Keith Bodner is Professor of Religious Studies at Crandall University in New Brunswick,Canada. He holds PhD degrees in biblical studies (University of Aberdeen) and English Literature (University of Manchester). He serves on the editorial board of the Journal for the Study of the Old Testament, and is a former section chair (Bakhtin and the Biblical Imagination) for the Society of Biblical Literature. His 2008 book 1 Samuel: A Narrative Commentary was awarded the R. B. Y. Scott Award from the Canadian Society of Biblical Studies, and his most recent book is Jeroboam's Royal Drama (2012).

• IntroductionPart One: Textual Problems and Literary Analysis1.Crime Scene Investigation: A Text-Critical Mystery and the Strange Death of Ishbosheth2.The Locutions of 1 Kings 22:28: A New Proposal3.The "Embarrassing Syntax" of Psalm 47:10: A (Pro)vocative OptionPart Two: Readers of the Lost Ark4. Ark-eology: Shifting Emphases in "Ark Narrative" Scholarship5. Mouse Trap: A Text-Critical Problem with Rodents in the Ark NarrativePart Three: Further Soundings6. A Bad News Bearer: The Dramatic Fulfillment of a Prophetic Word about the Dissolution of a Priestly Line/7. Highway to Sheol: Seductive Speech and Promiscuous Places in Proverbs 7Part Four: The World of Chronicles8.The Royal Skull in a Temple of Doom: An Interpretation of 1 Chronicles 10:109.Abijah's Elevated Rhetoric and the Civil War of 2 Chronicles 1310. Capital Punishment: The Configuration of Ahaziah's Last Hours in 2 Chronicles 22Conclusion

This volume contains a number of innovative and exciting readings of biblical texts, and would contain much to interest any student, pastor, or scholar.