The book presents for the first time a critical edition of all the extant fragments of the Chronographiae by Iulius Africanus. This work is the first Christianworld chronicle - a wide-ranging attempt to combine Classical Hellenistic historiography with the Jewish Hebrew heritage…
"This is the first detailed study that critically compares and contrasts the wisdom sentences of the Book of Proverbs with classical and post-classical Arabic proverbs; reference is also made to current Arabic proverbs."--BOOK JACKET. "Hundreds of classical Arabic proverbs and w…
A thorough examination of father-daughter depictions in the Hebrew Bible exploring a broad spectrum of metaphors, myths legal texts and narrative accounts and drawing on methodologies from the social sciences to investigate the Hebrew Bible portrayals of this key familial relati…
"These seven essays offer fresh perspectives on beauty's role in revelation. Each essay features a hermeneutical approach informed by the contemporary study of aesthetics. Covering a series of texts in the Hebrew Bible and New Testament, from Adam and Eve in the garden to Jesus …
What does it mean to be human? Pointing beyond human-centric ideologies, the essays in this collection explore biblical texts from Genesis to Revelation in conversation with the critical theories of posthumanism.
Events in Oceania - earthquakes, tsunamis, floods, shipwrecks, oil spills, movement of political and ecological refugees, resettlement of displaced people, and changing political structures - challenge the authors to reflect on the practices of biblical interpretation and to con…
Christopher Bryan reflects on the often-difficult relationship between academic study of the Bible and the Church, and suggests a way forward in which scientific questions are not to be ignored, but in asking them we are not to ignore the texts' setting-in-life, which is and has…
All interpretive systems deal with the author. Modern systems consider the text to be autonomous, so that it is disconnected from the author’s interests. In this book, Eric Douglass reconsiders this connection. His central argument is that the author is a subject who reprod…
The Bible has profoundly influenced the western world. Many of its characters and stories are well known and yet, oddly enough, wide swaths of the Bible are unknown and misunderstood. The laws and teaching contained within it have shaped contemporary thinking and jurisprudence i…
"This volume sheds fresh light upon the phenomenon of narrative doubling in the Hebrew Bible. Through an interdisciplinary model the author defines the notion of narrative analogy in relation to other literatures where it has been studied, such as English Renaissance drama, and …
Constantin von Tischendorf was a pioneer. He existed in an age when biblical studies as we know it was being formed, when the quest for forgotten manuscripts and lost treasures was being undertaken with no less zeal and intrigue than it is today. It was Tischendorf who found, an…
Cognitive Perspectives on Israelite Identity breaks new ground in the study of ethnic identity in the ancient world through the articulation of an explicitly cognitive perspective. In presenting a view of ethnicity as an epistemological rather than an ontological entity, this wo…
"The essays gathered here focus attention on the concept of myth and its place in biblical studies through a variety of multi-and interdisciplinary approaches. They approach the methodological issue of how the categories of myth and scripture can be better incorporated into our …
In In the Name of God biblical scholars and historians begin the exciting work of deconstructing British and Spanish imperial usage of the Bible as well as the use of the Bible to counteract imperialism.
Some biblical interpreters¿́¿ imaginations extend only as far as outlandish source theories or esoteric hypothetical audiences. The interpretive energies let loose in Glasgow over the past decade or so, however, have produced a cadre of interpreters who defy the disciplinary mand…
