Journal of Hebrew Scriptures  

Jeremiah W. Cataldo

Haggai’s emphasis on the temple is driven more by a concern for a defensive preservation of social-political identity than it is for the institutional restoration of the cult. As a heuristic device, Melanie Klein's theory on projective identification help... see more

Robert Rezetko

This is a pilot attempt to combine literary-critical, text-critical, and historical linguistic approaches in an analysis of selected linguistic variants between the MT and DSS with an application to the book of Judges. The result of this interdisciplinary... see more

Hannah K. Harrington

In light of the current disparity of views regarding the dating of Leviticus and Ezra-Nehemiah, this study revisits similar traditions found in these books in order to gain a sense of logical progression. The author calls attention to elements from Leviti... see more

Alexander Andrason

This article approaches the problem of the precative qatal in Biblical Hebrew from a cognitive and typological perspective. In keeping with the cognitive understanding of “meaning,” the article (re-)construes a plausible chaining procedure that relates th... see more

Rivka Nir

This article argues for the Christian provenance of chapters 22–29 of Joseph and Aseneth. In particular, the article interprets these chapters as promoting the adoption of Christian ethics toward enemies as a means for obtaining salvation in the Church, w... see more

James W. Watts

Priests claiming descent from Aaron controlled the high priesthood of temples in Jerusalem and on Mount Gerizim in the Second Temple period. These Aaronides were in a position to influence religious developments in this period, especially the scripturaliz... see more

Craig W. Tyson

Scholars have long pointed to Josephus, Ant. 10.180–182 as evidence that Nebuchadnezzar campaigned in the Levant in his twenty-third year (582 B.C.E.), but have not determined the viability of this passage as a historical source. Extant Greek so... see more

Tina Dykesteen Nilsen

Isaiah 40?48 emphasizes that Yahweh is a unique creator-god. Did the author(s) arrive at this idea by adopting, adapting or refuting other texts and traditions, and, if so, which? This article offers fresh arguments and re-examines the potential relations... see more

Hervé Gonzalez

Despite its significance, the question of why the book of Zechariah was expanded with chs. 9–14 has largely been overlooked. By combining literary and sociohistorical insights, this article demonstrates that Zech 9–14 was composed as the continuation of Z... see more

Yuval Gadot, Yuval Goren, Oded Lipschits

A bulla fragment was found in the excavations of Tel Aviv University at the City of David/Silwan. It is made out of local terra rossa soil, and the reading is: ?? // ---?? --- The names ????? and ????? are the best candidates... see more

Thomas Renz

The first half of Hab 2:4 has long been a crux; numerous emendations have been proposed over the years. This essay returns to an earlier proposal that the letter sequence ???? is the result of a metathesis and argues that ??? refers ba... see more

Zev Farber

The Bible alludes to three different versions of the conquest/destruction of Shechem. The Jerubaal-Abimelech cycle, the conquest of Shechem by Jacob, and the Dinah story. The (later) Jacob story overtook the (earlier) Jerubaal story, a phenomenon I dub tr... see more

Amos Frisch

This article examines one component of the exegetical method of Malbim (1809–1879), an Orthodox rabbi of a strongly conventional bent, and questions the scholarly assumption that he invariably defends outstanding biblical figures. After surveying the acce... see more

Joshua Berman

The parable of the poor man's ewe (2 Sam 12:1–4) is best interpreted along two separate axes as a commentary upon the David and Bathsheba narrative in 2 Samuel 11. In one, the parable is an allegory for the sin of adultery with Bathsheba. In the other, th... see more

Andrés Piquer Otero

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Safwat Marzouk

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Scott C Jones

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Amy Erickson

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Cynthia Shafer-Elliott

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Jakob Wöhrle

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Mark A Christian

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Martin A Shields

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Stephen C Russell

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Robert C Kashow

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Robert Rezetko

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Enrique Sanz Giménez-Rico

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Kyung S Baek

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Guadalupe Seijas de los Ríos Zarzosa

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Thomas B Dozeman

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Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer

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Bill T Arnold

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Garrick Allen

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Steven J Schweitzer

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James Nogalski

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Paul S Evans

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Stephen J Bennett, Charles Awasua

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Ian Douglas Wilson

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Joshua E Stewart

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Anthony Meyer

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Joel Barker

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Mari Jørstad

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AJ Culp

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Peter Altmann

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Dustin J. Boreland

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Kevin Chau

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Rodney Werline

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Diana Lipton

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Martin Leuenberger

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Francis M. Macatangay

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