Preface

Brent A. Strawn and Nancy R. Bowen

Abbreviations and Contributors

Part I: ‘Near Whenever We Call’: God’s Nearness in Israel’s Crying Out (The Psalms and Beyond)

1. Reading the Lament Psalms Backwards H. G. M. Williamson

2. ‘Without Our Aid He Did Us Make’: Singing the Meaning of the Psalms W. Sibley Towner

3. The So-Called Elohistic Psalter: A New Solution for an Old Problem Frank-Lothar Hossfeld and Erich Zenger

4. A Fairy Tale Wedding? A Feminist Intertextual Reading of Psalm 45 Nancy R. Bowen

5. Notes on Psalm 93: A Fragment of a Liturgical Poem Affirming Yahweh’s Kingship Frank Moore Cross

6. There the Blessing: An Exposition of Psalm 133 James Luther Mays

7. Certainty, Ambiguity, and Trust: Knowledge of God in Psalm 139 Carolyn Pressler

8. Quoth the Raven: Psalm 147 and the Environment James Limburg

9. Prayer and/as Self-Address: The Case of Hannah J. Gerald Janzen

10. Naomi’s Cry: Reflections on Ruth 1:20-21 Katharine Doob Sakenfeld

11. Jonah 2: A Prayer out of the Deep Gerhard Sauter

12. Songs in a New Key: The Psalmic Structure of the Chronicler’s Hymn (1 Chr 16:8-36) Mark A. Throntveit

13. Wild, Raging Creativity: The Scene in the Whirlwind (Job 38-41) Kathleen M. O’Connor

Part II: ‘As Just as This Entire Law’: God’s Nearness in the Torah (Deuteronomy and Beyond)

14. Law in the Service of Life: A Dynamic Understanding of Law in Deuteronomy Terence E. Fretheim

15. How Does Deuteronomy Do Theology? Literary Juxtaposition and Paradox in the New Moab Covenant in Deuteronomy 29-32 Dennis T. Olson

16. Keep/Observe/Do—Carefully—Today! The Rhetoric of Repetition in Deuteronomy Brent A. Strawn

17. Divine Warrior Theology in Deuteronomy Richard D. Nelson

18. Reading Deuteronomy 5 as Narrative Norbert Lohfink

19. The Travail of Pardon: Reflections on slh Walter Brueggemann

20. Circumcision of the Heart: The Journey of a Biblical Metaphor Werner E. Lemke

21. Huldah, the Prophet: Reading a (Deuteronomistic) Woman’s Identity Renita J. Weems

22. Prophets and Kings: A New Look at the Royal Persecution of Prophets against Its Near Eastern Background J. J. M. Roberts

23. From Mountain to Mountain: The Reign of God in Daniel 2 C. L. Seow

24. Sola Scriptura? The Authority of the Bible in Pluralistic Environments Michael Welker

Bibliography of the Works of Patrick D. Miller, 1964-2001

Brent A. Strawn

Indexes of Authors and Scripture