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Art as Biblical Commentary
Visual Criticism from Hagar the Wife of Abraham to Mary the Mother of Jesus
Av J. Cheryl Exum, Laura Quick
Häftad, 2021
515 kr
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Art as Biblical Commentary is not just about biblical art but, more importantly, about biblical exegesis and the contributions visual criticism as an exegetical tool can make to biblical exegesis and commentary. Using a range of texts and numerous images, J. Cheryl Exum asks what works of art can …
Edom, Israel's Brother and Antagonist
The Role of Edom in Biblical Prophecy and Story
Av Bert Dicou
Häftad, 2009
515 kr
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The subject of the present book is the theme of Edom in the Old Testament. In the four long oracles against Edom (Isa. 34, Jer. 49.7-22, Ezek. 35, Obadiah), this nation serves as Israel's antagonist and the representative of the enemy nations. Edom also appears in the book of Genesis: Jacob's …
Covenant Continuity and Fidelity
A Study of Inner-Biblical Allusion and Exegesis in Malachi
Av Jonathan Gibson, Andrew Mein
Inbunden, 2016
1984 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 …
Conflict of Faith and Experience in the Psalms
A Form-Critical and Theological Study
E-bok, 1989
361 kr
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In a penetrating analysis, Broyles breaks open the category of the psalms of ''lament'', arguing that this conventional grouping encloses two quite different kinds of psalms. Not only are there the psalms of ''plea'', which affirm the praise of God and belong theologically on the side of faith, but …
Reception History and Biblical Studies
Theory and Practice
Av Emma England, William John Lyons
Häftad, 2018
459 kr
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How do we begin to carry out such a vast task—the examination of three millennia of diverse uses and influences of the biblical texts? Where can the interested scholar find information on methods and techniques applicable to the many and varied ways in which these have happened?Through a series of …
Berossus and Genesis, Manetho and Exodus
Hellenistic Histories and the Date of the Pentateuch
Av Russell Gmirkin, Andrew Mein
Inbunden, 2006
2549 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 …
Israel Constructs its History
Deuteronomistic Historiography in Recent Research
Av Albert de Pury, Jean-Daniel Macchi m. fl.
E-bok, 2000
3039 kr
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The thesis that the books of Deuteronomy to 2 Kings have undergone a redaction that made them into a ''Deuteronomistic History'' has become since Martin Noth (1943) a widely accepted idea in Old Testament scholarship. But there is no consensus when this history was edited: under Josiah (622 BCE), …
Family in Life and in Death: The Family in Ancient Israel
Sociological and Archaeological Perspectives
E-bok, 2009
546 kr
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This volume explores the advantages of seeing a topic from two different but complementary perspectives. All of the papers in the volume were read at two sessions at SBL (2005 and 2006) that were co-sponsored by the Social Sciences and the Hebrew Bible Section of SBL and the American Schools of …
God and Earthly Power
An Old Testament Political Theology
E-bok, 2006
649 kr
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In God and Earthly Power J. G. McConville considers the nature of human power in the light of belief in God. The Bible, and especially the Old Testament, is relevant to the question, not least because perceptions about the use of power in relation to God are often derived correctly or incorrectly …
Literary Coherence of the Book of Micah
Remnant, Restoration, and Promise
Av Kenneth H. Cuffey, Laura Quick
Inbunden, 2015
1984 kr
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The Literary Coherence of the Book of Micah puts forth a framework to understand the nature of literary coherence. This enables an analysis of the sources and dimensions of the coherence found in the book of Micah by the primary scholarly proposals for understanding the structure and connectedness …
Mediating Between Heaven and Earth
Communication with the Divine in the Ancient Near East
Av C.L. Crouch, Jonathan Stökl m. fl.
Häftad, 2014
558 kr
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This volume brings together experts in the study of ancient prayers and divination methods to analyse the variety of means by which human beings sought to communicate with their gods and by which the gods were seen to communicate with their worshippers. In a departure from previous scholarship, the …
Prophet in Debate
The Rhetoric of Persuasion in the Book of Amos
Av Karl Möller
Häftad, 2009
515 kr
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An investigation of the literary structure and rhetorical challenge that prompted the book's production. Moller argues that the book of Amos captures and presents the debate between Amos and his eighth-century audience. When read in the light of Israel's fall, the presentation of Amos struggling …
Three Faces of a Queen
Characterization in the Books of Esther
Av Linda Day
E-bok, 1995
670 kr
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This original study offers, for the first time, an analysis of the characterization of Esther as she is portrayed in each of the three primary versions of the book of Esther-the Masoretic text, the Septuagint text, and the Greek a text. This study of characterization has implications beyond itself. …
Relating to the Text
Interdisciplinary and Form-Critical Insights on the Bible
Av Timothy Sandoval, Carleen Mandolfo
E-bok, 2003
1299 kr
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This collection contains studies reflecting the contribution of Martin Buss to biblical scholarship, focusing on the forms and genres of biblical literature and on interdisciplinary approaches to biblical interpretation. Contributors to the volume include J.H. Hayes, J. Kuan, A. Siedlecki, B. …
Admonition and Curse
The Ancient Near Eastern Treaty/Covenant Form as a Problem in Inter-Cultural Relationships
Av Noel Weeks
E-bok, 2004
2805 kr
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The occurrence of treaties throughout the Ancient Near East has been investigated on a number of occasions, generally in order to resolve certain questions arising in the biblical field. As a result of that focus, the existence of a similar institution in a number of different cultures has not been …
Intertextuality of Zechariah 1-8
E-bok, 2009
546 kr
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Zechariah 1-8 is a deeply intertextual work which takes up formerly disparate streams of tradition - especially various elements of what it calls ''the former prophets'' - and creatively combines these traditions, in applying them to a post-exilic context. This fact means that Zechariah 1-8 is …
Fate of Justice and Righteousness during David's Reign
Narrative Ethics and Rereading the Court History According to 2 Samuel 8:15-20:26
E-bok, 2009
546 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 …
Three Faces of Saul
An Intertextual Approach to Biblical Tragedy
E-bok, 2002
2942 kr
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A fascinating intertextual study of the classic biblical tragedy of Saul, the first king of Israel, as first narrated in biblical narrative and later reworked in Lamartine''s drama Saul: Tragédie and Thomas Hardy''s novel The Mayor of Casterbridge. Plot and characterization are each explored in …
Body as Property
Physical Disfigurement in Biblical Law
E-bok, 2014
608 kr
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The Body As Property indicates that physical disfigurement functioned in biblical law to verify legal property acquisition, when changes in the status of dependents were formalized. It is based on the reality the cuneiform script, in particular, was developed in Sumer and Mesopotamia for the …
Ethical and Unethical in the Old Testament
God and Humans in Dialogue
E-bok, 2010
546 kr
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This volume is interested in what the Old Testament and beyond (Dead Sea Scrolls and Targum) has to say about ethical behaviour through its characters, through its varying portrayals of God and humanity in mutual dialogue and through its authors. It covers a wide range of genres of Old Testament …
Cognitive Perspectives on Israelite Identity
Av Dermot Anthony Nestor, Andrew Mein
Inbunden, 2010
2125 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 …
Defining the Sacred Songs
Genre, Tradition, and the Post-Critical Interpretation of the Psalms
Häftad, 2009
515 kr
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At a time when the focus of Psalms research has increasingly shifted from the form-critical concerns of Hermann Gunkel and his followers, Defining the Sacred Songs argues for the continued importance of genre as an interpretative category in the post-critical era. Drawing on insights from the …
Second Zechariah and the Deuteronomic School
E-bok, 1993
1082 kr
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Person concludes that the Deuteronomic school''s redactional activity continued into the postexilic period. In Part I, he first critiques the commonly-held conclusion that the Deuteronomic school ceased in the Exile. He then presents evidence that suggests that the Deuteronomic redactions of the …
Myth and History in the Bible
Häftad, 2009
515 kr
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The Old Testament, and biblical scholarship itself, distinguishes between mythical and historical. This book argues that only historical thing in the Bible is the Bible itself, a superb product of Jewish thought. What is narrated in the Bible is only myth. But this myth about Israel's past was …
Persuasive Appeal of the Chronicler
A Rhetorical Analysis
E-bok, 1990
543 kr
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Drawing on ancient rhetorical principles, this work brings a novel approach to the exploration of the literary dynamics of the books of Chronicles. Contrary to those who have viewed the Chronicler as ploddy and dull, Duke maintains that the Chronicler understood the historiographical demands of his …
New Heart and a New Soul
Ezekiel, the Exile and the Torah
Häftad, 2009
515 kr
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This book examines, in greater detail than previously undertaken, the presence of Priestly and Deuteronomic language and concepts in the book of Ezekiel. It asks: what is the nature of the relationship between Ezekiel and the Priestly Source? What is the nature of the relationship between Ezekiel, …
Gift of God in Due Season
Essays on Scripture and Community in Honor of James A. Sanders
Av Richard D. Weis, David M. Carr
E-bok, 1996
3039 kr
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This volume of essays addresses from a variety of vantage points the relation of scriptures and community that has been so central to the canonical critical work of James A. Sanders. The first part of the volume focuses on the formation of the Jewish and Christian canons and texts in them, while …
Lord's Song
The Basis, Function and Significance of Choral Music in Chronicles
Häftad, 2009
515 kr
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Why do the books of Chronicles regard the performance of choral music as an integral part of the sacrificial ritual at the temple, despite the lack of sanction for it in the Pentateuch? And why do they stress that it must be synchronized with the presentation of the regular public burnt offering at …
Walk in the Garden
Biblical, Iconographical and Literary Images of Eden
Av Paul Morris, Deborah Sawyer
E-bok, 1992
1714 kr
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This collection of essays by notable scholars offers a unique, multi-faceted approach to the understanding of the Garden story. Starting with the motifs, context, structure and language of the biblical text itself, the chapters trace the Jewish and Christian exegetical traditions, and developments …
