Why Are You Silent, Lord?

Roman Garrison

• Paperback | Engels | Biblical Seminar
• This book is about the theme of innocent suffering in the ancient world. After an introduction to the topic, and an overview of the Greek, Roman and b... Lees meer

Tribes of Yahweh

Norman Gottwald

• Paperback | Engels | Biblical Seminar
• A twentieth-anniversary reprint of the landmark book that launched the current explosion of social-scientific studies in the biblical field. It sets f... Lees meer

Pauline Images in Fiction and Film

Larry Joseph Kreitzer

• Paperback | Engels | Biblical Seminar
• Here Dr Kreitzer explores the connections between biblical texts, classic works of literature, and cinematic interpretations of those works. The aim i... Lees meer

Early Christian Life and Thought in Social Context

Mark Harding

• Paperback | Engels | Biblical Seminar
• Early Christian Life and Thought in Social Context fills a vacuum in current scholarship. While there exist a number of anthologies of sources for stu... Lees meer

Marxist Criticism of the Bible

Roland Boer

• Paperback | Engels | Biblical Seminar
• This is the first large-scale critical introduction for biblical criticism of a significant area of contemporary cultural and literary theory, namely ... Lees meer

Dictionary of the English Bible and Its Origins

Alec Gilmore

• Paperback | Engels | Biblical Seminar
• This Dictionary is designed to increase awareness of Bible origins, introduce readers to the variety of versions and manuscripts that lie behind the f... Lees meer

Space and Time in the Religious Life of the Near East

Nicolas Wyatt

• Paperback | Engels | Biblical Seminar
• Space and time are basic features of the world-view, even the theology, of many religions, ancient and modern. How did the world begin, and how will i... Lees meer

Bible and Colonialism

Michael Prior

• Paperback | Engels | Biblical Seminar
• The biblical claim of the divine promise of land is integrally linked with a divine mandate to exterminate the indigenous people. The narrative has su... Lees meer

Biblical Semantic Logic

Arthur Gibson

• Paperback | Engels | Biblical Seminar
• Biblical Semantic Logic first appeared in 1981, and seeks to show that the study of biblical and ancient Near Eastern languages and literatures can be... Lees meer

First Person

Philip R Davies

• Hardcover | Engels | Biblical Seminar
• Hebrew Biblical narratives are notoriously sparing in their portrayal of character, leaving much to the reader. Here a number of internationally renow... Lees meer

A Manual of Hermeneutics

Luis Alonso Schökel

• Paperback | Engels | Biblical Seminar
• After two decades of teaching the subject, this distinguished Old Testament scholar compiles a synthesis that takes into account and organizes the fac... Lees meer

Only One God?

Bob Becking, Meindert Dijkstra, Marjo Korpel, Karel Vriezen

• Paperback | Engels | Biblical Seminar
• The view of ancient Israelite religion as monotheistic has long been traditional in Judaism, Christianity and Islam, religions that have elaborated in... Lees meer

Paul and the Discourse of Power

Sandra Hack-Polaski

• Paperback | Engels | Biblical Seminar
• Drawing on postmodern theory's insights regarding discourse, ideology and power, this book explores the ways in which Paul navigated fluctuating and c... Lees meer

Material Culture of the Bible

Ferdinand Deist

• Paperback | Engels | Biblical Seminar
• Scholarly discussions of biblical interpretation often ignore the fact that language and literature form an integral part of a people's culture, that ... Lees meer

Reading Law

James W Watts

• Paperback | Engels | Biblical Seminar
• Watts here argues that conventions of oral rhetoric were adapted to shape the literary form and contents of the Pentateuch. The large-scale structure-... Lees meer

Ciphers in the Sand

• Paperback | Engels | Biblical Seminar
• This is a volume of cross-disciplinary essays focused on the enigmatic story of the woman taken in adultery (John 7.53--8.11). Explorations of the bac... Lees meer

Gospel Images in Fiction and Film

Larry Joseph Kreitzer

• Paperback | Engels | Biblical Seminar
• This is Dr. Kreitzer's fourth study in the Biblical Seminar series in which the connections between the Biblical texts, classic works of literature an... Lees meer

New Testament Among the Writings of Antiquity

Detlev Dormeyer

• Paperback | Engels | Biblical Seminar
• In this useful work, Dormeyer assesses the influence of Hellenistic culture upon the New Testament as a literary work. There is no denying the impact ... Lees meer

Religious Texts from Ugarit

Nicolas Wyatt

• Paperback | Engels | Biblical Seminar
• An updated and corrected edition of a classic work, with new material. This book is an up-to-date translation and commentary on the Ugaritic texts. Of... Lees meer

Asian Biblical Hermeneutics and Postcolonialism

R S Sugirtharajah

• Paperback | Engels | Biblical Seminar
• The volume contributes a postcolonial perspective to such topics as textual production, commentarial writings and translations in colonial times, and ... Lees meer

First Person

Philip R Davies

• Hardcover | Engels | Biblical Seminar
• Hebrew Biblical narratives are notoriously sparing in their portrayal of character, leaving much to the reader. Here a number of internationally renow... Lees meer

Lost Coin

• Paperback | Engels | Biblical Seminar
• A collection of feminist interpretations of parables about women and women's work. This volume not only fills a gap in the scholarly literature on par... Lees meer

Dreams and Dream Narratives in the Biblical World

Jean-Marie Husser

• Paperback | Engels | Biblical Seminar
• This study of dream accounts in the Bible and in ancient Near Eastern literature suggests two main lines of interpretation: on the one hand it defines... Lees meer