Samuel, Kings and Chronicles I

Athalya Brenner-Idan is Professor Emerita of the HB\OT Chair at the Universiteit van Amsterdam, The Netherlands; and currently Professor in Biblical Studies at the Department of Hebrew Culture Studies, Tel Aviv University, Israel.Archie CC Lee is Professor in the College of Divinity at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.

• Series PrefaceAbbreviationsIntroduction - Athalya Brenner-Idan, Universiteit van Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and Tel Aviv University, IsraelPart One: On RelationshipsA. Leading Female Figures in Kings and Chronicles and Their Family Connections1. Hearing Tamar’s voice - How the Margin Hears Differently: Contextual readings of 2 Samuel 13.1-22 - Charlene van der Walt, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa2. To Whom Do Jezebel’s Remains Belong? Challenges for an ‘Organic Exegete’ Facing Contextual Readings of 2 Kings 9.30-37 - Fernando Candido da Silva, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil3. Coveting the Vineyard: An Asian American Reading of 1 Kings 21 - Gale A. Yee, Episcopal Divinity School, USA 4. Juridical Impotence in the Naboth Story in the Context of Kenya’s New Land Laws - Gilbert Okuro Ojwang, Oakwood University, USA 5. Gendered Genealogies in Response to Fractured Pasts: Inquiring Processes of Othering in 1 Chronicles 1-9 from a German Perspective - Ingeborg Löwisch, University of Bern, SwitzerlandB. The Medium Of En-dor6. The Medium of En-dor and the Phenomenon of Divination in Twenty-First Century Israel - Ora Brison, University of Tel Aviv, Israel7. The medium of En-dor Heard through the Medium of Music - Helen Leneman, Independent Scholar, USAPart Two: On Issues8. Reading the Psalms of 1 Chronicle 16. 8-36 in the Chinese and Biblical ContextsArchie C.C Lee, Shandong University, China9. Children in the Hebrew Bible and the Case of Samuel: From Personal Experience to Analysis - Naomi Steinberg, DePaul University, USA10. Running in the Bible - Yael Shemesh, Bar Ilan University, Israel11. Clothing, Adornment and Accoutrements as Cultural and Literary Signifiers in the ‘Historical’ Books - Heather McKay, Edge Hill University, UK12. Male Royals and Their Ethnically Foreign Mothers: The Implications for Textual Politics, Athalya Brenner-Idan, Universiteit van Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and Tel Aviv University, IsraelIndex of ScripturesIndex of Authors

This latest contribution to an established series continues to be attentive both to the contexts of biblical texts and to the contexts of biblical interpreters.