Milk and honey essays on ancient Israel and the Bible in appreciation of the Judaic Studies Program at the University of California, San Diego (Eisenbrauns, 2007)
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Genesis. A goddess in the garden? : the fall of Eve / Shawna Dolansky ; Jacob's bargain with God (Genesis 28:20-22) and its implications for the documentary hypothesis / Jeffrey C. Geoghegan ; Do not interpretations belong to God? : a narrative assessment of Genesis 40 as it elucidates the persona of Joseph / Miriam Sherman -- Poetry and prophecy. Quantitative analysis of the tribal sayings in Deuteronomy 33 and its significance for the poem's overall structure / Brian Kelly ; The lion has roared : rhetorical structure in Amos 1:2-3:8 / Jack R. Lundbom ; On the use of the name of God in the Book of Jonah / Elizabeth Goldstein -- Narrative and history. The good book and the bad movies : Moses and the failure of biblical cinema / Michael M. Homan ; What happened in the fourteenth year of Hezekiah? : a historical analysis of 2 Kings 18-20 in the light of new textual considerations / David Miano ; Where is God? : divine presence in the absence of the temple / Risa Levitt Kohn and Rebecca Moore -- Lexicon. The first halleluyah / Ziony Zevit ; Spice roots in the Song of Songs / Sarah Malena ; The participle in Biblical Hebrew and the overlap of grammar and lexicon / Francis I. Andersen and A. Dean Forbes -- Archaeology and paleography. Biomolecules, Bedouin, and the Bible : reconstructing ancient foodways in Israel's northern Negev / Margie Burton ; From the Wilderness of Zin alongside Edom : Edomite territory in the eastern Negev during the eighth-sixth centuries B.C.E. / Laura M. Zucconi ; The Gamla coin : a new perspective on the circumstances and date of its minting / Yoav Arbel