God and World in the Old Testament

Books

The Jezebel Letters: Religion and Politics in Ninth-Century Israel

Eleanor Ferris Beach

Reading the Bible with the Damned

Bob Ekblad

Song of Songs

J. Cheryl Exum

A Moral Creed for all Christians

Daniel C. Maguire

Leviticus: A Book of Ritual and Ethics

Jacob Milgrom

The Liberating Image: The Imago Dei in Genesis 1

J. Richard Middleton

The Canonical Hebrew Bible: A Theology of the Old Testament

Rolf Rendtorff

Making Wise the Simple: The Torah in Christian Faith and Practice

Johanna W. H. van Wijk-Bos

God and World in the Old Testament: A Relational Theology of Creation

Terence E. Fretheim

Take and read

May 30, 2006 selected by Walter Brueggemann
With a clever convergence of biblical texts, ancient Near Eastern literature, archaeology, and fictive imagination that is not fictitious, Beach weaves a new account of Jezebel and Ahab from the perspective of Jezebel.