Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Introductory celebration of Robert R. Wilson / John Ahn and Stephen L. Cook -- Joshua son of Nun : presentation of a prophet / Stephen B. Chapman -- Religion in the heroic spirit : themes in the Book of Judges / Baruch A. Levine -- What is prologue is past : composing Israelite identity in Judges 5 / Mark S. Smith -- Judges, kingship, and political ethics : a challenge to the conventional wisdom / Susan Niditch -- Prophecy and theodicy / John Barton -- Authority to edify : verification of biblical truth in William Robertson Smith's Prophets of Israel / Warner M. Bailey -- The poetics of biblical prophecy : point of view and point of standing in the prophetic books / Harry P. Nasuti -- The poetry of creation / Robert B. Robinson -- "Daughter Zion" / F.W. Dobbs-Allsopp -- The beginning of the end of the world in the Hebrew Bible / John J. Collins -- Prophetic associations / Christopher R. Seitz -- (Re)inscribing power through Torah teaching : rhetorical pedagogy in the Servant Songs of Deutero-Isaiah / Carolyn J. Sharp -- Jeremiah and the Levitical priests of Anathoth / S. Dean McBride, Jr. -- Remembering the prophets / David L. Petersen -- Putting the mother back in the center : metaphor and multivalence in Ezekiel 19 / Corrine Carvalho -- The speechless suppression of grief in Ezekiel 24:15-27 : the death of Ezekiel's wife and the prophet's abnormal response / Stephen L. Cook -- Portraying prophetic experience and tradition in Ezekiel / D. Nathan Phinney -- "But if not--" what? : the speech of the youths in Daniel 3 and a (theo)logical problem / Roy L. Heller -- Myth and truth in socio-historical reconstruction of ancient societies : Hosea 4:11-14 as a test case / Christl M. Maier -- The social location(s) of Amos : Amos 1:3-2:16 / Gene M. Tucker -- Jonah and the uses of parody / William W. Hallo -- Zephaniah, a disciple of Isaiah? / John Ahn.