A Response

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1. Frontmatter I
2. Table of Contents V
3. Preface XI
4. Abbreviations XIII
5. Found But Not Lost: A Skeptical Note on the Document Discovered in the Temple Under Josiah 1
6. In Conversation with Oded Lipschits, The Fall and Rise of Jerusalem (Winona Lake, Ind.: Eisenbrauns, 2005)
7. Introduction 23
8. A Response to Oded Lipschits, The Fall and Rise of Jerusalem: Judah under Babylonian Rule, Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 2005 25
9. Reflections on Oded Lipschits, The Fall and Rise of Jerusalem 33
10. The Demise of Jerusalem, the De-urbanization of Judah, and the Ascent of Benjamin: Reflections on Oded Lipschits’ The Fall and Rise of Jerusalem 41
11. Comments on Oded Lipschits, The Fall and Rise of Jerusalem 53
12. Comments on Oded Lipschits, The Fall and Rise of Jerusalem 61
13. The Babylonian Period in Judah: In Search of the Half Full Cup 69
14. Did Second Temple High Priests Possess the Urim and Thummim? 81
15. “Word Play” in Qoheleth 111
16. “White Trash” Wisdom: Proverbs 9 Deconstructed 139
17. Keeping It Literal: The Economy of the Song of Songs 151
18. Expatriates, Repatriates, and the Question of Zion’s Status—In Conversation with Melody D. Knowles, Centrality Practiced: Jerusalem in the Religious Practices of Yehud and the Diaspora in the Persian Period (Archaeology and Biblical Studies 16; Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2006)
19. Introduction 171
20. A Response 173
21. A Response 179
22. A Response 187
23. Flames, Candles, and Humility: A Response to the Session Discussing Centrality Practiced 193
24. A Goat to Go to Azazel 197
25. Author or Redactor? 221
26. Scribes Before and After 587 BCE: A Conversation
27. Introduction 245
28. Zadokites, Deuteronomists, and the Exilic Debate Over Scribal Authority 247
29. Writing the Restoration: Compositional Agenda and the Role of Ezra in Nehemiah 8 265
30. The Levites and the Literature of the Late-Seventh Century 279
31. A “Holiness” Substratum in the Deuteronomistic Account of Josiah’s Reform 293
32. Composition, Rhetoric and Theology in Haggai 1:1–11 309
33. Revisiting the Composition of Ezra-Nehemiah: In Conversation with Jacob Wright’s Rebuilding Identity: The Nehemiah Memoir and its Earliest Readers (BZAW, 348; Berlin: de Gruyter, 2004)
34. Introduction 325
35. A Response: In Search of Nehemiah’s Reform(s) 327
36. A Response 335
37. A Response 347
38. Looking Back at Rebuilding Identity 357
39. Crime Scene Investigation: A Text-Critical Mystery and the Strange Death of Ishbosheth 369
40. Rereading Oracles of God: Twenty Years After John Barton, Oracles of God: Perceptions of Prophecy in Israel after the Exile (London: Darton, Longman and Todd, 1986)
41. Introduction 393
42. ‘Beginning at the End’ 397
43. The Bible of Changed Meanings: Some Thoughts on John Barton’s Oracles of God 405
44. Reflections on John Barton’s Oracles of God 417
45. Oracles of God revisited 427
46. The Unlikely Malachi-Jonah Sequence (4QXIIa) 433
47. A Reconsideration of Manuscripts Classified as Scrolls of the Twelve Minor Prophets (XII) 445
48. Reviews Vol. 7 (2007)
49. Piotr Bienkowski, Christopher Mee, and Elizabeth Slater (eds.), Writing and Ancient Near East Society: Papers in Honor of Alan R. Millard 461
50. Antony F. Campbell and Mark A. O’Brien, Rethinking the Pentateuch: Prolegomena to the Theology of Ancient Israel 464
51. JoAnn Scurlock and Burton Andersen, Diagnoses in Assyrian and Babylonian Medicine: Ancient Sources, Translations, and Modern Medical Analyses 467
52. Mary Douglas, Jacob’s Tears: The Priestly Work of Reconciliation 471
53. Oded Lipschits and Manfred Oeming, eds. Judah and the Judeans in the Persian Period 475
54. George Athas, The Tel Dan Inscription: A Reappraisal and a New Interpretation 478
55. Wesley J. Bergen, Reading Ritual: Leviticus in Postmodern Culture 483
56. Mark W. Hamilton, The Body Royal: The Social Poetics of Kingship in Ancient Israel 486
57. Cheryl Anderson, Women, Ideology and Violence: Critical Theory and the Construction of Gender in the Book of the Covenant and Deuteronomic Law 489
58. Marvin A. Sweeney, Form and Intertextuality in Prophetic and Apocalyptic Literature 491
59. Diana Edelman, The Origins of the Second Temple: Persian Imperial Policy and the Rebuilding of Jerusalem 495
60. David H. Aaron, Etched in Stone: The Emergence of the Decalogue 504
61. Oded Lipschits, The Fall and Rise of Jerusalem: Jerusalem under Babylonian Rule 507
62. Peter B. Dirksen, 1 Chronicles 510
63. Philip F. Esler, ed. Ancient Israel: The Old Testament in its Social Context 513
64. Jerome T. Walsh, Ahab: The Construction of a King 515
65. Gershom M. H. Ratheiser, Mitzvoth Ethics and the Jewish Bible: The End of Old Testament Theology 517
66. Richard M. Davidson, Flame of Yahweh: Sexuality in the Old Testament 520
67. Ronald Hendel, Remembering Abraham: Culture, Memory, and History in the Hebrew Bible 523
68. Carol Dempsey, Jeremiah: Preacher of Grace, Poet of Truth 526
69. Eric A. Seibert, Subversive Scribes and the Solomonic Narrative: A Rereading of I Kings 1–11 528
70. Alice Hunt, Missing Priests: The Zadokites in Tradition and History 530
71. Victor H. Matthews, Manners and Customs in the Bible: An Illustrated Guide to Daily Life in Bible Times 533
72. Diane Banks, Writing the History of Israel 535
73. Joseph Azize and Noel Weeks, eds., Gilgameš and the World of Assyria. Proceedings of the Conference held at Mandelbaum House, The University of Sydney, 21–23 July 2004 538
74. David Toshio Tsumura, The First Book of Samuel 544
75. J. Maxwell Miller and John H. Hayes, A History of Ancient Israel and Judah 547
76. Alice Mouton, Rêves hittites: Contribution à une histoire et une anthropologie du rêve en Anatolie ancienne 549
77. Index 555