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Review of Monroe, Lauren A., Josiah\u27s Reform and the Dynamics of Defilement: Israelite Rites of Violence and the Making of a Biblical Text (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011). Pp. xi + 203. Hardcover. US$74.99. ISBN 978-0-199-77416-6.
No full textReview of Ebeling, Jennie R., Women\u27s Lives in Biblical Times (London: T & T Clark, 2010). Pp. 192. Hardcover. £49.50 Paperback £17.99. ISBN 978-0-567-39830-7 (Hardcover) 978-567-19644-6 (Paperback).
No full textReview of Achenbach, Reinhard, Rainer Albertz, and Jakob Wöhrle, eds., The Foreigner and the Law: Perspectives from the Hebrew Bible and the Ancient Near East (BZABR, 16; Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2011). Pp. viii, 180. Hardcover. €54.00 ISBN 978-3-447-0647
No full textReview of Ben Zvi, Ehud and Diana V. Edelman (eds.), The Production of Prophecy: Constructing Prophecy and Prophets in Yehud (London/Oakville, CT: Equinox, 2009). Pp. 235. Paperback. US$39.95. ISBN 978-1-84553-500-1.
No full textReview of Anderson, Bradford A., Brotherhood and Inheritance: A Canonical Reading of the Esau and Edom Traditions (LHBOTS, 556; New York/London: T & T Clark, 2011). Pp. vii + 264. Hardcover. US$140.00. ISBN 978-0-567-03473-1.
No full textReview of Martínez Delgado, José (ed.), El viaje lingüístico de la Biblia (Granada: Editorial Universidad de Granada, 2011). Pp. 348. Softcover. €16.00. ISBN 978-84-338-5315-8.
No full textReview of Utzschneider, Helmut and Wolfgang Oswalt, Exodus 1–15 (Internationaler Exegetischer Kommentar zum Alten Testament; Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 2013). Pp. 372. Hardcover. €69.90. ISBN 978-3-17-022222-9.
No full textJerubaal, Jacob and the Battle for Shechem: A Tradition History
Get PDFThe Bible alludes to three different versions of the conquest/destruction of Shechem. The Jerubaal-Abimelech cycle, the conquest of Shechem by Jacob, and the Dinah story. The (later) Jacob story overtook the (earlier) Jerubaal story, a phenomenon I dub tradition cannibalism, as Jerubaal became identified with Gideon and shed his own story. When the idea of a conquering patriarch fell out of favor, the account reemerged as the Dinah story, with Simeon and Levi as the conquerors of Shechem
