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Preface
Part I The Bible and History
1 Israel Without the Bible
Gary A. Rendsburg
2 Bible, Archaeology, and the Social Sciences: The Next Generation
Elizabeth Bloch-Smith
Part II New Approaches to the Bible
3 Literary Approaches to Biblical Literature: General Observations and a Case Study of Genesis 34
Adele Berlin
4 Feminist Approaches to the Hebrew Bible
Esther Fuchs
Part III Ancient Practice
5 The Laws of Biblical Israel
Raymond Westbrook
6 The Study of Ritual in the Hebrew Bible
David P. Wright
Part IV Judaism and the Bible
7 By the Letter?/Word for Word? Scripture in the Jewish Tradition
Leonard Greenspoon
8 From Judaism to Biblical Religion and Back Again
Ziony Zevit
9 Jewish Biblical Theology
Marvin A. Sweeney
Epilogue: Let a Hundred Flowers Bloom: Some Re?ections on Reading and Studying the Hebrew Bible
Peter Machinist
About the Contributors
Index
Index of Biblical Passages