Table of Contents

Lists of Figures and Tables
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Glossary
1 New Techniques Highlight Huldah
2 Huldah's Character
3 Huldah's Biography, Part 1
4 Huldah's Biography, Part 2
5 Huldah's Critics
6 What Huldah Wrote
7 Huldah's Place in the Deuteronomistic History
8 Huldah Edits Genesis and Exodus
9 Huldah in the Book of Proverbs
10 Huldah the Psalmist
Appendix 1: Location of Huldah Anagrams
Appendix 2: Coded Groups of Authors: Deuteronomy 5-28
Bibliography
Index of Hebrew Scripture
Index of Modern Authors
Index of Subjects

About the Author

Preston Kavanagh holds degrees from Princeton and Harvard. He retired twenty-five years ago from an executive position in a large company to seek the identities of those who wrote the Hebrew Bible. Huldah discusses what he has found, as do several prior books: 'Secrets of the Jewish Exile' (2005), 'The Exilic Code' (2009), and 'The Shaphan Group' (2011). He and his wife, Lois, live quietly in Maryland.

Reviews

"Kavanagh's research is steeped in modern-critical thought which goes far beyond the traditional framework in using anagrams to add meaning to an already meaningful text."
-Ashley E. Lyon, University of Birmingham, Reviews in Religion and Theology, Vol 21, Issue 2, (March, 2014)

"Kavanagh's work demonstrates the great impact of the prophet Huldah on the Bible and explores Huldah's influence on Israel's history [...] Huldah overturns the stereotypical figure of the 'mother-wife' living in an Israelite patriarchal framework, and is considered as one of the greatest women of antiquity as well as a feminist heroine. In his original work, Kavanagh encourages critics to attend to female voices by revealing the importance of Huldah in the creation of the Bible."
-Theological Book Review, volume 26, no 1, 2014

"Preston Kavanagh's book provides a creative a creative and expansive look at the figure of the prophet Hulda."
-Beth Stovell, Ambrose University, Journal for the Evangelical Study of the Old Testament, Vol.4, issue 2

"...Preston Kavanagh's monograph fleshes out a fuller biography for Huldah from the scriptures, by using a combination of mathematical and biblical-analytical tools. ... I would recommend that it is most suitable for an academic readership. Outside of academic circles, Kavanagh's work will be found fascinating, thought-provoking, and enjoyable."
-Shola Adegbite, The Expository Times, Vol. 127 No. 10, July 2016