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Tables of Contents for A Wise and Discerning Mind
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
ix
Selected Publications of Burke O. Long
xiii
Contributors
xvii
De-Doxifying Miriam
1
10
Alice Bach
Goddess Worship-Ancient and Modern
11
14
Gary Beckman
Numinous Nomos: On the Relationship between Narrative and Law
25
8
Adele Berlin
A ``Literary Sermon'' in Deuteronomy 4
33
18
Marc Z. Brettler
Models of Utopia in the Biblical Tradition
51
18
John J. Collins
The Confessions of Jeremiah and Traditional Discourse
69
14
Robert C. Culley
Desire Distorted and Exhibited: Lot and His Daughters in Psychoanalysis, Painting, and Film
83
26
J. Cheryl Exum
The Gift: World Alternation and Obligation in 2 Kings 4:8-37
109
16
Danna Nolan Fewell
Contextual Theologies in the Old Testament?
125
14
Erhard S. Gerstenberger
The Role of the Reader in Ugaritic Narrative
139
14
Edward L. Greenstein
Entertainment, Ideology, and the Reception of ``History'': ``David's Jerusalem'' As a Question of Space
153
10
David M. Gunn
Village Law and the Book of the Covenant
163
18
Douglas A. Knight
The Biblical Prohibition of the Mourning Rites of Shaving and Laceration: Several Proposals
181
10
Saul M. Olyan
Clan Sagas As a Source in Settlement Traditions
191
14
Alexander Rofe
``The Mother of All ...'' Etiologies
205
16
Jack M. Sasson
W.F. Albright and His ``Household'': The Cases of C.H. Gordon, M.H. Pope and F.M. Cross
221
24
Mark S. Smith
Metaphor and Myth: Percy, Ricoeur and Frye
245
26
Hugh C. White
``The History of Saul's Rise'': Saulide State Propaganda in 1 Samuel 1-14
271
22
Marsha White
Unity and Diversity in the Book of Kings
293
18
Robert R. Wilson
Poetry Creates Historiography
311
Yair Zakovitch