Journal of Biblical Literature 129/2, Summer 2010

Volume 129, Number 2 / Summer 2010 of Journal of Biblical Literature is now available on the jbl.metapress.com website at http://jbl.metapress.com/content/p21231x14655/.

This issue contains:

Poetic Forms in the Masoretic Vocalization and Three Difficult Phrases in Jacob's Blessing:	p. 209
Richard C. Steiner
'Eξτλάσαθατ: Appeasing God in the Septuagint Pentateuch	p. 237
Dirk Büchner
The Composition of Nathan's Oracle to David (2 Samuel 7:1-17) as a Reflection of Royal Judahite Ideology	p. 261
Omer Sergi
"Going Down" to Bethel: Elijah and Elisha in the Theological Geography of the Deuteronomistic History	p. 281
Joel S. Burnett
A "Diagnostic" Note on the "Great Wrath upon Israel" in 2 Kings 3:27	p. 299
Scott Morschauser
Invoking the God: Interpreting Invocations in Mesopotamian Prayers and Biblical Laments of the Individual	p. 303
Alan Lenzi
Josephus's Essenes and the Qumran Community	p. 317
Kenneth Atkinson, Jodi Magness
Instability in Jesus' Galilee: A Demographic Perspective	p. 343
Jonathan L. Reed
The Name "Iskarioth" (Iscariot)	p. 367
Joan E. Taylor
The Narrator as "He," "Me," and "We": Grammatical Person in Ancient Histories and in the Acts of the Apostles	p. 385
William Sanger Campbell