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Jehoiachin: not a broken vessel but a humiliated vassal (Jer 22:28–30) (2017)
Journal Article
Crouch, C. (2017). Jehoiachin: not a broken vessel but a humiliated vassal (Jer 22:28–30). Zeitschrift für die Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft, 129(2), https://doi.org/10.1515/zaw-2017-0014

Uncertain terminology, versional differences and the juxtaposition of multiple images for Jehoiachin combine to render Jer 22:28–30 an interpretive quagmire. The article proposes to ameliorate this confusion through the emendation of the first word o... Read More about Jehoiachin: not a broken vessel but a humiliated vassal (Jer 22:28–30).

Chapter 1: introduction (2017)
Book Chapter
Crouch, C. (2017). Chapter 1: introduction. In An introduction to the study of Jeremiah. Bloomsbury

Made in the image of god: the creation of ???: the commissioning of the king and the chaoskampf of YHWH (2016)
Journal Article
Crouch, C. (2016). Made in the image of god: the creation of ???: the commissioning of the king and the chaoskampf of YHWH. Journal of Ancient Near Eastern Religions, 16(1), https://doi.org/10.1163/15692124-12341277

This article suggests that Genesis 1 and Psalms 8, 18 and 89 reflect a mythological tradition which described the creation of the human king as YHWH’s counterpart in the divine battle against chaos. The residual royal features of the narrative of the... Read More about Made in the image of god: the creation of ???: the commissioning of the king and the chaoskampf of YHWH.

Military crimes (2015)
Book Chapter
Wright, J. L., & Crouch, C. (2015). Military crimes. In B. Strawn (Ed.), The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and Law. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acref%3Aobso/9780199843305.001.0001

Concerned with Israel’s history and future, the Bible devotes considerable space to war—the most powerful catalyst of change in the lives of nations. The biblical authors often display a consciousness of illicit activities in wartime, anticipating wh... Read More about Military crimes.

What makes a thing abominable? Observations on the language of boundaries and identity formation from a social scientific perspective (2015)
Journal Article
Crouch, C. (2015). What makes a thing abominable? Observations on the language of boundaries and identity formation from a social scientific perspective. Vetus Testamentum, 65(4), https://doi.org/10.1163/15685330-12301217

Previous attempts to synthesise biblical texts’ usage of tw‘bh have associated the language with cultic concerns in Deuteronomy and Ezekiel or with ethical concerns in Proverbs. The reconciliation of these interests, especially in conjunction with a... Read More about What makes a thing abominable? Observations on the language of boundaries and identity formation from a social scientific perspective.

Israel and the Assyrians: Deuteronomy, the Succession Treaty of Esarhaddon, and the Nature of Subversion (2014)
Book
Crouch, C. (2014). Israel and the Assyrians: Deuteronomy, the Succession Treaty of Esarhaddon, and the Nature of Subversion. Atlanta, Georgia: SBL Press

Crouch focuses on Deuteronomy’s subversive intent, asking what would be required in order for Deuteronomy to successfully subvert either a specific Assyrian source or Assyrian ideology more generally. The book reconsiders the nature of the relationsh... Read More about Israel and the Assyrians: Deuteronomy, the Succession Treaty of Esarhaddon, and the Nature of Subversion.

The Making of Israel: Cultural Diversity in the Southern Levant and the Formation of Ethnic Identity in Deuteronomy (2014)
Book
Crouch, C. (2014). The Making of Israel: Cultural Diversity in the Southern Levant and the Formation of Ethnic Identity in Deuteronomy. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill Academic Publishers

In The Making of Israel C.L. Crouch presents the southern Levant during the seventh century BCE as a major period for the formation of Israelite ethnic identity, challenging scholarship which dates biblical texts with identity concerns to the exilic... Read More about The Making of Israel: Cultural Diversity in the Southern Levant and the Formation of Ethnic Identity in Deuteronomy.

Yhwh's battle against chaos in Ezekiel: the transformation of Judahite mythology for a new situation (2013)
Journal Article
Strine, C., & Crouch, C. (2013). Yhwh's battle against chaos in Ezekiel: the transformation of Judahite mythology for a new situation. Journal of Biblical Literature, 132(4), https://doi.org/10.2307/42912472

In addressing the theological crisis of the exile, Ezekiel relies on the mythology of the divine king who goes out to battle against the forces of chaos, commonly referred to as the Chaoskampf. This article explores how Ezekiel employs this imagery t... Read More about Yhwh's battle against chaos in Ezekiel: the transformation of Judahite mythology for a new situation.

Ištar and the motif of the cosmological warrior: Assurbanipal’s adaptation of Enuma elish (2013)
Book Chapter
Crouch, C. (2013). Ištar and the motif of the cosmological warrior: Assurbanipal’s adaptation of Enuma elish. In ‘Thus speaks Ishtar of Arbela’: prophecy in Israel, Assyria and Egypt in the Neo-Assyrian period. Eisenbrauns

Esarhaddon and Assurbanipal are well known to scholars of ancient Near Eastern prophecy, thanks to their affinity for prophecy and the prophetic goddess Ištar in particular, which resulted in the preservation of oracular material in a manner not atte... Read More about Ištar and the motif of the cosmological warrior: Assurbanipal’s adaptation of Enuma elish.

The threat to Israel’s identity in Deuteronomy: Mesopotamian or Levantine? (2012)
Journal Article
Crouch, C. (2012). The threat to Israel’s identity in Deuteronomy: Mesopotamian or Levantine?. Zeitschrift für die Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft, 124(4), https://doi.org/10.1515/zaw-2012-0038

Deuteronomy contains a number of indications which locate its interests in the Levant rather than in Mesopotamia. This observation challenges two major theories of the book’s origins: Deuteronomy as pre-exilic attempt to subvert Assyrian imperial pow... Read More about The threat to Israel’s identity in Deuteronomy: Mesopotamian or Levantine?.

Adapting the cosmological tradition in Isaiah 40-45 (2011)
Journal Article
Crouch, C. (in press). Adapting the cosmological tradition in Isaiah 40-45. Scandinavian Journal of the Old Testament, 25(2), https://doi.org/10.1080/09018328.2011.608544

The characterisation of Yahweh as king in Isaiah 40-45 and the use of creation language to reiterate Yahweh's power are well known. This article examines the way in which these themes reflect this text's re-working of pre-exilic theology in order to... Read More about Adapting the cosmological tradition in Isaiah 40-45.

Ezekiel's oracles against the nations in light of a royal ideology of warfare (2011)
Journal Article
Crouch, C. (2011). Ezekiel's oracles against the nations in light of a royal ideology of warfare. Journal of Biblical Literature, 130(3), https://doi.org/10.2307/41304214

Over the last few decades a steady stream of scholarship has argued for a mythological background to the oracles against the nations (OANs) in the book of Ezekiel.1 Very few studies, however, have attempted to make overarching sense of Ezekiel’s use... Read More about Ezekiel's oracles against the nations in light of a royal ideology of warfare.

???? as interpolative gloss: a solution to Gen 4,7 (2011)
Journal Article
Crouch, C. (2011). חטאת as interpolative gloss: a solution to Gen 4,7. Zeitschrift für die Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft, 123(2), https://doi.org/10.1515/ZAW.2011.016

This note suggests that Gen 4,7 can be rendered comprehensible by the removal of the term ht't, understanding its appearance as an interpolative gloss, and the interpretation of the remaining rbts as the subject of a nominal clause. This eliminates t... Read More about ???? as interpolative gloss: a solution to Gen 4,7.

Genesis 1:26-7 as a statement of humanity’s divine parentage (2010)
Journal Article
Crouch, C. (2010). Genesis 1:26-7 as a statement of humanity’s divine parentage. Journal of Theological Studies, 61(1), https://doi.org/10.1093/jts/flp185

The linguistic and cultural background of the words tslm and dmwt supports a reading of Gen. 1:26–7 as a statement of humanity’s divine parentage. As such it is intended to evoke the responsibilities of child to parent and of parent to child in the m... Read More about Genesis 1:26-7 as a statement of humanity’s divine parentage.