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The Journal of Biblical Literature (JBL) is a quarterly periodical that promotes critical and academic biblical scholarship. Bringing the highest level of technical expertise to bear on the canon, cognate literature, and the historical matrix of the Bible, JBL has stood as the flagship journal of biblical studies for more than a century. 

Contents

Suzanna Millar, From the Chattel to the Cattle: Human and Animal Laborers in Ancient Israel and Its Context

Naphtali S. Meshel, Alter-Altars

Brandon M. Hurlbert, Deconstructing the Downward Spiral: Anthology as Coherence in the Book of Judges

Caryn Tamber-Rosenau, Embracing the Jewess: Reading Gender and Ethnicity in Judith with the Belle Juive

Charles Hughes-Huff, Colonizing Frank Moore Cross: The Dead Sea Scrolls in 1950s Popular Media

Tommy Woodward, Theorizing Laughter and Ethnicity in Philo’s Embassy to Gaius

Michael Kochenash, The Census in Luke 2: Using Josephus to Make Sense of Luke’s Irreconcilable Chronology

Clair Mesick, Death and Salvation in Paul and Ancient Judaism (1 Corinthians 5:5)

Matthew P. Monger, The Book of the Daughters of Adam in the Gelasian Decree

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