Bryan D. Bibb is an Assistant Professor of Hebrew Bible at Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina. His most recent publications include Thirty-three entries in the New Interpreter's Dictionary of the Bible (forthcoming, Abingdon Press, 2007-2008); "Priorities: The Wisdom Literature" a four-lesson unit for adult Bible study (Formations, Smyth & Helwys, August 2006); and "The Prophetic Critique of Ritual in Old Testament Theology" in Priests in the Prophets: The Portrayal of Priests, Prophets and Other Religious Specialists in the Latter Prophets (edited by Lester Grabbe and Alice Ogden Bellis; T&T Clark, 2005).

Reviewed in Religious Studies Review, Vol. 36, No. 2, June 2010 (UK) ‘An innovative ritual and literary analysis of Leviticus'

• I. Leviticus as LiteratureLiterature or History?Generic PossibilitiesRhetorical StrategiesLeviticus as a "Book"Literary SeparationLiterary ArtistryThe Structure of LeviticusLeviticus's Two HalvesNarrative StructuringII. Narrativized RitualRitual GenreHistorical PossibilitiesThe Ritual World of LeviticusRitual and Narrative PolyphonyRitualizationReading, Writing, RitualizingThe Practice of RitualAspects of RitualizationRitual and PowerConclusionIII. Narrating Ritual: Leviticus 1-7 and 11-15Ritual in NarrativeCharacterizationSpeaking, Hearing, ObservingDoing, Having, BeingFeeling, Believing, DesiringRitual AnalysisAmbiguity and FluidityNegotiated AcceptanceIV.

Bryan D. Bibb is an Assistant Professor of Hebrew Bible at Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina. His most recent publications include Thirty-three entries in the New Interpreter's Dictionary of the Bible (forthcoming, Abingdon Press, 2007-2008); "Priorities: The Wisdom Literature" a four-lesson unit for adult Bible study (Formations, Smyth & Helwys, August 2006); and "The Prophetic Critique of Ritual in Old Testament Theology" in Priests in the Prophets: The Portrayal of Priests, Prophets and Other Religious Specialists in the Latter Prophets (edited by Lester Grabbe and Alice Ogden Bellis; T&T Clark, 2005).

Reviewed in Religious Studies Review, Vol. 36, No. 2, June 2010 (UK) ‘An innovative ritual and literary analysis of Leviticus'

• I. Leviticus as LiteratureLiterature or History?Generic PossibilitiesRhetorical StrategiesLeviticus as a "Book"Literary SeparationLiterary ArtistryThe Structure of LeviticusLeviticus's Two HalvesNarrative StructuringII. Narrativized RitualRitual GenreHistorical PossibilitiesThe Ritual World of LeviticusRitual and Narrative PolyphonyRitualizationReading, Writing, RitualizingThe Practice of RitualAspects of RitualizationRitual and PowerConclusionIII. Narrating Ritual: Leviticus 1-7 and 11-15Ritual in NarrativeCharacterizationSpeaking, Hearing, ObservingDoing, Having, BeingFeeling, Believing, DesiringRitual AnalysisAmbiguity and FluidityNegotiated AcceptanceIV.

Bryan D. Bibb is an Assistant Professor of Hebrew Bible at Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina. His most recent publications include Thirty-three entries in the New Interpreter's Dictionary of the Bible (forthcoming, Abingdon Press, 2007-2008); "Priorities: The Wisdom Literature" a four-lesson unit for adult Bible study (Formations, Smyth & Helwys, August 2006); and "The Prophetic Critique of Ritual in Old Testament Theology" in Priests in the Prophets: The Portrayal of Priests, Prophets and Other Religious Specialists in the Latter Prophets (edited by Lester Grabbe and Alice Ogden Bellis; T&T Clark, 2005).

Reviewed in Religious Studies Review, Vol. 36, No. 2, June 2010 (UK) ‘An innovative ritual and literary analysis of Leviticus'

• I. Leviticus as LiteratureLiterature or History?Generic PossibilitiesRhetorical StrategiesLeviticus as a "Book"Literary SeparationLiterary ArtistryThe Structure of LeviticusLeviticus's Two HalvesNarrative StructuringII. Narrativized RitualRitual GenreHistorical PossibilitiesThe Ritual World of LeviticusRitual and Narrative PolyphonyRitualizationReading, Writing, RitualizingThe Practice of RitualAspects of RitualizationRitual and PowerConclusionIII. Narrating Ritual: Leviticus 1-7 and 11-15Ritual in NarrativeCharacterizationSpeaking, Hearing, ObservingDoing, Having, BeingFeeling, Believing, DesiringRitual AnalysisAmbiguity and FluidityNegotiated AcceptanceIV.