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The vigorous interest of recent Old Testament scholars in Israel's so-called "Wisdom Tradition" has exposed much methodological confusion and achieved no agreed results. the "wise" have not been located in any recognisable structure of Israelite society and the...
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Clarendon Press
Parution :
1994-10-13
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Generations of students have known G.B. Caird as a penetrating and lucid guide to the many questions and problems posed by modern biblical study. His brillant commentaries on St Luke, the Book of Revelation, and St Paul's Prison Epistles, as well as his other studies on...
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Clarendon Press
Parution :
1994-06-03
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Although primogeniture is commonly assumed to have prevailed throughout the world and firstborns are regarded as most likely to achieve success, many of the most prominent figures in biblical literature are younger offspring, including Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, Moses,...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
1994-02-24
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This book argues that the gospels are in an important sense "occasions for offense." The Jesus of the gospels is a scandal (skandalon, in the original Greek) and he is never more scandalous than when he is speaking in parables. Interpreters of the gospels over the...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
1994-01-06
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This is a literary and theological study of the Biblical Antiquities of Pseudo-Philo--a long, well-written reinterpretation of the Hebrew Bible written by a Palestinian Jew of the first century C.E. Using the methodologies of redaction and literary criticism, Murphy...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
1993-11-11
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This collection of apocryphal writings supersedes the best-selling edition by M. R. James, first published in 1924. Since then, several new works have come to light, and the textual base for some of the works previously translated by James is now more secure. In this...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
1993-09-17
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Drawing on the insights of ancient literary theory and practice, this book seeks to unlock the age-old puzzle of the relationship of John's gospel to the other gospels and to the early Christian church. Applying a new method to an old problem, Brodie uses a form of...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
1993-07-29
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Drawing on the theory of language developed by the Soviet critic Mikhail Bakhtin, this book argues that the historically diverse writings of the Bible have been organized according to a concept of dialogue. The overriding concern with an ongoing communication between...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
1993-07-15
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"Dionysius the Areopagite" is the biblical name chosen by the pseudonymous author of an influential body of Christian theological texts, dating from around 500 C.E. The Celestial Hierarchy, The Ecclesiastical Hierarchy, The Divine Names, and The Mystical Theology offer...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
1993-02-25
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First published in hardback in August 1985, Professor Fishbane's book offers the first comprehensive analysis of the phenomenon of textual analysis in ancient Israel. It explores the rich tradition of exegesis prior to the development of biblical interpretation in early...
Editeur :
Clarendon Press
Parution :
1985-08-16
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Extremely controversial work in its day which resulted in major backlash for its author. In the book, Strauss theorizes that early Christians invented Jesus' miracles as a way to portray him as the Messiah the Old Testament spoke of. Translated by the famous novelist...
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Rare Treasure Editions
Parution :
2025-03-19
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This work explores the relationship between religion, social patterns, and the perception of the character of scripture in four modes of Ancient Judaism: (1) the Jerusalem community of the fifth to fourth centuries B.C.E. (ie, the Early Second Temple Period); (2) the...
Editeur :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution :
2010-10-30
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Studies in Christianity and Judaism
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Is it possible to write an artistically respectable and theoretically convincing religious novel in a non-religious age? Up to now, there has been no substantial application of theological criticism to the works of Hugh MacLennan and Morley Callaghan, the two most...
Editeur :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution :
2006-01-01
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Editions SR
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