"A Continuum imprint"--Title page verso.

"Publications [of Philip R. Davies]": pages xviii-xxix.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

880-01 Writing time and eternity in Samuel and Kings / A. Graeme Auld -- When YHWH tests people : general considerations and particular observations regarding the books of Chronicles and Job / Ehud Ben Zvi -- Formless but not void : some thoughts on the psalmist-subject from clay level / Fiona C. Black -- The Servant of the Lord, the Teacher of Righteousness, and the exalted one of 4Q491c / Joseph Blenkinsopp -- A fleshly reading : masochism, ecocriticism and the Song of Songs / Roland Boer -- Religion and politics as passive-aggressive partners : some reflections on the Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip, 8/2005 / Athalya Brenner -- Rules for martyrs : the sacrifice of the beloved son in Rabbinic Judaism, Patristic Christianity, Sunni Islam / Bruce Chilton -- In the public domain : whose biblical studies is it anyway? / Edgar W. Conrad -- Were Zerubbabel and Nehemiah the same person? / Diana Edelman -- Four notes on Albrightian biblical archaeology : Rehov, Megiddo, Jerusalem, and Rosh Zayit / Israel Finkelstein -- Prophecy as inspired biblical interpretation : the Teacher of Righteousness and David Koresh / Lester L. Grabbe -- Prudent Abigail, submission, and the force of beauty : Voltaire's version of the Bible in his Saül, 1763 / David M. Gunn -- Why was the Second Temple built? / John M. Halligan -- Divine knowledge in the book of Job and 4QInstruction / James E. Harding -- Turning a sow's ear into a silk purse : arguments against silence in the quest for early Israel / David Henige -- Only fools and children : belief in God as a problem for the psalmist in Psalms 8-14 / Alastair G. Hunter -- The stings in the tales of the kings of Judah / John Jarick -- The power of parenthesis : 2 Samuel 4:4 in its literary context / David Jobling -- Meroz (Judges 5:23) / Ernst Axel Knauf -- Isaiah 2 : Torah and terror / Francis Landy -- Joshua and Western violence / Niels Peter Lemche -- A study in methodological (in)consistency, or, How I stopped worrying and learned to love the work of the Jesus Seminar / William John Lyons -- "Jews by nature" : Paul, ethnicity, and Galatians / R. Barry Matlock -- The Second Temple origins of the halakhah of Besah / Jacob Neusner -- The deconstruction of Deuteronomism in the Former Prophets : Micaiah ben Imlah as example / K.L. Noll -- Productive presuppositions, exuberant commentaries? : the New Testament discipline read through the lens of Foucault's "L'ordre du discours" / Jorunn Økland -- The Greek of the Jews and early Christians : the language of the people from a historical sociolinguistic perspective / Stanley E. Porter -- "Whose prophecy is it anyway?" : what Micah 3:12 is doing in Jeremiah 26 / Hugh S. Pyper -- The storm before the calm? : the Sheffield Department of Biblical Studies in the 1980s / J.W. Rogerson -- Reflections on "modern" biblical studies, or, Why Philip Davies is (just a little bit) like Immanuel Kant / Yvonne Sherwood -- The book of Daniel, the canon, and the grand narrative of Christianity / Izak J.J. Spangenberg -- The verb(s) [ragal] in classical Hebrew and the task of the lexicographer / David M. Stec -- Without evidence or method / Thomas L. Thompson -- Computer technology as impetus for a multi-level Hebrew-English interlinear translation / Christo H.J. van der Merwe -- The rhetoric of 2 Peter : an apologia for early Christian ethics (and not "primitive Christian eschatology") / Robert L. Webb -- The death of biblical history / Keith W. Whitelam -- Some recent discussion on the ḥērem / K. Lawson Younger.