The Bible and the Ancient Near East: Collected Essays

Front Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Part 1: Fundamental Issues
	Chapter 1: The Ancient Near Eastern Environment
	Chapter 2: The Bible and the Literature of the Ancient Near East
	Chapter 3: Myth versus History: Relaying the Comparative Foundations
	Chapter 4: Divine Freedom and Cultic Manipulation in Israel and Mesopotamia
	Chapter 5: Nebuchadnezzar I’s Elamite Crisis in Theological Perspective
Part 2: Themes and Motifs
	Chapter 6: The Hand of Yahweh
	Chapter 7: A New Parallel to 1 Kings 18:28–29
	Chapter 8: The King of Glory
	Chapter 9: Job and the Israelite Religious Tradition
	Chapter 10: Job’s Summons to Yahweh: The Exploitation of a Legal Metaphor
	Chapter 11: Does God Lie? Divine Deceit as a Theological Problem in Israelite Prophetic Literature
	Chapter 12: The Motif of the Weeping God in Jeremiah and Its Background in the Lament Tradition of the Ancient Near East
	Chapter 13: Whose Child Is This? Reflections on the Speaking Voice in Isaiah 9:5
	Chapter 14: The Mari Prophetic Texts in Transliteration and English Translation
Part 3: Solving Difficult Problems: New Readings of Old Texts
	Chapter 15: A New Root for an Old Crux, Psalm 22:17c
	Chapter 16: The Young Lions of Psalm 34:11
	Chapter 17: The Religio-political Setting of Psalm 47
	Chapter 18: Of Signs, Prophets, and Time Limits: A Note on Psalm 74:9
	Chapter 19: Blindfolding the Prophet
	Chapter 20: Yahweh’s Foundation in Zion (Isaiah 28:16)
Part 4: Kingship and Messiah
	Chapter 21: The Davidic Origin of the Zion Tradition
	Chapter 22: Zion in the Theology of the Davidic-Solomonic Empire
	Chapter 23: The Divine King and the Human Community in Isaiah’s Vision of the Future
	Chapter 24: In Defense of the Monarchy: The Contribution of Israelite Kingship to Biblical Theology
	Chapter 25: The Old Testament’s Contribution to Messianic Expectations
Part 5: Interpreting Prophecy
	Chapter 26: Historical-Critical Method, Theology, and Contemporary Exegesis
	Chapter 27: A Christian Perspective on Prophetic Prediction
Indexes