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Review of Giffone, Benjamin D., ‘Sit At My Right Hand’: The Chronicler\u27s Portrait of the Tribe of Benjamin in the Social Context of Yehud (LHBOTS, 628; New York: Bloomsbury, 2016).
No full textThe Body of Nineveh: The Conceptual Image of the City in Nahum 2–3
Get PDFResearch on cities in the Hebrew Bible shows that urban spaces are often personified. This article argues that in the case of Nahum\u27s Nineveh this personification is part of a conceptual metaphor, in which the city is depicted as a body. The same metaphor underlies other comparative devices in the text, which similarly share a corporeal focus. Together, these devices tell the story of a weakening city body, in a way that is both cognitively accessible as well as narratologically and communicatively efficient
Review of Snearly, Michael K., The Return of the King: Messianic Expectation in Book V of the Psalter (LHBOTS, 624; New York: Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2016).
No full textReview of Bodner, Keith, After the Invasion: A Reading of Jeremiah 40–44 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015).
No full textReview of Dietrich, Walter, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah (International Exegetical Commentary on the Old Testament; trans. Peter Altmann; Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 2016).
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Review of Wu, Daniel Y., Honor, Shame, and Guilt: Social-Scientific Approaches to the Book of Ezekiel (BBRS, 14; Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2016).
No full textReview of McGuinn, Sheila E., Lai Ling Elizabeth Ngan, and Ahida Calderón Pilarski (eds.), By Bread Alone: The Bible through the Eyes of the Hungry (Minneapolis: Fortress, 2014).
No full textReview of Crouch, C. L., An Introduction to the Study of Jeremiah (London/New York: Bloomsbury T & T Clark, 2017).
No full textThe Radical Nature of “Return” in Zechariah
Get PDFScholarship has tended to emphasize a positivistic view of Zechariah—namely, that the text, constructivist in nature, reflects what the prophet viewed as the eventual outcome of his community. In contrast, using Melanie Klein\u27s theory on the “death instinct,” this article is an experimental reading of Zech 1–8 meant to expose questions about Zechariah as a paranoid text produced under fears of social irrelevance, or “death.” The article therefore argues that the concept of return must be reinterpreted accordingly