Sacred history, sacred literature : essays on ancient Israel, the Bible, and religion in honor of R.E. Friedman on his sixtieth birthday

Richard Elliott Friedman: An Appreciation William H. C. ProppIntroduction Shawna DolanskyThe Hebrew BibleEzekiel and the Levites Jacob MilgromFraming Aaron: Incense Altar and Lamp Oil In the Tabernacle Texts Carol MeyersNecromancy and 1 Samuel 19:22 W. Randall GarrA Tale of the Prophet and the Courtier: A Responsive Reading of the Nathan Texts Herbert HuffmonA Forgotten Cultic Reform? 2 Kings 3:2b André LemaireScribal Error and the Transmission of 2 Kings 18-20 and Isaiah 36-39 Bradley RootEmpirical Taxonomy and the Hebrew Bible A. Dean ForbesPlace Names as Superlatives in Classical Hebrew H. G. M. WilliamsonSource CriticismLeitwort Style and Literary Structure in the J Primeval Narrative Ronald HendelHow Moses Gained and Lost the Reputation of Being the Torah’s Author: Higher Criticism Prior to Julius Wellhausen Michael M. HomanHow Was the Bible Written? Reflections on Sources and Authors in the Book of Kings Robert WilsonIsrael and the Ancient Near EastThe “Biblical” Origins of Passover Jeffrey C. Geoghegan“Plowing With a Heifer” – Tracing a Sexual Euphemism Shalom M. PaulAramean Skin Care: A New Perspective on Naaman’s Leprosy Laura ZucconiAbraham and Damascus in Some Greek and Latin Texts of the Hellenistic Period John A. EmertonRethinking Sectarian Judaism: The Centrality of the Priesthood in the Second Temple Period Risa Levitt Kohn and Rebecca MooreThe Bible and ArchaeologyIn Defense of Forgery Baruch HalpernCan Archaeology Serve as a Tool in Textual Criticism of the Hebrew Bible? William G. Dever“You Shall Make for Yourself No Molten Gods”: Some Thoughts on Archaeology and Edomite Ethnic Identity Thomas E. LevyFemale Infanticide in Iron II Israel and Judah Beth Alpert NakhaiReligion and Religious StudiesElements of Popular Piety in Late Medieval and Early Modern Jewish Psalms Commentary Alan CooperThe Biblical Icon Stephen D. CoxWalter Rauschenbusch, the Social Gospel Movement And How Julius Wellhausen Unwittingly Helped Create American Progressivism in the Twentieth Century Steven CassedyStarving the Patient: A Jewish Perspective on Terry Schiavo and the Feeding Tube Controversy Randy Sturman