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Presidential Address by Athalya Brenner-Idan

Athalya Brenner-Idan
pp. 3-5
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jbl.2016.0006
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On Scholarship and Related Animals: A Personal View from and for the Here and Now

Athalya Brenner-Idan
pp. 6-17
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jbl.2016.0009
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Political Favoritism in Saul’s Court: חפץ, נעם, and the Relationship between David and Jonathan

Erin E. Fleming
pp. 19-34
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jbl.2016.0011
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“My Wife Must Not Live in King David’s Palace” (2 Chr 8:11): A Contribution to the Diachronic Study of Intermarriage Traditions in the Hebrew Bible

Louis C. Jonker
pp. 35-47
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jbl.2016.0013
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“Iron Sharpens Iron” as a Negative Image: Challenging the Common Interpretation of Proverbs 27:17

Ronald L. Giese Jr.
pp. 61-76
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jbl.2016.0003
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Rephaim, Whisperers, and the Dead in Isaiah 26:13–19: A Ugaritic Parallel

Matthew Mcaffee
pp. 77-94
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jbl.2016.0005
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Unraveling Hebrew שַׁעַטְנֵז

Benjamin J. Noonan
pp. 95-101
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jbl.2016.0008
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An Unseen Paleographical Problem with Milne and Skeat’s Dictation Theory of Codex Sinaiticus

Zachary J. Cole
pp. 103-107
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jbl.2016.0010
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Ancient Compositional Practices and the Gospels: A Reassessment

James W. Barker
pp. 109-121
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jbl.2016.0012
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“Why Do You Seek the Living among the Dead?” Rhetorical Questions in the Lukan Resurrection Narrative

Deborah Thompson Prince
pp. 123-139
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jbl.2016.0000
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The Dissembler of John 3: A Cognitive and Rhetorical Approach to the Characterization of Nicodemus

Michael R. Whitenton
pp. 141-158
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jbl.2016.0002
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The Divine Identity of Jesus as the Reason for Israel’s Unbelief in John 12:36–43

Jonathan Lett
pp. 159-173
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jbl.2016.0004
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ἁρπαγμός Revisited: A Philological Reexamination of the New Testament’s “Most Difficult Word”

Michael Wade Martin
pp. 175-194
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jbl.2016.0007
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Psalm 72:20: A Frozen Colophon?

David Willgren
pp. 49-60
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jbl.2016.0001
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