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Creating a New "Great Divide": The Exoticization of Ancient Culture in Some Recent Applications of Orality Studies to the Bible

Paul S. Evans
pp. 749-764
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jbl.2017.0046
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The Date of the Shema (Deuteronomy 6:4-5)

Nathan MacDonald
pp. 765-782
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jbl.2017.0047
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The Lists of Levitical Cities (Joshua 21, 1 Chronicles 6) and the Propagandistic Map for the Hasmonean Territorial Expansion

Yitzhak Lee-Sak
pp. 783-800
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jbl.2017.0048
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Hands, Heads, and Feet: Body Parts as Poetic Device in Judges 4–5

Karolien Vermeulen
pp. 801-819
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jbl.2017.0049
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"He Will Take the Best of Your Fields": Royal Feasts and Rural Extraction

Gale A. Yee
pp. 821-838
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jbl.2017.0050
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Yahwistic Appropriation of Achaemenid Ideology and the Function of Nehemiah 9 in Ezra-Nehemiah

David Janzen
pp. 839-856
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jbl.2017.0051
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Job 2 and 42:7–10 as Narrative Bridge and Theological Pivot

Paul K.-K. Cho
pp. 857-877
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jbl.2017.0052
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הבל as "Worthless" in Qoheleth: A Critique of Michael V. Fox's "Absurd" Thesis

Mark Sneed
pp. 879-894
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jbl.2017.0053
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Naqia and Nineveh in Nahum: Ambiguity and the Prostitute Queen

Gregory D. Cook
pp. 895-904
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jbl.2017.0054
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A Newly Reconstructed Calendrical Scroll from Qumran in Cryptic Script

Eshbal Ratzon, Jonathan Ben-Dov
pp. 905-936
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jbl.2017.0055
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Jesus's Question to Pilate in Mark 15:2

Jonathan Schwiebert
pp. 937-947
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jbl.2017.0056
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Slow Sailing in Acts: Suspense in the Final Sea Journey (Acts 27:1–28:15)

Troy M. Troftgruben
pp. 949-968
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jbl.2017.0057
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Is Every Sin outside the Body except Immoral Sex?: Weighing Whether 1 Corinthians 6:18b Is Paul's Statement or a Corinthian Slogan

Andrew David Naselli
pp. 969-987
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jbl.2017.0058
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James 3:13-4:10 and the Language of Envy in Proverbs 3

Benjamin Lappenga
pp. 989-1006
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jbl.2017.0059
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Annual Index: Volume 136 (2017)

pp. 1007-1009
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jbl.2017.0060
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