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Review of de Hulster, Izaak J. and Joel M. LeMon (eds.), Image, Text, Exegesis: Iconographic Interpretation and the Hebrew Bible (LHBOTS, 588; London: Bloomsbury, 2016).
No full textReview of Timmer, Daniel, The Non-Israelite Nations in the Book of the Twelve: Thematic Coherence and the Diachronic-Synchronic Relationship in the Minor Prophets (Biblical Interpretation Series, 135; Leiden: Brill, 2015).
No full textReview of Chapman, Stephen B., 1 Samuel as Christian Scripture: A Theological Commentary (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2016).
No full textReview of Lipschits, Oded, and Aren M. Maeir (eds.),The Shephelah in the Iron Age (Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2017).
No full textReview of Edenburg, Cynthia, Dismembering the Whole: Composition and Purpose of Judges 19–21 (Ancient Israel and Its Literature, 24; Atlanta: SBL, 2016).
No full textReview of Sneed, Mark R. (ed.), Was There a Wisdom Tradition: New Perspectives in Israelite Wisdom Studies (SBLAIL; Atlanta, GA: SBL Press, 2015).
No full textReview of Broida, Marian W., Forestalling Doom: “Apotropaic Intercession” in the Hebrew Bible and the Ancient Near East (AOAT, 417; Münster: Ugarit Verlag, 2014).
No full textReview of Eggleston, Chad L., “See and Read All These Words”: The Concept of the Written in the Book of Jeremiah (Siphrut: Literature and Theology of the Hebrew Scriptures, 18; Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2016).
No full textReview of Niditch, Susan, The Responsive Self: Personal Religion in Biblical Literature of the Neo-Babylonian and Persian Periods (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2015).
No full textFrom Temple to Text: Text as Ritual Space and the Composition of Numbers 6:24–26
Full text linkPast studies emphasize the difficulties in understanding the logic behind the placement of the priestly blessing within the description of tabernacle rituals of Numbers 5:1–10:10. The present article sheds new light on this problem by comparing the blessing in Numbers 6:24–26 to several blessings preserved in Iron Age dedicatory inscriptions. It argues that the locations of such dedications in temple spaces provide new insights into the literary location of the priestly blessing in the book of Numbers