Reflection And Refraction: Studies in Biblical Historiography in Honour of A. Graeme Auld (Supplements to Vetus Testamentum)

CONTENTS......Page 8
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT......Page 12
A TRIBUTE TO A. GRAEME AULD......Page 14
PUBLICATIONS OF A. GRAEME AULD......Page 18
ABBREVIATIONS......Page 28
A PROPHET IN KING’S CLOTHES: KINGLY AND DIVINE RE-PRESENTATION IN 2 KINGS 4 AND 51 --- W. Brian Aucker......Page 34
HISTORIOGRAPHY AND THEODICY IN THE OLD TESTAMENT John Barton......Page 60
THE BOOKS OF CHRONICLES AND THE SCROLLS FROM QUMRAN --- George J. Brooke......Page 68
A ROYAL PRIVILEGE: DINING IN THE PRESENCE OF THE GREAT KING (2 KINGS 25.27–30) --- Ronald E. Clements......Page 82
TRANSLATING PSALM 23 --- David J. A. Clines......Page 100
THE JUST KING: FACT OR FANCY? SOME UGARITIC REFLECTIONS --- Adrian H. W. Curtis......Page 114
THE TROUBLE WITH BENJAMIN --- Philip R. Davies......Page 126
GIBEON AND THE GIBEONITES IN THE OLD TESTAMENT --- John Day......Page 146
READING NUMBERS AFTER SAMUEL --- Mary Douglas......Page 172
MIGHTY OAKS FROM (GENETICALLY MANIPULATED?) ACORNS GROW: THE CHRONICLE OF THE KINGS OF JUDAH AS A SOURCE OF THE DEUTERONOMISTIC HISTORY --- Lester L. Grabbe......Page 188
THE 'ORIGINAL TEXT' OF SEFER YEŞIRA OR THE 'EARLIEST RECOVERABLE TEXT'? --- A. Peter Hayman......Page 208
‘THE RIGHTEOUS GENERATION’ THE USE OF DÔR IN PSALMS 14 AND 24 --- Alastair G. Hunter......Page 220
EXODUS 20.24B: LINCHPIN OF PENTATEUCHAL CRITICISM OR JUST A FURTHER LINK BETWEEN THE DECALOGUE AND THE BOOK OF THE COVENANT? --- William Johnstone......Page 240
CUTHEANS OR CHILDREN OF JACOB? THE ISSUE OF SAMARITAN ORIGINS IN 2 KINGS 17 --- Gary N. Knoppers......Page 256
OBEISANCE IN THE BIBLICAL STORIES OF DAVID --- Lydie Kucová......Page 274
THE BOOK OF RUTH AND ITS LITERARY VOICE --- Timothy H. Lim......Page 294
BUGS THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS: THE INFESTATION OF MEANING IN JOEL --- James R. Linville......Page 316
THE TROUBLE WITH KING JEHOSHAPHAT --- Steven L. McKenzie......Page 332
THE DEUTERONOMIC HISTORY AND THE BOOKS OF CHRONICLES: CONTEMPORARY COMPETING HISTORIOGRAPHIES --- Raymond F. Person, Jr.......Page 348
SWALLOWED BY A SONG: JONAH AND THE JONAH-PSALM THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS --- Hugh S. Pyper......Page 370
STORIES OF FORGIVENESS: NARRATIVE ETHICS AND THE OLD TESTAMENT --- David J. Reimer......Page 392
‘LATE’ COMMON NOUNS IN THE BOOK OF CHRONICLES --- Robert Rezetko......Page 412
ISRAEL’S SOJOURN IN THE WILDERNESS AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE BOOK OF NUMBERS --- Thomas Christian Römer......Page 452
THE NOTION OF JERUSALEM AS A HOLY CITY --- Margreet L. Steiner......Page 480
BILITERAL EXEGESIS OF HEBREW ROOTS IN THE SEPTUAGINT? --- Emanuel Tov......Page 492
KINGS (MT/LXX) AND CHRONICLES: THE DOUBLE AND TRIPLE TEXTUAL TRADITION --- Julio Trebolle......Page 516
THE ‘SHARED TEXT’ OF SAMUEL–KINGS AND CHRONICLES RE-EXAMINED --- John Van Seters......Page 536
ONCE UPON A TIME . . .? --- H. G. M. Williamson......Page 550
GIDEON: A NEW MOSES? --- Gregory T. K. Wong......Page 562
THE SEVENTY SONS OF ATHIRAT, THE NATIONS OF THE WORLD, DEUTERONOMY 32.6B, 8–9, AND THE MYTH OF DIVINE ELECTION --- N. Wyatt......Page 580
CONTRIBUTORS......Page 590
INDEX OF NAMES......Page 594