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JBLcoverwinter:JBLcover2007.qxd 11/18/2008 9:36 PM Page 1 B AY L O R U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S 127 4 2008 New from The Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles Paper | ISBN 978-1-60258-159-3 Words Well Spoken George Kennedy’s Rhetoric of the New Testament Studies in Rhetoric & Religion 8 C. Clifton Black and Duane F. Watson, editors $39.95 | 6 x 9, 255 pages Cloth | ISBN 978-1-60258-064-0 baylorpress.com 1.800.537.5487 JOURNAL OF BIBLICAL LITERATURE $39.95 | 6 x 9, 310 pages BIBLICAL LITERATURE WINTER 2008 An Introduction Hans-Josef Klauck JOURNAL OF VOLUME 127, NO. 4 Shattering the Image of God: A Response to Theodore Hiebert’s Interpretation of the Story of the Tower of Babel John T. Strong 625–634 The Manumission Laws in Leviticus and Deuteronomy: The Jeremiah Connection Mark Leuchter 635–653 The “Root of Jesse” in Isaiah 11:10: Postexilic Judah, or Postexilic Davidic King? Jacob Stromberg 655–669 The Interpretation of Isaiah 56:1–9: Comfort or Criticism? Raymond de Hoop 671–695 Were Joshua, Zerubbabel, and Nehemiah Contemporaries? A Response to Diana Edelman’s Proposed Late Date for the Second Temple Ralph W. Klein 697–701 Who Constitutes Society? Yehud’s Self-understanding in the Late Persian Era as Reflected in the Books of Chronicles Louis Jonker 703–724 Simply Irresistible: Augustus, Herod, and the Empire Byron R. McCane 725–735 Luke 16:16: The Good News of God’s Kingdom Is Proclaimed and Everyone Is Forced into It Ilaria L. E. Ramelli 737–758 Transformed “from Glory to Glory”: Paul’s Appeal to the Experience of His Readers in 2 Corinthians 3:18 Paul B. Duff 759–780 “I Left You in Crete”: Narrative Deception and Social Hierarchy in the Letter to Titus John W. Marshall 781–803 Us or You? Persuasion and Identity in 1 John Judith M. Lieu 805–819 US ISSN 0021-9231 JOURNAL OF BIBLICAL LITERATURE PUBLISHED QUARTERLY BY THE SOCIETY OF BIBLICAL LITERATURE (Constituent Member of the American Council of Learned Societies) EDITOR OF THE JOURNAL General Editor: JAMES C. VANDERKAM, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556 EDITORIAL BOARD Term Expiring 2008: ELLEN B. AITKEN, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec H3A 2T5 Canada MICHAEL JOSEPH BROWN, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322 TERENCE L. DONALDSON, Wycliffe College, Toronto, ON M5S 1H7 Canada STEVEN FRIESEN, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712 JENNIFER GLANCY, Le Moyne College, Syracuse, New York 13214 A. KATHERINE GRIEB, Virginia Theological Seminary, Alexandria, VA 22304 ARCHIE C. C. LEE, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin New Territories, Hong Kong SAR DANIEL MARGUERAT, Université de Lausanne, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland RICHARD D. NELSON, Perkins School of Theology, So. Methodist Univ., Dallas, TX 75275 DAVID L. PETERSEN, Candler School of Theology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322 YVONNE SHERWOOD, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland, G12 8QQ, United Kingdom LOREN T. STUCKENBRUCK, University of Durham, Durham, England, DH1 3RS, United Kingdom PATRICIA K. TULL, Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary, Louisville, KY 40205 2009: DAVID L. BARR, Wright State University, Dayton, OH 45435 THOMAS B. DOZEMAN, United Theological Seminary, Dayton, OH 45406 ELIZABETH STRUTHERS MALBON, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA 24061-0135 MARTTI NISSINEN, University of Helsinki, FIN-00014 Finland EUNG CHUN PARK, San Francisco Theological Seminary, San Anselmo, CA 94960 TURID KARLSEN SEIM, University of Oslo, N-0315 Oslo, Norway BENJAMIN D. SOMMER, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60645