Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Publications of Stephen A. Geller -- Biblical accounts of prehistory : their meaning and formation / Tzvi Abusch -- The poet as historian : the plague tradition in Psalm 105 / Marc Z. Brettler -- "The Lord grants wisdom" : the world view of Proverbs 1-9 / Alan Cooper -- A homily on the Book of Jonah / Frank Moore Cross -- Qoheleth : the philosopher means business / Stephen Garfinkel -- "On my skin and in my flesh" : personal experience as a source of knowledge in the Book of Job / Edward L. Greenstein -- Contextual reading : Rabbi Eliezer of Beaugency's Commentary on Jonah / Robert A. Harris -- "In your blood, live" (Ezekiel 16:6) : a reconsideration of Meir Malul's adoption formula / S. Tamar Kamionkowski -- Biblical remedial narratives : the triumph of the trophies / Kathryn F. Kravitz -- Rib redux : the essentialist Eve / Anne Lapidus Lerner -- Prolepsis in the story of Rahab and the spies (Joshua 2) / David Marcus -- On Biblical anthropomorphism / Yochanan Muffs -- Biblical exegesis à la mercantilism and raison d'état in seventeenth century Venice : the Discorso of Simone Luzzatto / Benjamin Ravid -- "You are my servant" : ambiguity and Deutero-Isaiah / Michael Rosenbaum -- The song of the silent dove : the pilgrimage of Judah Halevi / Raymond P. Scheindlin -- The way of the word : textualization in Isaiah 55:6-11 / William M. Schniedewind -- Choreography of an intertextual allusion to rape in Judges 5:24-27 / Diane M. Sharon -- Prophecy as translation : ancient Israelite conceptions of the human factor in prophecy / Benjamin D. Sommer.