Relating to the Text: Interdisciplinary and Form-Critical Insights on the Bible (JSOT Supplement)

409 Pages·2004·20.68 MB·English

by  Carleen Mandolfo, (in Honor of) Martin J. Buss

JOURNAL FOR THE STUDY OF THE OLD TESTAMENT
SUPPLEMENT SERIES
384
Editors
David J.A. Clines
Philip R. Davies
Executive Editor
Andrew Mein
Editorial Board
Richard J. Coggins, Alan Cooper, J. Cheryl Exurn,
John Goldingay, Robert P. Gordon, Norman K. Gottwald,
John Jarick, Andrew D.H. Mayes, Carol Meyers,
Patrick D. Miller
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Relating to the Text
Interdisciplinary and Form-
Critical Insights on the Bible
edited by
Timothy J. Sandoval
Carleen Mandolf o
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CONTENTS
Abreviations ix
Acknowledgments xi
List of Contributors xiii
CARLEEN MANDOLFO AND TIMOTHY J. SANDOVAL
Introduction 1
Parti
ON Buss
JOHN H. HAYES
Martin Buss—The Man and his Work
(Including a Complete Bibliography) 12
Part II
ON FORM
ARMIN SIEDLECKI
The Literature of Ancient Israel by Hermann Gunkel 26
ERHARD S. GERSTENBERGER
Social Sciences and Form-Criticism:
Towards the Generative Force of Life-Setings 84
FRANK H. GORMAN, JR
Commenting on Commentary: Reflections on a Genre 100
MARVIN A. SWEENEY
Metaphor and Rhetorical Strategy in Zephaniah 120
YEHOSHUA GIT AY
Isaiah and Micah: Two Modes of Prophetic Presentation 131
vi Relating to the Text
BARBARA GREEN
The Engaging Nuances of Genre:
Reading Saul and Michal Afresh 141
CAROL A. NEWSOM
Elihu's Sapiential Hymn (Job 36.24-37.13):
Genre, Rhetoric and Moral Imagination 160
Part III
INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACHES AND INSIGHTS
NICKIE M. STIPE
Re-Encounter with the Text:
Or the Importance of 'Relational' Wrestling 176
SARAH J. MELCHER
Lacan, the Phallus and the Construal of
Intergenerational Kinship in Genesis-Numbers 191
DAVID JOBLING
A Deconstructive Reading of Hosea 1-3 206
DAVID BLUMENTHAL
The Shulamite Is Not the Woman of Valor 216
SARAH J. DILLE
Honor Restored: Honor, Shame and God
as Redeeming Kinsman in Second Isaiah 232
DORA RUDO MBUWAYESANGO
Can Daughters Be Sons? The Daughters of Zelophehad
in Patriarchal and Imperial Society 251
JEFFREY K. KUAN
Reading Amy Tan Reading Job 263
TIMOTHY K. BEAL AND TOD LINAFELT
Beowulf'?, Bible: The Monsters and the Biblical Critics 275
Contents vi
NORMAN C. HABEL
The Origins and Challenges of an Ecojustice Hermeneutic 290
J. MAXWELL MILLER
Ur of the Chaldeans and Interdisciplinary Research 307
EHUD BEN Zvi
Analogical Thinking and Ancient Israelite Intellectual
History: The Case for an 'Entropy Model' in the Study
of Israelite Thought 321
BURKE O. LONG
American 'Orientals' and their Theatrical Bibles 333
Bibliography 349
Index of References 378
Index of Authors 38
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ABBREVIATIONS
AB Anchor Bible
ABD David Noel Freedman (ed.), The Anchor Bible Dictionary
(New York: Doubleday, 1992)
AnBib Analecta biblica
BARev Biblical Archaeology Review
BASOR Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research
BBET Beitrage zur biblischen Exegese und Theologie
Bib Biblica
Biblnt Biblical Interpretation: A Journal of Contemporary
Approaches
BJS Brown Judaic Studies
BSac Bibliotheca Sacra
BZAW BeiheftezurZ4>F
CBC Cambridge Bible Commentary
CBQ Catholic Biblical Quarterly
CRBS Currents in Research: Biblical Studies
DJD Discoveries in the Judaean Desert
ET English translation
FOIL The Forms of the Old Testament Literature
GCT Gender, Culture, Theory
GKC Gesenius' Hebrew Grammar (ed. E. Kautzsch, revised and
trans. A.E. Cowley; Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1910)
BAR Hebrew Annual Review
HBS Herders Biblische Studien
HOT Historical Commentary on the Old Testament
HR History of Religions
HUT Hermeneutische Untersuchungen zur Theologie
IDS George Arthur Buttrick (ed.), The Interpreter's Dictionary of
the Bible (4 vols.; Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1962)
IDBSup IDE, Supplementary Volume
Int Interpretation
ITC International Theological Commentary
JAAR Journal of the American Academy of Religion
JANES Journal of the Ancient Near Eastern Society
JANESCU Journal of the Ancient Near Eastern Society of Columbia
University