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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

Phillip Lasater, Legal Thinking and Notions of the Self: Why Biblical Studies Needs an Anthropology of Law

Benjamin Kantor, The Origins of “In the Beginning …”: Genesis 1:1 in Light of the Biblical Hebrew Reading Traditions

Joshua Berman, Abigail and Her Honor Culture Wisdom

J. Jona Schellekens, Creative Imitation in the Story of Josiah

Olga Fabrikant-Burke, Exegeting God: Prophetic Sign Acts and Inner-Biblical Interpretation in the Book of Jeremiah

James Wykes, Always Two There Are? The Combined Dragon in Job 40:15–41:26 LXX

Joseph Scales, Responsibility for Murder: The Background of Judith’s Legal Argumentation

Jonathan (Yonatan) Bourgel, Revisiting Sabbath Observance During the Great Jewish Revolt (66–73/74 CE)

Holly Beers, The “Teachings of Demons” as “Magical” Practices in 1 Timothy 4:1

Stephen C. Carlson, The Text of 1 Peter in Polycarp and Irenaeus

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