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Covenant Continuity and Fidelity
A Study of Inner-Biblical Allusion and Exegesis in Malachi
Av Jonathan Gibson, Andrew Mein
Inbunden, 2016
1986 kr
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The core of Malachi’s covenantal imagination is shaped by his reflection on an authoritative collection of source texts in the Hebrew Bible. The mention of people, nations and places, Deuteronomic terminology, and rare words and unique word/root combinations exclusive to Malachi and only a few …
Berossus and Genesis, Manetho and Exodus
Hellenistic Histories and the Date of the Pentateuch
Av Russell Gmirkin, Andrew Mein
Inbunden, 2006
2551 kr
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Berossus and Genesis, Manetho and Exodus proposes a provocative new theory regarding the date and circumstances of the composition of the Pentateuch. Gmirkin argues that the Hebrew Pentateuch was composed in its entirety about 273-272 BCE by Jewish scholars at Alexandria that later traditions …
The Bible as a Political Tool
Discourses on Scripture, Secularism, and Swedishness
Av Hanna Liljefors, Andrew Mein m. fl.
Inbunden, 2027
1267 kr
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In this open access volume, Hanna Liljefors examines how the Bible was used by Sweden’s largest newspapers between 1979-1983 and 2019-2023, key periods before and after the Church-State separation in Sweden. By applying critical discourse analysis, Liljefors investigates which patterns emerge in …
Ezekiel and the Ethics of Exile
Av Andrew Mein
E-bok, 2006
457 kr
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Whereas much recent work on the ethics of the Hebrew Bible addresses the theological task of using the Bible as a moral resource for today, this book aims to set Ezekiel''s ethics firmly in the social and historical context of the Babylonian Exile. The two ''moral worlds'' of Jerusalem and …
Ezekiel and the Ethics of Exile
Av Andrew Mein
Inbunden, 2001
1445 kr
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Whereas much recent work on the ethics of the Hebrew Bible addresses the theological task of using the Bible as a moral resource for today, this book aims to set Ezekiel's ethics firmly in the social and historical context of the Babylonian Exile. The two 'moral worlds' of Jerusalem and Babylonia …
Ezekiel and the Ethics of Exile
Av Andrew Mein
Häftad, 2006
950 kr
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Whereas much recent work on the ethics of the Hebrew Bible addresses the theological task of using the Bible as a moral resource for today, this book aims to set Ezekiel's ethics firmly in the social and historical context of the Babylonian Exile. The two 'moral worlds' of Jerusalem and Babylonia …
Cognitive Perspectives on Israelite Identity
Av Dermot Anthony Nestor, Andrew Mein
Inbunden, 2010
2127 kr
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Cognitive Perspectives on Israelite Identity breaks new ground in the study of ethnic identity in the ancient world through the articulation of an explicitly cognitive perspective. In presenting a view of ethnicity as an epistemological rather than an ontological entity, this work seeks to correct …
Performative Nature and Function of Isaiah 40-55
Inbunden, 2006
2551 kr
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Among linguistic philosophers, speech act theory has illuminated the fact that uttering a sentence does not merely convey information; it may also involve the performing of an action. The concept of communicative action provides additional tools to the exegetical process as it points the …
Who Will Lament Her?
The Feminine and the Fantastic in the Book of Nahum
Inbunden, 2006
2551 kr
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It is not surprising that non-academic bible readers largely ignore Nahum. Comprising only a few pages, it is easily overlooked in the midst of the twelve Minor Prophets. When a reader does stop in passing, the book appears to be brief, brutish, and uncomfortably violent. Looking more closely, …
Source and Revision in the Narratives of David's Transfer of the Ark
Text, Language, and Story in 2 Samuel 6 and 1 Chronicles 13, 15-16
Av Robert Rezetko, Andrew Mein
Inbunden, 2008
2551 kr
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This book evaluates the relationship between Samuel and Chronicles in a single synoptic story: David's transfer of Israel's sacred ark to Jerusalem in 2 Samuel 6 and 1 Chronicles 13, 15-16. Chapter 1 establishes the framework of the investigation. In this chapter Rezetko surveys three areas of …
Binding of Isaac
A Religious Model of Disobedience
Inbunden, 2007
1986 kr
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Traditional interpertations in both Judaism and Christianity argue that the Akedah presents not only an ethical question but also an ethical reply. But for the intervention of the angel, Abraham would have killed his son. Obedience to God take precedence over morality as humanly conceived. Yet, the …
Word and Spirit in Ezekiel
Inbunden, 2006
2551 kr
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Two fundamental experiences of Yahweh in the Old Testament are an encounter with the 'word' of Yahweh and an encounter with the 'spirit' or 'wind' or 'breath' (rva-) of Yahweh. This thesis explores 'word', rva-, and their relationship in the book of Ezekiel. According to the dominant paradigm for …
Terror All Around
The Rhetoric of Horror in the Book of Jeremiah
Av Amy Kalmanofsky, Andrew Mein
Inbunden, 2008
1703 kr
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Among the many strategies of persuasive speech, biblical prophets often employ a rhetoric of horror. Prophets use verbal threats and graphic images of destruction to terrify their audience. Contemporary horror theory provides insight into the rhetoric of horror employed by the prophets. In this …
Deuteronomist's Prophet
Narrative Control of Approval and Disapproval in the Story of Jehu (2 Kings 9 and 10)
Av Lissa M Wray Beal, Andrew Mein
Inbunden, 2007
2410 kr
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This book explores, by way of narrative analysis, the story of Jehu's revolt in 2 Kings 9 and 10, and the tensions and ambiguities surrounding the evaluation of Jehu that it contains. In the narrative, the Deuteronomist writes in many voices: the prophet(s), the Lord, the narrator, even Jehu …
BMH as Body Language
A Lexical and Iconographical Study of the Word BMH When Not a Reference to Cultic Phenomena in Biblical and Post-Biblical Hebrew
Av W. Boyd Barrick, Andrew Mein
Inbunden, 2008
2127 kr
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It is customarily assumed that the Hebrew word BMH denotes a high place, first a topographical elevation and derivatively a cult place elevated either by location or construction.This book offers a fresh, systematic, and comprehensive examination of the word in those biblical and post-biblical …
Writing the History of Israel
Av Diane Nunn Banks, Andrew Mein
Inbunden, 2006
2692 kr
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No biblical historian is included in the standard dictionaries of historians. Banks study examines the boundaries as well as the links that exists between history writing in biblical studies and the practice of history in university departments of history. She argues that while the influence of the …
Jeremiah, Zedekiah, and the Fall of Jerusalem
A Study of Prophetic Narrative
Inbunden, 2005
2551 kr
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*Uses both a narratological and historical-critical method to read these specific passages of Jeremiah *Demonstrates that the story of Jeremiah and Zedekiah is not the typical god prophet/bad king story found in much of prophetic literature and the Deuteronomic History *Provides an intertextual …
Fulfilment of Doom?
The Dialogic Interaction between the Book of Lamentations and the Pre-Exilic/Early Exilic Prophetic Literature
Av Elizabeth Boase, Andrew Mein
Inbunden, 2006
2692 kr
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It has long been noted that the "Book of Lamentations" shares, at least in part, a theological outlook with the prophetic literature that the destruction of Jerusalem was the result of Yahweh's decisive action against the sins of the nation. Too often, however, this relationship has simply been …
Re-covering the Daughter's Nakedness
A Formal Analysis of Israelite Kinship Terminology and the Internal Logic of Leviticus 18
Av Madeline Gay McClenney-Sadler, Andrew Mein
Inbunden, 2007
2268 kr
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In order to assess the purpose and function of the incest narratives in the Pentateuch and the incest prohibitions of Leviticus 18, McClenney-Sadler's book offers a formal examination of ancient Israelite kinship terminology. According to anthropologists, only through a formal analysis of kin terms …
Fate of Justice and Righteousness during David's Reign
Narrative Ethics and Rereading the Court History according to 2 Samuel 8:15-20:26
Av Richard G. Smith, Andrew Mein
Inbunden, 2010
2127 kr
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This work argues that 2 Sam 8:15-20:26 is a literary unit designed to show how David and his house failed to establish "justice and righteousness" during David's reign over all Israel. After an introductory chapter and a chapter on critical methodology the rest of the work is a close reading of 2 …
Good Figs, Bad Figs
Judicial Differentiation in the Book of Jeremiah
Inbunden, 2008
2268 kr
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Good Figs, Bad Figs begins by reviewing how the Old Testament depicts YHWH exercising judgment in Israel. Three broad categories of judicial action are identified: selective, unselective, and national. It is noted that more than one of these may be juxtaposed within the same text, and that each is …
Death and Survival in the Book of Job
Desymbolization and Traumatic Experience
Inbunden, 2006
2127 kr
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The Book of Job functions as literature of survival where the main character, Job, deals with the trauma of suffering, attempts to come to terms with a collapsed moral and theological world, and eventually re-connects the broken pieces of his world into a new moral universe, which explains and …
Tell Me, O Muse
The Song of Deborah (Judges 5) in the Light of Heroic Poetry
Av Charles L. Echols, Andrew Mein
Inbunden, 2008
2410 kr
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The so-called Song of Deborah celebrates a decisive victory during the era of the Judges, and praises Jael and the Israelites for their defeat of a Canaanite coalition led by Sisera. Despite generations of scholarship, virtually every aspect of the poem remains disputed, because it has been …
Sustaining Fictions
Intertextuality, Midrash, Translation, and the Literary Afterlife of the Bible
Av Lesleigh Cushing Stahlberg, Andrew Mein
Inbunden, 2009
2268 kr
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Even before the biblical canon became fixed, writers have revisited and reworked its stories. The author of Joshua takes the haphazard settlement of Israel recorded in the Book of Judges and retells it as an orderly military conquest. The writer of Chronicles expurgates the David cycle in Samuel I …
Sacred Dan
Religious Tradition and Cultic Practice in Judges 17-18
Inbunden, 2006
2127 kr
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An introduction reviews previous scholarship, and concludes that the cultic aspects of Judges 17-18 have not been examined in any depth. It then goes on to deal with the historical and redactional issues which previous scholars have found interesting. The issues of provenance and dating are then …
Ritual Words and Narrative Worlds in the Book of Leviticus
Inbunden, 2009
2127 kr
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This book argues that literary features and ritual dynamics within the book of Leviticus enlighten each other. The first two chapters establish that one may read Leviticus as a coherent literary work and define the genre of Leviticus as "narrativized ritual," a complex blending of descriptive …
Was Noah Good?
Finding Favour in the Flood Narrative
Av Carol M. Kaminski, Andrew Mein
Inbunden, 2014
1986 kr
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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 P: J understands Noah's election to be an …
Eternal Covenant" in the Pentateuc
The Contours of an Elusive Phrase
Av Steven D. Mason, Andrew Mein
Inbunden, 2008
2268 kr
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A perusal of Old Testament covenant studies shows that Berit Olam lacks significant scholarly attention. This is surprising since even a quick glance at the eighteen instances shows that though the phrase occurs relatively infrequently it resides within very important passages in the Old Testament, …
From Law to Prophecy
Ezekiel's Use of the Holiness Code
Av Michael A. Lyons, Andrew Mein
Inbunden, 2009
2127 kr
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This work examines text-referencing practices and ideas about sacred texts in antiquity. This book shows how Ezekiel, an ancient Israelite author, borrowed from and transformed an earlier text containing religious instruction. Ezekiel used this earlier text (Lev 17-26, the "Holiness Code") in order …
Pentecost and Sinai
The Festival of Weeks as a Celebration of the Sinai Event
Inbunden, 2009
2127 kr
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An examination of the evidence that the Festival of Weeks was the occasion for the celebration of the renewal of the covenant in the Second Temple period, encompassing chapters on the Hebrew Bible, book of Jubilees, Qumran Scrolls, and the New Testament (Luke-Acts and Ephesians).
