Includes bibliographical references (pages 188-201) and indexes.
part I: Textual problems and literary analysis. Crime scene investigation: a text-critical mystery and the strange death of Ishbosheth (2007) -- The locutions of 1 Kings 22:28: a new proposal (2003) -- The "embarrassing syntax" of Psalm 47:10: a (pro)vocative option part II: Readers of the lost ark. Ark-eology: shifting emphases in "ark narrative" scholarship (2006) -- Mouse trap: a text-critical problem with rodents in the ark narrative (2008) -- part III: Further soundings. Jonathan son of Abiathar: the fulfillment of a prohetic word about the dissolution of a priestly line -- Highway to Sheol: seductive speech and promiscuous places in Proverbs 7 -- part IV: The world of Chronicles. The royal skull in a temple of doom: an interpretation of 1 Chronicles 10:10 -- Abijah's elevated rhetoric and the civil war of 2 Chronicles 13 -- Capital punishment: the configuration of Ahaziah's last hours in 2 Chronicles