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Partners with God Theological and Critical Readings of the Bible in Honor of Marvin A. Sweeney Shelley L. Birdsong & Serge Frolov Editors CLAREMONT STUDIES IN HEBREW BIBLE AND SEPTUAGINT 2 Partners with God Table of Contents Theological and Critical Readings of the Bible in Honor of Marvin A. Sweeney Abbreviations ix ©2017 Claremont Press Preface xv 1325 N. College Ave Selected Bibliography of Marvin A. Sweeney’s Writings xvii Claremont, CA 91711 Introduction 1 ISBN 978-1-946230-13-3 Pentateuch Is Form Criticism Compatible with Diachronic Exegesis? 13 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Rethinking Genesis 1–2 after Knierim and Sweeney Serge Frolov Partners with God: Theological and Critical Readings of the Bible in Exploring Narrative Forms and Trajectories 27 Honor of Marvin A. Sweeney / edited by Shelley L. Birdsong Form Criticism and the Noahic Covenant & Serge Frolov Peter Benjamin Boeckel xxi + 473 pp. 22 x 15 cm. –(Claremont Studies in Hebrew Bible Natural Law Recorded in Divine Revelation 41 and Septuagint 2) A Critical and Theological Reflection on Genesis 9:1-7 Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-1-946230-13-3 Timothy D. Finlay 1. Bible—Criticism, Narrative 2. Bible—Criticism, Form. The Holiness Redaction of the Abrahamic Covenant 51 BS 1192.5 .P37 2017 (Genesis 17) Bill T. Arnold Former Prophets Miscellaneous Observations on the Samson Saga 63 Cover: The Prophet Jeremiah by Barthélemy d’Eyck with an Excursus on Bees in Greek and Roman Buogonia Traditions John T. Fitzgerald The Sword of Solomon 73 The Subversive Underbelly of Solomon’s Judgment of the Two Prostitutes Craig Evan Anderson Two Mothers and Two Sons 83 Reading 1 Kings 3:16–28 as a Parody on Solomon’s Coup (1 Kings 1–2) Hyun Chul Paul Kim Y Heavenly Porkies 101 The Psalm in Habakkuk 3 263 Prophecy and Divine Deception in 1 Kings 13 and 22 Steven S. Tuell Lester L. Grabbe “Have We Not All One Father? Has Not One God 275 “What Have I Done to You?”—1 Kings 19:19–21 111 Created Us?” A Study in Prophetic Ethics Revisiting Malachi 2:10a Jeremiah Unterman Ehud Ben Zvi Jezebel 123 A Phoenician Princess Gone Bad? Miscellaneous Tammi J. Schneider Pots, Pits, and Promises 297 King Lists as a Structuring Principle in the Book of Kings 133 Jeremiah as Allusion to Genesis John H. Hull, Jr. Shelley L. Birdsong (Para)textual Composition on Both Sides of 311 Latter Prophets the Canonical Divide A Form Critical Reappraisal of Isaiah 8:9–10 147 William Yarchin H. G. M. Williamson Job 31:9–10 321 Who Says What to Whom Erotic Euphemisms in the Bible and Ancient Speakers, Hearers, and Overhearers in Second Isaiah 157 Near Eastern and Rabbinic Literature Patricia K. Tull Shalom M. Paul Too Many Hands? 169 Miscategorizing Chosenness 327 Isaiah 65–66 and the Reading of the Book of Isaiah Jon D. Levenson Reinhard Kratz From Deuteronomy to the Lost Gospel 345 And the Word Became Words 189 An Intra-Jewish Controversy about Group The Inscription of the Divine Word on Jeremiah Annihilation the Prophet in Jeremiah the Book Dennis R. MacDonald Else K. Holt List of Contributors 355 The Structure of MT Jeremiah, with Special Attention 201 Bibliography 359 to Chapters 21–45 Indices 409 Richard D. Weis Literary Structure in Ezekiel 25 225 Addressee, Formulas, and Genres Tyler D. Mayfield Was Ezekiel a Messenger? A Manager? Or a Moving Sanctuary? 237 A Beckettian Reading of the Book of Ezekiel in the Inquiry of the Divine Presence Soo J. 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