The Artistic Dimension Literary Explorations of the Hebrew Bible
- New York T and T Clark 2015
- 209p
- Library of Hebrew Bible/ Old Testament Studies; 201500ENGGPS5 .
includes index and biblioraphy
1. Textual Problems and literary analysis Crime scene investigation : A text - critical Mystery and the strange death of Ishbosheth ....................15 The locutions of I kings 22-28: A new Proposal ...............36 The embarrassing syntax of psalm 47: 10: A vocative option ............50 2. Readers of the lost ark Ark- Ecology: Shifting emphases in Ark Narrative scholarship .........59 Mouse Trap: A text-critical Problem with rodents in a the ark Narrative ...........86 3. Further Soundings Jonathan Son of Abiathar: The fulfillment of a Prophetic word about the dissolution of a priestly line ..........103 Highway to sheol: Seductive speech and promiscuous places in Proverbs ...................114 4. The world of Chronicles The Royal Skull in a Temple of Doom : An interpretation of I chronicles 10:10..........................133 Abijah`s elivated rhetoric and the civil war of 2 Chronicles ...................144 Capital punishment : The configuration of Ahaziah`s Last hours in 2 Chroiicles ........157