Milk and honey : essays on ancient Israel and the Bible in appreciation of the Judaic Studies Program at the University of California, San Diego / edited by Sarah Malena and David Miano. - Winona Lake, Ind. : Eisenbrauns, ©2007. - 1 online resource (xxi, 289 pages) : illustrations, maps

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Genesis. A goddess in the garden? : the fall of Eve / Shawna Dolansky ; Jacob's bargain with God (Genesis 28:20-22) and its implications for the documentary hypothesis / Jeffrey C. Geoghegan ; Do not interpretations belong to God? : a narrative assessment of Genesis 40 as it elucidates the persona of Joseph / Miriam Sherman -- Poetry and prophecy. Quantitative analysis of the tribal sayings in Deuteronomy 33 and its significance for the poem's overall structure / Brian Kelly ; The lion has roared : rhetorical structure in Amos 1:2-3:8 / Jack R. Lundbom ; On the use of the name of God in the Book of Jonah / Elizabeth Goldstein -- Narrative and history. The good book and the bad movies : Moses and the failure of biblical cinema / Michael M. Homan ; What happened in the fourteenth year of Hezekiah? : a historical analysis of 2 Kings 18-20 in the light of new textual considerations / David Miano ; Where is God? : divine presence in the absence of the temple / Risa Levitt Kohn and Rebecca Moore -- Lexicon. The first halleluyah / Ziony Zevit ; Spice roots in the Song of Songs / Sarah Malena ; The participle in Biblical Hebrew and the overlap of grammar and lexicon / Francis I. Andersen and A. Dean Forbes -- Archaeology and paleography. Biomolecules, Bedouin, and the Bible : reconstructing ancient foodways in Israel's northern Negev / Margie Burton ; From the Wilderness of Zin alongside Edom : Edomite territory in the eastern Negev during the eighth-sixth centuries B.C.E. / Laura M. Zucconi ; The Gamla coin : a new perspective on the circumstances and date of its minting / Yoav Arbel.

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Bible.--Old Testament--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bible.--Old Testament--Language, style.
Bible.--Old Testament--Antiquities.
Bible.--Old Testament--Criticism, interpretation, etc.--Language, style--Antiquities.


RELIGION--Biblical Criticism & Interpretation--Old Testament.


Electronic books.

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