Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface ix
4. Abbreviations xiii
5. Contributors xvii
6. Part I “Near Whenever We Call” God’s Nearness in Israel’s Crying Out (The Psalms and Beyond)
7. Reading the Lament Psalms Backwards 3
8. “Without Our Aid He Did Us Make”: Singing the Meaning of the Psalms 17
9. The So-Called Elohistic Psalter: A New Solution for an Old Problem 35
10. A Fairy Tale Wedding? A Feminist Intertextual Reading of Psalm 45 53
11. Notes on Psalm 93: A Fragment of a Liturgical Poem Affirming Yahweh’s Kingship 73
12. There the Blessing: An Exposition of Psalm 133 79
13. Certainty, Ambiguity, and Trust: Knowledge of God in Psalm 139 91
14. Quoth the Raven: Psalm 147 and the Environment 101
15. Prayer and/as Self-Address: The Case of Hannah 113
16. Naomi’s Cry: Reflections on Ruth 1:20–21 129
17. Jonah 2: A Prayer Out of the Deep 145
18. Songs in a New Key: The Psalmic Structure of the Chronicler’s Hymn (1 Chr 16:8–36) 153
19. Wild, Raging Creativity: The Scene in the Whirlwind (Job 38–41) 171
20. Part II “As Just as This Entire Law” God’s Nearness in the Torah (Deuteronomy and Beyond)
21. Law in the Service of Life: A Dynamic Understanding of Law in Deuteronomy 183
22. How Does Deuteronomy Do Theology? Literary Juxtaposition and Paradox in the New Moab Covenant in Deuteronomy 29–32 201
23. Keep/Observe/Do—Carefully—Today! The Rhetoric of Repetition in Deuteronomy 215
24. Divine Warrior Theology in Deuteronomy 241
25. Reading Deuteronomy 5 as Narrative 261
26. The Travail of Pardon: Reflections on sl˙ 283
27. Circumcision of the Heart: The Journey of a Biblical Metaphor 299
28. Huldah, the Prophet: Reading a (Deuteronomistic) Woman’s Identity 321
29. Prophets and Kings: A New Look at the Royal Persecution of Prophets against Its Near Eastern Background 341
30. From Mountain to Mountain: The Reign of God in Daniel 2 355
31. Sola Scriptura? The Authority of the Bible in Pluralistic Environments 375
32. Bibliography of the Works of Patrick D. Miller 1964–2001 393
33. Indexes 417