A Wise and Discerning Mind : Essays in Honor of Burke O. Long / Edited by Saul M. Olyan, Robert C. Culley.

Providence, RI : Brown Judaic Studies, 2000-2020.

xvii, 330 pages : Grayscale Illustration ; pages cm.

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De-Doxifying Miriam -- Goddess Worship—Ancient and Modern -- Numinous Nomos: On the Relationship between Narrative and Law -- A “Literary Sermon” in Deuteronomy 4 -- Models of Utopia in the Biblical Tradition -- The Confessions of Jeremiah and Traditional Discourse -- Desire Distorted and Exhibited: Lot and His Daughters in Psychoanalysis, Painting, and Film -- The Gift: World Alteration and Obligation in 2 Kings 4:8–37 -- Contextual Theologies in the Old Testament? -- The Role of the Reader in Ugaritic Narrative -- Entertainment, Ideology, and the Reception of “History”: “David's Jerusalem” As a Question of Space -- Village Law and the Book of the Covenant -- The Biblical Prohibition of the Mourning Rites of Shaving and Laceration: Several Proposals -- Clan Sagas As a Source in Settlement Traditions -- “The Mother of All…” Etiologies -- W. F. Albright and His “Household”: The Cases of C. H. Gordon, M. H. Pope and F. M. Cross -- Metaphor and Myth: Percy, Ricoeur and Frye -- “The History of Saul's Rise”: Saulide State Propaganda in 1 Samuel 1–14 -- Unity and Diversity in the Book of Kings -- Poetry Creates Historiography.

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