Journal of Hebrew Scriptures  

Mark Leuchter, Mark J. Boda, John Kessler, Marvin A. Sweeney, Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer, Andrew Mein, Dalit Rom-Shiloni

This collection of essays are based on a special review session at the 2014 SBL Annual Meeting addressing Dalit Rom Shiloni's monograph Exclusive Inclusivity: Identity Conflicts between the Exiles and the People who Remained (6th–5th Centuries BCE)&n... see more

James W. Watts

The prose of the Pentateuch never describes God as a king. This omission requires explanation, because the Pentateuch shows God performing many royal functions and other parts of the Hebrew Bible readily call YHWH “king.” Rhetorical theory provides a like... see more

Mariano Gomez Aranda

This article is a comprehensive, and comparative analysis of the most relevant medieval Jewish exegetes who wrote commentaries on or explanations of Psalm 2: Saadiah Gaon, Yefet ben Eli, Salmon ben Yeruham, Rashi, Josef Bechor Shor, Abraham ibn Ezra, Davi... see more

Robin B. Ten Hoopen

In this article, the Enoch passage in Genesis 5:21–24 is examined both within the immediate context of Gen 5 as well as within its ancient Near Eastern context. Taking both synchronic and diachronic aspects into account, it is argued, in contrast to many ... see more

Paul Byun

The book of Nehemiah has often been understood to have an immense focus on the wall. A closer look at the narrative, however, shows that the focus on the wall is exclusively found in the Nehemiah Memoir and not in the third-person narrations. From a narra... see more

Steven Schweitzer, Thomas B. Dozeman, Sean Burt, Melody D. Knowles, Thomas Römer, Richard J. Bautch, Gary N. Knoppers

The recent publication, Covenant in the Persian Period: From Genesis to Chronicles, edited by Richard J. Bautch and Gary N. Knoppers (Eisenbrauns, 2015), contains 22 essays on the topic of covenant within various Hebrew Bible texts. The six articles publi... see more

Jaeyoung Jeon

This paper examines how the Chronicler treats the Pentateuchal tradition of the priestly Tent of Meeting. The Chronicler consistently mentions the Tent of Meeting, but its cultic significance is reduced and put in an inverse relationship to the Davidic cu... see more

Philip Y. Yoo

In Joshua 22, after the Transjordanian tribes fulfill their obligations they construct an altar by the River Jordan. In response, the Cisjordanian tribes assemble to wage war, yet a civil war is averted when they learn that this altar serves no sacrificia... see more

Michael H. Floyd

In contrast with conventional etymological explanations of massa’ as a prophetic term, Richard Weis has proposed that this word refers to a genre whose definitive characteristic is the reinterpretation of an already promulgated prophecy. This article coun... see more

Ehud Ben Zvi, Sylvie Honigman

This article explores the workings of a set of memory-shaping patterns that were influential in the construction of Nehemiah as an evolving site of memory during the late Second Temple period. Its main focus is on the three Nehemiahs of memory evoked in a... see more

Paul Williamson

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John A. Cook

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Juha Pakkala

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Risto Nurmela

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Sara Wells

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Peter Altmann

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Melvin Sensenig

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Benjamin D. Giffone

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Mark W. Hamilton

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Shawn Flynn

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Josiah S. Bisbee

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Haley Kirkpatrick

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C. L. Crouch

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Megan C. Roberts

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Joel Barker

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Rebekah Welton

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Carol Kaminski

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Albert McClure

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J. Andrew Dearman

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Suk-il Ahn

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David M. Dalwood, Beth M. Stovell

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Carmen Joy Imes

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Michael Gabizon

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Sarah Berns

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Lisbeth S. Fried

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Al Wolters

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