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Best Seller | A collection of fifteen articles by colleagues and former students of Professor Willis of Abilene Christian University. The papers deal with the topic of worship from a variety of perspectives and in different connections with the life and thought of... more | FREE shipping go to store |
In this very significant work translated from the Italian Bovati examines in careful detail the practice of justice in ancient Israel first the bilateral controversy (the rib) and then the legal judgement properly speaking. Re-establishing Justice is... more | FREE shipping go to store |
Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament St The Unchained Bible Book 567 (Hardcover) This volume explores a number of instances of unexpected but influential readings of the Bible in popular culture literature film music and politics. The argument in all of them is that the effects of the Bible continues to have an effect on... more | FREE shipping go to store |
The relationship of the Strange Woman and Woman Wisdom separate but inseparable in Proverbs 1-9 is the book s analytic starting point becoming a hermeneutical lens for viewing other texts of strangeness-of gender ethnicity sexuality and cultic... more | $44.81 $38.16 FREE shipping go to store |
Our books are pre-loved which means they have been read before. We carefully check all our books and believe them to be in very good condition. If you re not completely satisfied please get in touch & we ll be happy to help. ISBN-10: 1850757925... more | FREE shipping go to store |
This collection of inter-related essays argues that the way in which Chronicles incorporates and develops material from Samuel-Kings offers an analogy for the way in which the final edition of Exodus was produced. Embedded within the text of Exodus... more | FREE shipping go to store |
Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament St Ecclesiastes and Scepticism Book 541 (Hardcover) By emphasising observation and empiricism as a key influence on human behaviour this work excludes any consideration of tradition or revelation. Scholars often view the apparent scepticism of Ecclesiastes in terms of a reaction against the more... more | FREE shipping go to store |
In the Book of Judges why if we view Samson as a heroic Ãœbermensch do we read his story one way yet if we read him as a buffoonish and violent oaf we read the story another way? How does our assessment of the characters of a story our empathy with... more | go to store |
Explores the ways in how the male and female body is constructed in Leviticus 12 and 15 and how its reception history unfolds. The so-called purity laws in Leviticus 11-15 reflect a cultic and social view on the male and female body. These texts do not... more | FREE shipping go to store |
Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies: The Descent from the Mountain (Paperback) This close reading of Exodus 19-40 focuses on the repetition of the encounter on the mountain . This double encounter is expressed in a narrative structure of preparatory episodes climaxed by the theophany. The tension of the narrative is linked to the... more | FREE shipping go to store |
Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament St Unity in the Book of Isaiah Book 732 (Hardcover) Building on previous holistic readings of the Book of Isaiah this collection approaches Isaiah through the concept of unity. Contributors outline research that point to new directions in the unity movement and in the process bring it under a critical... more | go to store |
This redaction-critical study interprets the reasons for judgment in Amos 2.6-16 in the literary context of each of the redactional compositions which it is argued underlie the Amos-text. It is proposed that the Amos-text is both a theological work and... more | FREE shipping go to store |
Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament St The Violent Gift Book 561 (Hardcover) The Violent Gift traces the narrative of the exilic author of the Deuteronomistic History a narrative that provides an explanation for the trauma that the Judean community in Babylon suffered. As the book follows this explanation through the History... more | FREE shipping go to store |
Intermarriage and group identity in the Second Temple Period will be investigated from different points of view with regard to methodology and analyzed texts. With an introduction to the history of research and a summarizing final section the... more | go to store |
Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament St The One Who Reads May Run Book 553 (Hardcover) The purpose of this volume is to honor the work of Edgar Conrad. The essays focus on various aspects of Conrad s work especially the prophetic literature the Bible as literature canonical issues and engaged readings. In developing these lines of... more | FREE shipping go to store |
Persepolis and Jerusalem reconsiders Iranian influence upon Jewish apocalyptic and offers grounds upon which such study may proceed. After describing the history of scholarship on the question of Iranian influence and on Jewish apocalyptic Jason M.... more | $236.36 $188.50 FREE shipping go to store |
The story of Samson and Delilah in Judges 16 has been studied and retold over the centuries by biblical interpreters artists musicians filmmakers and writers. Within these scholarly and cultural retellings Delilah is frequently fashioned as the... more | FREE shipping go to store |
Ascribe to the Lord: Biblical and Other Essays in Memory of Peter C. Craigie more | $46.95 $38.70 FREE shipping go to store |
This study offers a canonical reading of the Esau and Edom traditions examining the portrayal of Esau and Edom in Genesis Deuteronomy and the prophetic material. First it is argued that the depiction of Esau and his descendants in Genesis and... more | $240.67 $205.55 FREE shipping go to store |
The biblical motif of a land divinely-promised and given to Abraham and his descendants is argued to be an ideological reflex of post-monarchic territorial disputes between competing socio-religious groups. The important biblical motif of a Promised... more | FREE shipping go to store |
Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament St Text as Revelation (Hardcover) Text as Revelation analyses the shift of revelatory experiences from oral to written that is described in ancient Jewish literature including rabbinic texts. The individual essays seek to understand how why and for whom texts became the locus of... more | go to store |
When methodology relating to the history of ancient Israel is discussed the issue of historiography is frequently injected into the debate. This includes both principles of writing history from a modern perspective and also historiography as it relates... more | go to store |
This is not a sociological study in the technical sense. Its aim is simply to review the internal evidence of a single Old Testament book about attitudes towards what is now universally recognized as one of the most serious problems facing the world... more | FREE shipping go to store |
Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies: A Blemished Perfection (Paperback) The main methodological thesis of this study is that the book of Job more than any other book in the Bible should be treated as an artistic work in which form and content cannot be separated. Hence a good acquaintance with the literary aspects of the... more | FREE shipping go to store |
Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament St The Pitcher Is Broken Book 190 (Paperback) This is a volume of tributes and essays in memory of G more | FREE shipping go to store |
In his famous vision of the enthroned and exalted Lord Isaiah is told to harden the hearts of his people lest they repent (Isa. 6.9-10). According to Mark s Gospel which cites this text Jesus speaks in parables for the same reason. Interpreters of all... more | FREE shipping go to store |
Pikor anaylzes the land of Israel in the book of Ezekiel showing how its preoccupation with the Babylonian exile and the loss of the Promised Land that this entails is directly linked to the danger this poses to Israel s covenant with God. Pikor... more | FREE shipping go to store |
The juxtaposition of favour and righteousness in the flood narrative raises an interpretative and theological problem: Is Noah chosen because of divine favour or because of his piety ? Source-critical scholars identify two different theologies by J and... more | FREE shipping go to store |
One hundred years ago Bishop Colenso was excommunicated because of his liberal critical views on the inspiration and authority of the Bible. But while in South Africa he worked strenuously for social and political reform. 2003 will mark the revocation... more | FREE shipping go to store |
This work offers a social-scientific analysis of Yehud and uses that analysis to construct a model through which to analyze later monotheistic religious developments. more | $192.37 $135.00 FREE shipping go to store |
Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament St After Ezekiel Book 535 (Hardcover) Ezekiel has long been considered the most difficult of all the prophetic books to understand. The prophet s bizarre visions extraordinary behaviour and extravagant imagery have perplexed and fascinated readers for more than 2 500 years. The prophet has... more | go to store |
Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament St Reading Esther Intertextually (Paperback) Looking at the Book of Esther through the lens of intertextuality this collection considers its connections with each division of the Hebrew Bible along with texts throughout history. Through its exploration it provides and invites further study into... more | go to store |
9780567501059. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Trade paperback. Language: English. Pages: 224. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 224 p. Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies 499. Within a book widely touted as the path to peace violence has... more | $42.65 $28.58 FREE shipping go to store |
9780567025036. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Hard cover. Language: English. Pages: 192. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 192 p. Contains: Unspecified Figures. Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies 464. This study is an... more | $190.00 $34.25 FREE shipping go to store |
The Artifice of Love: Grotesque Bodies and the Song of Songs (The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies 392) ISBN-10 082646985X ISBN-13 9780826469854 Black Fiona Illustrated edition 304 pages Publisher: T&T Clark Binding: Hardcover The lovers... more | go to store |
{Size: 17.78 x 24.13 cms} Lang: - English Pages 319 Print on Demand. Reprinted in 2023 with the help of original edition published long back [1867]. This book is Printed in black & white sewing binding for longer life with Matt laminated multi-Colour... more | $45.15 $30.02 FREE shipping go to store |
Leatherbound edition. Language: English Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Reprinted from 1867 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr d reprint. Illustrations Index... more | FREE shipping go to store |
Leatherbound edition. Language: mal Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Reprinted from 1910 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr d reprint. Illustrations Index if... more | FREE shipping go to store |
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