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Megilloth studies : the shape of contemprary scholarship / edited by Brad Embry.

Contributor(s): Embry, Brad [editor.] | Society of Biblical Literature. Megilloth Consultation Group | Society of Biblical Literature. Annual Meeting (2013 : Baltimore, Md.) | Society of Biblical Literature. Annual Meeting (2014 : San Diego, Calif.)
Material type: TextTextSeries: Hebrew Bible monographs: 78.Publisher: Sheffield : Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Description: x, 167 pages ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781910928004; 1910928003Other title: Megilloth studies : the shape of contemporary scholarship [Title should read:]Subject(s): Bible. Five Scrolls -- CongressesBibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents:
Ruth and Esther as the thematic frame of the Megilloth / Andrew R. Davis -- Esther, Vashti, Ruth, and Naomi: kindred heroines in Megilloth / Leonard Greenspoon -- Miqreh in retrospect: a illumination of Miqreh in light of Ecclesiastes 3.1-8 and the Book of Ruth / Brittany N. Melton -- Ruth and Esther: a journey through gender, ethnicity and identity / Orit Avnery -- A male speaker's obsession with the feminine: the strange case of Lamentations 3 / Mayer I. Gruber and Shamir Yona -- Solomon and Qoheleth / Stuart Weeks -- The covenant curses transposed: allusions in Lamentations to Deuteronomy 28-32 and Leviticus 26 / Denise Flanders-- Permanent an temporary ethnicities in the Esther scroll / Janelle Peters -- Horizontal theology in the Megilloth / Garrett Galvin -- The macro-structure of the Megilloth / Timothy Stone -- Initiative and agency: towards a theology of the Megilloth / Megan Fullerton Strollo.
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Book Book John Bulow Campbell Library 1 East BS1309 .M44 2016 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 0182903374193

"This volume brings together two years of papers read to the Megilloth Consultation Group at the Annual Meetings of the Society of Biblical Literature"--Back cover.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Ruth and Esther as the thematic frame of the Megilloth / Andrew R. Davis -- Esther, Vashti, Ruth, and Naomi: kindred heroines in Megilloth / Leonard Greenspoon -- Miqreh in retrospect: a illumination of Miqreh in light of Ecclesiastes 3.1-8 and the Book of Ruth / Brittany N. Melton -- Ruth and Esther: a journey through gender, ethnicity and identity / Orit Avnery -- A male speaker's obsession with the feminine: the strange case of Lamentations 3 / Mayer I. Gruber and Shamir Yona -- Solomon and Qoheleth / Stuart Weeks -- The covenant curses transposed: allusions in Lamentations to Deuteronomy 28-32 and Leviticus 26 / Denise Flanders-- Permanent an temporary ethnicities in the Esther scroll / Janelle Peters -- Horizontal theology in the Megilloth / Garrett Galvin -- The macro-structure of the Megilloth / Timothy Stone -- Initiative and agency: towards a theology of the Megilloth / Megan Fullerton Strollo.

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