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Review of Hayes, Elizabeth R. and Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer (eds.), “I Lifted My Eyes and Saw”: Reading Dream and Vision Reports in the Hebrew Bible (Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies, 584; London/New York: Bloomsbury T & T Clark, 2014).
No full textReview of Calduch-Benages, Nuria (ed.), Wisdom For Life: Essays Offered to Honor Prof. Maurice Gilbert, SJ on the Occasion of His Eightieth Birthday (BZAW, 445; Berlin/Boston: de Gruyter, 2014).
No full textReview of Cheung, Simon Chi-chung, Wisdom Intoned: A Reappraisal of the Genre “Wisdom Psalms” (LHBOTS, 613; New York: Bloomsbury T. & T. Clark, 2015).
No full textReview of Cohen, Mordechai Z., and Adele Berlin (eds.), Interpreting Scriptures in Judaism, Christianity and Islam: Overlapping Inquiries (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016).
No full textFrom Dialogic Tension to Social Address: Reconsidering Mandolfo\u27s Proposed Didactic Voice in Lament Psalms
Full text linkIn God in the Dock, Carleen Mandolfo argues that the move from second person speech to God to third person description of the divine within “dialogic psalms” reflects the “interjection” of a secondary voice. While her focus on speech to a human audience is significant, the criteria she employs prove problematic. Rather than multiple voices, the psalms Mandolfo discusses are better understood as reflecting shifts in address between multiple audiences spoken by a single supplicant
Ritual Sequence and Narrative Constraints in Leviticus 9:1–10:3
Full text linkLev 9:1–10:3 contains two of the most memorable events in the priestly narrative: a public theophany at the tabernacle, and the deaths of Nadav and Avihu. It also contains a long sequence of sacrifices, the importance of which has often been overlooked. This article argues that the ritual acts described in Lev 9 follow established and identifiable patterns, and that only by understanding the ritual logic in this episode is it possible to understand the rhetorical aims of the narrative
Review of Beckman, Gary M., The babilili-Ritual from Hattusa (CTH 718) (Mesopotamian Civilizations, 19; Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 2014).
No full textReview of Lundbom, Jack R., Deuteronomy: A Commentary (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2013).
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