16 research outputs found
Prophetic Imagination in the Light of Narratology and Disability Studies in Isaiah 40–48
Analyzes Isaiah 40–48 as a single literary work through levels of speakers (frame and subordinate) with implications for its construction of divine potency and communication
A Kingdom of Priests and Its Earthen Altars in Exodus 19–24
Argues that, reversing the trope of subjects visiting the magnificent, the Elohistic history has Yahweh interested in the simplest, flimsiest altars only, which he will visit when and where he is invited to do so. The implication rules out temple-altars and temples for their royal sponsorship
The Face of God and the Etiquette of Eye-Contact: Visitation, Pilgrimage, and Prophetic Vision in Ancient Israelite and Early Jewish Imagination
Uses social poetics to analyze talk in the Bible of looking at Yahweh's fac
"Oracular Novellae" and Biblical Historiography: Through the Lens of Law and Narrative
Theoretical discussion of law and narrative and their interaction in biblical historiography
The Second Passover, Pilgrimage, and the Centralized Cult
Literary and historical analysis of the passage at Num 9:1–1
Knowledge of the Lord in the Hebrew Bible
Applies theory of literature as simulation speech to argue that knowledge of the Lord is not reflected in texts of the Hebrew Bible but created by them
The Literary Development of Deuteronomy 12: Between Religious Ideal and Social Reality
Presents a new compositional history of the centralization law
Compositry and Creativity in 2 Samuel 21:1–14
Analysis of the story of David and the Gibeonites, argues that two different stories have been spliced together
The Polymorphous Pesaḥ: Ritual Between Origins and Reenactment
The paper argues that the pesaḥ is a ritual with no origins in the literature we have, from the earliest recoverable fragment, through the first revision that introduces as many problems as it aims to solve, to subsequent extensions in multiple directions, with no arc, no trajectory, no telos, but recurrent hermeneutic expressive engagement
"Oracular Novellae" and Biblical Historiography: Through the Lens of Law and Narrative
Theoretical discussion of law and narrative and their interaction in biblical historiography