The contributors to this volume address three central approaches in biblical interpretation: historical settings, intertextuality, and biblical theology. They trace and reassess the multifaceted aspects relevant to the historical settings of the ancient texts, writers, and worlds; describe the comparative analysis of biblical literature; and highlight theological approaches to the Hebrew Bible.
The contributors to this volume address three central approaches in biblical interpretation: historical settings, intertextuality, and biblical theology. The first section traces and reassesses the multifaceted aspects relevant to the historical settings of the ancient texts, writers, and worlds. The second section describes the comparative analysis of biblical literature, with inner-biblical or non-biblical texts, not only to improve textual meanings but also to deepen the relationship between biblical texts and their contexts. The final section highlights theological approaches to the Hebrew Bible, addressing the themes of Jewish theology, justice, theophany, loss, and trauma, while confronting significant ethical and theological challenges.
Table of contents:
Introduction
Part I - Historical Settings
Christoph Levin: The Many and the One: Integrative Monotheism in Ancient Israel -
David L. Petersen: The Priestly Portrayal of Jacob in Genesis -
Jeffrey Stackert: On the Relation Between Textual Criticism and Source Criticism in the Pentateuch -
Willem A. M. Beuken: The Rhetoric of Hosea 1-2: An Agrarian Worldview Engaged in the Transmission of Prophetic Heritage -
Brent A. Strawn: Vocatio Interrupta: Jonah's Call, Jonah's Silence, and Form Criticism -
Bob Becking: 'Jerusalem Will Become a Heap of Ruins': On the Ancient Near Eastern Background of an Image for Devastation in Micah 3:12 -
Peter Machinist: The Dialogue of Pessimism Revisited
Part II - Intertextuality
Stephen L. Cook: Merciful and Wrathful? Innerbiblical Interpretation of Exodus 34:6-7 -
Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer: In Search of Jonathan: The Curious Case of the Missing Prince in Modern Filmic Retellings of the David Narrative -
Margaret S. Odell: The Abominable Image: גלולים and the Theopolitical Roots of Idolatry in Ezekiel -
Koog P. Hong: Seeing Manasseh in the Servant's Marred Face: A Radical Intertextual Reading of Isaiah 53 -
Dalit Rom-Shiloni: Two Prophecies in Ezekiel (14:1-11; 24:6-8) and One Source Text (Leviticus 17): Notes on Intertextuality and Creative Interactions -
James D. Nogalski: Haggai 2:17, 19: Variations on a Theme -
Steven S. Tuell: Exploded Riddles and Inverted Metaphors: Subverting Tradition in Ezekiel and Zechariah
Part III - Biblical Theology
Tamar Frankiel: Shall the Judge of All the Earth Not Do Justice? -
Mark E. Biddle: 'Shall the Judge of All the Earth Not Do What Is Just?' (Gen 18:25): Theodicy and the Book of Jeremiah -
Emmanuel Ukaegbu-Onuoha: Hagar's Life Matters: Reading Hagar's Story (Gen 16:1-16; 21:9-21) with the Lenses of Shawn Copeland's Theological Anthropology Model and Its Implications for Black Bodies -
Louis Stulman: Writings to Survive: The Voices Returns in Jeremiah's Subversive Sefer -
Konrad Schmid: Orientalism and the Hebrew Bible: How the History of Science Dealt with the Historical Origins of the Idea of Laws of Nature -
Corrine Carvalho: 'Unless You Have Utterly Rejected Us': Trauma, Poetry, and Theology in Lamentations -
Mariko Yakiyama: Pauline Understanding of 'the Day of the Lord' in Relation to 'the Day of YHWH' in the Book of Zephaniah
