Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Foreword -- Table of Contents -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- I -- II -- III -- Thinking of Water in Late Persian/Early Hellenistic Judah: An Exploration -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Thinking of 'Water': 'Water' and YHWH -- 3. Thinking of 'Water': 'Water' and YHWH-related Concepts -- 4. 'Water' and creation stories/acts of ordering -- 5. 'Water' and Condition Change -- 6. Conclusion -- Sacred Springs and Liminal Rivers: Water and Prophecy in the Ancient Eastern Mediterranean -- 1. Water as Source of Life and Purity -- 2. Water as Medium of Divine Agency -- 3. Water as Destructive Power -- 4. Conclusion -- Water(s) of Abundance in the Ancient Near East and in Hebrew Bible Texts: A Sign of Kingship -- 1. The Water(s) of Abundance and Mesopotamian Theology of Creation and Royal Mediation -- 2. Transmission of the Motif of the Water(s) of abundance to the West -- 3. Radical Transformation and Theological Renewal in ancient Israelite Texts: Yhwh as king alone -- 4. Conclusion -- The Nile in Biblical Memory -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Preliminaries -- 3. The Nile as a Site of Memory in the Pentateuch -- 4. The Nile as a Site of Memory in the Prophetic Texts -- 4.1 Jeremiah 46:7-8 -- 4.2 Ezekiel 29:1-16 -- 4.3 Zechariah 10:11 -- 4.4 Isaiah 37:24-25 and 2 Kings 19:23-24 -- 4.5 Amos 9:5 -- 4.6 Nahum 3:8 -- 4.7 Isaiah 19 -- 5. Conclusion -- Polluted, Bitter, and Sweet Water as a Matter of Ethnic Identity-Formation in Persian Yehud -- 1. Summary of my argument -- 2. Theories of Ethnic and National Identity -- 3. Exod 15:22-26: Basic exegetical observations -- 4. What is "didacticism"? -- 5. Teaching and testing-the prison-house of didacticism? -- 6. Concluding interpretation of water in Exod 1-15.

The Song of the Sea and Isaiah: Exodus 15 in Post-monarchic Prophetic Discourse -- 1. Yahweh, Israel, and the Sea -- 2. Isaiah, Israel, and the Sea -- 3. To Conclude -- Imagining Water: The Overflowing Stream in Isa 66:12 -- 1. in the Book of Isaiah -- 2. Foreigners Coming to Jerusalem in Isa 66:12 and in the Book of Isaiah -- "But into the Water You Must Not Dip It" (Jeremiah 13:1) - Methodological Reflections on How to Identify the Work of the Deuteronomistic Redaction in the Book of Jeremiah -- 1. A Word on Redaction Criticism -- 2. Prophetical Symbolic Acts -- 3. Deuteronomistic Redactional Expansions in Jer 13:1-11 according to Current Theory -- 4. Methodological Considerations -- 5. Jer 13:1-11 and Real World Plausibility -- 6. Conclusions -- Drought and Locust Plague in Joel 1-2 -- 1. Lamentation about Drought -- 2. The Day of Yahweh (2:1-11) -- 3. Locusts and Warriors (2:2aβb, 3bα, 5aβγb, 7) -- 4. The Locust Storm (1:1-20) -- 5. Call to Lamentation (1:5, 8, 11, 14*) -- 6. The Salvation Oracle (2:21-27) -- 7. Call to Repentance (2:12-20) -- 8. Salvation Follows Repentance (1:1-3, 10b, 17b -- 2:23*, 24b, 26aα*) -- 9. The Distress of the Priests (1:9, 13, 14aγ, 16 -- 2:14b, 17a) -- 10. The Enemy from the North … (1:6-7, 12bα*, b, 14aβ*, 15, 18b, 19b) -- 11. … has become Yahweh's own Army (2:1aβ, 3bβ, 6, 8-9, 11aβγ, b*) -- 12. Yahweh the God of his People (1:19a, 20 -- 2:17bβγ-18, 20, 22a, 23aβb*, 25, 26b, [27]) -- 13. Conclusion -- Coping with Drought and Famine in some Post-Exilic Texts -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Reconstructing Drought in Yehud -- 2.1 Evidence for Periods of Drought -- 2.2 Effects on the Economy and the Community -- 3. The Concept of Coping -- 4. Hebrew Bible -- 5. Nehemiah 5 -- 6. Psalm 126 -- 7. Haggai 1 -- 8. Coping with Drought after the Exile.

Adad's Overflowing Scourge and the Weather God of Zion: Observations on Motif History in Isa 28:14-18 -- 1. The Literary History of Isa 28:14−18 -- 2. A Covenant with Death Against an Overflowing Scourge -- 3. The New Temple of the Weather-God on Mount Zion -- 4. Conclusions -- Thinking of Water in the Book of Job: A Fluvial Introduction to the Job Literature -- 1. The Book of Job as a Treasure Trove of Water Related Vocabulary -- 2. Absence of Water in the Frame Story -- 3. The Chiasm of Water Imagery in the Original Dialogue -- 4. God Sets Limits to Water - God's Majesty -- 5. Detailed Physical Observations in Elihu's Speeches -- 6. Job's Innocence is like the Latter Rain -- 7. Vitality of the Righteous, Depicted Through WaterImagery -- 8. Humans Washed Away - Transience Extrapolations -- 9. Drinking Wrong Like Water - the Lowliness Redaction -- 10. Conclusions -- Water in 1-2 Kings -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Water, Prophets, and Miracles -- 3. Water in Other Passages Concerning Prophets -- 4. Other References to Water in the Book of Kings -- 5. Summary -- Water Control and Royal Propaganda: Sennacherib's Boast in 2 Kgs 19:24 (= Isa 37:25) -- 1. Text and Translation -- 2. The Historical Reference Value of 2 Kings 19:23-24 -- 3. Literary Critical Context of 2 Kgs 19:23-24 -- 4. 2 Kgs 19:23-24 and Early Exegesis of Isaiah's Second Oracle -- 5. Theology and Exegesis in the Oracle of Isaiah. -- Manasseh in Paradise? The Influence of ANE Palace Garden Imagery in LXX 2 Chronicles 33:20 -- 1. Introduction -- 2. A Synopsis of the Textual Data -- 3. Manasseh in paradise? -- 4. Gardens in the Ancient Near East -- 4.1 Egypt as background? -- 4.2 Achaemenid Persian gardens as background? -- 5. Synthesis and Conclusion -- Dew in the Enochic Literature -- 1. The Astronomical Book and the Book of the Watchers -- 2. The Similitudes/Parables.

3. The Epistle of Enoch -- 4. A comparative perspective: Some of the later apocalypses -- 5. Summary -- Living Water by the Dead Sea: Some Water Metaphors in the Qumran Scrolls -- 1. "Diggers of the Well" and "Living Waters" -- 2. Living Waters -- 3. Waters of Purification -- 4. Waters That Blend-Complex Cognitive Metaphors and Performativity -- 5. The Dangerous Vision of Water? -- 6. Conclusion -- The Fluid Boundaries of Life,the Universe and Yahweh -- Drawing Out Moses: Water as a Personal Motif of the Biblical Character -- 1. Beginnings -- 2. The Birth of Moses -- 3. The Naming of Moses -- 4. Moses at the Well -- 5. Plagues and Water -- 6. Suph-Sea -- 7. Water in the Desert -- 8. Marah -- 9. Rephidim -- 10. Kadesh -- 11. Conclusion -- Fluvial Fantasies -- Author Index -- Reference Index.