Journal of Biblical Literature 136/4

Journal of Biblical Literature Volume 136, Issue 4 — December 2017 is now available online (free to SBL members). Abstracts are linked below. To read articles online, go here and log in with your SBL ID, then click on the "Go to JSTOR" link near the top of the page. As of 1 January 2015, all of JBL is available in a single location via JSTOR. (To subscribe to the print edition of JBL or to recommend JBL to your institutional library, click here.) ISSN: 0021-9231; EISSN 1934-3876 Contents Creating a New "Great Divide": The Exoticization of Ancient Culture in Some Recent Applications of Orality Studies to the Bible Paul S. Evans abstract The Date of the Shema (Deuteronomy 6:4–5) Nathan MacDonald abstract The Lists of Levitical Cities (Joshua 21, 1 Chronicles 6) and the Propagandistic Map for the Hasmonean Territorial Expansion Yitzhak Lee-Sak abstract Hands, Heads, and Feet: Body Parts as Poetic Device in Judges 4–5 Karolien Vermeulen abstract "He Will Take the Best of Your Fields": Royal Feasts and Rural Extraction Gale A. Yee  abstract Yahwistic Appropriation of Achaemenid Ideology and the Function of Nehemiah 9 in Ezra-Nehemiah David Janzen abstract Job 2 and 42:7–10 as Narrative Bridge and Theological Pivot Paul K.-K. Cho abstract [Hbl] as "Worthless" in Qoheleth: A Critique of Michael V. Fox's "Absurd" Thesis Mark Sneed abstract Naqia and Nineveh in Nahum: Ambiguity and the Prostitute Queen Gregory D. Cook abstract A Newly Reconstructed Calendrical Scroll from Qumran in Cryptic Script Eshbal Ratzon and Jonathan Ben-Dov abstract Jesus's Question to Pilate in Mark 15:2 Jonathan Schwiebert abstract Slow Sailing in Acts: Suspense in the Final Sea Journey (Acts 27:1–28:15) Troy M. Troftgruben abstract Is Every Sin outside the Body except Immoral Sex? Weighing Whether 1 Corinthians 6:18b Is Paul's Statement or a Corinthian Slogan Andrew David Naselli abstract James 3:13–4:10 and the Language of Envy in Proverbs 3 Benjamin Lappenga abstract