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David J A Clines
[Hardcover 1998]
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For these two volumes, the author has selected 50 articles and papers, ten of them not previously published, from his work as an Old Testament scholar over the last 30 years. Some of the papers, like 'The Evidence for an Autumnal New Year in Pre-exilic Israel Reconsidered', are far from... more
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Wonil Kim ,
Deborah Ellens ,
Michael H Floyd
[Paperback 2001, 2nd Edition]
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A two-volume collection of essays focused on the exegetical methodology developed by Rolf P. Knierim at the Institute for Antiquity and Christianity. Knierim's methodology pays special attention to the literary forms and conceptual underpinnings of biblical texts. It also moves well beyond the concerns of traditional form criticism to address... more
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John R Coats ,
Sean Runnette
[Paperback 2010]
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Former Episcopal priest John R. Coats reimagines the stories and characters in Genesis in a humanizing, familiar light to show their contemporary relevance and humanness. Former Episcopal priest John R. Coats reimagines the stories and characters in Genesis in a humanizing, familiar light to show their contemporary relevance and humanness.... more
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Norman C Habel ,
Shirley Wurst
[Paperback 2001]
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Is the Earth capable of raising its voice against injustice? Is this voice heard in Wisdom literature? How? Ecofeminist readings in this volume emphasize the suppression of women's voices and voices of the Earth, while other essays invite the reader to celebrate how creation is central to the book of... more
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David J A Clines
[Hardcover 1998]
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For these two volumes, the author has selected 50 articles and papers, ten of them not previously published, from his work as an Old Testament scholar over the last 30 years. Some of the papers, like 'The Evidence for an Autumnal New Year in Pre-exilic Israel Reconsidered', are far from... more
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John H Walton
[Paperback 1994]
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This book surveys within the various literary genres (cosmologies, personal archives and epics, hymns, and prayers) parallels between the Bible and Ancient Near Eastern literature.... more
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Mark G Brett ,
G Brett Mark
[Paperback 2000]
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Combining insights from social and literary theory as well as traditional historical studies, Mark Brett argues that the first book of the Bible can be read as resistance literature. Placing the theological text firmly within its socio-political context, he shows that the editors of Genesis were directly engaged with contemporary... more
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James Barr
[Hardcover 2000]
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Mary Douglas
[Paperback 2001]
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This first full-scale account of Leviticus by a world renowned anthropologist presents the biblical work as a literary masterpiece. Seen in an anthropological perspective Leviticus has a mystical structure which plots the book into three parts corresponding to the three parts of the desert tabernacle, both corresponding to the parts... more
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Ernest Nicholson
[Paperback 2003]
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Rebecca Gray
[Hardcover 1993]
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Isolated passages from the writings of Josephus are routinely cited in general studies of early Jewish prophecy, but the present work is the first comprehensive examination of this material. Gray begins with a discussion of the significance of the belief--widely attested in Jewish sources from the late Second Temple period--that... more
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A D H Mayes
[Hardcover 2000]
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Adele Reinhartz
[Hardcover 1998]
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Unnamed characters--such as Lot's wife, Jephthah's daughter, Pharaoh's baker, and the witch of Endor--are ubiquitous in the Hebrew Bible and appear in a wide variety of roles. Adele Reinhartz here seeks to answer two principal questions: first, is there a "poetics of anonymity," and if so, what are its contours?... more
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Mary Douglas
[Paperback 2001]
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Following on from the paperback edition of Leviticus as Literature, this is the revised paperback edition of Mary Douglas's classical account of the Book of Numbers. Up to now Bible scholars have tended to dismiss Numbers as a chaotic mix of narrative and laws. Mary Douglas argues that, like Leviticus,... more
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James M Trotter
[Hardcover 2002]
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An examination of the final form of Hosea within the socio-historical context of Persian period Judah, making use of insights from historical-critical and reader-oriented perspectives. The amalgamation of these two seemingly divergent approaches creates a framework within which the setting and interpretive practices of both the modern critic and the... more
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Richard J Clifford
[Paperback 2007]
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The last fifty years have seen a dramatic increase of interest in the wisdom literature of the Bible, as scholars have come to appreciate the subtlety and originality of Proverbs, Job, and Ecclesiastes as well as of Sirach and Wisdom of Solomon. Interest has likewise grown in the wisdom literatures... more
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Karen Armstrong
[Paperback 2011]
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The foundation stone of Jewish and Christian scriptures, the power of the Book of Genesis lies in its stories - Creation, the Fall, Cain and Abel, Noah, Abraham, Jacob and Joseph. These ancient tales illuminate some of our most enduring and profound problems: cowardice, the struggle with evil, the difficulty... more
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Andrew Shead
[Hardcover 2002]
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A textual commentary on Jeremiah 32 whose textlinguistically-oriented methodology helps to uncover far more haplography in the Septuagint Vorlage than hitherto suspected..... more
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David Plotz
[Paperback 2010]
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Like many Jews and Christians, David Plotz long assumed he knew what was in the Bible. He read parts of it as a child in Hebrew school, then at-tended a Christian high school where he studied the Old and New Testaments. Many of the highlights stuck with him--Adam and Eve,... more
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David Jobling ,
Chris Franke ,
Jerome T Walsh
[Hardcover 1998]
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For centuries people have turned to the Hebrew Bible to hear the life-giving words of God's everlasting covenant. Berit Olam: Studies in Hebrew Narrative and Poetry shares the riches of this message with all who seek to hear it. Twenty-four volumes are pr... more
