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The Heavenly Counsellor in Isaiah xl 13-14
A Study of the Sources of the Theology of Deutero-Isaiah
Häftad, 2009
487 kr
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One of the most rewarding of recent approaches to the study of Deutero-Isaiah has been the attempt to understand his teaching against the background of his ministry to the second generation of Jewish exiles in Babylonia. Two factors have been taken into account: the nature of the Israelite …
Amos's Oracles Against the Nations
Av John Barton
Häftad, 2009
471 kr
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In the first two chapters of the book of Amos, the prophet denounces a number of neighbouring nations for committing atrocities in war and then declares Israel to be equally blameworthy in view of the social injustices prevailing in his time (the eighth century BC). Amos is widely held to be ahead …
The Way of the Wilderness
A Geographical Study of the Wilderness Itineraries in the Old Testament
Av G. I. Davies
Häftad, 2009
569 kr
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The Old Testament accounts of the Exodus contain various indications of the routes taken by the Israelites and the so-called wilderness itineraries appear to be very precise. From the earliest times, students of the Bible have tried to relate references in the texts to place names known in their …
The Meaning of Būmâ in the Old Testament
A Study of Etymological, Textual and Archaeological Evidence
Häftad, 2009
422 kr
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This monograph is a study of the Hebrew word bama, which is used frequently in the Old Testament to describe cultic sites and has commonly been translated 'high place'. The word however occurs in a variety of contexts, which would indicate a wider range of meanings. By careful analysis of these …
Relics of Ancient Exegesis
A Study of the Miscellanies in 3 Reigns 2
Häftad, 2009
569 kr
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The fourth book in this established series of monographs on aspects of Old Testament studies is a detailed analysis of two passages that may well hold the key to the major textual problems raised by the ancient Greek translation of 1 Kings (3 Reigns in the Septuagint). The existence of these two …
Gibeon and Israel
The Role of Gibeon and the Gibeonites in the Political and Religious History of Early Israel
Häftad, 2009
557 kr
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The site of the city of Gibeon is now identified with a fair degree of certainty with el-Jîb, a site about eight miles north-west of Jerusalem. Gibeon is mentioned about forty times in the Old Testament, and was clearly a city of some significance, particularly at the time of Saul, David and …
The Book of Amos and its Audiences
Prophecy, Poetry, and Rhetoric
Inbunden, 2023
1592 kr
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Many studies of the prophetic books assume that a text's addressee and audience are one and the same. Sometimes this is the case, but some prophetic texts feature multiple addressees who cannot be collapsed into a single setting. In this book Andrew R. Davis examines examples of multiple addressees …
Rediscovering the 'Judge' of Israel in Judah's Bible
Origin, Transmission, and Reception
Inbunden, 2026
1800 kr
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Why are the leaders of early Israel called 'Judges'? What does this institution refer to and where did it come from? How was it appropriated, transformed, and reconceptualized in the Hebrew Bible? To answer these questions, Julian Chike offers an analysis of new data, a re-evaluation of previous …
Rediscovering the 'Judge' of Israel in Judah's Bible
Origin, Transmission, and Reception
Häftad, 2026
659 kr
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Why are the leaders of early Israel called 'Judges'? What does this institution refer to and where did it come from? How was it appropriated, transformed, and reconceptualized in the Hebrew Bible? To answer these questions, Julian Chike offers an analysis of new data, a re-evaluation of previous …
Resistance and Trauma in Chronicles
Judean Identity and Achaemenid Imperialism
Av David Janzen
Häftad, 2026
659 kr
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In Resistance and Trauma in Chronicles, David Janzen uses postcolonial and decolonial theory to argue that Chronicles was written in important part to resist and reject the ways in which Achaemenid ideology depicted the subject peoples of the Persian Empire, Judeans among them, as innately immoral …
Resistance and Trauma in Chronicles
Judean Identity and Achaemenid Imperialism
Av David Janzen
Inbunden, 2026
1800 kr
Kommande
In Resistance and Trauma in Chronicles, David Janzen uses postcolonial and decolonial theory to argue that Chronicles was written in important part to resist and reject the ways in which Achaemenid ideology depicted the subject peoples of the Persian Empire, Judeans among them, as innately immoral …
Marriage by Capture in the Book of Judges
An Anthropological Approach
Inbunden, 2017
1628 kr
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In this book, Katherine E. Southwood offers a new approach to interpreting Judges 21. Breaking away from traditional interpretations of kingship, feminism, or comparisons with Greek or Roman mythology, she explores the concepts of marriage, ethnicity, rape, and power as means of ethnic preservation …
Israel and Judah Redefined
Migration, Trauma, and Empire in the Sixth Century BCE
Av C. L. Crouch
Inbunden, 2021
1322 kr
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In Israel and Judah Redefined, C. L. Crouch uses trauma studies, postcolonial theory, and social-scientific research on migration to analyse the impact of mass displacements and imperial power on Israelite and Judahite identity in the sixth century BCE. Crouch argues that the trauma of deportation …
YHWH and Israel in the Book of Judges
An Object - Relations Analysis
Av Deryn Guest
Inbunden, 2018
1378 kr
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In the Book of Judges the narrator presents an image of the good parent YHWH whose enduring love and loyalty is offset by his wayward child Israel who defaults on the relationship repeatedly. Biblical scholars have largely concurred, demonstrating the many faults of Israel while siding with YHWH's …
Cognitive Science and Ancient Israelite Religion
New Perspectives on Texts, Artifacts, and Culture
Inbunden, 2020
1392 kr
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In this book, Brett Maiden employs the tools, research, and theories from the cognitive science of religion to explore religious thought and behavior in ancient Israel. His study focuses on a key set of distinctions between intuitive and reflective types of cognitive processing, implicit and …
Sennacherib's Campaign against Judah
A Source Analysis of Isaiah 36-37
Av Dan'el Kahn
Inbunden, 2020
2103 kr
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The campaign of Sennacherib against Judah is one of the most widely researched in biblical studies and Ancient Near East studies, and one that also poses scholarly challenges. Allusion to the event is found in Isaiah, Kings, and Chronicles, but there is no correlation between the Assyrian and …
Life, Land, and Elijah in the Book of Kings
Häftad, 2023
422 kr
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In this book, Daniel J. D. Stulac brings a canonical-agrarian approach to the Elijah narratives and demonstrates the rhetorical and theological contribution of these texts to the Book of Kings. This unique perspective yields insights into Elijah's iconographical character (1 Kings 17-19), which is …
Royal Illness and Kingship Ideology in the Hebrew Bible
Av Isabel Cranz
Inbunden, 2020
1432 kr
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In this book, Isabel Cranz offers the first systematic study of royal illness in the Books of Samuel, Kings and Chronicles. Applying a diachronic approach, she compares and contrasts how the different views concerning kingship and illness are developed in the larger trajectory of the Hebrew Bible. …
The Death Wish in the Hebrew Bible
Rhetorical Strategies for Survival
Inbunden, 2021
1351 kr
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This is the first book to systematically investigate the texts in the Hebrew Bible in which a character expresses a wish to die. Contrary to previous scholarship on these texts that assumed these death wishes were simply a desire to escape suffering, Hanne Løland Levinson employs narrative …
Divine Aggression in Psalms and Inscriptions
Vengeful Gods and Loyal Kings
Inbunden, 2020
1384 kr
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The aggression of the biblical God named Yhwh is notorious. Students of theology, the Bible, and the Ancient Near East know that the Hebrew Bible describes Yhwh acting destructively against his client country, Israel, and against its kings. But is Yhwh uniquely vengeful, or was he just one among …
Life, Land, and Elijah in the Book of Kings
Inbunden, 2020
1402 kr
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In this book, Daniel J. D. Stulac brings a canonical-agrarian approach to the Elijah narratives and demonstrates the rhetorical and theological contribution of these texts to the Book of Kings. This unique perspective yields insights into Elijah's iconographical character (1 Kings 17-19), which is …
The Death Wish in the Hebrew Bible
Rhetorical Strategies for Survival
Häftad, 2024
406 kr
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This is the first book to systematically investigate the texts in the Hebrew Bible in which a character expresses a wish to die. Contrary to previous scholarship on these texts that assumed these death wishes were simply a desire to escape suffering, Hanne Løland Levinson employs narrative …
