What Is This Babbler Trying to Say?: Essays on Biblical Interpretation

by Michael S. Moore

Overview

This book is a collection of revised-and-updated essays about the Hebrew Bible written by a North American scholar over a period of several decades. Subdivided into three parts--Torah, Prophecy/Apocalyptic, and Wisdom--these seventeen essays attempt to model for younger scholars and students what the discipline of biblical interpretation can look like, attending carefully to literary, historical, canonical, and comparative intertextual methods of investigation.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781498208536
Publisher:	Pickwick Publications
Publication date:	03/03/2016
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	368
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Michael S. Moore (PhD, Drew University) teaches courses about the Hebrew Bible to students at Arizona State University, Fuller Theological Seminary, and the Arizona Research Center for the Ancient Near East (www.arcane-az.com), where he serves as Director. He is the author of The Balaam Traditions: Their Character and Development (Scholars Press, 1990) and WealthWatch: A Study of Socioeconomic Conflict in the Bible (Pickwick, 2011).

Table of Contents

Preface ix

Abbreviations xi

Part 1 Torah

1 Another Look at Balaam 3

2 Balaam the "Prophet"? 20

3 Role Preemption in the Israelite Priesthood 25

Part 2 Prophecy and Apocalyptic

4 Yahweh's Day 45

5 Jeremiah's Progressive Paradox 58

6 Jeremiah's Identity Crisis 81

7 The Laments in Jeremiah and 1QH: Mapping the Metaphorical Trajectories 94

8 Jehu's Coronation and Purge of Israel 122

9 Big Dreams and Broken Promises: Solomon's Treaty with Hiram 140

10 Searching In Sheba: The Desire for "Biblical Literacy" 156

11 Resurrection and Immortality: Two Motifs Navigating Confluent Theological Streams in Daniel 12:1-4 166

Part 3 Wisdom and Other Writings

12 Ruth the Moabite and the Blessing of Foreigners 183

13 To 'King or Not To King: A Canonical-Historical Approach to Ruth 197

14 Job's Texts of Terror 212

15 Human Suffering in Lamentations 226

16 Bathsheba's Silence 245

17 Wise Women" or "Wisdom Woman?" A Biblical Study of Gender Roles 256

Bibliography 269