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46. For further discussion of the motif of “new covenant” in texts in the New Testament, see
Ronald J. Allen and Clark M. Williamson, Preaching the Gospels without Blaming the Jews:
A Lectionary Commentary, and idem, Preaching the Letters without Dismissing the Law: A
Lectionary Commentary (Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2006), 126.
47. Leviticus Rabbah 29:1, trans. Judah J. Slotki, in Midrash Rabbah, ed. H. Freedman and
Maurice Simon (London: Soncino Press, 1939), vol. 4, 369–70; our italics.
48. William H. Brownlee, Ezekiel 1–18, Word Bible Commentary (Dallas: Word Publishing
Co., 1983), 275.
49. Charles R. Blaisdell, cited by Clark M. Williamson and Ronald J. Allen, A Credible
and Timely Word: Process Theology and Preaching (St. Louis, MO: Chalice Press, 1991), 89,
n. 34.
50. J. Gerald Janzen, Job, Interpretation: A Bible Commentary for Teaching and Preaching
(Atlanta: John Knox Press, 1985), 225–27.
51. Carol A. Newsom, “The Book of Job,” in The New Interpreter’s Bible, ed. Leander Keck
et al. (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1996), vol. 4, 626.
52. Thomas O. Chisholm, “Great Is Thy Faithfulness,” Chalice Hymnal (St. Louis, MO:
Chalice Press, 1995), 86.
53. Jon L. Berquist, Surprises by the River: The Prophecy of Ezekiel (St. Louis, MO: Chalice
Press, 1993), 20–28.
54. Tigay, Deuteronomy, 40–42.
55. Jon L. Berquist, Judaism in Persia’s Shadow: A Social and Historical Approach (Minneapolis:
Fortress Press, 1995), 207–15.
56. For a concise overview of possibilities in interpretation, see Newsom, “Book of Job,”
628–29.
57. Janzen, Job, 255–57.
58. E.g., Newsom, “Book of Job,” 636. For a dramatically different reading, see Janzen, Job,
267–69.
59. For discussion of how neo-process theology relates to such matters, see Clark M.
Williamson, Way of Blessing, Way of Life: A Christian Theology (St. Louis, MO: Chalice
Press, 1999), 131–56.
60. Phyllis Trible, God and the Rhetoric of Sexuality, Overtures to Biblical Theology (Philadelphia:
Fortress Press, 1978), 173.
61. Ibid.
62. Tigay, Deuteronomy, 75.
63. Berquist, Judaism in Persia’s Shadow, 224, 225.
64. Robert Polzin, Samuel and the Deuteronomist: A Literary Study of the Deuteronomic History
(San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1989), 41–42.
65. For a more detailed reconstruction, see Jon L. Berquist, Judaism in Persia’s Shadow,
108–19.
66. Fretheim, Exodus, 311.
67. Gaston, Paul and the Torah, 47.
68. Janzen, Genesis 12–50, 40.
69. We can only touch on this aspect of the complex discussion of the relationship of wisdom,
word (logos) and Torah in the Gospel of John.
70. Milgrom, Leviticus, 127.
71. Ibid., 129.