Collected Essays

The Jewish Quarterly Review, XCIII, Nos. 1-2 (July-October, 2002) 325-333 COLLECTED ESSAYS Anderson, Gary; Michael Stone; and Johannes Tromp, eds. Literature on Adam and Eve: Collected Essays. Studies in Veteris Testamenti Pseudepigrapha. Leiden/Boston/Koln: Brill, 2000. Pp. xiii + 388. Contents: Studies in the Books of Adam and Eve Edited by Gary Anderson and Michael Stone Gary A. Anderson, The Penitence Narrative in the Life ofAdam and Eve; Michael E. Stone, The Fall of Satan and Adam's Penance: Three Notes on The Books of Adam and Eve; Gary A. Anderson, The Punishment of Adam and Eve in the Life ofAdam and Eve; Gary A. Anderson, The Exaltation of Adam and the Fall of Satan; Michael E. Stone, The Angelic Prediction in the Primary Adam Books; Gary A. Anderson, Ezekiel 28, the Fall of Satan, and the Adam Books; Michael E. Stone, The Legend of the Cheirograph of Adam; Michael E. Stone, Selections from On the Creation of the World by Yovhannês T'lkuranc'i: Translation and Commentary; Gary A. Anderson, The Original Form of the Life of Adam and Eve: A Proposal Current Issues in the Study of the Life of Adam and Eve Edited by Johannes Tromp M. de Jonge, The Literary Development of the Life of Adam and Eve; J. R. Levison, The Exoneration and Denigration of Eve in the Greek Life ofAdam and Eve; Joh. Tromp, Cain and Abel in the Greek and Armenian/Georgian Recensions of the Life of Adam and Eve; M. Meiser, Sünde, Buße und Gnade in dem Leben Adams und Evas; J. Dochhorn, Adam als Bauer, oder: Die Ätiologie des Ackerbaus in Vita Adae 1-21 und die Redaktionsgeschichte der Adamviten; M. de Jonge, The Christian Origin of the Greek Life ofAdam and Eve Bellis, Alice Ogden, and Joel S. Kaminsky, eds. Jews, Christians , and the Theology of the Hebrew Scriptures. SBL Symposium Series 8. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2000. Pp. xiv + 450. Contents: Part 1: Theoretical Perspectives Section 1 : Primary Propositions Joel S. Kaminsky, Paradise Regained: Rabbinic Reflections on Israel at Sinai; Johanna W. H. van Wuk-Bos, Writing on the Water: 326THE JEWISH QUARTERLY REVIEW The Ineffable Name of God; Murray H. Lichtenstein, An Interpersonal Theology of the Hebrew Bible; Ellen F. Davis, Losing a Friend: The Loss of the Old Testament to the Church Section 2: Mostly Methods Walter Brueggemann, Biblical Theology Appropriately Postmodern; Tikva Frymer-Kensky, The Emergence of Jewish Biblical Theologies ; S. David Sperling, The Law and the Prophet; Rolf Rendtorff , A Christian Approach to the Theology of Hebrew Scriptures Section 3: Engaging Evil Marvin A. Sweeney, Reconceiving the Paradigms of Old Testament Theology in the Post-Shoah Period; Jorge Pixley, Christian Biblical Theology and the Struggle against Oppression; Baruch Halpern, YHWH the Revolutionary: Reflections on the Rhetoric of Redistribution in the Social Context of Dawning Monotheism Part 2: Textual Perspectives Section 1: The Exodus Story Jon D. Levenson, Liberation Theology and the Exodus; Jorge V. Pixley, History and Particularity in Reading the Hebrew Bible: A Response to Jon D. Levenson; Jon D. Levenson, The Perils of Engaged Scholarship: A Rejoinder to Jorge Pixley; John J. Collins, The Exodus and Biblical Theology; Jon D. Levenson, The Exodus and Biblical Theology: A Rejoinder to John J. Collins Section 2: Pivotal Passages Terence E. Fretheim, Which Blessing Does Isaac Give Jacob?; David Marcus, Traditional Jewish Responses to the Question of Deceit in Genesis 27; Esther Fuchs, A Jewish-Feminist Reading of Exodus 1-2; Brooks Schramm, Exodus 19 and Its Christian Appropriation; Marc Zvi Brettler, The Many Faces of God in Exodus 19; Alice Ogden Bellis, Habakkuk 2:4b: Intertextuality and Hermeneutics Brooke, George J., ed. Jewish Ways of Reading the Bible. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. Pp. vi + 326. Contents: Reading the Bible in the Classical Age Bernard S. Jackson, The Original Oral Law; Nina L. Collins, Who Wanted a Translation of the Pentateuch in Greek?; Siam Bhayro, Daniel's "Watchers" in Enochic Exegesis of Genesis 6:1-4; George J. Brooke, Reading the Plain Meaning of Scripture in the Dead Sea Scrolls; Niclas Förster, The Exegesis of Homer and Numerology as a Method for Interpreting the Bible in the...