Among the most challenging biblical figures to understand is Jeroboam son of Nebat, the first monarch of northern Israel whose story is told in 1 Kings 11-14. This book explores the characterization of Jeroboam in the Hebrew text, and traces his rags to riches career...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2012-01-27

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Among the most challenging biblical figures to understand is Jeroboam son of Nebat, the first monarch of northern Israel whose story is told in 1 Kings 11-14. This book explores the characterization of Jeroboam in the Hebrew text, and traces his rags to riches career...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2012-01-26

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Although disability imagery is ubiquitous in the Hebrew Bible, characters with disabilities are not. The presence of the former does not guarantee the presence of the later. While interpreters explain away disabilities in specific characters, they celebrate the...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2011-09-01

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Although disability imagery is ubiquitous in the Hebrew Bible, characters with disabilities are not. The presence of the former does not guarantee the presence of the later. While interpreters explain away disabilities in specific characters, they celebrate the...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2011-09-01

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Scholarly consensus on the relationship of the Letter to the Hebrews to the Old Testament is far from universal or uniform. This book aims to address this area in Hebrews scholarship, which is lacking a critical account of the dependence of Hebrews on the Old Testament,...

Editeur : Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution : 2011-08-12

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It has been widely recognized that the Book of the Twelve, Hosea to Malachi, was considered a single composition in antiquity. Recent articles and monographs have discussed the internal clues to this composition, but there has been little effort to understand the way...

Editeur : Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution : 2011-03-07

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Dieses Buch vereint 27 Aufsätze, die sich vorwiegend mit dem Jeremiabuch beschäftigen. Behandelt wird in einer ersten Artikelgruppe Jeremia 35. Es folgen Beiträge zu frühneuzeitlich niederländischen und zu einer jiddischen Jeremiaübersetzung. Zwei weitere Aufsatzblöcke...

Editeur : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution : 2010-10-05

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This bible commentary looks at how Exodus has influenced and has been influenced by history, religion, politics, the arts and other forms of culture over the ages. A bible commentary tracing the reception history of Exodus from Old Testament times, through the...

Editeur : Wiley-Blackwell
Parution : 2008-05-12
Collection : Wiley Blackwell Bible Commentaries
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Ecclesiastes Through the Centuries “A rich tour down many significant streams of Western interpretation of this fascinating biblical book… Heartily recommended, without reservation.”Bible and Critical Theory “A fundamental resource on biblical interpretation,...

Editeur : Wiley-Blackwell
Parution : 2008-05-12
Collection : Wiley Blackwell Bible Commentaries
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This is the first of a two-volume bible commentary covering the Psalms and examining the role of these biblical poems throughout Jewish and Christian history. Provides a fascinating introduction to the literary, historical, and theological background of psalmody...

Editeur : Wiley-Blackwell
Parution : 2008-04-15
Collection : Wiley Blackwell Bible Commentaries
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What is the future for the Bible, one of the most important books in the world? In this manifesto, Roland Boer explores the idea that the Bible is an unruly and uncontrollable text that has been colonized by church, synagogue, and state. Powerfully argues that the...

Editeur : Wiley-Blackwell
Parution : 2008-04-15
Collection : Wiley-Blackwell Manifestos
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This wide-ranging Reader provides a comprehensive survey of the interaction between postcolonial criticism and biblical studies. Examines how various empires such as the Persian and Roman affected biblical narratives. Demonstrates how different biblical writers...

Editeur : Wiley-Blackwell
Parution : 2008-04-15

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David T. Lamb examines not only the dynasty of Jehu within the narrative of 2 Kings, but also the broader context of the dynasties of Israel and Judah in the books of Kings and Samuel. Lamb discusses religious aspects of kingship (such as anointing, divine election, and...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2007-11-22

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Whereas much recent work on the ethics of the Hebrew Bible addresses the theological task of using the Bible as a moral resource for today, this book aims to set Ezekiel's ethics firmly in the social and historical context of the Babylonian Exile. The two 'moral worlds'...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2006-01-05

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A comprehensive analysis of the ritual dimensions of biblical mourning rites, this book also seeks to illuminate mourning's social dimensions through engagement with anthropological discussion of mourning, from Hertz and van Gennep to contemporaries such as Metcalf and...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2004-01-08

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The story of Noah's flood is one of the best-loved and most often retold biblical tales, the inspiration for numerous children's books and toys, novels, and even films. Whether as allusion, archetype, or literal presence--the American landscape is peppered with...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2003-08-07

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This is a comprehensive and systematic exploration of myth in the Hebrew Bible. In addition, Michael Fishbane examines the ongoing role of Scripture in the expansion and transformation of myth in ancient Jewish sources (Midrash and Talmud) and in the classical work of...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2003-06-06

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Recent years have seen a remarkable surge in interest in the book of Genesis - the first book of the Hebrew Bible, and a foundational text of Western culture. In this new commentary, Thomas Brodie offers a complete and accessible overview of Genesis from literary,...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2001-08-16

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The scholarly study of the Old Testament is now marked by a rich diversity of approaches and concerns. In the last two decades, an interest in the text and the implications for its interpretation is no longer the preserve of a single scholarly community, while the...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2000-09-07

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This first full-scale account of Leviticus by a world renowned anthropologist presents the biblical work as a literary masterpiece. Seen in an anthropological perspective Leviticus has a mystical structure which plots the book into three parts corresponding to the three...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 1999-11-26

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