This volume assesses past, theoretically engaged work on Israelite religion and presents new approaches to particular problems and larger interpretive and methodological questions. It gathers previous
Schuller and Newsom created this book to clarify the ordering and numbering of the columns and lines of the 1QHa manuscript. This book is ideal for scholars and graduate students who want to work with
Reymond (biblical Hebrew, Yale U.) is interested in the poetry of the post-biblical era, when the idiom and language inherited from the Bible still influenced writers, but were being altered and chang
The identification of literary works in the Pentateuch and the Former Prophets is a hallmark of the modern historical-critical interpretation of the Hebrew Bible. The theories of a Tetrateuch, a Hexat
The essays in Bible Trouble all engage queer theories for purposes of biblical interpretation, a rare effort to date within biblical scholarship. The title phrase “Bible Trouble” plays on Judith Butle
This pioneering study examines the use of blood to purge the effects of sin and impurity in Hittite and biblical ritual. The idea that blood atones for sins holds a prominent place in both Jewish and
In a career that so far has spanned nearly four decades, more than thirty of them as Professor of Hittitology in the Department of Archaeology and Ancient Near Eastern Cultures at Tel Aviv University,
This volume is the first in The Bible and Women series. It presents a history of the reception of the Bible as embedded in Western cultural history with a special focus on the history of women and iss
Bons and Joosten are editors of the forthcoming Historical and Theological Lexicon of the Septuagint, and as part of the process symposia were held in Strasbourg in November 2008 and June 2009 to fost
This book investigates the discourse on idolatry and images, especially statues, in the writings of the Jewish historian Flavius Josephus, with a particular focus on his numerous accounts of a content
This collection of essays by respected scholars represents the state of the art of textual criticism as applied to the New Testament. Addressing core topics such as the causes and forms of variation,
This volume foregrounds biblical interpretation within the African history of colonial contact, from North Atlantic slavery to the current era of globalization. It reads of the prolonged struggle for
In spite of some scholars' inclination to include the book of Jubilees as another witness to “Enochic Judaism,” the relationship of Jubilees to the apocalyptic writings and events surrounding the Macc
Scholars of the Bible and of early modern history reconstruct the origins of British scholarship into early Christianity before it spread beyond Jews. Primarily they challenge the conventional notion
The Bible is likely the most-edited book in history, yet the task of editing the Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek texts of the Bible is fraught with difficulties. The dearth of Hebrew manuscripts of the Jew
This book reexamines the Sodom and Gomorrah narrative in Genesis 18–19, an ethically charged text that has significantly influenced views about homosexuality, stereotyping the other, the rewards and r
The text-critical study of the Apostolos (all of the New Testament apart from the Gospels) of the fourth-century Greek Father Athanasius of Alexandria has two aims in view: one analytical and one meth
The general articles in this issue discuss the allegorical interpretation of the Pentateuch in Alexandria, inscribing Aristobulus and Philo in a wider literary context; and (in French) Philo of Alexan
Digging into the debate on whether the Land of Israel was emptied at the end of the Iron Age in the 6th century BCE when Babylon destroyed the urban centers of Judah, Faust (land of Israel studies and
As father of all humanity and not exclusively of Israel, Noah was a problematic ancestor for some Jews in the Second Temple period. His archetypical portrayals in the Dead Sea Scrolls, differently nua
