Contents

Preface

Introduction: Fifteen Joint Meetings and the Sixteenth

Reexamining the ‘Fathers’ in Deuteronomy’s Framework

Did the Assyrian Envoy Know the Venite?: What did He Know? What did He Say? And should He be Believed?

‘I am a God and Not a Human Being’: The Divine Dilemma in Hosea

Covenant, Agreement, and Law: The Social Code Underlying the Book of Nehemiah

Geography in Num 33 and 34 and the Challenge of Pentateuchal Theory

The Concept of Torah in the Book of Isaiah

The Kingship Motif in Isaiah 61:1–3

The Influence of the Decalogue on the Shape of Exodus

The Greek Translators of the Pentateuch and the Epicureans

Leviticus from a Gendered Perspective: Making and Maintaining Priests

Interpreting Torah: Strategies of Producing, Circulating, and Validating Authoritative Scriptures in Early Judaism

The Inner Cohesion of Jeremiah 34:8–22, on the Liberation of Slaves during the Siege of Jerusalem, and its Relation to Deuteronomy 15

Index of Authors

Index of Textual References