This book bridges the gap between gendered and geopolitical analyses by interrogating both the sexual and ethnic violence embedded in the Book of Esther, and invites interpreters to consider the larger frameworks of ethnicity and racialization withi...Loe edasi...
This book discusses 20th and 21st century literary retellings of biblical texts, focusing on how fiction and poetry fill the extant narrative gaps present in the often sparse biblical accounts and align the narratives with theological and/or cultura...Loe edasi...
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 in biblical studies. Of interest to Anglophone scholars of biblical and ancient Near Eastern studies...Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1933, from the preface: ... This is an attempt to combine reading the Bible with learning to understand it. Of particular relevance to those interested in religious studies, today it can be read in its historical context....Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1933, from the preface in volume one: ... This is an attempt to combine reading the Bible with learning to understand it. Of particular relevance to those interested in religious studies, today it can be read in its historica...Loe edasi...
First published in 1978, Quran and Bible attempts to delve deeper, to solve some persistent puzzles, and to explore the common culture from which the Holy Books spring. Hebrew and Arabic, the original languages of the Bible and Quran are of the sam...Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1958, this book gives an account of the canonical prophets. After chapters on the prophetic literature, the historical background and the archaeological discoveries of the prophetic period, the rise of prophecy and the forms...Loe edasi...
First published in 1956, God and Man in Early Israel deals with Old Testament history from Abraham to Solomon in the light of modern archaeological research and biblical scholarship, and in terms of the Christian belief in divine revelation. It will...Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1963, this work is a study of the Old Testament books known as The Writings (Ketuvim). Introductory chapters supply the necessary background material and are followed by separate chapters on the books themselves, their origin...Loe edasi...
This book explores figurative images of the womb and the simile of a woman in labor from the Hebrew Bible, problematizing previous interpretations that present these as disparate images and showing how their interconnectivity embodies relationship w...Loe edasi...
This book moves beyond the debate on wisdom literature, ongoing in Biblical Studies, demonstrating the productivity of wisdom as a literary category. Featuring work by scholars of Egyptology, Classics, Biblical and Near Eastern Studies, it offers fr...Loe edasi...
A comprehensive guide to the contents, historical settings, and social context of the Bible. This new edition is updated with several new chapters as well as a new section on biblical interpretation....Loe edasi...
This book explores the ways in which the origins of time, of the gods, and processes associated with time were conceptualised in antiquity, examining a variety of ancient sources from across the ancient world and addressing issues surrounding the so...Loe edasi...
Genesis Myth in Beowulf and Old English Biblical Poetry explores the adaptation of antediluvian Genesis and related myth in Genesis A, Genesis B, and Beowulf, exploring the manner whereby the texts adapt biblical myth with reference to the Christian...Loe edasi...
Ritual in Deuteronomy explores the symbolic world of Deuteronomys ritual covenant and curses through a lens of religious studies and anthropology, drawing on previously unexamined Mesopotamian material....Loe edasi...
This book invites a close textual encounter with the first 11 chapters of Genesis as an intimate drama of marginalised peoples wrestling with the rise of the worlds first grain states in the Mesopotamian alluvium....Loe edasi...
Offering a reading of the intermarriage debate and expulsion of the foreign women in Ezra 9-10, this book engages with the production and performance of men masculinities in this biblical text. Suitable for those working on the Book of Ezra and the...Loe edasi...
This book addresses central theological issues and biblical narratives in terms of a bold thesis regarding relations between God and humans: that the actions of God and the actions of humans are informed by independently valid moral viewpoints which...Loe edasi...
