The Bible and the Humanities – serie
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R. H. Charles
A Biography
Inbunden, 2023
2253 kr
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R.H. Charles: A Biography first situates Charles's work in the history of biblical scholarship. The remainder of the book is divided into three parts that draw on material stored in several archives and other sources. The first provides an account of his early life and education in Ireland. Part …
The Marriage of Freedom and Justice, 3000-300 BCE
A New History of Ideas
Av Jan Dietrich
Inbunden, 2026
1576 kr
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The Marriage of Freedom and Justice, 3000–300 BCE provides a new history of ideas concerning freedom and justice by comparing undervalued sources from ancient Near Eastern cultures with well-known ancient Greek sources, from early civilizations to pre-Hellenistic times. The book has two main …
The Rise of Talmud
Av Moulie Vidas
Häftad, 2026
590 kr
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The rabbinic sages of antiquity are known for their sophisticated and creative reading of Scripture. But beginning in the third century CE, these sages also took on extensive commentary on another kind of text: the sages' own teachings. Focusing on the first collection attesting to this branch of …
The Making of the Tabernacle and the Construction of Priestly Hegemony
Inbunden, 2023
1333 kr
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How did the Jerusalem high priests go from being cultic servants in the sixth century BCE to assuming political supremacy at some point during the third or second century? The Making of the Tabernacle and the Construction of Priestly Hegemony examines how the conditions were created for the …
Trial Stories in Jewish Antiquity
Counternarratives of Justice
Inbunden, 2024
1148 kr
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What can early Jewish courtroom narratives tell us about the capacity and limits of human justice? By exploring how judges and the act of judging are depicted in these narratives, Trial Stories in Jewish Antiquity: Counternarratives of Justice challenges the prevailing notion, both then and now, of …
Scriptural Vitality
Rethinking Philology and Hermeneutics
Av Hindy Najman
Inbunden, 2025
1276 kr
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read on the Oxford Academic platform and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.Scriptural Vitality challenges the view that the Persian and …
Indigenous Rights and the Legacies of the Bible
From Moses to Mabo
Inbunden, 2024
1148 kr
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A Christian imagination of colonial discovery permeated the early modern world, but legal histories developed in very different ways depending on imperial jurisdictions. Indigenous Rights and the Legacies of the Bible: From Moses to Mabo explores the contradictions and ironies that emerged in the …
Two Models of Biblical Purity
The Science of Ritual
Inbunden, 2026
1490 kr
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read on Oxford Academic and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.Two Models of Biblical Purity: The Science of Ritual investigates the ancient …
The Rise of Talmud
Av Moulie Vidas
Inbunden, 2025
1789 kr
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The rabbinic sages of antiquity are known for their sophisticated and creative reading of Scripture. But beginning in the third century CE, these sages also took on extensive commentary on another kind of text: the sages' own teachings. Focusing on the first collection attesting to this branch of …
Lay Learning and the Bible in the Seventeenth-Century Atlantic World
Inbunden, 2024
1504 kr
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Early modernity has long been seen as a crucial period in the history of biblical scholarship, witnessing rapid advances in studies of Hebrew, Greek, and the ancient Jewish and Christian past. Historians have devoted much attention to how these developments were received by the academic and …
Animals, Power, and Intersectionality in the Books of Samuel
Inbunden, 2026
1490 kr
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Animals pervade the books of Samuel. Though their presence often goes unnoticed, they are integral players in the society narrated. What's more, they are caught up in societal power dynamics and are treated in ways that intersect with the treatment of marginalized humans, such as women, foreigners, …
