Table of Contents

Rolf P. Knierim: Foreword; List of Contributors; J. Harold Ellens: Introduction; Brian R. McCarthy: The Characterization of YHWH, the God of Israel, in Exodus 1-15; John William Wevers: Two Reflections on the Greek Exodus; David Ralph Seely: Exodus 28/39: The Significance of the Priestly Vestments; Deborah L. Ellens: Numbers 5:11-31: Valuing Male Suspicion; Ronald E. Clements: The Former Prophets and Deuteronomy - A Re-Examination; Amira Meir: On the Study of Pentateuchal Poetry; J. Kenneth Kuntz: Hendiadys as an Agent of Rhetorical Enrichment in Biblical Hebrew Poetry, with Special Reference to Prophetic Discourse; John D. W. Watts: Two Studies in Isalah; Paul Kim: The Son of Moses (Deut. 32:1-43) in Isaiah 40-55; Simon John DeVries: John Calvin's Contribution to an Understanding of the Book of Isaiah; W. Eugene March: Guess Who is Coming to Dinner: Jeremiah 29:1-9 as an Invitation to Radical Social Change; Simon John DeVries: The Interface Between Prophecy as Narrative and Prophecy as Proclamation; Won W. Lee: Balak: The Forgotten Character in Numbers 22-24; Yitzhak (Itzik) Peleg: Two Readings of the Book of Jonah: "Yet Forty Days, and Nineveh Shall be Overthrown" (Jonah 3:4); Kenneth Pomykala: Jerusalem as the Fallen Booth of David in Amos 9:11; Robert Hubbard: "Old What's His Name", Why the King in I Kings 22 Has No Name; Marvin A. Sweeney: The Portrayal of YHWH's Deliverance in Micah 2:12-13 Reconsidered; Naomi Steinberg: Romancing the Widow; Simon John De Vries: Comprehensive Bibliography of Publications by Simon John De Vries; References; Index

About the Author

J. Harold Ellens, Rolf P. Knierim, Deborah L. Ellens and Isaac Kalimi are all distinguished scholars in their field.