Table of Contents

Part I. Revisiting Older Approaches
1: David J. A. Clines: Source Criticism 3: Putting Source Criticism in its Place: The Flood Story as a Test Case
2: Stuart Weeks: Form Criticism 15: The Limits of Form Criticism in the Study of Literature, with Reflections on Psalm 34
3: H. G. M. Williamson: Redaction Criticism 26: The Vindication of Redaction Criticism
4: Alison Salvesen: Textual Criticism 37: Textual and Literary Criticism and the Book of Exodus: The Role of the Septuagint
5: John Muddiman: Historical Criticism 52: Truth in Biblical Criticism
6: Susan E. Gillingham: The Quest for Plain Meaning 63: Talking to the Gods in the Psalms: Pursuing Bartons Plain Meaning Approach
7: John Day: Comparative Ancient Near Eastern Study 74: The Genesis Flood Narrative in Relation to Ancient Near Eastern Flood Accounts
8: Anselm C. Hagedorn: Canonical Formation 89: Canons and Curses: Some Observations on the Canon-Formula in Deuteronomy and its Afterlife
9: Rainer Albertz: The Bible and the Church I 106: The Legacy of Claus Westermann for Theology and Church
10: erhard Sauter: The Bible and the Church II 120: The Bible within Systematic Theology
Part II. Breaking the Mould
11: Christopher Rowland: Liberationist Reading 133: Popular Interpretation of the Bible in Brazil
12: Daniel Smith-Christopher: Sociological Approaches 149: And if not now, when? A Sociology of Reading Micahs Notions of the Future in Micah 4:1
13: Paula Gooder: Feminist Criticism 163: Apostles, Deacons, Patrons, Co-workers, and Heads of Household: Women Leaders in the Pauline Communities
14: Christopher Seitz: Canonical Approaches 176: Scriptural Author and Canonical Prophet: The Theological Implications of Literary Association in the Canon
15: N. T. Wright: Narrative Theology 189: The Evangelists Use of the Old Testament as an Implicit Overarching Narrative
16: Will Kynes: Intertextuality 201: Intertextuality: Method and Theory in Job and Psalm 119
17: John Jarick: Intratextuality 214: Cross-Examining Chronicles: Adventures in the Story-World of a Notionally Historical Narrative
18: Francesca Stavrakopoulou: Materialist Reading 223: Materialism, Materiality, and Biblical Cults of Writing
19: Mark G. Brett: Postcolonial Interpretation 243: Unequal Terms: A Postcolonial Approach to Isaiah 61
20: Ellen van Wolde: Cognitive Linguistics 257: A Cognitive Linguistic Study of the Concept of Defilement in Ezekiel 22:116
21: Paul M. Joyce: Psychological Interpretation 272: Dancing David: A Psychological Reading of 2 Samuel 6
22: Katharine J. Dell: The Bible and the Arts 285: The Bible and Music: Hearing Elijah through the Oratorio Tradition
23: Andrew Mein: Ethics and the Bible I 297: The Case of the Confiscated Cloak: Approaching Ancient Judahite Ethics
24: Yvonne Sherwood: Ethics and the Bible II 311: The Perverse Commitment to Overcrowding and Doubling in Genesis: Implications for Ethics and Politics
Bibliography of Works by John Barton 329
Index of Biblical References 339
Index of Subjects 353

About the Author

Paul Joyce is Samuel Davidson Professor of Old Testament/Hebrew Bible at King's College London. He studied Theology at Oxford University before completing doctoral studies in Old Testament supervised by John Barton at Oxford, where he was Kennicott Hebrew Fellow. His first post was as Lecturer and subsequently Director of Studies at Ripon College, Cuddesdon, a Theological College of the Church of England. He then moved to the University of Birmingham as a Lecturer
and subsequently to Oxford University, where he was University Lecturer in Old Testament and a Fellow of St Peter's College. He served as Chairman of the Oxford Theology Faculty Board 2008-2011. He has
researched and written especially on the interpretation of the books of Ezekiel and Lamentations, and also their reception. He is also interested in psychological interpretation and in the theme of hospitality in biblical and cross-cultural perspective.
Katharine Dell is a Senior Lecturer in the University of Cambridge specializing in Old Testament Studies and a Fellow of St Catharine's College. She was educated at Oxford where she took her first degree in theology and then a doctorate on the book of Job supervised by John Barton. She was Lecturer in Old Testament at Ripon College Cuddesdon before moving to Cambridge in 1995. Her particular interest is in the wisdom literature of the Old Testament and she has written a number of books on
Job, two on Proverbs and is currently working on the book of Ecclesiastes. She is also interested in ecological approaches to biblical texts and theological ideas about creation; and in musical
interpretation. She has written both an introduction to the wisdom literature (Get Wisdom, Get Insight: An Introduction to Israel's Wisdom Literature, (DLT, 2000)) and one to the whole Old Testament (Opening the Old Testament, (Wiley Blackwell, 2008)).

Reviews

Biblical scholars will be referring to all these articles for some time to come for their combination of review, example, and consideration of ways ahead
*Richard S. Briggs, The Glass, 2014*

This collection of twenty-four articles features an impressive cadre of international scholars who are at the forefront of contemporary research [...] The honouree of this volume, John Barton, is duly saluted
*Walter Brueggemann, Theology*