Poets, Prophets, and Texts in Play

Ehud Ben Zvi is a professor in History and Classics at the University of Alberta, Canada. Claudia V. Camp is the John F. Weatherly Professor of Religion at Texas Christian University, USA.David M. Gunn is Distinguished Research Professor at Brite Divinity School, USA.Aaron W. Hughes holds the Philip S. Bernstein Chair of Jewish Studies in the Department of Religion and Classics at the University of Rochester, USA.

• Preface - Ehud Ben Zvi and Aaron W. HughesIntroduction - David M. Gunn and Claudia V. CampPart 1: Poets and Poetry1.Nostalgia, the Love of the Land, the Impossibility of Speaking/Writing and the Making of Poetry J. Cheryl Exum, University of Sheffield, UK2.Poetry amid RuinsPeter Sabo, University of Alberta, Canada3.The Poet's Silence: Language and non-Language in RosenzweigAaron W.Hughes, University of Rochester, USA4.'A Bird on the Roof':Trauma, Gender and Affect in Psalm 102Fiona Black, Mount Allison University, Canada5.'Look, O Daughters of Jerusalem': The Gaze in the Song of SongsLauren Chomyn, University of Alberta, Canada6.On Femininity, Dressing, and UndressingDaphna Arbel, University of British Columbia, Canada7.One or Two Interesting Things about the Universe: The Cosmology of Job 38David Clines, University of Sheffield, UK (emeritus)Part 2: Prophets and Prophecy8.Human and Divine Wisdom in the Book of Hosea,Kåre Berge, NLA University College, Norway9.Remembering Hosea: The Prophet Hosea as a Site of Memory in Persian Period YehudEhud Ben Zvi, University of Alberta, Canada10. The Divine Gardener in Prophetic Texts in the Hebrew BibleDiana V. Edelman, University of Oslo, Norway11. The Slavery of Canaan Philip R. Davies University of Sheffield, UK (emeritus)12. Prophecy and prognostication: the prophet Elijah and the 'prophet' Enoch in medieval apocalyptic texts Andrew Gow, University of Alberta, Canada13. Reflections on the Reception Exegesis of Isaiah, John F. A. Sawyer, University of Durham, UKPart 3: Texts in Play14. Of an Imagination All Compact: The Garden, The Forest and the Wasteland as the Apple of the Biblical Poet's Eye, James R. Linville, University of Lethbridge, Canada15. Loving the Highwayman: Reading Proverbs 1-9 in the Company of Linda Ronstadt, Willie Nelson, Barbara Cartland, and Alfred NoyesClaudia V. Camp, Texas Christian University, USA, and David M. Gunn, Brite Divinity School, USA16. The Bible in Moominland: Sensibility, Sense and Sentiment in Biblical InterpretationHugh S. Pyper, University of Sheffield, UK17. The Politics and Poetics of MercyBenjamin Berger, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, CanadaIndex