Journal of Biblical Literature 133, no. 2

The Journal of Biblical Literature 133, no. 2 includes:

• Joram Mayshar, “Who Was the Toshav?”
• Amitai Baruchi-Unna, “Two Clearings of Goats (1 Kings 20:27): An Interpretation Supported by an Akkadian Parallel”
• Ryan E. Stokes, “Satan, Yhwh’s Executioner”
• Saul M. Olyan, “Jehoiakim’s Dehumanizing Interment as a Ritual Act of Reclassification”
• John L. McLaughlin, “Is Amos (Still) among the Wise?”
• Christine Mitchell, “A Note on the Creation Formula in Zechariah 12:1–8; Isaiah 42:5–6; and Old Persian Inscriptions”
• Kristian Larsson, “Intertextual Density, Quantifying Imitation”
• J. R. Daniel Kirk and Stephen L. Young, “‘I Will Set His Hand to the Sea’: Psalm 88:26 LXX and Christology in Mark”
• Jennifer Knust and Tommy Wasserman, “The Biblical Odes and the Text of the Christian Bible: A Reconsideration of the Impact of Liturgical Singing on the Transmission of the Gospel of Luke”
• Brittany E. Wilson, “The Blinding of Paul and the Power of God:Masculinity, Sight, and Self-Control in Acts 9”
• Brice C. Jones, ”Three New Coptic Papyrus Fragments of 2 Timothy and Titus (P.Mich. inv. 3535b)”
• Nicola Denzey Lewis and Justine Ariel Blount, “Rethinking the Origins of the Nag Hammadi Codices”

This issue also introduces the “JBL Forum,” which is intended to provide “an occasional series that will highlight approaches, points of
view, and even definitions of ‘biblical scholarship’ that may be outside the usual purview of many of our readers. The format may vary from time to time but will always include an exchange of ideas on the matter at hand” (pg. 421). This issue’s forum includes:

• Ronald Hendel, “Mind the Gap: Modern and Postmodern in Biblical Studies”
• Stephen D. Moore, “Watch the Target: A Post-Postmodernist Response to Ronald Hendel”
• Peter Miscall, George Aichele, and Richard Walsh, “Response to Ron Hendel”