De-doxifying Miriam / Alice Bach -- Goddess worship-ancient and modern / Gary Beckman -- Numinous Nomos: on the relationship between narrative and law / Adele Berlin -- A "literary sermon" in Deuteronomy 4 / Marc Z. Brettler -- Models of Utopia in the biblical tradition / John J. Collins -- The confessions of Jeremiah and traditional discourse / Robert C. Culley -- Desire distorted and exhibited: Lot and his daughters in psychoanalysis, painting, and film / J. Cheryl Exum -- The gift: world alteration and obligation in 2 Kings 4:8-37 / Danna Nolan Fewell -- Contextual theologies in the Old Testament? / Erhard S. Gerstenberger -- The role of the reader in Ugaritic narrative / Edward L. Greenstein -- Entertainment, ideology, and the reception of "history": "David's Jerusalem" as a question of space / David M. Gunn -- Village law and the book of the covenant / Douglas A. Knight -- The biblical prohibition of the mourning rites of shaving and laceration: several proposals / Saul M. Olyan -- Clan sagas as a source in settlement traditions / Alexander Rofe -- "The mother of all . . ." etiologies / Jack M. Sasson -- Albright and his "household": the cases of C.H. Gordon, M.H. Pope and F.M. Cross / Mark S. Smith -- Metaphor and myth: Percy, Ricoeur, and Frye / Hugh C. White -- "The history of Saul's rise": Saulide state propaganda in 1 Samuel 1-14 / Marsha White -- Unity and diversity in the Book of Kings / Robert R. Wilson -- Poetry creates historiography / Yair Zakovitch. |