Journal Of Biblical Literature, Vol. 126, No. 3 (fall 2007)

126 3 2007 " !9 , / 2 5 . ) 6 % 2 3 ) 4 9 0 2 % 3 3 0DNLQJåDå0HDOåRIå,Wå )3".     6DYLQJå:RPHQå 5HWULHYLQJ(YDQJHOLVWLF7KHRORJ\ DQG3UDFWLFH /DFH\Hå&å:DUQHU \X PAGES\#LOTH )3".     BAYLORPRESSCOM ONTHEPATHOFFAITHANDUNDERSTANDING JOURNAL OF BIBLICAL LITERATURE \X PAGES\#LOTH BIBLICAL LITERATURE FALL 2007 5HWKLQNLQJWKH7KHRORJ\ RIWKH/RUGªV6XSSHU %HQå:LWKHULQJWRQå,,, JOURNAL OF VOLUME 126, NO. 3 “The Levite in Your Gates”: The Deuteronomic Redefinition of Levitical Authority Mark Leuchter 417–436 Reading Ruth through a Bakhtinian Lens: The Carnivalesque in a Biblical Tale Nehama Aschkenasy 437–453 Revisiting the Prologue of Proverbs Timothy J. Sandoval 455–473 The Postexilic Exile in Third Isaiah: Isaiah 61:1–3 in Light of Second Temple Hermeneutics Bradley C. Gregory 475–496 Jonah Read Intertextually Hyun Chul Paul Kim 497–528 Encomium versus Vituperation: Contrasting Portraits of Jesus in the Fourth Gospel Jerome H. Neyrey, S.J. 529–552 The “Works of the Law” in Romans and Galatians: A New Defense of the Subjective Genitive Paul L. Owen 553–577 The Syntax of ἐν Χριστῷ in 1 Thessalonians 4:16 David Konstan and Ilaria Ramelli 579–593 Lion and Human in Gospel of Thomas Logion 7 Andrew Crislip 595–613 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 recent books from EERDMANS EDITORIAL BOARD Term Expiring 2007: MOSHE BERNSTEIN, Yeshiva University, New York, NY 10033-3201 JOHN ENDRES, Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94709 MATTHIAS HENZE, Rice University, Houston, TX 77251 ROBERT KUGLER, Lewis & Clark College, Portland, OR 97219 TIMOTHY LIM, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH1 2LX Scotland STEPHEN MOORE, Drew University, Madison, NJ 07940 STEPHEN PATTERSON, Eden Theological Seminary, St. Louis, MO 63119 EMERSON POWERY, Lee University, Cleveland, TN 37312 ADELE REINHARTZ, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, ON N2L 3C5 Canada RICHARD STEINER, Yeshiva University, New York, NY 10033-3201 SZE-KAR WAN, Andover Newton Theological School, Newton Centre, MA 02459 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 Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211 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 CAROLE R. FONTAINE, Andover Newton Theological School, Newton Centre, MA 02459 ELIZABETH STRUTHERS MALBON, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA 24060-0135 MARTTI NISSINEN, University of Helsinki, FIN-00014 Finland EUNG CHUN PARK, San Francisco Theological Seminary, San Anselmo, CA 94960