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Presents a heuristic reading strategy for a modern reader to engage with YHWH's threats against Israel in "Deuteronomy". This text attempts to discern the logic of YHWH's threats: what motivates the threats, what form the threats take, and what effect the threats expect to produce.

A monograph on biblical linguistics that is a pragmatic investigation of the controversial question of 'foregrounding' - the deviation from some norm or convention - in Old Testament narratives. It critiques the particular evaluative device known as the 'historic present', a narrative strategy that employs the present tense to describe past event.

Joshua's characterization has received inadequate scholarly attention, largely because he is seen as a pale character, a mere stereotype in the biblical history. This title offers a narrative treatment of the conquest accounts, with specific attention given to the characterization of Joshua.

The basic phonetic relationship between Semitic languages and non-Semitic languages, like Greek and Latin is so complex that it was hardly possible to establish a unified tradition in writing biblical proper names within the Greek and Latin cultures. This book explores the various transformations of biblical proper names.

Investigates the nature of the hope for the house of David in the final form of the book of "Zechariah". This book focuses particularly on the following themes: the roles of Joshua and Zerubbabel; the nature and identity of the Shoot; the coming King; the Shepherd; and, the Pierced One.

Argues that 2 Sam 8:15-20:26 is a literary unit designed to show how David and his house failed to establish 'justice and righteousness' during David's reign over all Israel.

Examines the notion of the land and its conquest.

Presents literary analysis of "Song of Songs" by employing the method of New Criticism. This book aims to uncover the messages conveyed by the poems, the inner world of the characters. It discerns poems of physical description, poems of adoration, and poems of yearning.

Examines assumptions about history writing that historians of ancient Israel and Judah employ. This work aims to situate the study of ancient Israel and Judah in the broader intellectual context of academic history in general.

A comprehensive examination of the rhetoric of Operation Rescue, a pro-life social protest group (prominent between 1988 and 1992) that orchestrated blockades of clinics where abortions are performed. This book shows how the group appealed to the convictions of conservative evangelical and fundamentalist Christians in the United States.

The book examines conditionals in the Greek Pentateuch from the point of view of the study of translation syntax. It takes seriously into account the double character of Septuagintal Greek, both as a translation from Hebrew and as vernacular Greek.

Barbara Green is Professor of Biblical Studies at the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology, Berkeley.

Revision of author's thesis (Doctorate of Sacred Theology)--Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University, 2015 under title: The trampling one coming from Edom correlated and revised identities in Isaiah 63:1-6.

Revision of author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Stellenbosch University, 2014.