Raising up a faithful exegete essays in honor of Richard D. Nelson (Eisenbrauns, 2010)
"Bibliographical history of Richard D. Nelson's career," xiii-xv
Includes bibliographical references and index
"I still can't believe it" : a brief biography of Richard D. Nelson / Brooks Schramm -- Prophetic madness : prophecy and ecstasy in the ancient Near East and in Greece / Martti Nissinen -- The Deuteronomic history and the book of Chronicles : scribal works in an oral world / Raymond F. Person Jr. -- The Deuteronomistic history : historical reconsiderations / Niels Peter Lemche -- The Deuteronomistic history and "double redaction" / Philip R. Davies -- On the term Deuteronomistic in relation to Joshua-Kings in the Persian period / Ehud Ben Zvi -- A portrait of the Deuteronomistic historian at work? / K.L. Noll -- Book-endings in Joshua and the question of the so-called Deuteronomistic history / Thomas Römer -- Joshua in the book of Joshua / Thomas B. Dozeman -- Synoptic David : the view from Chronicles / A. Graeme Auld -- "Rest all around from all his enemies" (2 Samuel 7:1b) : the occasion for David's offer to build a temple / Timothy M. Willis --
- Why did David stay home? : an exegetical study of 2 Samuel 11:1 / Steven L. McKenzie -- David, the Great King, King of the Four Quarters : structure and signification in the catalog of David's conquests (2 Samuel 8:1-14, 1 Chronicles 18:1-13) / Cynthia Edenburg -- The self-limiting God of the Old Testament and issues of violence / Terence E. Fretheim -- Wisdom influence in the book of Deuteronomy / Jack R. Lundbom -- A simple matter of numbering? : "sovereignty" and "holiness" in the Decalogue tradition / Rodney R. Hutton -- What is Abimelek doing in Judges? / Roy L. Heller -- The Chronicler's theological rewriting of the Deuteronomistic history : Amaziah, a test case / Ralph W. Klein -- The rescue of Jerusalem from the Assyrians in 701 B.C.E. by the Cushites / Alice Ogden Bellis -- Covenant and liberation : diachronic perspectives / Alejandro F. Botta -- Woe or hoi : the lamentable translation of [ ] in Isaiah 55:1 / Marty E. Stevens --
- Tested at the boundary : Deuteronomy and Matthew in conversation on testing / Robert L. Foster -- Whose faith? : reexamining the Habakkuk 2:4 citation within the communicative act of Romans 1:1-17 / Richard P. Carlson -- The Lord's Supper as a meal of siblings / Walter F. Taylor Jr