Thinking of Water in the Book of Job: A Fluvial Introduction to the Job Literature

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1. Frontmatter I
2. Foreword V
3. Table of Contents VII
4. Abbreviations IX
5. Introduction 1
6. Thinking of Water in Late Persian/Early Hellenistic Judah: An Exploration 11
7. Sacred Springs and Liminal Rivers: Water and Prophecy in the Ancient Eastern Mediterranean 29
8. Water(s) of Abundance in the Ancient Near East and in Hebrew Bible Texts: A Sign of Kingship 49
9. The Nile in Biblical Memory 77
10. Polluted, Bitter, and Sweet Water as a Matter of Ethnic Identity-Formation in Persian Yehud 103
11. The Song of the Sea and Isaiah: Exodus 15 in Post-monarchic Prophetic Discourse 123
12. Imagining Water: The Overflowing Stream in Isa 66:12 149
13. “But into the Water You Must Not Dip It” (Jeremiah 13:1) – Methodological Reflections on How to Identify the Work of the Deuteronomistic Redaction in the Book of Jeremiah 167
14. Drought and Locust Plague in Joel 1–2 197
15. Coping with Drought and Famine in some Post-Exilic Texts 229
16. Adad’s Overflowing Scourge and the Weather God of Zion: Observations on Motif History in Isa 28:14–18 257
17. Thinking of Water in the Book of Job: A Fluvial Introduction to the Job Literature 279
18. Water in 1–2 Kings 299
19. Water Control and Royal Propaganda: Sennacherib’s Boast in 2 Kgs 19:24 (= Isa 37:25) 317
20. Manasseh in Paradise? The Influence of ANE Palace Garden Imagery in LXX 2 Chronicles 33:20 339
21. Dew in the Enochic Literature 359
22. Living Water by the Dead Sea: Some Water Metaphors in the Qumran Scrolls 375
23. The Fluid Boundaries of Life, the Universe and Yahweh 393
24. Drawing Out Moses: Water as a Personal Motif of the Biblical Character 409
25. Fluvial Fantasies 437
26. Author Index 457
27. Reference Index 471