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Contents : Journal of Biblical Literature VOLUME 122 No. 1 The Zeal of Phinehas: The Bible and the Legitimation of Violence JOHN J. COLLINS Compositry and Creativity in 2 Samuel 21:1 14 SIMEON CHAVEL Dating the Teacher of Righteousness and the Floruit of His Movement MICHAEL O. WISE On the Composition History of the Longer ("Secret") Gospel of Mark SCOTT G. BROWN The Covenant of Circumcision (Genesis 17:9 14) and the Situational Antitheses in Galatians 3:28 TROY W. MARTIN Biblical Theology as Dialogue: Continuing the Conversation on Mikhail Bakhtin and Biblical Theology L. JULIANA M. CLAASSENS The Grammar of Resurrection in Isaiah 26:19a c PHILIP C. SCHMITZ Is There Halaka (the Noun) at Qumran JOHN P. MEIER Book Reviews 157 -- Index 200 US ISSN 0021 9231 Spring 2003 3 21 23 52 53 87 89 110 111 125 127 144 145 149 150 155 JOURNAL OF BIBLICAL LITERATURE PUBLISHED QUARTERLY BY THE SOCIETY OF BIBLICAL LITERATURE (Constituent Member of the American Council of Learned Societies) EDITORS OF THE JOURNAL General Editor: GAIL R. O'DAY Candler School of Theology Emory University Atlanta GA 30322 Book Review Editor: TODD C. PENNER Austin College Sherman TX 75090 Term Expiring 2003: SUSAN ACKERMAN Dartmouth College Hanover NH 03755 MICHAEL L. BARR St. Mary's Seminary & University Baltimore MD 21210 ATHALYA BRENNER University of Amsterdam 1012 GC Amsterdam The Netherlands MARC BRETTLER Brandeis University Waltham MA 02254-9110 WARREN CARTER St. Paul School of Theology Kansas City MO 64127 PAUL DUFF George Washington University Washington DC 20052 BEVERLY R. GAVENTA Princeton Theological Seminary Princeton NJ 08542 JUDITH LIEU King's College London London WC2R 2LS United Kingdom KATHLEEN O'CONNOR Columbia Theological Seminary Decatur GA 30031 C. L. SEOW Princeton Theological Seminary Princeton NJ 08542 VINCENT WIMBUSH Union Theological Seminary New York NY 10027 2004: JANICE CAPEL ANDERSON University of Idaho Moscow ID 83844 MOSHE BERNSTEIN Yeshiva University New York NY 10033-3201 ROBERT KUGLER Lewis & Clark College Portland OR 97219 BERNARD M. LEVINSON University of Minnesota Minneapolis MN 55455-0125 THEODORE J. LEWIS The Johns Hopkins University Baltimore MD 21218 TIMOTHY LIM University of Edinburgh Edinburgh EH1 2LX Scotland STEPHEN PATTERSON Eden Theological Seminary St. Louis MO 63119 ADELE REINHARTZ Wilfrid Laurier University Waterloo OH N2L 3C5 Canada NAOMI A. STEINBERG DePaul University Chicago IL 60614 SZE-KAR WAN Andover Newton Theological School Newton Centre MA 92459 BRIAN K. BLOUNT Princeton Theological Seminary Princeton NJ 08542 TERENCE L. DONALDSON Wycliffe College Toronto ON M5S 1H7 Canada PAMELA EISENBAUM Iliff School of Theology Denver CO 80210 STEVEN FRIESEN University of Missouri Columbia MO 65211 A. KATHERINE GRIEB Virginia Theological Seminary Alexandria VA 22304 JEFFREY KAH-JIN KUAN Pacific School of Religion Berkeley CA 94709 RICHARD D. NELSON Perkins School of Theology Southern Methodist University Dallas TX 75275 DAVID L. PETERSEN Candler School of Theology Emory University Atlanta GA 30322 ALAN F. SEGAL Barnard College Columbia University New York NY 10027 GREGORY E. STERLING University of Notre Dame Notre Dame IN 46556 PATRICIA K. TULL Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary Louisville KY 40205 EDITORIAL BOARD 2005: Editorial Assistant: Susan E. Haddox Emory University Atlanta GA 30322 President of the Society: Eldon Jay Epp Lexington MA 02420 Vice President: David L. Petersen Candler School of Theology Emory University Atlanta GA 30322 Chair Research and Publications Committee: James C. VanderKam University of Notre Dame Notre Dame IN 46556 Executive Director: Kent H. Richards Society of Biblical Literature 825 Houston Mill Road Suite 350 Atlanta GA 30329. The Journal of Biblical Literature (ISSN 0021 9231) is published quarterly. The annual subscription price is US$35.00 for members and US$75.00 for nonmembers. Institutional rates are also available. For information regarding subscriptions and membership contact: Society of Biblical Literature P.O. Box 2243 Williston VT 05495-2243. Phone: 877-725-3334 (toll free) or 802-864-6185. FAX: 802-864-7626. E-mail: sbl@sbl-site.org. For information concerning permission to quote editorial and business matters please see the Spring issue p. 2. The JOURNAL OF BIBLICAL LITERATURE (ISSN 0021 9231) is published quarterly by the Society of Biblical Literature 825 Houston Mill Road Suite 350 Atlanta GA 30329. Periodical postage paid at Atlanta Georgia and at additional mailing offices. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Society of Biblical Literature P.O. Box 2243 Williston VT 05495-2243. PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Journal of Biblical Literature Volume 122 2003 GENERAL EDITOR GAIL R. O'DAY Candler School of Theology Emory University Atlanta GA 30322 BOOK REVIEW EDITOR TODD C. PENNER Austin College Sherman TX 75090 A Quarterly Published by THE SOCIETY OF BIBLICAL LITERATURE EDITORIAL BOARD Term Expiring 2003: SUSAN ACKERMAN Dartmouth College Hanover NH 03755 MICHAEL L. BARR St. Mary's Seminary & University Baltimore MD 21210 ATHALYA BRENNER University of Amsterdam 1012 GC Amsterdam The Netherlands MARC BRETTLER Brandeis University Waltham MA 02254-9110 WARREN CARTER St. Paul School of Theology Kansas City MO 64127 PAUL DUFF George Washington University Washington DC 20052 BEVERLY R. GAVENTA Princeton Theological Seminary Princeton NJ 08542 JUDITH LIEU King's College London London WC2R 2LS United Kingdom KATHLEEN O'CONNOR Columbia Theological Seminary Decatur GA 30031 C. L. SEOW Princeton Theological Seminary Princeton NJ 08542 VINCENT WIMBUSH Union Theological Seminary New York NY 10027 2004: JANICE CAPEL ANDERSON University of Idaho Moscow ID 83844 MOSHE BERNSTEIN Yeshiva University New York NY 10033-3201 ROBERT KUGLER Lewis & Clark College Portland OR 97219 BERNARD M. LEVINSON University of Minnesota Minneapolis MN 55455-0125 THEODORE J. LEWIS The Johns Hopkins University Baltimore MD 21218 TIMOTHY LIM University of Edinburgh Edinburgh EH1 2LX Scotland STEPHEN PATTERSON Eden Theological Seminary St. Louis MO 63119 ADELE REINHARTZ Wilfrid Laurier University Waterloo ON N2L 3C5 Canada NAOMI A. STEINBERG DePaul University Chicago IL 60614 SZE-KAR WAN Andover Newton Theological School Newton Centre MA 92459 BRIAN K. BLOUNT Princeton Theological Seminary Princeton NJ 08542 TERENCE L. DONALDSON Wycliffe College Toronto ON M5S 1H7 Canada PAMELA EISENBAUM Iliff School of Theology Denver CO 80210 STEVEN FRIESEN University of Missouri Columbia MO 65211 A. KATHERINE GRIEB Virginia Theological Seminary Alexandria VA 22304 JEFFREY KAH-JIN KUAN Pacific School of Religion Berkeley CA 94709 RICHARD D. NELSON Lutheran Theological Seminary Gettysburg PA 17325 DAVID L. PETERSEN Candler School of Theology Emory University Atlanta GA 30322 ALAN F. SEGAL Barnard College Columbia University New York NY 10027 GREGORY E. STERLING University of Notre Dame Notre Dame IN 46556 PATRICIA K. TULL Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary Louisville KY 40205 2005: Editorial Assistant: Susan E. Haddox Emory University Atlanta GA 30322 Articles are indexed in Religion Index One: Periodicals book reviews in Index to Book Reviews in Religion American Theological Library Association Evanston Illinois. 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All correspondence concerning the research and publications programs the annual meeting of the Society and other business should be addressed to the Executive Director Society of Biblical Literature The Luce Center 825 Houston Mill Road Atlanta GA 30329. (E-mail: sblexec@sbl-site.org). 3. Second Class postage paid at Atlanta Georgia and at additional mailing offices. PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA JBL 122/1 (2003) 3 21 THE ZEAL OF PHINEHAS: THE BIBLE AND THE LEGITIMATION OF VIOLENCE JOHN J. COLLINS john.j.collins@yale.edu Yale University New Haven CT 06511 "The Bible of all books is the most dangerous one the one that has been endowed with the power to kill " writes Mieke Bal.1 Like many striking aphorisms this statement is not quite true. Some other books notably the Qur an are surely as lethal and in any case to coin a phrase books don't kill people. But Professor Bal has a point nonetheless. When it became clear that the terrorists of September 11 2001 saw or imagined their grievances in religious terms any reader of the Bible should have had a flash of recognition. The Muslim extremists drew their inspiration from the Qur an rather than the Bible but both Scriptures draw from the same wellsprings of ancient Near Eastern religion. While it is true that both Bible and Qur an admit of various readings and emphases and that terrorist hermeneutics can be seen as a case of the devil citing Scripture for his purpose it is also true that the devil does not have to work very hard to find biblical precedents for the legitimation of violence. Many people in the modern world suspect that there is an intrinsic link between violence and what Jan Assmann has called "the Mosaic distinction" between true and false religion 2 or even between violence and monotheism or monolatry.3 Such claims are no doubt too simple. Violence and the sacred went hand in hand long before the rise of Akhenaten or Moses and polytheism can be used to Presidential Address delivered on November 23 2002 at the annual meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature in Toronto Ontario Canada. 1 Mieke Bal Anti-Covenant: Counter-Reading Women's Lives in the Hebrew Bible (Sheffield: Almond 1989) 14. 2 Jan Assmann Moses the Egyptian: The Memory of Moses in Western Monotheism (Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press 1997) 1 6. 3 See e.g. Regina M. Schwartz The Curse of Cain: The Violent Legacy of Monotheism (Chicago: University of Chicago Press 1997). 3

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