls and Second Temple Judaism (Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah, 68; Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2007).

Kathryn Schifferdecker, Out of the Whirlwind: Creation Theology in the Book of Job (Harvard Theological Studies, 61; Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2008).

Lowell K. Handy, Jonah's World: Social Science and the Reading of Prophetic Story (BibleWorld; London: Equinox, 2008).

Aarnoud van der Deijl, Protest or Propaganda: War in the Old Testament Book of Kings and in Contemporaneous Ancient Near Eastern Texts(SSN, 51; Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2008).

Peter Philip Jenson, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah: A Theological Commentary (LHBOTS 496; New York and London: T&T Clark, 2008).

George J. Brooke and Thomas Römer, eds., Ancient and Modern Scriptural Historiography - L'historiographie biblique, ancienne et moderne (Bibliotheca Ephemeridum Theologicarum Lovaniensium 207; Leuven: Peeters, 2007).

Judith Gärtner, Jesaja 66 und Sacharja 14 als Summe der Prophetie: Eine traditions- und redaktionsgeschichtliche Untersuchung zum Abschluss des Jesaja- und des Zwölfprophetenbuches (WMANT 114; Neukirchen-Vluyn: Neukirchener, 2006).

Volker Haarmann, JHWH-Verehrer der Völker: Die Hinwendung von Nichtisraeliten zum Gott Israels in alttestamentlichen Überlieferungen (AThANT 91; Zürich: TVZ, 2008).

Peter Weimar, Studien zur Priesterschrift (FAT, 56; Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2008).

Sven Petry, Die Entgrenzung JHWHs: Monolatrie, Bilderverbot und Monotheismus im Deuteronomium, in Deuterojesaja und im Ezechielbuch (FAT II/27; Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2007).

Anders Runesson, Donald D. Binder, and Birger Olsson, The Ancient Synagogue from its Origins to 200 C.E. A Source Book (Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity, 72; Leiden: Brill, 2008).

Baruch J. Schwartz, et al (eds.). Perspectives on Purity and Purification in the Bible (LHBOTS 474; New York, NY and London; T&T Clark, 2008).

Viktor Ber, The Hebrew Verb HYH as a Macrosyntactic Signal (Studies in Biblical Hebrew; Berlin: Peter Lang, 2008).

Konrad Schmid, Literaturgeschichte des Alten Testaments: Eine Einführung (Darmstadt: WBG, 2008).

Jon L. Berquist and Claudia V. Camp (eds.), Constructions of Space II: The Biblical City and Other Imagined Spaces (LHBOTS 490; New York, London: T&T Clark, 2008).

Sharon Moughtin-Mumby, Sexual and Marital Metaphors in Hosea, Jeremiah, Isaiah, and Ezekiel (Oxford Theological Monographs; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008).

Gabriele Boccaccini (ed.) Enoch and the Messiah Son of Man: Revisiting the Book of Parables (Grand Rapids, Michigan/Cambridge, U.K.: William B. Eerdmans, 2007).

Peter Riede, Vom Erbarmen zum Gericht: Die Visionen des Amosbuches (Am 7-9*) und ihr literatur- und traditionsgeschichtlicher Zusammenhang (WMANT, 120; Neukirchen-Vluyn: Neukirchener, 2008).

Natalio Fernández Marcos, Septuaginta: La Biblia griega de judíos y cristianos (Biblioteca de Estudios Bíblicos Minor 12; Salamanca: Ediciones Sígueme; 2008).

Hans-Peter Mathys, Das Astarte-Quadrat (Zurich: Theologischer Verlag, 2008).

Thomas Römer (ed.), The Books of Leviticus and Numbers (BETL 215; Leuven: Peeters, 2008).

MONARCHY AND ITS (PERSIAN-PERIOD?) DISCONTENTS.

DEUTERONOMISTIC HISTORY OR HISTORIES?: NEW APPROACHES TO DEUTERONOMY-KINGS.

Becking, Bob and Dirk Human, eds, Exile and Suffering: A Selection of Papers Read at the 50th Anniversary Meeting of the Old Testament Society of South Africa OTWSA/OTSSA, Pretoria, August 2007 (Oudtestamentische Studiën 50; Leiden: Brill, 2009).

Hanne Løland, Silent or Salient Gender? The Interpretation of Gendered God-Language in the Hebrew Bible, Exemplified in Isaiah 42, 46 and 49 (FAT II/32; Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2008).

Angel, Andrew R., Chaos and the Son of Man: The Hebrew Chaoskampf Tradition in the Period 515 BCE to 200 CE (LSTS 60; New York, London: T&T Clark, 2006).

Bruckner, James K., Exodus (New International Biblical Commentary; Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Publishers, 2008).

Cottrill, Amy C., Language, Power, and Identity in the Lament Psalms of the Individual (LHBOTS 493; London: T&T Clark, 2008).

Gorman, Michael J. Elements of Biblical Exegesis: A Basic Guide for Students and Ministers (Revised and Expanded Edition; Peabody MA; Hendrickson, 2009).

Paul, Shalom M., Isaiah 40-66: Introduction and Commentary (2 vols.; Mikra Leyisra'el – A Bible Commentary for Israel; Jerusalem: Magnes Press, 2008).

Levine, Étan, Marital Relations in Ancient Judaism (Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für altorientalische und biblische Rechtsgeschichte 10; Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2009).

Kalmanofsky, Amy, Terror All around: The Rhetoric of Horror in the Book of Jeremiah (Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies 390; New York: T&T Clark, 2008).

Berges, Ulrich, Jesaja 40-48 (Herders Theologischer Kommentar zum Alten Testament; Freiburg: Herder 2008).

Crawford, Sidnie White, Rewriting Scripture in Second Temple Times (Studies in the Dead Sea Scrolls and Related Literature; Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2008).

Hayes, Elizabeth R., The Pragmatics of Perception and Cognition in MT Jeremiah 1:1-6:30: A Cognitive Linguistics Approach (BZAW 380; Berlin and New York: de Gruyter, 2008).

Pomykala, Kenneth E. ed., Israel in the Wilderness: Interpretations of the Biblical Narratives in Jewish and Christian Traditions (TBN 10; Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2008).

Werrett, Ian C., Ritual Purity and the Dead Sea Scrolls (STDJ 72; Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2007).

Angel, Hayyim J., Revealed Texts, Hidden Meanings. Finding the Religious Significance of the Tanakh (Jersey City, NJ: KTAV Publishing House 2009).

Stuckenbruck, Loren T., Stephen C. Barton and Benjamin G. Wold (eds), Memory in the Bible and Antiquity: The Fifth Durham-Tübingen Research Symposium (Durham, September 2004) (WUNT, 212 Tübingen; Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2006).

Unterman, Yael, Nehama Leibowitz: Teacher and Bible Scholar (Jerusalem: Urim Publications, 2009).

Baden, Joel S., J, E, and the Redaction of the Pentateuch (FAT 68; Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2009).

Ebach, Jürgen, Genesis 37–50 (HThK.AT; Freiburg i. Br.: Herder, 2007).

Barstad, Hans M., History and the Hebrew Bible: Studies in Ancient Israelite and Ancient Near Eastern Historiography (FAT, 61; Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2008).

Berlejung, Angelika and Bernd Janowski, eds., Tod und Jenseits im alten Israel und in seiner Umwelt (FAT, 64; Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2009).

Schneider, Tammi J., Mothers of Promise: Women in the Book of Genesis (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2008).

Hamori, Esther J., “When Gods Were Men”: The Embodied God in Biblical and Near Eastern Literature (BZAW 384; Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2008).

Niehaus, Jeffrey J., Ancient Near Eastern Themes in Biblical Theology (Grand Rapids, MI: Kregel Academic & Professional, 2008).

Madigan, Kevin L. and Jon D. Levenson, Resurrection: The Power of God for Christians and Jews (New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 2008).

Sink, Susan, The Art of The Saint John’s Bible: A Reader’s Guide to Wisdom Books and Prophets (Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 2008).

Schniedewind, William M. and Joel H. Hunt, A Primer on Ugaritic: Language, Culture and Literature (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007).

Dalley, Stephanie, Esther’s Revenge at Susa: From Sennacherib to Ahasuerus (Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press, 2008).