Method Matters: Essays on the Interpretation of the Hebrew Bible in Honor of David L. Petersen

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

David L. Petersen : a tribute / S. Dean McBride Jr. and James Luther Mays -- Bibliography of the works of David L. Petersen -- Form criticism : the question of the endangered matriarchs in Genesis / Marvin A. Sweeney -- Source criticism : the miracle at the sea / Christopher Levin -- Redaction criticism : 1 Kings 8 and the Deuteronomists / Thomas Römer -- Textual criticism : recovering and preserving the text of the Hebrew Bible / Ralph W. Klein -- Traditio-historical criticism : the development of the Covenant Code / Douglas A. Knight -- Comparative approaches : history, theory, and the image of God / Brent A. Strawn -- Iconographic approaches : the iconic structure of Psalm 17 / Joel M. LeMon -- Religio-historical approaches : monotheism, method, and mortality / Christopher B. Hays -- Historiographical approaches : survey and principles / John H. Hayes -- Psychological criticism : exploring the self in the text / Walter Brueggemann -- Anthropological approaches : ritual in Leviticus 8, real or rhetorical? / William K. Gilders -- Sociological approaches : toward a sociology of childhood in the Hebrew Bible / Naomi Steinberg -- Narrative analysis : meaning, context, and origins of Genesis 38 / Yairah Amit -- Poetic analysis : Psalm 121 / Kirsten Nielsen -- Feminist criticism : Sarah laughs last / Susan Brayford -- Gender analysis : gender and method in biblical studies / Beatrice Lawrence -- Ecological approaches : the Bible and the land / Gene M. Tucker -- Ethical approaches : the story of David as moral tale / Bruce C. Birch -- Theological interpretation : a proposal / William P. Brown -- Homiletical appropriation of the Hebrew Bible / Gail R. O'Day -- Latin American approaches : a liberationist reading of the "Day of the Lord" tradition in Joel / Pablo R. Andiñach -- Midrash and exegesis : insights from Genesis Rabbah on the binding of Isaac / Alan J. Avery-Peck -- Postmodern literary criticism : the impossibility of method / Mark K. George -- Reflections on the "historical-critical" method : historical criticism and critical historicism / Martti Nissinen -- Reflections on social-scientific criticism / Robert R. Wilson -- Reflections on literary criticism / John Barton -- Reflections on ideological criticism and postcritical perspectives / Carol A. Newsom -- Reflections on the history of consequences : the case of Job / C.L. Seow.