Milk and Honey : Essays on Ancient Israel and the Bible in Appreciation of the Judaic Studies Program at the University of California, San Diego.

Front Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Part 1: Genesis -- A Goddess in the Garden?: The Fall of Eve -- Jacob's Bargain with God (Genesis 28:20-22) and Its Implications for the Documentary Hypothesis -- Do Not Interpretations Belong to God? A Narrative Assessment of Genesis 40 as It Elucidates the Persona of Joseph -- Part 2: Poetry and Prophecy -- Quantitative Analysis of the Tribal Sayings in Deuteronomy 33 and Its Significance for the Poem's Overall Structure -- The Lion Has Roared: Rhetorical Structure in Amos 1:2-3:8 -- On the Use of the Name of God in the Book of Jonah -- Part 3: Narrative and History -- The Good Book and the Bad Movies: Moses and the Failure of Biblical Cinema -- What Happened in the Fourteenth Year of Hezekiah? A Historical Analysis of 2 Kings 18-20 in the Light of New Textual Considerations -- Where Is God? Divine Presence in the Absence of the Temple -- Part 4: Lexicon -- The First Halleluyah -- Spice Roots in the Song of Songs -- The Participle in Biblical Hebrew and the Overlap of Grammar and Lexicon -- Part 5: Archaeology and Paleography -- Biomolecules, Bedouin, and the Bible: Reconstructing Ancient Foodways in Israel's Northern Negev -- From the Wilderness of Zin along side Edom: Edomite Territory in the Eastern Negev during the Eighth-Sixth Centuries B.C.E. -- The Gamla Coin: A New Perspective on the Circumstances and Date of Its Minting -- Indexes.

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