Journal of Hebrew Scriptures  

Philippe Guillaume

There are substantially fewer mss. of “The Twelve” in Qumran than usually assumed. Moreover, none of the mss. transmitting the complete collection of the XII is earlier than the first century BCE. The ... see more

Philippe Guillaume

Many studies on the formation of the collection of the Twelve Minor Prophets take for granted that the 4QXIIa manuscript provides evidence that the Book of Jonah stood at the end of a scroll of the Twelve and ... see more

Ehud Ben Zvi, Ehud Ben Zvi, Philip R. Davies, James Kugel, Hindy Najmann, John Barton

This conversation with John Barton, Oracles of God: Perceptions of Prophecy in Israel after the Exile (London: Darton, Longman and Todd, 1986) began in a special session of the research program "Israel and the ... see more

Keith Bodner

The troublesome reign of Ishbosheth comes to a graphic conclusion when he is assassinated – audaciously, at midday while reclining on a couch in his own house – by two of his own captains, the brothers Rechab and ... see more

Gary N. Knoppers, Gary N. Knoppers, Deirdre N. Fulton, David M. Carr, Ralph W. Klein, Jacob L. Wright

This conversation with Jacob L. Wright, Rebuilding Identity: The Nehemiah Memoir and its Earliest Readers (BZAW, 348; Berlin: de Gruyter, 2004) began in a special session of the Chronicles-Ezra-Nehemiah ... see more

Elie Assis

The present analysis of Haggai 1:4-11 points at a sophisticated structure that differs at some points from those widely accepted. In addition, while some scholars explain the complexity of the passage as a ... see more

Mark Leuchter, Jacob L. Wright, Jeffrey C. Geoghegan, Lauren A. S. Monroe

The conversation represented here originated in a special session at the 2006 Annual Meeting of the Association for Jewish Studies that dealt with the issue of the shifting role of scribes leading up to and following ... see more

John Van Seters

In two recent articles and in his book, The Edited Bible, Van Seters challenged the existence of a redactor in antiquity and the subsequent development of redaction criticism as a viable method in biblical ... see more

Aron Pinker

Significant evidence suggests that biblical ????? was originally the homophone ????? “Powerful God,” whose abode on earth was in the desert. The ritual described in Lev 16:5-26 was to the same God, potentially ... see more

Gary N. Knoppers, Deirdre N. Fulton, David Janzen, Ralph W. Klein, Melody D. Knowles

This conversation with Melody D. Knowles, Centrality Practiced: Jerusalem in the Religious Practices of Yehud and the Diaspora in the Persian Period (Atlanta, SBL, 2006) began in a special session of the ... see more

Roland Boer

This essay seeks the underlying worldview of the Song of Songs. It does so in three steps. Firstly, over against the widespread assumption that the metaphors of the Song of Songs refer to human erotic love, ... see more

Mark Sneed

Though Woman Wisdom has often been viewed as a positive figure for feminism, I will show that the picture is much grimmer. The article has two parts. First, I will demonstrate that the personification of wisdom ... see more

Scott B. Noegel

This study offers a comprehensive treatment of the subject of “word play” in the book of Qoheleth. After discussing the problematic nature of the term “word play,” and explaining my preference for the word “punning,” ... see more

Lisbeth S. Fried

According to TB Yoma 21b, the urim and the thummim and the spirit of prophecy were among the things missing from the Second Temple. According to Ezra 2:61-63 (Neh.7:63-65), they were missing from the time of the ... see more

David Vanderhooft, Rainer Albertz, Tamara Cohn Eskenazi, Gary N. Knoppers, Daniel M. Master, H. G. M. Williamson, Oded Lipschits

This conversation with O. Lipschits, The Fall and Rise of Jerusalem (Winona Lake, Ind.: Eisenbrauns, 2005) began at a session of the “Literature and History of the Persian Period” group at the 2005 Annual Meeting ... see more

David Henige

In this paper I look at the famous story of the finding of the “book of the law” in the temple during the reign of Josiah. Adopting a pragmatic/plausible approach and keeping in mind the biblical testimony about ... see more

Scott Noegel

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Michael Carasik

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Steven L. McKenzie

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Scott Noegel

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Iain Provan

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Bruce Power

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Adam L. Porter

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Mark W. Hamilton

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Kathleen M. O’Connor

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Wesley Hu

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Heather Macumber

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Dale Patrick

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Keith Bodner

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Patricia Dutcher-Walls

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Christine Mitchell

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Ken Ristau

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T. R. Hobbs

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Mark Boda

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James Linville

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Athalya Brenner

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Dale Launderville

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Bernon P. Lee

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Daniel Miller

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Ken Ristau

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Bernon Lee

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Scott Noegel

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Lissa M. Wray Beal

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Juan Manuel Tebes

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William H. Irwin

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