The Ramesside period in Egypt (ca. 1290-1070 B.C.E.) corresponds to the late Bronze Age, a time of great change both in Egypt and the Near East. Viewed as an age of empire, dominated by the figure of
Ancient Nuzi, buried beneath modern Yorghan Tepe in northern Iraq, is a Late Bronze Age town belonging to the kingdom of Arrap?a that has yielded between 6,500 and 7,000 legal, economic and administr
Philostorgius (born 368 B.C.E.) was a member of the Eunomian sect of Christianity, a nonconformist faction deeply opposed to the form of Christianity adopted by the Roman government as the official r
This resource enables biblical studies instructors to facilitate engaging classroom experiences by drawing on the arts and popular culture. It offers brief overviews of hundreds of easily accessible
Critics from three major racial/ethnic minority communities in the United States-African American, Asian American, and Latino/a American-focus on the problematic of race and ethnicity in the Bible an
The essays collected in this volume investigate the development of prayers of penitence within Jewish literature of the Hellenistic and Roman periods. The book provides a critical overview of the pre
Writings by Theodore (ca. 350-428) have been scraped together from various manuscripts and translations, and here is an English translation of a Latin version of his commentary on the minor epistles o
The series devoted to Philo of Alexandria (20BC-50AD) and his time. This volume contains a special section on him and the Dead Sea Scrolls, with four articles on such topics as divine sonship at Qumra
War is not only waged on the battlefield, but is written and read in contexts that influence meaning and reception. The essays in this collection examine how ancient Israelites wrote about war and ho
This groundbreaking volume draws together an international group of leading biblical scholars to consider one of the most controversial religious topics in the modern era: Is the Gospel of John-the m
The 25 papers--20 in English, the rest in German or French--include nearly all the presentations at the conference, some related to each other by having been delivered in sequence or part of the same
This year's volume features three essays on De Abrahamo, offered by Gregory E. Sterling (U. of Notre Dame), David T. Runia (Queen's College, U. of Melbourne, Australia), and James R. Royse (San Franci
Christianity in the century both before and after Constantine's conversion is familiar thanks to the written sources; now Ramsay MacMullen, in his fifth book on ancient Christianity, considers especi
Bernat (Biblical studies, Hebrew College, Newton Center, MA) considers the biblical passages dealing with the covenant of circumcision, asking what it actually means. He notes that in the time of Abra
The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls brought to light the writings of an unknown community of sectarian Jews. Thomas (Religion, California Lutheran University) makes a careful linguistic study of the
Hierocles, the Stoic philosopher of the early imperial age, is a crucial witness to Middle and Neo-Stoicism, especially with regard to their ethical philosophy. In this volume, all of Hierocles' surv
Until recently, the voices of women who interpreted the Bible prior to the feminism of the late twentieth century had been largely forgotten. However, the current recovery of these women's interpreti
Reventlow's (emeritus Old Testament exegesis and theology, U. of the Ruhr, Germany) four-volume series Epochen der Bibelauslegung was published during the 1990s by Verlag C.H. Beck, Munich. Theodore o
