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Review of Fleming, Daniel E., The Legacy of Israel in Judah\u27s Bible: History, Politics, and the Reinscribing of Tradition (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012).
Review of Petter, Thomas D., The Land between the Two Rivers: Early Israelite Identities in Central Transjordan (Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2014).
Review of Dell, Katherine J., Interpreting Ecclesiastes: Readers Old and New (Critical Studies in the Hebrew Bible, 3; Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2013).
Review of Gurtner, Daniel M., Exodus: A Commentary on the Greek Text of Codex Vaticanus (Septuagint Commentary Series; Leiden/Boston, Brill, 2013).
Prophetic Imagination in the Light of Narratology and Disability Studies in Isaiah 40-48
The study argues that to persuade Judeans in Babylon that Yahweh, not Marduk, authored Cyrus\u27 victories, and they should move to Judea, the author of Isa 40-48 countered an historiographically advanced ideology that divine embodiment in royally sponsored temples proves divine will, power, and presence. The author rejects any such historiography as based in human faculties; develops a complex notion of divine irreducibility and prophetic ability; and presents it in a text to match