Vol. 17 (2017): Volume 17

The Body of Nineveh: The Conceptual Image of the City in Nahum 2–3

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From Temple to Text: Text as Ritual Space and the Composition of Numbers 6:24–26

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The Chronicler's Code: The Rise and Fall of Judah's Army in the Book of Chronicles

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Identity Coherence in the Chronicler's Narrative: King Josiah as a Second David and a Second Saul

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Reading Jeremiah 19:1–13: Integrating Diachronic and Synchronic Methodologies

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“Peace for Our Time”: Reading Jonah in Dialogue with Abravanel in the Book of the Twelve

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Was Khirbet Qeiyafa a Judahite City? The Case against It

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Jewish Identity on Trial: The Case of Mordecai the Jew

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The Characterization of Rehoboam and Jeroboam as a Reflection of the Chronicler's View of the Schism

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From Dialogic Tension to Social Address: Reconsidering Mandolfo's Proposed Didactic Voice in Lament Psalms

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Solomon, God, and Sharon Rose Walk into a Song: Dialoguing Polysemy in the Song of Songs

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Ritual Sequence and Narrative Constraints in Leviticus 9:1–10:3

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Review of Assis, Elie, Identity in Conflict: The Struggle between Esau and Jacob, Edom and Israel (Siphrut: Literature and Theology of the Hebrew Scriptures, 19; Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2016).

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Review of Beckman, Gary M., The babilili-Ritual from Hattusa (CTH 718) (Mesopotamian Civilizations, 19; Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 2014).

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Review of Sneed, Mark R., The Social World of the Sages: An Introduction to Israelite and Jewish Wisdom Literature (Minneapolis: Fortress, 2015).

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Review of Snearly, Michael K., The Return of the King: Messianic Expectation in Book V of the Psalter (LHBOTS, 624; New York: Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2016).

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Review of Thompson, Thomas L., and Philippe Wajdenbaum (eds.), The Bible and Hellenism: Greek Influence on Jewish and Early Christian Literature (Copenhagen International Seminar; London: Routledge, 2014).

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Review of Hayes, Elizabeth R. and Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer (eds.), “I Lifted My Eyes and Saw”: Reading Dream and Vision Reports in the Hebrew Bible (Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies, 584; London/New York: Bloomsbury T & T Clark, 2014).

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Review of Tiemeyer, Lena-Sofia, Zechariah and His Visions: An Exegetical Study of Zechariah's Vision Report (LHBOTS, 605; London: T & T Clark, 2015).

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Review of Eidsvåg, Gunnar Magnus, The Old Greek Translation of Zechariah (VTSup, 170; Leiden: Brill, 2015).

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Review of Brooke, George J., Reading the Dead Sea Scrolls: Essays in Method (Early Judaism and Its Literature, 39; Atlanta: SBL, 2013).

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Review of Dietrich, Walter, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah (International Exegetical Commentary on the Old Testament; trans. Peter Altmann; Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 2016).

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Review of Sommer, Benjamin D., Revelation and Authority: Sinai in Jewish Scripture and Tradition (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2015).

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Review of deClaissé-Walford, Nancy L. (ed.), The Shape and Shaping of the Book of Psalms: The Current State of Scholarship (Ancient Israel and Its Literature, 20; Atlanta: SBL, 2014).

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Review of Lundbom, Jack R., Deuteronomy: A Commentary (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2013).

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Review of Fried, Lisbeth S., Ezra: A Commentary (Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix, 2015).

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Review of Couey, J. Blake, Reading the Poetry of First Isaiah: The Most Perfect Model of the Prophetic Poetry (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015).

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Review of Cole, R. L. Psalms 1–2: Gateway to the Psalter (HBM, 37; Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix, 2013).

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Review of Bodner, Keith, After the Invasion: A Reading of Jeremiah 40–44 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015).

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Review of Knafl, Anne K., Forming God: Divine Anthropomorphism in the Pentateuch (Siphrut, 12; Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2014).

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Review of Lyons, Michael A., An Introduction to the Study of Ezekiel (T & T Clark Approaches to Biblical Studies; New York: Bloomsbury, 2015).

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Review of Troxel, Ronald L., Joel: Scope, Genre(s), and Meaning (Critical Studies in the Hebrew Bible, 6; Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2015).

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Review of Lemaire, André and Baruch Halpern (eds.), The Books of Kings: Sources, Composition, Historiography and Reception (VTSup, 129; Leiden: Brill, 2010).

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Review of Calduch-Benages, Nuria (ed.), Wisdom For Life: Essays Offered to Honor Prof. Maurice Gilbert, SJ on the Occasion of His Eightieth Birthday (BZAW, 445; Berlin/Boston: de Gruyter, 2014).

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Review of de Vries, Pieter, The Kābôd of YHWH in the Old Testament: With Particular Reference to the Book of Ezekiel (Studia Semitica Neerlandica, 65; Leiden: Brill, 2016).

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Review of Sweeney, Marvin A., Isaiah 40–66 (FOTL, 19; Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2016).

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Review of Cooley, Jeffrey L., Poetic Astronomy in the Ancient Near East: The Reflexes of Celestial Science in Ancient Mesopotamian, Ugaritic, and Israelite Narrative (History, Archaeology, and Culture of the Levant, 5; Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2013).

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Review of McGuinn, Sheila E., Lai Ling Elizabeth Ngan, and Ahida Calderón Pilarski (eds.), By Bread Alone: The Bible through the Eyes of the Hungry (Minneapolis: Fortress, 2014).

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Review of de Hulster, Izaak J. and Joel M. LeMon (eds.), Image, Text, Exegesis: Iconographic Interpretation and the Hebrew Bible (LHBOTS, 588; London: Bloomsbury, 2016).

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Review of Wu, Daniel Y., Honor, Shame, and Guilt: Social-Scientific Approaches to the Book of Ezekiel (BBRS, 14; Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2016).

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Review of Cheung, Simon Chi-chung, Wisdom Intoned: A Reappraisal of the Genre “Wisdom Psalms” (LHBOTS, 613; New York: Bloomsbury T. & T. Clark, 2015).

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Review of Chan, Michael J. and Brent A. Strawn (eds.),What Kind of God? Collected Essays of Terence E. Fretheim (Siphrut, 14; Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 2015).

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Review of Sneed, Mark R. (ed.), Was There a Wisdom Tradition: New Perspectives in Israelite Wisdom Studies (SBLAIL; Atlanta, GA: SBL Press, 2015).

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Review of Toffelmire, Colin, A Discourse and Register Analysis of the Prophetic Book of Joel (SSN, 66; Leiden: Brill, 2016).

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Review of Broida, Marian W., Forestalling Doom: “Apotropaic Intercession” in the Hebrew Bible and the Ancient Near East (AOAT, 417; Münster: Ugarit Verlag, 2014).

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Review of Eggleston, Chad L., “See and Read All These Words”: The Concept of the Written in the Book of Jeremiah (Siphrut: Literature and Theology of the Hebrew Scriptures, 18; Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2016).

Review of Dell, Katharine, and Will Kynes (eds.), Reading Job Intertextually (LHBOTS, 574; New York: Bloombury T & T Clark, 2013).

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Review of Davidson, Steed Vernyl, Empire and Exile: Postcolonial Readings of the Book of Jeremiah (LHBOTS, 542; New York: T & T Clark, 2011).

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Review of Römer, Thomas, The Invention of God (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2015).

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Review of Timmer, Daniel, The Non-Israelite Nations in the Book of the Twelve: Thematic Coherence and the Diachronic-Synchronic Relationship in the Minor Prophets (Biblical Interpretation Series, 135; Leiden: Brill, 2015).

Review of Young, R. A., Hezekiah in History and Tradition (VTSup, 155; Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2012).

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Review of Coogan, Michael, The Ten Commandments: A Short History of an Ancient Text (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2015).

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Review of Wright, Archie T., The Origin of Evil Spirits: The Reception of Genesis 6:1–4 in Early Jewish Literature (rev. ed.; Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2015).

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Review of Peterson, Brian N., The Authors of the Deuteronomistic History: Locating a Tradition in Ancient Israel (Minneapolis: Fortress, 2014).

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Review of Cudworth, Troy D., War in Chronicles: Temple Faithfulness and Israel's Place in the Land (LHBOTS, 627; London: Bloomsbury T & T Clark, 2016).

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Review of Chapman, Stephen B., 1 Samuel as Christian Scripture: A Theological Commentary (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2016).

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Review of Tiemeyer, Lena-Sofia, Zechariah's Vision Report and Its Earliest Interpreters: A Redaction-Critical Study of Zechariah 1–8 (LHBOTS, 626; London: Bloomsbury T & T Clark, 2016).

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Review of Gibson, Jonathan, Covenant Continuity and Fidelity: A Study of Inner-Biblical Allusion and Exegesis in Malachi (LHBOTS, 625; London: Bloomsbury, 2016).

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Review of Niditch, Susan, The Responsive Self: Personal Religion in Biblical Literature of the Neo-Babylonian and Persian Periods (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2015).

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Review of Smith-Christopher, Daniel, Micah: A Commentary (OTL; Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2015).

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Review of Crouch, C. L., An Introduction to the Study of Jeremiah (London/New York: Bloomsbury T & T Clark, 2017).

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Review of Lipschits, Oded, and Aren M. Maeir (eds.),The Shephelah in the Iron Age (Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2017).

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Review of Edenburg, Cynthia, Dismembering the Whole: Composition and Purpose of Judges 19–21 (Ancient Israel and Its Literature, 24; Atlanta: SBL, 2016).

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Review of Giffone, Benjamin D., ‘Sit At My Right Hand’: The Chronicler's Portrait of the Tribe of Benjamin in the Social Context of Yehud (LHBOTS, 628; New York: Bloomsbury, 2016).

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Review of Oeming, Manfred, and Konrad Schmid, Job's Journey: Stations of Suffering (CrStHB, 7; Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2015).

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Review of Cohen, Mordechai Z., and Adele Berlin (eds.), Interpreting Scriptures in Judaism, Christianity and Islam: Overlapping Inquiries (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016).

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