Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Part 1: Literary/Exegetical Readings -- The Encounter with the Courtesan in the Gilgameš Epic and with Rahab in Joshua 2 -- (Divine) Silence Is Golden: A New Reading of the Prologue of Job -- Memories, Myths, and Historical Monuments: Yahweh's Developing Character in the Psalms -- "A Psalm of David, When…": Reflections on Some Psalm Titles in the Hebrew Bible -- "Moab Is My Washpot" (Ps 60:8 [MT 10]): Another Look at the MLF (Moabite Liberation Front) -- Solomon: Wisdom's Most Famous Aspirant -- The Unexpected Visitor: The Elihu Speeches in Personal Voice Perspective -- Reading as an Earth Being: Rereading Genesis 2-3-Again -- Self-Defense and Identity Formation in the Depiction of Battles in Joshua and Esther -- Egypt-Watching: Orientalism in the Hebrew Bible -- Reading Back and Forth: Gender Trouble in Jeremiah 2-3 -- Dreams: Had, Recounted, and Interpreted-Power Plays in the Joseph Story? -- "What You See Is What You Get": The Passion of a Literary Character? -- Desperately Seeking Yhwh: Finding God in Esther's "Acrostics" -- Part 2: Ideological-Critical Readings -- The Bible in the Presidential Elections of 2012, 2008, and 2004, and the Collapse of American Secularism -- Three Questions on Economics for G. E. M. de Ste. Croix -- Reading as a Canaanite: Paradoxes in Joshua -- Occupy Central: Scribal Resistance in Daniel, the Long Road to Universal Suffrage -- Voice and Ideology in Ecclesiastes: Reading "Cross the Grains" -- Possibilities and Prospects of Postcolonial Biblical Interpretation: A South African Perspective -- Deploying the Literary Detail of a Biblical Text (2 Samuel 13:1-22) in Search of Redemptive Masculinities -- Part 3: Language and Lexicography -- Neologisms: A Septuagint Problem -- The Invention of Language in the Poetry of Job.

Linguistic Clues as to the Date of the Book of Job: A Mediating Position -- Speaker, Addressee, and Positioning: Dialogue Structure and Pragmatics in Biblical Narrative -- Notes on Some Hebrew Words in Ecclesiastes -- Patterns of Linguistic Forms in the Masoretic Text: The Preposition מן "From" -- Part 4: Reception History -- The Bible in the Twenty-First Century-Where and How? -- Nineteenth-Century British Job Oratorios -- Judging Judges Scholarship -- Boaz Reawakened: Modeling Masculinity in the Book of Ruth -- From London to Amsterdam: Handel's Esther Reincarnated -- Bibliography of David J. A. Clines 2003-2013 -- Contributors.