Megilloth Studies: The Shape of Contemporary Scholarship
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This volume brings together two years of papers read to the Megilloth Consultation Group at the Annual Meetings of the Society of Biblical Literature; it represents some of the most recent work being done by a group of international scholars on the collection of Hebrew Bible books known as the Megilloth.
This volume brings together two years of papers read to the Megilloth Consultation Group at the Annual Meetings of the Society of Biblical Literature; it represents some of the most recent work being done by a group of international scholars on the collection of Hebrew Bible books known as the Megilloth.
Although the individual books of the Megilloth have received ample academic attention in contemporary scholarship, relatively little has been done to situate them under this broader rubric. To this end, the present volume addresses a range of issues associated with studying the five scrolls, such as the internal relationship between the books themselves, intertextual connections between the five scrolls and other portions of the Hebrew Bible, gender and ethnic concerns in the five scrolls, and the theological commitments and contours of the collection. Several of the papers and the volume itself also intentionally wrestle with the viability of the category ‘Megilloth’ as a meaningful term in academic studies of these writings.
In addition to papers on the Megilloth in general (Galvin, Stone, Fullerton Strollo), there are studies on Esther (Davis, Greenspoon, Avnery, Peters, three of them in relation to Ruth), Lamentations (Gruber and Yona, Flanders) and Qoheleth (Weeks).
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| table of contents | Amy Erickson and Brad Embry Introduction Andrew R. Davis Ruth and Esther as the Thematic Frame of the Megilloth Leonard Greenspoon ‘Esther, Vashti, Ruth, and Naomi: Kindred Heroines in Megilloth’ Brittany N. Melton Miqreh in Retrospect: An Illumination of Miqreh in Light of Ecclesiastes 3.1-8 and the Book of Ruth Orit Avnery Ruth and Esther: A Journey through Gender, Ethnicity and Identity Mayer I. Gruber and Shamir Yona A Male Speaker’s Obsession with the Feminine: The Strange Case of Lamentations 3 Stuart Weeks Solomon and Qoheleth Denise Flanders The Covenant Curses Transposed: Allusions in Lamentations to Deuteronomy 28–32 and Leviticus 26 Janelle Peters Permanent and Temporary Ethnicities in the Esther Scroll Garrett Galvin Horizontal Theology in the Megilloth Timothy Stone The Macro-Structure of the Megilloth Megan Fullerton Strollo Initiative and Agency: Towards a Theology of the Megilloth |
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John Jarick,Society for Old Testament Study Book List. –
A fine collection of studies, amply demonstrating the value of considering the Megilloth as a meaningful collection of dialogue-partners rather than an entirely random cluster of idiosyncratic individual scrolls.