Journal of Biblical Literature 138/2

Journal of Biblical Literature Volume 138, Issue 2 — June 2019 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. (To subscribe to the print edition of JBLor to recommend JBL to your institutional library, click here.) The print edition of JBL 138.2 mailed this week. ISSN: 0021-9231; EISSN 1934-3876 Contents The Breath of Life: Speech, Gender, and Authority in the Garden of Eden Cynthia R. Chapman The "Priestly Portion" in the Hebrew Bible: Its Ancient Near Eastern Context and Its Implications for the Composition of P Jonathan S. Greer The Significance of Frankincense in Grain Offerings Jonathan Grossman The Ekphrastic Figure(s) in Song 5:10–16 F. W. Dobbs-Allsopp and Elaine T. James The Use of the Perfect in Daniel 7:27 Daniel E. Carver Canon and Archive: Yahwism in Elephantine and Āl-Yāḫūdu as a Challenge to the Canonical History of Judean Religion in the Persian Period Gard Granerød An Overlooked Psalm Addressing Zion from Wadi Murabbaʿat Ariel Feldman The Biblical Criticism of Ibn Hazm the Andalusian: A Medieval Control for Modern Diachronic Method Joshua Berman Some Unpersuasive Glosses: The Meaning of ἀπείθεια, ἀπειθέω, and ἀπειθής in the New Testament  Matthew D. Jensen The Transfiguration of Jesus (Mark 9:2–8): Epiphany or Apotheosis? Delbert Burkett Better Call Paul "Saul": Literary Models and a Lukan Innovation Michael Kochenash Where Indeed Was the Gospel of Thomas Written? Thomas in Alexandria Ian Phillip Brown Connect with us  ‌ Copyright (C) 2019 / Society of Biblical Literature / All rights reserved.