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JBLcoverWINTER2009:JBLcover2007.qxd 11/16/2009 1:35 PM Page 1 B AY L O R U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S 128 4 2009 New from JOURNAL OF BIBLICAL LITERATURE A Groundbreaking Study of Mark’s Christology Mark’s Jesus WINTER 2009 Characterization as Narrative Christology Noted biblical scholar Elizabeth Struthers Malbon asks a literary, especially narrative critical, question in this landmark volume: what are the many ways that Mark’s Gospel characterizes Jesus? Available November 2009 $39.95 / Cloth 978-1-60258-247-7 baylorpress.com “With characteristic insight, Malbon uses her skills as a narrative critic to open our eyes to the multilayered Markan narrative. An invaluable companion.” – Paula Gooder 1.800.537.5487 JOURNAL OF BIBLICAL LITERATURE Elizabeth Struthers Malbon VOLUME 128, NO. 4 The Text of Genesis 17:14 Matthew Thiessen 625–642 Deuteronomy 24:5 and King Asa’s Foot Disease in 1 Kings 15:23b Jeremy Schipper 643–648 Eglon’s Belly and Ehud’s Blade: A Reconsideration Lawson G. Stone 649–663 Rehabilitating Jephthah Alice Logan 665–685 Framework and Discourse in the Book of Judges Susanne Gillmayr-Bucher 687–702 In the Eyes of the Beholder: Unmarked Attributed Quotations in Job Edward Ho 703–715 Rhetorical Reversal and Usurpation: Isaiah 10:5–34 and the Use of Neo-Assyrian Royal Idiom in the Construction of an Anti-Assyrian Theology Michael Chan 717–733 “Taxo” and the Origin of the Assumption of Moses Edna Israeli 735–757 Descending Spirit and Descending Gods: A “Greek” Interpretation of the Spirit’s “Descent as a Dove” in Mark 1:10 Edward P. Dixon 759–780 The Johannine Prologue and Jewish Didactic Hymn Traditions: A New Case for Reading the Prologue as a Hymn Matthew Gordley 781–802 Two Neglected Textual Variants in Philippians 1 Brent Nongbri 803–808 A Note on 5 Ezra 1:11 and 2:8–9 Theodore A. Bergren 809–812 A Nomen Sacrum in the Sardis Synagogue James R. Edwards 813–821 US ISSN 0021-9231 incov:incov.qxd 11/16/2009 1:43 PM Page 1 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 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 LOUIS STULMAN, University of Findlay, Findlay, OH 45840 2010: BRIAN BRITT, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA 24061-0135 JOHN ENDRES, Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94709 MICHAEL FOX, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706 STEVEN FRAADE, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520-8287 MATTHIAS HENZE, Rice University, Houston, TX 77251 STEPHEN MOORE, Drew University, Madison, NJ 07940 CATHERINE MURPHY, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA 95053 EMERSON POWERY, Messiah College, Grantham, PA 17027 ADELE REINHARTZ, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON K1N 6N5 Canada SIDNIE WHITE CRAWFORD, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE 68588-0337 20