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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

Joshua J. Van Ee, “You Shall Be Holy”: A Reassessment of Israel’s Call to Holiness

Reed Carlson, Spirit Possession and Intimate Partner Violence in the Law of Jealousy (Numbers 5:11–31)

Robin Baker, Fluid Boundaries and Conflicted Meaning in the Book of Joshua

Sam Blankenship, Persian-Style Historiography in Ezra-Nehemiah

W. Dennis Tucker Jr., Revisiting Psalm 91 in Light of Rainer Albertz’s Model of Internal Religious Pluralism

Michael Peppard, Torches, Not Lamps, in the Wedding Parable of Matthew 25

Jerry L. Sumney, 2 Corinthians 8:16–9:5 as a Letter of Commendation and Instruction

Alicia J. Batten, Courtroom Theatrics in the Letter of James

Catalin-Stefan Popa, An Early Ḥarklean Version in a Syriac Gospel Fragmentary Manuscript (MS Or. 403)

Annual Index

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