The Holy Land is more than a sanctified geographical space that roughly corresponds to the Roman province that has been known as Palaestina since the end of the Bar Kochba War. Instead, it is primarily an idea and imaginative space created by a compl...Loe edasi...
Samuel L. Voo examines composite allusions to the Jewish scriptures in the Gospel of John and compares these to similar phenomena in late Second Temple Jewish literature. Composite allusions are defined in this study as allusions clustered together i...Loe edasi...
Sari: Texts and Studies in High Medieval Scholastic Thought
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Apr-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: The Catholic University of America Press, ISBN-13: 9780813239705)
Through a partial critical edition and study of Peter Comestors lectures, this volume recontextualizes the biblical exegesis of the twelfth-century Latin cathedral schools within the frameworks of the study of ars grammatica, underscoring the impor...Loe edasi...
Ancient Near Eastern scribes from Egypt to Mesopotamia, including Israelite scribes of the Hebrew Bible, create infelicitous or symmetric elements in their textual production. By their form, these elements communicate beyond the textual and semantic...Loe edasi...
Scot McKnight provides scholarly insights with a pastoral heart for all the books of the New Testament. The NIV is used as the primary Bible text but McKnight also includes insights from his own translation of the entire New Testament. Each Bible...Loe edasi...
This book offers a philosophical analysis of the environmental crisis in the Sundarbans, drawing upon phenomenological narratives and place-making narratives to consider the root cause of the crisis. Of appeal to academics, research students and p...Loe edasi...
This book aims to recast the way that philosophers understand rhetoric. Rather than follow most philosophers in conceiving rhetoric as a specific way of speaking or writing, it shows that rhetoric is better understood as a dimension of all human d...Loe edasi...
This study takes on a historical-critical approach to the analysis of the Solomonic narrative (1 Kings 1:1-12:24) within the larger Deuteronomistic (Hi)Story (DH) by employing a postcolonial-psychoanalytic reading strategy. Sonia Wong argues that the...Loe edasi...
Ancient canonical narratives from Mesopotamia, Greece, and the Hebrew Bible fused landscapes (topographic space) and human bodies (corporeal space) when personifying mountains. Built environments (architectonic space) also correlated with these anthr...Loe edasi...
Sheona Beaumont addresses the untold story of biblical subjects in photography. She argues that stories, characters, and symbols from the Bible are found to pervade photographic practices and ideas, across the worlds of advertising and reportage,...Loe edasi...
In this volume, Chang Seon An argues that the writer(s) of the Gospel of John used Greek, Roman, and Jewish temporality to align the story of Jesuss death and resurrection within existing temporal frameworks. The Johannine Epistles built on this rhe...Loe edasi...
This book explores how the person and salvific significance of Jesus Christ can be understood within todays secular and religiously plural world. Rather than adopting an exclusivist approach, it presents Christology in a manner that steers clear of...Loe edasi...
Seit dem ausgehenden 19. Jahrhundert stellen Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler immer wieder die Frage nach Besitzverhaltnissen von christlichen Witwen, ihrer sozialen Stellung in der romisch-hellenistischen Welt und ihrer Rolle in den fruhch...Loe edasi...
Drawing on current research in Classics and Roman history, Susan E. Benton analyzes inscriptional evidence about women in the leadership of Greco-Roman associations in Latin West and Greek East. She then uses the resulting profile of civically engage...Loe edasi...
In the Christian Bible, there is a mysterious text in the First Epistle of Peter (1 Peter 3:19) which speaks about Jesus preaching to the spirits in prison. Traditionally, this text has served as the major scriptural support for the doctrine of Chr...Loe edasi...
In recent decades the Priestly Narrative (Pg) has become the object of lively discussion, especially with regard to its actual extent, and hypotheses on the conclusion of Pg in the Sinaitic pericope (Ex 29; Ex 40; Lev 9; Lev 16) have been advanced. I...Loe edasi...
In this study, Ole Jakob Filtvedt engages with recent scholarly discussion on ancient notions of self and self-perception, applying these concepts to the encounters between Jesus and John the Baptist, Nicodemus, the Jews and Pharisees, Peter, and Pil...Loe edasi...
