7 articles in this issue
Daniel Pioske
This study examines debates surrounding what evidence, textual or archaeological, deserves priority within matters of historical interpretation as they pertain to the history of ancient Israel. Rather than resolving this debate, however, this investigatio... see more
Sophie Ramond
Psalm 34 contains a call to promote peace in a context where peace is threatened by damaging speech. This paper seeks to define the social setting that could explain such a call. Its thesis is that the psalm is addressed to Jews who are beleaguered by oth... see more
Naama Golan
This article presents a new structural analysis of the Daniel narratives in Chapters 1–6. This structure is based on a new reading of the Daniel narratives from a perspective that emphasizes the tension between earthly and divine rule. Rather than focusin... see more
Shawna Dolansky, Sarah Shectman, Susan Ackerman, Alison L. Joseph, Mark Leuchter, Megan Warner
The essays in this collection each expand the possibilities of biblical historical-critical scholarship with a focus on textual representations of gendered systems and their implications for understanding the social, political, cultural, and religious con... see more
Alice Mandell, Jeremy Smoak
This study discusses how a material religions approach might be applied to the study of Israelite religions. After providing a discussion of recent theory on space and the body in the study of religion, we give several suggestions for how these ideas can ... see more
Marshall A. Cunningham
This paper offers a new interpretation of Isa 40:1–2 that takes into account the greater rhetorical project of Isa 40–48 as well as evidence of Judean diaspora life from A¯l–Ya¯h?u¯du. Rather than a charge to the divine council, the call to comfort Jerusa... see more
Alice Ogden Bellis, Marta Høyland Lavik, Song-Mi Suzie Park, Christopher B. Hays, Jeremy Pope, Aidan Dodson, Lester L. Grabbe, Alan B. Lloyd, K. Lawson Younger, Henry T. Aubin
This volume focuses on Henry Aubin's thesis in The Rescue of Jerusalem: The Alliance between Hebrews and Africans in 701 BC (2002) that an army of Egypt's Kushite Dynasty (also known as the Twenty-fifth Dynasty) was influential in saving Jerusal... see more