Title -- Contents -- Author's Preface -- The Enigma of Tryggve: Editor's Preface -- Select Publicationsof Tryggve N. D. Mettinger -- Report from a Scholar's Life: My Work on the Enigmas of the Notions of God -- Part I - The God of Israel in the Ancient Near Eastern Milieu: Continuities and Contrasts -- The Study of the Gottesbild: Problems and Suggestions -- The Elusive Essence: Yhwh, El and Baal and the Distinctiveness of Israelite Faith -- Yhwh Sabaoth: The Heavenly King on the Cherubim Throne -- The Name and the Glory: The Zion-Sabaoth Theology and Its Exilic Successors -- The Dying and Rising God: The Peregrinations of a Mytheme -- Part II - Aniconism -- The Veto on Images and the Aniconic God in Ancient Israel -- A Conversation with My Critics: Cultic Image or Aniconism in the First Temple? -- Part III - Davidic Trajectories -- "The Last Words of David": A Study of Structure and Meaning in II Samuel 23:1-7 -- Cui Bono? The Prophecy of Nathan (2 Sam 7) as a Piece of Political Rhetoric -- Part IV - Job -- Intertextuality: Allusion and Vertical Context Systems in Some Job Passages* -- The Enigma of Job The Deconstruction of God in Intertextual Perspective -- Part V - Second Isaiah -- A Farewell to the Servant Songs: A Critical Examination of an Exegetical Axiom -- In Search of the Hidden Structure: Yhwh as King in Isaiah 40-55 -- Part VI - Reviews -- Review of James Barr, Comparative Philology and the Text of the Old Testament -- Review of Ernst Jenni, Das hebräische Piʻel: Syntaktisch-semasiologische Untersuchungen einer Verbalform im Alten Testament -- Review of Sandra L. Richter, The Deuteronomistic History and the Name Theology: lešakkēn šemô šām in the Bible and the Ancient Near East -- Index of Scripture -- Index of Authors.