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{"title":"Society for Old Testament Study Book List 2023","authors":"John Jarick, Seth M. Stadel","doi":"10.1177/03090892231175411","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/03090892231175411","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51830,"journal":{"name":"Journal for the Study of the Old Testament","volume":"47 1","pages":"i - ii"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47719885","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Index of Reviewers","authors":"","doi":"10.1177/03090892231181984","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/03090892231181984","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51830,"journal":{"name":"Journal for the Study of the Old Testament","volume":"47 1","pages":"185 - 186"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44136995","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Books Also Received","authors":"","doi":"10.1177/03090892231175422","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/03090892231175422","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51830,"journal":{"name":"Journal for the Study of the Old Testament","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136172974","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"7. Law, Religion and Theology","authors":"Sandra Jacobs","doi":"10.1177/03090892231175417","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/03090892231175417","url":null,"abstract":"This collection of essays consolidates a lifetime’s scholarship on women in the cult, together with representations of goddesses, female priests, prophets, and queen mothers. Originally published individually, each piece is updated and accompanied by explanatory introductions and postscripts, which trace the development of the author’s views during her distinguished career. The opening section on goddesses revisits her highly persuasive thesis—that Jeremiah’s Queen of Heaven embodied a synthesis of Western Semitic Astarte and Eastern Semitic Ištar. Evidence of the Ugaritic goddess Athart Šud now indicates that the Western Semitic Asherah can be associated with fertility, rather than spinning and weaving exclusively. Alternatively, the comparison of the death and dismemberment of the Levite concubine (Judges 19) with the conquest and defeat of Tiamet in Enuma Elish, as literary types ‘whose stories present an object lesson to their audiences regarding proper gender behavior’ (p. 58), seems less convincing. The second section (on female priests and prophets) identifies restrictions on the agency of women from priestly families in Phoenician, Punic, and Neo-Punic societies—where, despite their participation in the cult, they were excluded from the performance of blood sacrifices. The analysis of queen mothers then prompts the intriguing observation that ‘even within the radical religious transformation that was early Christianity, the old mythic paradigm that linked the queen mother and the mother goddess still reverberated in the emerging Marian cult’ (p. 186). Concluding with accounts of women’s personal worship that look beyond the ‘corpus of prophetic diatribe’ (p. 222), it is suggested that the impact of Josiah’s reforms may also have removed women from ‘some important and honoured functions’ (p. 233). These included the manufacture of textiles for the statue of the divine consort and/or women’s musical accompaniment at ritual celebrations. The studies are characterized throughout by A.’s innate humility and academic caution, where she readily acknowledges those ideas which could be considered speculative. The volume is highly recommended to both lay and academic readers alike, and sheds substantial light on these fascinating contexts. SandRa JacobS","PeriodicalId":51830,"journal":{"name":"Journal for the Study of the Old Testament","volume":"47 1","pages":"120 - 139"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49619906","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Society for Old Testament Study","authors":"Ev EO'Xdtro","doi":"10.1177/03090892231175423","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/03090892231175423","url":null,"abstract":".1150 !-Loval E'V \"A{hp, ft toii 'EcrCPLY!-LE'VO'IJ xal ft toU KaQaxdAo'IJ, xoiiO't'V ill; U&EAcpO'V tOY ' AOa'VdcrLov, ft 58 &eutEQU X(lI ill; 'VEOV XtL tOQa. T1)v tEAEvtaLa'V ure01./'lv 1hX 'Muvato 'Vu EvtO'x,Ucrn !-LOV1) tOU KaQa'KdAov?<al BLE'K()tXll crn. Mv ft !lOVl1 1C1lYll, to En:' OVO!l(ltL tou YEQO'VtO; 'AV()QOVLXQV 'lwvcroBO'IJAAov, to Ex&o{)Ev EO'Xdtro;; {mo 1:OU DOlger, nto d&tdBA'l1tov. LfVQ dgl hi-","PeriodicalId":51830,"journal":{"name":"Journal for the Study of the Old Testament","volume":"47 1","pages":"191 - 191"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43001030","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"One or many? The grammatical number of suffixed nouns as a text-critical problem","authors":"M. Krusche","doi":"10.1177/03090892231168662","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/03090892231168662","url":null,"abstract":"One of the most frequent cases of textual variance in the Hebrew Bible concerns the grammatical number of nouns with suffixes (e.g. ידך‎ ‘your hand’ versus ידיך‎ ‘your hands’). First, this article demonstrates the significant textual instability of the letter yod in the plural or dual morphemes of suffixed nouns and traces some reasons for that. Then, it presents exemplary cases of this variance and discusses some interpretive conclusions drawn from conspicuous grammatical numbers in the research literature. For instance, a widespread theory that distinguishes two kinds of hand imposition rites according to the number of hands used by the performing subject proves to be problematic for text-critical and philological reasons. Finally, the article discusses the appropriate text-critical handling of the problem in general, suggests some guidelines, promotes awareness of ambiguity, and pleads for restraint in drawing far-reaching interpretive conclusions from a specific grammatical number of suffixed nouns.","PeriodicalId":51830,"journal":{"name":"Journal for the Study of the Old Testament","volume":"47 1","pages":"455 - 472"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44637498","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"An Analysis of Concluding Verbs in the Priestly Code: A Contextual Grammatical Approach","authors":"M. Roi","doi":"10.1177/03090892221149052","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/03090892221149052","url":null,"abstract":"Scholars and translators have traditionally regarded the conclusion of the Nazirite law—“After that the Nazirite may drink wine” (Num. 6.20)—as signalling the completion of the naziriteship, the Nazirite henceforth being permitted to drink wine. Should the clause be read as prescriptive, however, with the Nazirite being required to drink wine to complete his vow? In line with the contextual-grammatical approach prevalent today, this article offers a clear criterion for examining the verbs concluding the various laws in the Priestly code—including that in the Nazirite law. To narrow the discussion, it focuses on precepts whose conclusion opens with ואחר‎ despite possibly not differing from other Priestly laws. While in three places, the injunction is permissive, in the majority of cases, the acts are mandatory.","PeriodicalId":51830,"journal":{"name":"Journal for the Study of the Old Testament","volume":"47 1","pages":"241 - 258"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49508372","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Transitive Analogies and the Meaning of Balaam’s Origin: A Literary Analysis","authors":"Oren Gelblum","doi":"10.1177/03090892221149046","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/03090892221149046","url":null,"abstract":"A set of parallels between the Balaam pericope and the encounter with Edom in Num. 20.14-21 form a literary allusion to the latter, which also draws on elements in the Jacob cycle – especially in Genesis 27. I suggest that these parallels encourage us to associate Balaam with Edom – as do Gen. 36.31-32 and other previously discovered evidence. A key to understanding these literary connections is the sword motif in Num. 20.14-21 and Num. 22.21-35, which points back to “you shall live by your sword” in Gen. 27.40. The allusion seems to present Esau’s sword blessing and Balaam’s intended curse as futile against the divine will. Another layer of meaning of the Balaam-Edom connection becomes clear when we consider the biblical motif of Edom as a symbol of the “nations” (Israel’s enemies), as well as Frisch’s recent proposal that Balaam’s jenny is a symbol of Israel.","PeriodicalId":51830,"journal":{"name":"Journal for the Study of the Old Testament","volume":"47 1","pages":"322 - 342"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49022404","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Resilience through Disclosure and Meaning Making in Qoheleth and the Babylonian Theodicy","authors":"Russell L. Meek, E. Mehlman","doi":"10.1177/03090892221149047","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/03090892221149047","url":null,"abstract":"This study rereads Qoheleth and the Babylonian Theodicy through a trauma lens as opposed to the generic lens of speculative wisdom encompassing retributive justice, retribution theology, and the deed-consequence nexus and their consequent view of the gods’/God’s justice. According to retribution theology, actions correlate appropriately to consequences; however, in light of their suffering and resilience, both authors are disillusioned, struggling to make sense of life’s predicaments despite their religiosity and placating of the deity, as they also resist retribution theology. Rereading Qoheleth and the Babylonian Theodicy through a trauma lens shows that both sufferers seek answers and cope with suffering similarly to modern readers. This study acknowledges the use and limits of retribution theology operating within the Hebrew and Mesopotamian worldview to illustrate how these texts resist retributive justice. However, we also illustrate how the collective and individual aspects of trauma theory transcend ethic, cultural, epochal, and geographical boundaries. Furthermore, the juxtaposed ancient texts demonstrate how to cope with traumatic life experiences outside the confines of retributive justice by making meaning of self and others in the world and exhibiting resilience through effective coping strategies. Ultimately, Qoheleth affirms that while fearing God is right, navigating trauma includes enjoying God’s simple gifts such as food, wine, work, and a spouse for momentary relief. The Babylonian Theodicy sufferer makes meaning and develops resiliency through self-disclosure to friends and acceptance.","PeriodicalId":51830,"journal":{"name":"Journal for the Study of the Old Testament","volume":"47 1","pages":"289 - 303"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44823403","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"“Naomi the Nurse: Obed’s Ambiguous Identity Transmission”","authors":"C. Palmer","doi":"10.1177/03090892221149049","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/03090892221149049","url":null,"abstract":"Three central figures within Israelite tradition—Isaac, Moses, and Samuel—are breastfed as infants by their own mothers, an activity that scholarship argues transfers identity. The case of the baby Obed, future grandfather of King David, however, is ambiguous: Ruth 4.16 articulates that Naomi becomes Obed’s “nurse,” derived from the root אמן‎, but not specifically that she “nurses” (breastfeeds) Obed, drawing on the root ינק‎. The present essay studies cases of the root אמן‎ when paired with a reference to a child or identified figure to assess Naomi’s role vis-à-vis Obed and to imagine the locus of Obed’s identity transmission. Though the text may be intentionally ambiguous, Naomi serves as Obed’s wet nurse and purveyor of Judahite kinship and identity.","PeriodicalId":51830,"journal":{"name":"Journal for the Study of the Old Testament","volume":"47 1","pages":"277 - 288"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47403985","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}