Imagining the Other and Constructing Israelite Identity in the Early Second Temple Period

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies | nr. 591
• This volume sheds light on how particular constructions of the 'Other'contributed to an ongoing process of defining what 'Israel' or an 'Israelite'was... Lees meer

Asherah

Tilde Binger

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies | nr. 232
• A comprehensive discussion of texts concerning the goddess Asherah, as she is portrayed in texts from Ugarit (both epic and ritual texts, as well as t... Lees meer

Heroines, Heroes and Deity

Dolores G Kamrada

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies
• Kamrada's study analyses three narratives concerning the greatest heroic figures of the biblical tradition: Jephthah's daughter, Samson and Saul, and ... Lees meer

Reading Job Intertextually

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies | nr. 574
• This volume fills an important lacuna in the study of the Hebrew Bible by providing the first comprehensive treatment of intertextuality in Job, in wh... Lees meer

The Sociology of Pottery in Ancient Palestine

Bryant G Wood

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies | nr. 103
• This fundamental study offers a reconstruction of the social world in which pottery was manufactured, distributed and used in ancient Palestine. Part ... Lees meer

Jerusalem in Ancient History and Tradition

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies | nr. 381
• An international team of historians, archaeologists and biblical scholars discuss new perspectives on the archaeology, history and biblical traditions... Lees meer

Rhetoric and Social Justice in Isaiah

Mark Gray

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies | nr. 432
• Rhetoric ad Social Justice in Isaiah applies a literary methodology to the book of Isaiah in order critically to explore the nature and sources of the... Lees meer

Envisioning Writing

Donald C Polaski

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies | nr. 472
• This work traces the development of Judaism as a Scriptural religion, claiming that this did not arise from discrete moments of "political" authority ... Lees meer

Judahite Burial Practices and Beliefs about the Dead

Elizabeth Bloch-Smith

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies | nr. 123
• The family tomb as a physical claim to the patrimony, the attributed powers of the dead and the prospect of post-mortem veneration made the cult of th... Lees meer

The Conflict Between Faith and Experience, and the Shape of Psalms 73-83

Stephen J Smith

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies
• Stephen J. Smith enters the lively field of editorial-criticism of the Hebrew Psalter or Psalterexegese with this detailed investigation into the fina... Lees meer

Creating Gender in the Garden

Barbara Deutschmann

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies | nr. 729
• Winner of the 2023 ANZATS Award for the Best Monograph by an Emerging Scholar What can explain the persistence of gender inequality throughout history... Lees meer

Psalms and Liturgy

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies | nr. 410
• This book offers unique insights into the Psalms and sketches a variety of interpretive possibilities. The exposition of Psalm texts against the backg... Lees meer

The Levite Singers in Chronicles and Their Stabilising Role

Ming Him Ko

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies | nr. 657
• This study focuses on the Chronicler's special interest in Levite singers. It takes into consideration the socio-ideological milieu of the Jerusalem t... Lees meer

World of Genesis

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies | nr. 257
• Although it opens with an argument that the earth, and not humanity, is the real subject of Genesis 1-11, this collection of essays focuses first on f... Lees meer

Witch-Hunts, Purity, and Social Boundaries

David Janzen

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies | nr. 350
• The anthropological approach to the expulsion of the foreign women from the post-exilic community argues that it was the result of a witch-hunt. Its c... Lees meer

Responding to a Puzzled Scribe

Joshua L Harper

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies | nr. 608
• In part one of this book Joshua L. Harper is able to demonstrate the following aspects of the Barberini version: when compared with the other Greek ve... Lees meer

Troubling Jeremiah

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies | nr. 260
• Troubling Jeremiah presents essays by Jeremiah scholars who are troubled by the biblical book and give the scholarship on Jeremiah trouble in turn. Es... Lees meer

Ritual Words and Narrative Worlds in the Book of Leviticus

Bryan D Bibb

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies | nr. 480
• This book argues that literary features and ritual dynamics within the book of Leviticus enlighten each other. The first two chapters establish that o... Lees meer

Art as Biblical Commentary

J Cheryl Exum

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies | nr. 676
• Art as Biblical Commentary is not just about biblical art but, more importantly, about biblical exegesis and the contributions visual criticism as an ... Lees meer

Sexual Politics in the Biblical Narrative

Esther Fuchs

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies | nr. 310
• This book is for anyone interested in religious studies and women's studies, as well as for biblical scholars. It offers a feminist oppositional readi... Lees meer

The Persuasive Appeal of the Chronicler

Rodney K Duke

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies | nr. 88
• Drawing on ancient rhetorical principles, this work brings a novel approach to the exploration of the literary dynamics of the books of Chronicles. Co... Lees meer

Reading the Latter Prophets

Edgar W Conrad

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies
• Edgar W. Conrad focuses on the prophetic books as composite collections and shows that (1) prophets are characters in the text, depicted as figures of... Lees meer

Bmh as Body Language

W Boyd Barrick

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies | nr. 477
• It is customarily assumed that the Hebrew word BMH denotes a "high place," first a topographical elevation and derivatively a cult place elevated eith... Lees meer

Body, Gender and Purity in Leviticus 12 and 15

Dorothea Erbele-Küster

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies | nr. 539
• The so-called purity laws in Leviticus 11-15 reflect a cultic and social view on the male and female body. These texts do not give detailed physiologi... Lees meer