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Reconsidering Johannine Christianity
A Social Identity Approach
Av Raimo Hakola
Häftad, 2021
659 kr
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Reconsidering Johannine Christianity presents a full-scale application of social identity approach to the Johannine writings. This book reconsiders a widely held scholarly assumption that the writings commonly taken to represent Johannine Christianity – the Gospel of John and the First, Second and …
Ecclesiastes and the Riddle of Authorship
Häftad, 2019
735 kr
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In Ecclesiastes, the authorial voice of Qohelet presents an identity that has challenged readers for centuries. This book offers a reception history of the different ways readers have constructed Qohelet as an author. Previous reception histories of Ecclesiastes group readings into "premodern" and …
Social History of Achaemenid Phoenicia
Being a Phoenician, Negotiating Empires
Häftad, 2019
757 kr
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Even though the Persian period has attracted a fair share of scholarly interest in recent years, as yet no concerted effort has been attempted to construct a comprehensive social history of Phoenician city-states as an integral part of the Achaemenid empire. This monograph explores the evidence …
Transforming Literature into Scripture
Texts as Cult Objects at Ninevah and Qumran
Häftad, 2017
764 kr
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Transforming Literature into Scripture examines how the early textual traditions of ancient Israel - stories, laws, and rituals - were transformed into sacred writings. By comparing evidence from two key collections from antiquity - the royal library at Nineveh and the biblical manuscripts from the …
Resurrection, Hell and the Afterlife
Body and Soul in Antiquity, Judaism and Early Christianity
Av Mark Finney
Häftad, 2018
808 kr
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This book begins by arguing that early Greek reflection on the afterlife and immortality insisted on the importance of the physical body whereas a wealth of Jewish texts from the Hebrew Bible, Second Temple Judaism and early (Pauline) Christianity understood post-mortem existence to be that of the …
Resurrection, Hell and the Afterlife
Body and Soul in Antiquity, Judaism and Early Christianity
Av Mark Finney
Inbunden, 2016
2512 kr
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This book begins by arguing that early Greek reflection on the afterlife and immortality insisted on the importance of the physical body whereas a wealth of Jewish texts from the Hebrew Bible, Second Temple Judaism and early (Pauline) Christianity understood post-mortem existence to be that of the …
Love of David and Jonathan
Ideology, Text, Reception
Häftad, 2016
822 kr
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Were David and Jonathan 'gay' lovers? This very modern question lies behind the recent explosion of studies of the David and Jonathan narrative. Interpreters differ in their assessment of whether 1 and 2 Samuel offer a positive portrayal of a homosexual relationship. Beneath the conflict of …
Linguistic Dating of Biblical Texts: Volume 2
Av Ian Young, Robert Rezetko m. fl.
Häftad, 2016
851 kr
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Since the beginning of critical scholarship biblical texts have been dated using linguistic evidence. Until now there has been no introduction to and comprehensive overview of the field. Volume 2 of Linguistic Dating of Biblical Texts contains an extensive overview of dates attributed to different …
Reconsidering Johannine Christianity
A Social Identity Approach
Av Raimo Hakola
Inbunden, 2015
2512 kr
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Reconsidering Johannine Christianity presents a full-scale application of social identity approach to the Johannine writings. This book reconsiders a widely held scholarly assumption that the writings commonly taken to represent Johannine Christianity – the Gospel of John and the First, Second and …
Linguistic Dating of Biblical Texts: Vol 1
Inbunden, 2015
2512 kr
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Since the beginning of critical scholarship, biblical texts have been dated using linguistic evidence. In recent years, this has been a controversial topic. However, until now, there has been no introduction to and comprehensive study of the field. Volume I introduces the field of linguistic dating …
Linguistic Dating of Biblical Texts: Volume 2
Av Ian Young, Robert Rezetko m. fl.
Inbunden, 2015
2888 kr
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Since the beginning of critical scholarship biblical texts have been dated using linguistic evidence. Until now there has been no introduction to and comprehensive overview of the field. Volume 2 of Linguistic Dating of Biblical Texts contains an extensive overview of dates attributed to different …
Transforming Literature into Scripture
Texts as Cult Objects at Ninevah and Qumran
Inbunden, 2012
3168 kr
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Transforming Literature into Scripture examines how the early textual traditions of ancient Israel - stories, laws, and rituals - were transformed into sacred writings. By comparing evidence from two key collections from antiquity - the royal library at Nineveh and the biblical manuscripts from the …
Zionist Bible
Biblical Precedent, Colonialism and the Erasure of Memory
Av Nur Masalha
Inbunden, 2013
2520 kr
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Throughout the history of European imperialism the grand narratives of the Bible have been used to justify settler-colonialism. "The Zionist Bible" explores the ways in which modern political Zionism and Israeli militarism have used the Bible - notably the Book of Joshua and its description of the …
Jesus in an Age of Neoliberalism
Quests, Scholarship and Ideology
Häftad, 2013
650 kr
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'Jesus in an Age of Neoliberalism' analyses the ideology underpinning contemporary scholarly and popular quests for the historical Jesus. Focusing on cultural and political issues, the book examines postmodernism, multiculturalism and the liberal masking of power. The study ranges across diverse …
History, Literature and Theology in the Book of Chronicles
Av Ehud Ben Zvi
Inbunden, 2006
2520 kr
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History, Literature and Theology in the Book of Chronicles presents a new way of approaching this key biblical text, arguing that the Book employs both multiple viewpoints and the knowledge of the past held by its intended readership to reshape social memory and reinforce the authority of God. The …
History, Literature and Theology in the Book of Chronicles
Av Ehud Ben Zvi
Häftad, 2006
650 kr
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History, Literature and Theology in the Book of Chronicles presents a new way of approaching this key biblical text, arguing that the Book employs both multiple viewpoints and the knowledge of the past held by its intended readership to reshape social memory and reinforce the authority of God. The …
Ecclesiastes and the Riddle of Authorship
Inbunden, 2017
2520 kr
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In Ecclesiastes, the authorial voice of Qohelet presents an identity that has challenged readers for centuries. This book offers a reception history of the different ways readers have constructed Qohelet as an author. Previous reception histories of Ecclesiastes group readings into "premodern" and …
Linguistic Dating of Biblical Texts: Vol 1
Häftad, 2014
723 kr
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Since the beginning of critical scholarship, biblical texts have been dated using linguistic evidence. In recent years, this has been a controversial topic. However, until now, there has been no introduction to and comprehensive study of the field. Volume I introduces the field of linguistic dating …
Symposia
Dialogues Concerning the History of Biblical Interpretation
Av Roland Boer
Inbunden, 2007
2520 kr
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'Symposia' illuminates the central issues and concerns of biblical studies by presenting a series of stories. The model for the stories is the ancient Greek idea of the symposium, a 'sitting down together for the purpose of drinking'. In Plato's writings, the symposium becomes a genre of writing …
Symposia
Dialogues Concerning the History of Biblical Interpretation
Av Roland Boer
Häftad, 2007
650 kr
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'Symposia' illuminates the central issues and concerns of biblical studies by presenting a series of stories. The model for the stories is the ancient Greek idea of the symposium, a 'sitting down together for the purpose of drinking'. In Plato's writings, the symposium becomes a genre of writing …
Jonah's World
Social Science and the Reading of Prophetic Story
Häftad, 2008
821 kr
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The story of Jonah, often read as a simple children's story, is a multifaceted and elaborate narrative with serious intent. Treating the biblical book as a fictitious story based on real locations and recognizable persons, 'Jonah's World' examines the background to the story and draws on social …
Bible Says So!
From Simple Answers to Insightful Understanding
Av Edwin D. Freed, Jane F. Roberts
Inbunden, 2009
2520 kr
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Is it possible to apply teachings from the Bible to our world today, given the vast differences between biblical times and ours? Biblical passages are often taken out of context and interpreted to support a particular viewpoint or justify a particular action. 'The Bible Says So!' examines the …
Bible Says So!
From Simple Answers to Insightful Understanding
Av Edwin D. Freed, Jane F. Roberts
Häftad, 2009
635 kr
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Is it possible to apply teachings from the Bible to our world today, given the vast differences between biblical times and ours? Biblical passages are often taken out of context and interpreted to support a particular viewpoint or justify a particular action. 'The Bible Says So!' examines the …
Uruk
The First City
Inbunden, 2006
854 kr
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Uruk: the First City is the first fully historical analysis of the origins of the city and of the state in southern Mesopotamia,the region providing the earliest evidence in world history related to these seminal developments. Contrasting his approach -- which has been influenced by V. Gordan …
Uruk
The First City
Häftad, 2006
356 kr
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Uruk: the First City is the first fully historical analysis of the origins of the city and of the state in southern Mesopotamia,the region providing the earliest evidence in world history related to these seminal developments. Contrasting his approach -- which has been influenced by V. Gordan …
Joy of Kierkegaard
Essays on Kierkegaard as a Biblical Reader
Inbunden, 2011
2520 kr
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Kierkegaard has often been regarded as a gloomy thinker yet, as an evangelist, his aim was to discover the joy of the truth of Christianity. Both Kierkegaard's belief and his doubt in his own work were the result of his attempt to comprehend the exceptional experiences of biblical characters and to …
Joy of Kierkegaard
Essays on Kierkegaard as a Biblical Reader
Häftad, 2011
650 kr
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Kierkegaard has often been regarded as a gloomy thinker yet, as an evangelist, his aim was to discover the joy of the truth of Christianity. Both Kierkegaard's belief and his doubt in his own work were the result of his attempt to comprehend the exceptional experiences of biblical characters and to …
Judaism, Jewish Identities and the Gospel Tradition
Essays in Honour of Maurice Casey
Häftad, 2014
821 kr
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Contemporary Gospel studies have recently taken increasing interest in the Jewish context of Jesus and the gospels. Judaism, Jewish Identities and the Gospel Tradition offers an overview of the ways in which Judaism is used in the canonical gospels and how this relates to the idea of a 'Jewish …
Redrawing the Boundaries
The Date of Early Christian Literature
Av J. V. M. Sturdy, Jonathan Knight
Häftad, 2008
821 kr
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Was the New Testament written in the early first century CE or at a much later date? Sturdy's work was conceived as a reply to John Robinson's Reading the New Testament, which dated the New Testament material very early. Sturdy argued that the Pauline letters are in places interpolated, Colossians, …
On the Origins of Judaism
Inbunden, 2011
2520 kr
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On the Origins of Judaism examines the formation of one of the oldest monotheistic religions. The book covers a diverse range of themes: the identity of those who produced and canonized the Hebrew Bible and subsequently shaped its interpretation; the significance and impact of Second Isaiah and the …
