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BERNARD F. BATTO and KATHRYN L. ROBERTS (eds.), David and ZÎ'OTI: Biblical Studies in Honor of J. J. M. Roberts (Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2004). Pp. xxvi + 444. $49.50.
A native Texan, Jimmy J. Roberts was educated at Abilene Christian College, Harvard Divinity School, and Harvard University, where he received a Ph.D. in Assyriology in 1969. After brief periods at Dartmouth and the University of Toronto, and a longer time at Johns Hopkins University (1969-1978), he was named the William Henry Green Professor of Old Testament Literature at Princeton Theological Seminary. The festschrift highlights two major themes in his work, Davidic kingship and Mount Zion. Beautifully produced and well edited, David and Zion contains a bibliography of Roberts's writings (the first entry is 1965) and indexes of authors and scriptural citations.
The essays in part 1 are concerned with David and Zion: Michael B. Dick, "The 'History of David's Rise to Power' and the Neo-Babylonian Succession Apologies" (pp. 3-20); F. W. Dobbs-Alsopp, "R(az/ais)ing Zion in Lamentations" (pp. 21-68); John S. Kselman, "Sinai and Zion in Psalm 93" (pp. 69-76); Rick R. Marrs, '"Back to the Future': Zion in the Book of Micah" (pp. 77-96); Kathryn L. Roberts, '"Who Knows? Yahweh May Be Gracious': Why We Pray" (pp. 97-110); Andrew G. Vaughn, '"And Lot Went with Him': Abraham's Disobedience in Genesis 12:l-4a" (pp. 111-24); John T. Willis, "David and Zion in the Theology of the Deuteronomistic History: Theological Ideas in 2 Samuel 5-7" (pp. 125-40).
Part 2 contains essays on the divine king and...