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Bodner argues that literary analysis has value for exploring numerous issues in the Hebrew Bible, including text-critical problems, the Deuteronomistic History, and Chronicles. Essays petition for a heightened awareness of the artistic achievement of the Hebrew Bible and illustrate that literary thinking is necessary for biblical interpretation.

Revision of author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Brite Divinity School, Texas Christian University, 2010 under title: Domestic disputations at the dung heap: a reception history of Job and his wife in Christianity of the West.

This book explores various aspects of intertextuality in the LXX Twelve Prophets, with a special emphasis on Hosea, Amos and Micah.

Presents a test case for diachronic and synchronicapproaches in the book of Joshua - one of the most complex texts in the OldTestament

The commentary on the "Torah" of the eleventh-century French rabbi, Solomon Yishaqi of Troyes (better known as Rashi), is one of the major texts of mediaeval Judaism. Through a close reading of Rashi's commentary on Deuteronomy that deals with language, this book examines the extent and nature of his linguistic knowledge.

A renewed study of Iranian influence on apocalyptic traditions, arguing for a methodology which takes into account Iranian studies, oral theory, and the Achaemenid context.

Traces the narrative of the exilic author of the "Deuteronomistic History", a narrative that provides an explanation for the trauma that the Judean community in Babylon suffered. This book argues that we can trace a single, coherent narrative throughout the History that is an attempt to explain to its original readers why the exile occurred.

This work investigates the literary-ideological representation of the ancient Near Eastern superpower, Assyria, in one of their sacred texts, the book of Isaiah.

Explores a number of instances of unexpected but influential readings of the Bible in popular culture, literature, film, music and politics. This title argues that the effects of the Bible continues to have an effect on contemporary culture in ways that may surprise and sometimes dismay both religious and secular groups.

Discusses the experience and understanding of the senses in the culture represented in the Hebrew Bible. Through examination of associative and contextual patterns, the author reaches a septasensory model, including sight, hearing, speech, kinaesthesia, touch, taste, and smell.

By emphasising observation and empiricism as a key influence on human behaviour, this title excludes any consideration of tradition or revelation. It takes an original and creative approaches to its subject, including work from historical and theological perspectives, social-scientific and literary theory, and reception history.

A study that offers a canonical reading of the Esau and Edom traditions, examining the portrayal of Esau and Edom in "Genesis", "Deuteronomy", and the prophetic material. It argues that the depiction of Esau and his descendants in "Genesis" and "Deuteronomy" is, on the whole, positive.

A title that uses anthropology to investigate the moral dilemma facing Saul's daughter in "1 Samuel 19", concluding that her choice of David (over Saul) is counter-cultural.

Though the portrait of Abimelech as king in "Judges" 9 is negative, this portrayal served to delegitimate local leaders in favor of centralized power-holders. This book explores the portrayal of the rise, reign, and demise of Abimelech in "Judges" 9 and asks about whose interests this portrayal may have served.

"Using a methodology of character analysis, Kamrada illustrates how the representation of certain characters in the Bible utilizes and reverses Greek traditions of the tragic and the heroic for the glorification of God"--

Explores the Pentateuch's literary influence on other biblical texts. After demonstrating this independence, this study explores its implications on the composition of biblical texts and the process of canonization.

The goal of the work is to expose what factors turned a positive (or neutral) character of the Golden Calf image into a negative one. >

In presenting a view of ethnicity as an epistemological rather than an ontological entity, this work seeks to correct the pronounced tendency towards 'analytical groupism' in the academic literature. It challenges what Pierre Bourdieu has called 'our primary inclination to think the world in a substantialist manner'.

The Old Testament, and biblical scholarship itself, distinguishes between mythical and historical. This book argues that only historical thing in the Bible is the Bible itself, a superb product of Jewish thought. What is narrated in the Bible is only myth.