JBLcoverfall2009:JBLcover2007.qxd 8/10/2009 8:24 AM Page 1 baylorpress.com 1.800.537.5487 128 3 2009 new from B AY L O R U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S JOURNAL OF BIBLICAL LITERATURE What’s in the Word Rethinking the Socio-Rhetorical Character of the New Testament FALL 2009 Ben Witherington III August 2009 / 978-1-60258-196-8 / $29.95 / Paper The Historiographical Jesus Memory, Typology, and the Son of David Anthony Le Donne I know of no other work like this in the field of historical Jesus research. This might persuade scholars to approach in a new way the difficult question of distinguishing authentic Jesus material. – Craig A. Evans, Acadia Divinity College of Acadia University August 2009 / 978-1-60258-065-7 / $49.95 / Cloth Deep Exegesis The Mystery of Reading Scripture Peter J. Leithart Leithart demonstrates that the meanings of biblical texts cannot be adequately known outside their literary and historical resonances. A magnificent book. – Matthew Levering, Ave Maria University September 2009 / 978-1-60258-069-5 / $29.95 / Paper JOURNAL OF BIBLICAL LITERATURE Ben Witherington has made socio-rhetorical method his own. Here he takes on a wide range of key issues in New Testament studies and shows how fruitful this distinctive perspective can be. – Richard Bauckham, University of St. Andrews, and Ridley Hall, Cambridge VOLUME 128, NO. 3 The Poetics of Adam: The Creation of Md) in the Image of Myhl) Paul Niskanen 417–436
[email protected](i #$y)i (Leviticus 16:21): A Marginal Person Meir Malul 437–442 Foreignness and Poverty in the Book of Ruth: A Legal Way for a Poor Foreign Woman to Be Integrated into Israel Agnethe Siquans 443–452 The Frustration of Wisdom: Wisdom, Counsel, and Divine Will in 2 Samuel 17:1–23 Song-Mi Suzie Park 453–467 Dealing with the Trauma of Defeat: The Rhetoric of the Devastation and Rejuvenation of Nature in Ezekiel Brad E. Kelle 469–490 Unnoticed Resonances of Tomb Opening and Transportation of the Remains of the Dead in Ezekiel 37:12–14 Saul M. Olyan 491–501 A Critical Response to Karin Adams’s Reinterpretation of Hosea 4:13–14 James E. Miller 503–506 On the Rise and Fall of Canaanite Religion at Baalbek: A Tale of Five Toponyms Richard C. Steiner 507–525 Matthew 23–25: The Extent of Jesus’ Fifth Discourse Jason Hood 527–543 Mark’s Interpretation of the Death of Jesus Adela Yarbro Collins 545–554 The Messianic Whippersnapper: Did Jesus Use a Whip on People in the Temple (John 2:15)? N. Clayton Croy 555–568 Ὁμοίως and the Use of Parallelism in Romans 1:26–27 Jamie A. Banister 569–590 Honor, Shame, and Social Status Revisited Zeba Crook 591–611 US ISSN 0021-9231 incov:incov.qxd 8/10/2009 8:17 AM 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, Un