Epigraphy, Iconography, and the Bible

• Hardcover | Arabisch, Engels, Oudgrieks, Hebreeuws, Klassiek Syrisch | Hebrew Bible Monographs | nr. 98
• The study of the Bible has long been illuminated by 'light from the East' (in the famous phrase of Adolf Deissmann in 1908). Almost daily, new artifac... Lees meer

Abishag

Daniel Bodi

• Hardcover | Engels, Duits | Hebrew Bible Monographs | nr. 93
• Following Daniel Bodi's previous monographs on the three wives of King David-Michal, Bathsheba and Abigail-here is a fourth one on Abishag, the last w... Lees meer

Explanations for Exile in Amos

Martha Campos

• Hardcover | Engels | Hebrew Bible Monographs | nr. 96
• In four places, Amos announces Israel's coming exile to Assyria: 4.1-3, 5.25-27, 6.1-14 and 7.7-17. It will be Yahweh's punishment for social injustic... Lees meer

The Ancient Near East in the Nineteenth Century

Kevin M McGeough

• Paperback | Engels | Hebrew Bible Monographs | nr. 68
• At the beginning of the nineteenth century, little was known of the ancient Near East except for what was preserved in the Bible and classical literat... Lees meer

Journeys in the Songscape

Christopher Meredith

• Hardcover | Engels | Hebrew Bible Monographs
• The poetic world of the Song of Songs is a famously heady and distortive landscape, filled with bright sunlit rills, nocturnal cityscapes, and fecund ... Lees meer

The Decalogue and its Cultural Influence

• Paperback | Engels | Hebrew Bible Monographs | nr. 58
• 'Reception history is one of the most inviting, yet also one of the most difficult, fields in the study of the Bible today. It is difficult because it... Lees meer

The Joseph of Genesis as Hellenistic Scientist

Ljubica Jovanovic

• Hardcover | Engels | Hebrew Bible Monographs
• To today's confrontations between religion and science Jovanovic contrasts the vibrant collaboration that characterizes Jewish, Christian, and Islamic... Lees meer

Play the Man!

David J a Clines

• Hardcover | Engels | Hebrew Bible Monographs | nr. 3
• David J.A. Clines argues in Play the Man! that masculinity is a script, written for men by their societies, a script that men in their various culture... Lees meer

Like the Stars Forever

Tim Meadowcroft

• Hardcover | Engels | Hebrew Bible Monographs | nr. 90
• This anthology of Meadowcroft's essays (all but one previously published) coheres around three claims he makes about the book of Daniel. The first is ... Lees meer

The Holy Seed Has Been Defiled

Willa M Johnson

• Hardcover | Engels | Hebrew Bible Monographs
• In the Book of Ezra-Nehemiah, Ezra commands Yehudite men to put away their foreign wives to avoid further defiling the 'holy seed'. What is the meanin... Lees meer

Persuading God

Davida H Charney

• Paperback | Engels | Hebrew Bible Monographs | nr. 73
• Written by a scholar of rhetoric, Persuading God demonstrates that the first-person psalms that make up over a third of the Book of Psalms were design... Lees meer

Longing for Egypt and Other Unexpected Biblical Tales

Diana Lipton

• Hardcover | Engels | Hebrew Bible Monographs | nr. 15
• Readers of all persuasions have a tendency to privilege simple interpretations over complex, unsettling, readings. The more fraught the issue, the mor... Lees meer

David Observed

Keith Bodner

• Paperback | Engels | Hebrew Bible Monographs
• From his earliest anointing in 1 Samuel 16 until his deathbed discourse in 1 Kings 2, David is surrounded by a remarkable cast of supporting character... Lees meer

The Recovery of the Ancient Hebrew Language

John Day

• Hardcover | Engels | Hebrew Bible Monographs
• David Winton Thomas (1901-1970) was Regius Professor of Hebrew in the University of Cambridge (1938-1968) and one of the most distinguished British le... Lees meer

From Qumran to Jude

Chris Armitage

• Hardcover | Engels | Hebrew Bible Monographs | nr. 105
• Many have noted the Qumran-like language of Jude. Chris Armitage provides a detailed comparative consideration of the similarities between Jude and th... Lees meer

Herald of Good Tidings

• Hardcover | Engels | Hebrew Bible Monographs | nr. 97
• This volume is dedicated to the prominent biblical scholar, Antti Laato, of Åbo Akademi University, Finland, on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday.... Lees meer

Sin, Impurity, Sacrifice, Atonement

Jay Sklar

• Hardcover | Engels | Hebrew Bible Monographs | nr. 2
• The goal of this closely reasoned study is to explain why, in Priestly texts of the Hebrew Bible, the verb kipper, traditionally translated 'atone', m... Lees meer

The Great Drama of Jeremiah

Valerie M Billingham

• Hardcover | Engels | Hebrew Bible Monographs | nr. 95
• In this original work, joining the growing corpus of performance criticism of Hebrew Bible texts, Billingham offers a performance reading of some elev... Lees meer

From Words to Meaning

• Hardcover | Engels | Hebrew Bible Monographs | nr. 100
• David J. Reimer, to whom this volume is dedicated, has taught over twenty years at New College in Edinburgh. During this time, he has published and su... Lees meer

Out of Paradise

• Hardcover | Engels | Hebrew Bible Monographs
• This volume explores the afterlives of Eve and Adam beyond the Genesis story. How did they become such a prominent part of mainstream Christian though... Lees meer

Ben Sira and the Men Who Handle Books

Claudia V Camp

• Hardcover | Engels | Hebrew Bible Monographs
• What have women to do with the rise of canon-consciousness in early Judaism? Quite a lot, Claudia Camp argues, if the book written by the early second... Lees meer

Lions and Ovens and Visions

David M Valeta

• Hardcover | Engels | Hebrew Bible Monographs | nr. 12
• Are the stories of Daniel at the court of the Persian king simply cheerful tales of a clever and successful courtier, as many assume? Valeta doubts it... Lees meer

The Necessary King

David Janzen

• Hardcover | Engels | Hebrew Bible Monographs
• The Necessary King explains why Israel needed a king according to the Deuteronomistic History, and why its exilic readers can expect no future except ... Lees meer

David Observed

Keith Bodner

• Hardcover | Engels | Hebrew Bible Monographs | nr. 5
• From his earliest anointing in 1 Samuel 16 until his deathbed discourse in 1 Kings 2, David is surrounded by a remarkable cast of supporting character... Lees meer