More akin to science than to art, biblical interpretation eats its dead--consigning its past heroes to oblivion once new paradigms have passed them by. The history of the field has emerged as a separa
North American and European classicists explore the relationship between religion and the construction of cultural identity in the hero-cult dialogue Heroikos, contending that its religious interest a
The rationale of the order of Psalms is a puzzle at least as old as Augustine in the fourth century, and Grant (Biblical studies, Highland Theological College, Scotland) does not aspire to solve the w
Dillon (emeritus, Greek, Trinity College, Ireland) and Polleichtner (Latin Philology Institute of Ruhr-Universitat Bochum, Germany) offer a translation of letters and commentary from Platonist philoso
Knight (Vanderbilt U.) examines the nature and impact of biblical traditio-historical research, with traditio defined as the process of transmission from one generation to the next, a process which is
Contemporary with the Israelite kingdom of Solomon and David, the Nubian conqueror Piye (Piankhy), and the Assyrian Assurbanipal, Egypt's Third Intermediate Period is of critical interest not only to
Beginning with this issue, this series and the associated monograph series will be published by the Society of Biblical Literature rather than the Judaic Studies program at Brown University. The speci
The late 1990s saw a flurry of significant publications on the Second Temple era, and in response the Society of Biblical Literature set up a series of annual meetings designed to encourage mutual con
This volume offers a meeting between genre theory in biblical studies and the work of Mikhail Bakhtin, who continues to be immensely influential in literary criticism. Here Bakhtin comes face to face
Personal tragedy and communal catastrophe up to the present day are universal human experiences that call forth lament. Lament singers-from the most ancient civilizations to traditional oral poets to
Sharing many traditions and characteristics, the Gospel of Matthew, the letter of James, and the Didache invite comparative study. In this volume, internationally renowned scholars consider the three
This volume presents the original text and the first English translation of the largest surviving ancient collection of "preliminary exercises" used to teach young men how to compose their own prose,
This classic work, now expanded and updated with a fifty-two-page Afterword, presents Paul's pastoral anthropology in terms of his own thought, not alien categories imposed upon him. After examining
