Argonauts of the Desert

Philippe Wajdenbaum

• Hardcover | Copenhagen International Seminar
• 'Argonauts of the Desert' presents a revolutionary new commentary on the Bible and its origins, arguing that most biblical stories and laws were inspi... Lees meer

Rewriting Peter as an Intertextual Character in the Canonical Gospels

Finn Damgaard

• Paperback | Engels | Copenhagen International Seminar
• The book is first critical study of the canonical gospels which is based on both Markan priority, Luke's use of Mark and Matthew, and John's use of al... Lees meer

Plato and the Creation of the Hebrew Bible

Russell E Gmirkin

• Hardcover | Engels | Copenhagen International Seminar
• Plato and the Creation of the Hebrew Bible for the first time compares the ancient law collections of the Ancient Near East, the Greeks and the Pentat... Lees meer

Samaritans and Jews in History and Tradition

Ingrid Hjelm

• Hardcover | Engels | Copenhagen International Seminar
• This volume presents an anthology of 19 seminal studies, some for the first time in English, which explore the history and tradition of the ancient re... Lees meer

Is This Not the Carpenter?

• Hardcover | Engels | Copenhagen International Seminar
• The historicity of Jesus is now widely accepted and hardly questioned by most scholars. But this assumption disarms biblical texts of much of their po... Lees meer

Argonauts of the Desert

Philippe Wajdenbaum

• Paperback | Engels | Copenhagen International Seminar
• 'Argonauts of the Desert' presents a revolutionary new commentary on the Bible and its origins, arguing that most biblical stories and laws were inspi... Lees meer

Hellenism and the Primary History

Robert Karl Gnuse

• Hardcover | Engels | Copenhagen International Seminar
• This collection of essays seeks to demonstrate that many biblical authors deliberately used Classical and Hellenistic Greek texts for inspiration when... Lees meer

Japheth Ben Ali's Book of Jeremiah

Joshua A Sabih

• Paperback | Engels | Copenhagen International Seminar
• This volume deals with three themes: medieval Judaism, Arabic and Hebrew sociolinguistics, and Arabic Bible translation. Within Medieval Judaism, the ... Lees meer

Biblical Studies and the Failure of History

Niels Peter Lemche

• Paperback | Engels | Copenhagen International Seminar
• The idea of the Old Testament as a source of historical information was replaced by an understanding of the texts as a means for early Jewish society ... Lees meer

Biblical Studies and the Failure of History

Niels Peter Lemche

• Hardcover | Engels | Copenhagen International Seminar
• Until the 1970s biblical studies belonged to the historical-critical school and had reached a point where all problems were believed to have been solv... Lees meer

Myths of Exile

Anne Katrine Gudme, Ingrid Hjelm

• Hardcover | Engels | Copenhagen International Seminar
• The Babylonian exile in 587-539 BCE is often presented as a key factor for the religious and literary developments found in the Hebrew Bible. However,... Lees meer

Origin Myths and Holy Places in the Old Testament

Lukasz Niesiolowski-Spano, Jacek Laskowski

• Hardcover | Engels | Copenhagen International Seminar
• 'Origin Myths and Holy Places in the Old Testament' examines the biblical narratives which describe the origins of holy places. It argues for the Hell... Lees meer

The Origin Myths and Holy Places in the Old Testament

Lukasz Niesiolowski-Spano, Jacek Laskowski

• Paperback | Engels | Copenhagen International Seminar
• 'Origin Myths and Holy Places in the Old Testament' examines the biblical narratives which describe the origins of holy places. It argues for the Hell... Lees meer

Representing Zion

Frederik Poulsen

• Hardcover | Engels | Copenhagen International Seminar
• The prophetic books of the Old Testament offer a fascinating collection of oracles, poetic images, and theological ideas. Among the most prominent the... Lees meer

Failed Methods and Ideology in Canonical Interpretation of Biblical Texts

Bernd Diebner

• Hardcover | Engels | Copenhagen International Seminar
• This volume by the late Bernd J. Diebner presents an anthology of studies previously published only in German from 1971 to 2020 on a range of topics i... Lees meer

Representing Zion

Frederik Poulsen

• Paperback | Engels | Copenhagen International Seminar
• Representing Zion provides a thorough and critical study of the images of Zion in the entire prophetic literature of the Old Testament. The book chall... Lees meer

Plato's Timaeus and the Biblical Creation Accounts

Russell E Gmirkin

• Paperback | Engels | Copenhagen International Seminar
• This book argues that the biblical creation accounts draw directly from Plato's Timaeus, demonstrating the influence of Plato and the cosmogenies of G... Lees meer

Rewriting Peter as an Intertextual Character in the Canonical Gospels

Finn Damgaard

• Hardcover | Engels | Copenhagen International Seminar
• The book is first critical study of the canonical gospels which is based on both Markan priority, Luke's use of Mark and Matthew, and John's use of al... Lees meer

Historiography, Ideology and Politics in the Ancient Near East and Israel

Mario Liverani

• Hardcover | Engels | Copenhagen International Seminar
• In this volume Niels Peter Lemche and Emanuel Pfoh present an anthology of seminal studies by Mario Liverani, a foremost scholar of the ancient Near E... Lees meer

Japheth Ben Ali's Book of Jeremiah

Joshua A Sabih

• Hardcover | Engels | Copenhagen International Seminar
• This volume deals with three themes: medieval Judaism, Arabic and Hebrew sociolinguistics, and Arabic Bible translation. Within Medieval Judaism, the ... Lees meer

The Emergence of Israel in Ancient Palestine

Emanuel Pfoh

• Paperback | Engels | Copenhagen International Seminar
• Taking advantage of critical methodology for history-writing and the use of anthropological insights and ethnographic data from the modern Middle East... Lees meer

Syria-Palestine in The Late Bronze Age

Emanuel Pfoh

• Paperback | Engels | Copenhagen International Seminar
• Syria-Palestine in the Late Bronze Age presents an explicitly anthropological perspective on politics and social relationships. In this volume Pfoh id... Lees meer

Myths of Exile

Anne Katrine Gudme, Ingrid Hjelm

• Paperback | Engels | Copenhagen International Seminar
• The Babylonian exile in 587-539 BCE is often presented as a key factor for the religious and literary developments found in the Hebrew Bible. However,... Lees meer

History, Archaeology and The Bible Forty Years After Historicity

• Paperback | Engels | Copenhagen International Seminar
• This volume examines the major changes that have taken place within the field of Old Testament studies since the 1970s, presentings new articles from ... Lees meer