2006-2007 Publications for Dennis T. Olson, Charles T. Haley Professor of Old Testament Theology:

“Truth and the Torah: Reflections on Rationality and the Pentateuch.” In But Is It All True? The Bible and the Question of Truth, Alan Padgett and Patrick Keifert, eds. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2006, Pp. 16-33.

“Daily and Festival Prayers at Qumran.“ In Qumran History and Theology, volume 2 in the series The Bible and the Dead Sea Scrolls, James Charlesworth, ed. Waco: Baylor University Press. 2006. Pp. 301-316.

“Untying the Knot? Masculinity, Violence, and the Creation-Fall Story of Genesis 2-4.” In

Engaging the Bible in a Gendered World: Essays in Honor of Katharine Doob  Sakenfeld, Carolyn Pressler and Linda Day, eds. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2006. Pp. 73-86.

“Balaam,” “Census,” in The New Interpreter’s Dictionary of the Bible, vol. 1, Katharine Doob Sakenfeld, ed. Nashville: Abingdon, 2006.

“Loving Enemies as Being Birthed into God’s Creation-Wide Family: A Homiletical Exploration of Matthew 5:38-48.” In “And God Saw That It Was Good”: Essays on Creation and God in Honor of Terence E. Fretheim, Fred Gaiser and Mark  Throntveit, eds. St. Paul: Word & World, 2006. Pp. 57-65.

“How Lutherans Read the Bible: A North American and Global Conversation.” Dialog: A

 Journal of Theology 45 (2006), 4-8. [Guest editor for the Spring 2006 issue of Dialog]

Review of “The Word That Redescribes the World: The Bible and Discipleship,” by Walter Brueggemann. Christian Century 123 (2006), 36-37.

“Between Humility and Authority: The Interplay of the Judge-Prophet Laws (Deut 16:18-17:13)    

and the Judge-Prophet Narratives of Moses.” In Character Ethics and the Old Testament:

Appropriating Scripture for Moral Life, Daniel Carroll and Jacqueline Lapsley, eds. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2007. Pp. 51-61.

“Sacred Time: The Old Testament Sabbath and Christian Worship.” In Holy to the Lord, Old

Testament Resources for a Theology of Christian Worship, Carol Bechtel and John

Witvliet, eds. (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2007. (forthcoming).

“The Book of Exodus.” In A Theological Biblical Commentary, Gail R. O’Day and David

 Petersen, eds. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2007. (forthcoming)

“Numbers, Book of.” In Cambridge Dictionary of Christianity, Daniel Patte, ed. New York:

  Cambridge University Press, 2007. (forthcoming)

“Pentateuchal Narrartives.” In The New Interpreter’s Bible Handbook of Preaching, Paul       

Wilson, ed. Nashville: Abingdon, 2007. (forthcoming)