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View this email in your browser Journal of Biblical Literature Volume 144, Issue 3 — 2025 Now available online, free to SBL members. To read articles online, first log in to the SBL website with your email address and password, then click on the blue "Access All Issues of JBL Online" button at the top of the page. To subscribe to the print edition of JBL or to recommend JBL to your institutional library, visit the subscriptions page. Print copies will mail this week. Contents On Having a Body: Time and Divine Embodiment Jennie Grillo Light and Luminaries: A Study of Genesis 1:3–5 and 14–19 Daniel Kwame Bediako Saul and the Not-So-Holy Ghost: 1 Samuel 16:14–23 and Ghost-Induced Illness David E. Basher Transgenerational "Righteousness" in Ezekiel and Aramean (Sam'alian) Texts Theodore J. Lewis The Postexilic נתינים and the Neo-Babylonian Širkū: A Reassessment Tyler M. Moser Noah's Sacrifice and the Relation between Jubilees and the Genesis Apocryphon Hillel Mali אַשְׁרֵי and μακάριος: Contact Linguistics, Constrained Language, and the Nature of Judaic Greek Jonathan Arulnathan Thambyrajah Hagar on Sinai: The Choice of Heracles, Mountain Women, and Pauline Allegory in Galatians Courtney J. P. Friesen The Pro-Choice Biblical Ethic of American Evangelical Scholars before the Religious Right Kirk R. MacGregor