The Formation of Biblical Texts

Deirdre N. Fulton (Herausgegeben von) is Associate Professor in the Department of Religion at Baylor University.Kenneth A. Ristau (Herausgegeben von) is professional resource faculty at MacEwan University and lecturer at the University of Alberta.Jonathan S. Greer (Herausgegeben von) is visiting Professor of Archaeology at Grand Valley State University; Associate Director of excavations at Tel Dan, Israel.Margaret E. Cohen (Herausgegeben von) is scholar of Hebrew Bible and the archaeology of Ancient Israel and teaches Judaic Studies at the University of Arizona.

• I. IntroductionII. Gary Knoppers: List of PublicationsIII. "Rethinking the Relationship between Deuteronomy and the Deuteronomistic History": The Formation of the Primary and Deuteronomistic HistoriesSteven L. McKenzie Gary Knoppers on the Deuteronomistic History - Bernard M. Levinson Contributions to the Study of Kingship in the Pentateuch and the Deuteronomistic History - Jonathan S. Greer Recasting the Sin of the Calf: The Deference of Jeroboam in 1 Kings 12 and the Formation of the Earliest History of Israel and Judah - Jeff Rop Elisha's Secret Demons: Philanderer, Fraud, Traitor, Murderer - Mark Lackowski Samson among the Deuteronomists - Konrad Schmid Was There Ever a Primary History? - Baruch Halpern Who Lost the Book of the Torah?IV. "Great Among His Colleagues": Gary Knopper's Contributions to the Study of the Book of ChroniclesThomas Römer What is a Discovered Book Good For?: Josiah's Reforms and the Finding of the Book in 2 Kgs 22¬-23 and 2 Chr 34-35 - Ehud Ben Zvi Chronicles and the Concept of the "Twelve Tribes of Israel" - James VanderKam The Priestly List in 1 Chronicles 5:27-41 (English 6:1-15) - Christine Mitchell Commonalities without Equivalence - Melody Knowles The Treatment of Ps 132 in 11QPsa (11Q5) and Chronicles: Politics and Religious Practices in the Second Temple Period - Kenneth A. Ristau One Nation Under David: An Ideological Innovation in ChroniclesV. "Negotiating Identity in an International Context": The Text of Ezra-Nehemiah and the TwelveTamara Cohn Eskenazi Conflict and Marriage and the Holy in Ezra 9-10 - Louis C. Jonker Achaemenid Language Politics in Ezra-Nehemiah - Deirdre N. Fulton "The Enemy Without or Within?" Revisiting Identity in Ezra-Nehemiah - Manfred Oeming In the Beginning of the Age of Coins: The Power and Money and the Possibilities of "the Fear of God" According to Nehemiah 5 - John Kessler The Silence of Exile: The Meaning, Function, and Significance of the "Calls of Silence" in the Book of the Twelve: Zeph 1:7, Hab 2:20, and Zech 2:17[13]VI. "Two Nations under God": The Influence of Northern Israel and Samaritan studies on the Formation of Biblical TextsSidnie White Crawford The Samaritan Pentateuch and the Masoretic Pentateuch: More Evidence for a Common Ancestor from their Scribal Practices - Magnar Kartveit What the Pre-Samaritan Texts Can Tell Us About the History of the Pentateuch in the Hellenistic Period - Reinhard Pummer Cultural Exchange Between Samaritans and Jews in Late Antiquity: Selected Case Studies - H. G. M. Williamson Did Isaiah Refer to the Samaritans?