With the Loyal You Show Yourself Loyal: Essays on Relationships in the Hebrew Bible in Honor of Saul M. Olyan

Saul M. Olyan is an influential and highly accomplished biblical scholar. He is currently the Samuel Ungerleider Jr. Professor of Judaic Studies and Professor of Religious Studies at Brown University. Over the past four decades, Saul has published research on a staggering breadth of topics within biblical studies and religious studies more broadly, including angels, goddesses, ritual, social hierarchy, sexuality, disability, stigmatizing categorizations, family and household religion, ritual violence, the concept of monotheism, friendship, and animals. Among the contributors to this volume in his honor, his students, colleagues, and friends engage his work on relationships in the Hebrew Bible in various ways, from the marking of status in relationships of inequality, to human family, friend, and sexual relationships, to relationships between divine beings.