Table of Contents

Abbreviations ix
Preface xv
Selected Bibliography of Marvin A. Sweeney’s Writings xvii
Introduction 1

Pentateuch
Is Form Criticism Compatible with Diachronic Exegesis? 13
Rethinking Genesis 1–2 after Knierim and Sweeney
Serge Frolov
Exploring Narrative Forms and Trajectories 27
Form Criticism and the Noahic Covenant
Peter Benjamin Boeckel
Natural Law Recorded in Divine Revelation 41
A Critical and Theological Reflection on Genesis 9:1-7
Timothy D. Finlay
The Holiness Redaction of the Abrahamic Covenant 51
(Genesis 17)
Bill T. Arnold

Former Prophets
Miscellaneous Observations on the Samson Saga 63
with an Excursus on Bees in Greek and Roman
Buogonia Traditions
John T. Fitzgerald
The Sword of Solomon 73
The Subversive Underbelly of Solomon’s Judgment
of the Two Prostitutes
Craig Evan Anderson
Two Mothers and Two Sons 83
Reading 1 Kings 3:16–28 as a Parody on Solomon’s
Coup (1 Kings 1–2)
Hyun Chul Paul Kim

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Heavenly Porkies 101
Prophecy and Divine Deception in 1 Kings 13 and 22
Lester L. Grabbe
“What Have I Done to You?”—1 Kings 19:19–21 111
A Study in Prophetic Ethics
Jeremiah Unterman
Jezebel 123
A Phoenician Princess Gone Bad?
Tammi J. Schneider
King Lists as a Structuring Principle in the Book of Kings 133
John H. Hull, Jr.

Latter Prophets
A Form Critical Reappraisal of Isaiah 8:9–10 147
H. G. M. Williamson
Who Says What to Whom
Speakers, Hearers, and Overhearers in Second Isaiah 157
Patricia K. Tull
Too Many Hands? 169
Isaiah 65–66 and the Reading of the Book of Isaiah
Reinhard Kratz
And the Word Became Words 189
The Inscription of the Divine Word on Jeremiah
the Prophet in Jeremiah the Book
Else K. Holt
The Structure of MT Jeremiah, with Special Attention 201
to Chapters 21–45
Richard D. Weis
Literary Structure in Ezekiel 25 225
Addressee, Formulas, and Genres
Tyler D. Mayfield
Was Ezekiel a Messenger? A Manager? Or a Moving Sanctuary? 237
A Beckettian Reading of the Book of Ezekiel
in the Inquiry of the Divine Presence
Soo J. Kim
The Encounter between Hosea’s YHWH (Hosea 11) 251
and Taiwanese Matzu
A Cross-Religious Hermeneutics of the Two Divine Images
Hye Kyung Park

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The Psalm in Habakkuk 3 263
Steven S. Tuell
“Have We Not All One Father? Has Not One God 275
Created Us?”
Revisiting Malachi 2:10a
Ehud Ben Zvi

Miscellaneous
Pots, Pits, and Promises 297
Jeremiah as Allusion to Genesis
Shelley L. Birdsong
(Para)textual Composition on Both Sides of 311
the Canonical Divide
William Yarchin
Job 31:9–10 321
Erotic Euphemisms in the Bible and Ancient
Near Eastern and Rabbinic Literature
Shalom M. Paul
Miscategorizing Chosenness 327
Jon D. Levenson
From Deuteronomy to the Lost Gospel 345
An Intra-Jewish Controversy about Group
Annihilation
Dennis R. MacDonald
List of Contributors 355
Bibliography 359
Indices 409

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