Inscribe It in a Book

Johannes Unsok Ro (Herausgegeben von) Born 1971; 1998 MA in Theological Studies; 2002 Dr. theol. in Old Testament; 2007 MDiv; Professor of Old Testament Studies and Director of the Comparative Culture of Graduate School at International Christian University, Japan.Benjamin D. Giffone (Herausgegeben von) Geboren 1984; 2009 MS in Biblischen Studien; 2012 MTh; 2014 Promotion, Altes Testament; wiss. Mitarbeiter an der Universiteit van Stellenbosch; Associate Professor für Biblische Studien an der LCC International University, Klaipėda, Litauen.

• Johannes Unsok Ro and Benjamin D. Giffone: IntroductionPart I: Comparative StudiesDaniel Bodi: A New Proposal for the Origin of the Term for 'Letter': Sumerian inim.gar, i5-gar-ra; Akkadian egirtu; Aramaic ʾiggĕrâ, ʾiggartâ, Hebrew ʾiggeret − William R. Stewart: The Death of the Prophet? A Comparative Study of Prophetic Signs in the Royal Archives of Mari, Syria (ARM 26/1.206) and the Hebrew Bible (Jeremiah 19:1-13) − JiSeong James Kwon: Scribal Intertexts in the Book of Job: Foreign Counterparts of Job − Sungwoo Park/Johannes Unsok Ro: Collective Identity through Scribalism: Interpreting Plato's Menexenus and the Book of ChroniclesPart II: Writing about Writing in the Hebrew BibleBenjamin Kilchör: "Then Moses Wrote This Torah” (Deut 31:9): The Relationship of Oral and Written Torah in Deuteronomy − Lisbeth S. Fried/Edward J. Mills III: Ezra the Scribe − Johanna Erzberger: Israel's Salvation and the Survival of Baruch the Scribe − Peter Altmann: Tracing Divine Law: Written Divine Law in ChroniclesPart III: Case StudiesJin H. Han: Did the Deuteronomist Detest Dreams? − Benjamin D. Giffone: Regathering Too Many Stones? Scribal Constraints, Community Memory, and the 'Problem' of Elijah's Sacrifice for Deuteronomism in Kings − Woo Min Lee: The "Remnant” in the Deuteronomistic Cultural Memory: A Case Study on 2 Kings 19:30-31 − Roger S. Nam: Nehemiah 5:1-13 as Innerbiblical Interpretation of Pentateuchal Slavery Laws − Kristin Weingart: Chronography in the Book of Kings: An Inquiry into an Israelite Manifestation of an Ancient Near Eastern Genre − Benjamin Ziemer: Radical Versus Conservative? How Scribes Conventionally Used Books While Writing Books