The Unfavored

Judah and Saul in the Narratives of Genesis and 1 Samuel

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Josef Sykora examines two narratives with seemingly opposite trajectories: the Joseph cycle in Genesis 37–50 and the Saul episode in 1 Samuel 13–15. Both contain passages that feel intrusive—Genesis 38 and 49 and 1 Samuel 13:7b–15a—and that coincide with Judah’s and Saul’s rise or fall in God’s favor. Taking seriously the redaction-critical proposals suggesting that these puzzling. . . (more)

The Completion of Judges

Strategies of Ending in Judges 17–21

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The last five chapters of the book of Judges (chs. 17–21) contain some shocking and bizarre stories, and precisely how these stories relate to the rest of the book is a major question in scholarship on the book. Leveraging work from literary studies and hermeneutics, Beldman reexamines Judges 17-21 with the aim of discerning the “strategies of ending” that are at work in these. . . (more)

Identity in Conflict

The Struggle between Esau and Jacob, Edom and Israel

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No nation has been subjected to a wider range of biblical attitudes and emotions than Edom. In some sources, Edom is perceived as Israel’s brother; in many others, the animosity toward Edom is tremendous. The book of Genesis introduces Isaac, his wife Rebecca, and their twin sons, Esau and Jacob. Rivalry between the brothers emerges even before their birth and escalates over the course of their lives. The question of. . . (more)

What Kind of God?

Collected Essays of Terence E. Fretheim

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Terence E. Fretheim has long been a leading voice in Old Testament theology. In this volume, thirty of his classic studies have been gathered together for the first time under the rubrics “God and the World”, “God and Suffering”, “God, Wrath, and Divine Violence”, “God and the Pentateuch”, “God and the Prophets”, and “God and the Church’s Book”. Here readers can find a compelling answer to the question that has motivated. . . (more)

Divine Doppelgängers

YHWH’s Ancient Look-Alikes

Edited by Collin Cornell

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Sooner or later, whether in a religion class or a seminary course, students bump up against the fact that God—the biblical God—was one among other, comparable gods. The ancient world was full of gods, including great gods of conquering empires, dynastic gods of petty kingdoms, goddesses of fertility, and personal spirit guardians. And in various ways, these gods look like the biblical God. Like the God of the Bible, they, too, controlled the fates of nations, chose kings, bestowed fecundity and blessing, and cared for their individual. . . (more)

Textbook of Aramaic Ostraca from Idumea, volume 4

By Bezalel Porten and Ada Yardeni

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Since the early 1990s, about two thousand Idumean Aramaic ostraca have found their way onto the antiquities market and are now scattered across a number of museums, libraries, and private collections. This multivolume textbook classifies these ostraca according to subject matter and brings them together into a single publication. With this fourth installment, Bezalel Porten and Ada Yardeni continue their comprehensive edition of Aramaic ostraca from Idumea. . . (more)

The 2004 Season at Tall al ʿUmayri and Subsequent Studies

Edited by Larry G. Herr, Douglas R. Clark, and Lawrence T. Geraty

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Modeled after previous seasonal reports, this ninth volume of the Madaba Plains Project’s excavations at Tall al-ʿUmayri, Jordan gives a detailed accounting of the artifactual finds from the 2004 season of the excavations, accompanied by hundreds of photos and supplemented with related research. The active fields in 2004 included Field A, the western citadel with Early Iron Age domestic structures; Field B, the. . . (more)

Numayra

Excavations at the Early Bronze Age Townsite in Jordan, 1977–1983

Edited by Meredith S. Chesson, R. Thomas Schaub, and Walter E. Rast

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The emergence of ancient urbanism has long held the interest of archaeologists attempting to understand the origins of inequality and its links to early urban life. This volume presents the results of archeological research at the Early Bronze Age sites of Numayra and Ras an-Numayra, conducted to investigate the rise of Early Bronze Age urban society, with a distinctive focus on links between environmental and social. . . (more)

Bearing YHWH’s Name at Sinai

A Reexamination of the Name Command of the Decalogue

Carmen Joy Imes

“Over the course of five carefully argued chapters, Imes lays out an eminently plausible and, ultimately, quite sensible reading of the NC [Name Command]. . . . this book is a testimony to the continued value of traditional close-reading strategies and to their renewal through appeal to more recent, cognitively-informed approaches to literary figures.”—Jeremy M. Hutton, University of Wisconsin–Madison in Journal of Semitic Studies (2020)

“Lengthen Your Tent-Cords”

The Metaphorical World of Israel's Household in the Book of Isaiah

Brittany Kim

“This study contains well-written and scholarly honest exegetical discussions that might be of help for any scholar interested in these metaphors in the book of Isaiah. The use of recent publications in the detailed textual investigations is impressive. Several times this study opens up new vistas. A good example is the discussion of Isa 62,4–5 with the complicated mixed metaphors of Zion as wife of YHWH as well as of her sons in light of the conceptual blending theory (129–131). This book is a must for all those working on biblical metaphors or on the exegesis of the book of Isaiah.”—Marjo C. A. Korpel, Protestant Theological University, in Biblica 100 (2019): 618–20