Contents
Preface
Abbreviations
Part 1: Literary/Exegetical Readings
The Encounter with the Courtesan in the Gilgameš Epic and with Rahab in Joshua 2
(Divine) Silence Is Golden: A New Reading of the Prologue of Job
Memories, Myths, and Historical Monuments: Yahweh’s Developing Character in the Psalms
“A Psalm of David, When…”: Reflections on Some Psalm Titles in the Hebrew Bible
“Moab Is My Washpot” (Ps 60:8 [MT 10]): Another Look at the MLF (Moabite Liberation Front)
Solomon: Wisdom’s Most Famous Aspirant
The Unexpected Visitor: The Elihu Speeches in Personal Voice Perspective
Reading as an Earth Being: Rereading Genesis 2–3—Again
Self-Defense and Identity Formation in the Depiction of Battles in Joshua and Esther
Egypt-Watching: Orientalism in the Hebrew Bible
Reading Back and Forth: Gender Trouble in Jeremiah 2–3
Dreams: Had, Recounted, and Interpreted—Power Plays in the Joseph Story?
“What You See Is What You Get”: The Passion of a Literary Character?
Desperately Seeking Yhwh: Finding God in Esther’s “Acrostics”
Part 2: Ideological-Critical Readings
The Bible in the Presidential Elections of 2012, 2008, and 2004, and the Collapse of American Secularism
Three Questions on Economics for G. E. M. de Ste. Croix
Reading as a Canaanite: Paradoxes in Joshua
Occupy Central: Scribal Resistance in Daniel, the Long Road to Universal Suffrage
Voice and Ideology in Ecclesiastes: Reading “Cross the Grains”
Possibilities and Prospects of Postcolonial Biblical Interpretation: A South African Perspective
Deploying the Literary Detail of a Biblical Text (2 Samuel 13:1–22) in Search of Redemptive Masculinities
Part 3: Language and Lexicography
Neologisms: A Septuagint Problem
The Invention of Language in the Poetry of Job
Linguistic Clues as to the Date of the Book of Job: A Mediating Position
Speaker, Addressee, and Positioning: Dialogue Structure and Pragmatics in Biblical Narrative
Notes on Some Hebrew Words in Ecclesiastes
Patterns of Linguistic Forms in the Masoretic Text: The Preposition מן “From”
Part 4: Reception History
The Bible in the Twenty-First Century—Where and How?
Nineteenth-Century British Job Oratorios
Judging Judges Scholarship
Boaz Reawakened: Modeling Masculinity in the Book of Ruth
From London to Amsterdam: Handel’s Esther Reincarnated
Bibliography of David J. A. Clines 2003–2013
Contributors