Books Received — 2005

BOOKS RECEIVED — 2005 Anderson, Cheryl B. Women, Ideology, and Violence: Critical Theory and the Construciton of Gender in the Book of the Covenant and the Deuteronomic Law. JSOTSup 394. Pp. xii + 148. Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 2004. Cloth. Anderson, Robert T. and Terry Giles. Tradition Kept: The Literature of the Samaritans. Pp. xv + 432. Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson Publishers, 2005. Cloth. Assis, Elie. Self-Interest or Communal Interest: An Ideology of Leadership in the Gideon, Abimelech and Jephthah Narratives (Judg 6–12). VTSup 106. Pp. xiv + 263. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2005. Cloth. Bar-Asher, Moshe and Moshe Florentin, eds. MyCgwm :tymrabw tyrbob twnwrmwCb Myrqjm lf Mhrbal (Samaritan, Hebrew and Aramaic studies: Presented to Professor Abraham Tal). Pp. k + 387 + xii + 173*. Jerusalem: The Bialik Institute, 2005. Cloth. Barco, Francisco Javier del Barco del. Catálogo de Manuscritos Hebreos de la Comunidad de Madrid: Volume 2, Estudios Introductorios por M.a Teresa Orgega Monasterio y M.a Josefa de azcárraga Servert. Pp. 263 + CD. Madrid: Instituto de Filología, 2004. Paper. Bar-Efrat, Shimon. Narrative Art in the Bible. Pp. 295. Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1992. Paper. Barré, Michael L. The Lord has Saved Me: A Study of the Psalm of Hezekiah (Isaiah 38:9–20). CBQMS 39. Pp. x + 294. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic Biblical Association of America, 2005. Paper. Becker, Dan. N…wrb Nb qjxyl ‘tybrohw tyrboh Nyb hawwChh rps’ lC Myybro twrwqm (Arabic sources of Isaac Ben Barun’s book of comparison between the Hebrew and the Arabic languages). Pp. viii +227 + (viii English). Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv University, 2005. Cloth. Bekkenkamp, Jonneke and Yvonne Sherwood, eds. Sanctified Aggression: Legacies of Biblical and Post-Biblical Vocabularies of Violence. JSOTSup 400. Pp. xii + 248. New York: Continuum, 2003. Paper. Bergen, Wesley J. Reading Ritual: Leviticus in Postmodern Culture. JSOTSup 417. Pp. 140. New York: Continuum, 2005. Cloth. Berlinerblau, Jacques. The Secular Bible: Why Nonbelievers Must Take Religion Seriously. Pp. xiii + 217. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Cloth. Boccaccini, Gabriele, ed. Enoch and Qumran Origins: New Light on a Forgotten Connection. Pp. xviii + 454. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 2005. Paper. Hebrew Studies 46 (2005) 461 Books Received Brenner, Athalya. I Am...Biblical Women Tell Their Own Stories. Pp. xviii + 228. Minneapolis, Minn.: Augsburg Fortress, 2005. Paper. Brenner, Athalya, ed. Are We Amused?: Humour about Women in the Biblical Worlds. JSOTSup 383. Pp. ix + 158. Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 2003. Paper. Brenner, Rachel Feldhay. Inextricably Bonded: Israeli Arab and Jewish Writers ReVisioning Culture. Pp. ix + 349. Madison, Wisc.: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2003. Cloth. Britt, Brian. Rewriting Moses: The Narrative Eclipse of the Text. JSOTSup 402. Pp. xi + 208. New York: Continuum, 2004. Paper. Budick, Emily Miller. Aharon Appelfeld’s Fiction: Acknowledging the Holocaust. Pp. xix + 195. Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, 2005. Cloth. Campbell, Antony F. 2 Samuel. FOTL 8. Pp. xiv + 242. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 2005. Paper. Cochavi-Rainey, Zippora. Mypswn Mybtkmw Knot ,üdImU;k ,hnramo-la ybtkm :yInwda Klml n″hspl hrco-obrah hamhm (To the King my Lord: Letters from El-Amarna, Kumidu, Taanach and other letters from the fourteenth century B.C.E.). Pp. xxx + 345. Jerusalem: The Bialik Institute, 2005. Paper. Coffin, Edna Amir and Shmuel Bolozky. A Reference Grammar of Modern Hebrew. Pp. xiv + 447. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Cloth. Paper. Conrad, Edgar W. Reading the Latter Prophets: Toward a New Canonical Criticism. JSOTSup 376. Pp. xiii + 288. Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 2003. Paper. Cook, Stephen L. The Social Roots of Biblical Yahwism. Studies in Biblical Literature 8. Pp. xii + 310. Atlanta, Ga.: Society of Biblical Literature, 2004. Paper. Corley, Jeremy and Vincent Skemp, eds. Intertextual Studies in Ben Sira and Tobit. CBQMS 38. Pp. xiv + 319. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic Biblical Association of America, 2005. Paper. Davies, John A. A Royal Priesthood: Literary and Intertextual Perspectives on an Image of Israel in Exodus 19.6. JSOTSup 395. Pp. xiii + 290. Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 2004. Cloth. Davies, Philip. Whose Bible is it Anyway? 3d ed. Pp. 159. Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 2004. Paper. DeClaissé-Walford, Nancy L. Introduction to the Psalms: A Song from Ancient Israel. Pp. viii + 184. St. Louis, Mo.: Chalice Press, 2004. Paper. Hebrew Studies 46 (2005) 462 Books Received Dever, William G. Did God have...