"A Sage in New Haven" pays tribute to Professor Robert R. Wilson, Yale University’s Hoober Professor emeritus of Religious Studies and Professor emeritus of Old Testament. The festschrift is composed of two sections. Each section represents a biblical corpus or area of study in which Bob Wilson has made significant contributions. Part I addresses subjects related to the Prophets and Part II to the Writings, the ancient Near East, and their scholarship. Altogether 32 essays are devoted among other topics to "Males and Sexual Assault in Isaiah 56:1–8", "Genre Multiplicity in Micah 6:1–8", "The Human Body in Judges", "Og in Biblical Historiography and Postbiblical Contexts", "Millenarianism in Ancient Judaism", "Yale and the Bible: 1886–1925", "Aging in Ancient Israelite and Jewish Instructions", "Mechanisms of Persuasion in the Sefire Inscriptions", "Rituals for Keeping Infants Safe and Quiet in the Ancient Near East", ... to list just a few.

Publications of Robert R. Wilson

Alison Acker Gruseke: A Sage in New Haven Marches to the Beat of His Own Drum: The Inimitable Wit and Wisdom  of Robert Rutherford Wilson

Part I: “Between Heaven and Earth”: Prophecy and Society in the Ancient Near East

Karel van der Toorn: The Sons of the Prophets: Movement, Guild, Order, or Sect?

Joel Baden: Situating Balaam

Susan Niditch: Tradition and Variation in Tales of National Foundation: Og in Biblical Historiography and Postbiblical Contexts

Mark S. Smith: The Name(s) of the Book of Judges in the Persian and Hellenistic Periods: Observations and Reflections

Gregory Mobley: The Human Body in Judges

Elizabeth Bloch-Smith: Breaking Ground: Archaeology’s Contribution to the Redaction of the Shechem Temple Narrative (Judges 9:46–49)

Roy L. Heller: Nathan’s Sixth Sense: Russian Formalism, Cinematic Technique, and the Character of a Prophet

Stephen L. Cook: “All Flesh,” “Together”: The Divine Glory’s Tractive Force in Isaiah 40–66

Corrine Carvalho: Eunuchs and Foreigners: Males and Sexual Assault in Isaiah 56:1–8

Louis Stulman: The Prose Discourses of Jeremiah 1–25 as Legitimation for the Collapse of Early Sixth-Century Judean Society

Jaime L. Waters: Pain and Provocation: A Social-Scientific Reading of Jeremiah 15

Heath D. Dewrell: How Prophecy Gets Written: Hosea, Redactors, and Neo-Assyrian Prophecy

Tyler D. Mayfield: Genre Multiplicity in Micah 6:1–8: A Non-Legal rîb and an Entrance Liturgy

Paul N. Anderson: On Doing Justice, Loving Mercy, and Walking Humbly in Micah 6:8: The Peaceable Ways of Israel’s God, Then and Now

Part II: “My Tongue is the Pen of a Skillful Scribe”: Scholars, Scholarship, and the Shaping of Tradition in the Ancient and Modern Worlds

Mark Lester: Conveying the Covenant: Mechanisms of Persuasion in the Sefire Inscriptions

Marc Zvi Brettler: Pandemics and Pilgrimages: A Suggested Sitz im Leben for Psalm 91

Peter Machinist: Psalm 137: Another Look

Judy Fentress-Williams: “Lord, How Come Me Here?” Psalms and Spirituals as Sanctuaries

Carol M. Bechtel: Upstairs, Downstairs: Hermeneutical Insights Based on the Structure of Job’s Prologue

F. W. Dobbs-Allsopp: Signs of Writing (Poetry) in Lamentations

Samuel L. Adams: The Intractable Problem of Aging in Ancient Israelite and Jewish Instructions

Laura Carlson Hasler: Radiant Genealogies: A Note on Genealogy and History in the Biblical World

Susan Ackerman: Battle Horns and Frame Drums

Kristine Henriksen Garroway: Hush, Little Child: Rituals for Keeping Infants Safe and Quiet in the Ancient Near East

Julie Faith Parker: Call Them Ishmael: A Childist Investigation of Israel’s First Son as a Powerful Precedent

Stephen B. Chapman: Historical Criticism, Moral Judgment, and the Future of the Past

John J. Collins: Modalities of Millenarianism in Ancient Judaism

Dong-Hyuk Kim: “Let Your Yes Be Yes and Your No Be No”: The Absence of Answer Particles in Biblical Hebrew and Some Related Issues

Eric D. Reymond: Irregular Short-Yiqṭol Forms in Late Second Temple Hebrew

Steven D. Fraade: Ezra the Scribe and the (Purported) Origins of Targum

Claire Mathews McGinnis: The Hardening of Pharaoh’s Heart in Tradition- and Reception-History

Benjamin R. Foster: Yale and the Bible: 1886–1925

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