Infused with literary, political, art-critical, cinematic, liturgical and other interests, these essays display interpretive verve freed from the anxiety of disciplines - with closely observed interpretive insights, critical engagement with biblical texts, and vivid inspiration …
Infused with literary, political, art-critical, cinematic, liturgical and other interests, these essays display interpretive verve freed from the anxiety of disciplines - with closely observed interpretive insights, critical engagement with biblical texts, and vivid inspiration …
In this collection of essays, thirty scholars from diverse disciplines offer their perspectives on the genius of the King James Version. In part 1 the essayists look at the KJV in its historical contexts--the politics and rapid language growth of the era, the emerging printing a…
Following the lead of Pope Benedict XVI, in Dark Passages of the Bible Matthew Ramage weds the historical-critical approach with a theological reading of Scripture based in the patristic-medieval tradition. Whereas these two approaches are often viewed as mutually exclusive or e…
This popular text--Grasping God's Word by Old Testament scholar J. Daniel Hays and New Testament expert J. Scott Duvall, now revised and updated--is an indispensable guide to reading, interpreting, and applying the Bible that teaches students how to read the Word of God carefull…
Ancient cultures, such as that of the Hebrews, commonly associated wisdom with advanced years. In A Biblical Theology of Gerassapience the author investigates the validity of this correlation through an eclectic approach – including linguistic semantic, tradition-historical, and…
This volume honours Professor H.G.M. Williamson, Regius Professor of Hebrew at Oxford University through a collection of essays by colleagues and former students from across the globe. The various contributions intersect with the previous work of Professor Williamson related to …
More than seven thousand entries present information on the Old and New Testaments, with maps, images, charts, and illustrations.
Doubts about the contribution of cult-prophetic speech to psalmody remain in debate. Psalms containing first-person divine speech exhibit numerous features and suggest life settings that conform to actual prophetic speech. Alternative explanations lack comparable examples extern…
Die Studie verfolgt Spuren der Profanität und der Sakralisierung des täglichen Lebens im Israel der alttestamentlichen Zeit und in der Literatur des Alten Testaments.
The Armenian Apocalyptic Tradition: A Comparative Perspective comprises an unprecedented collection of essays on apocalyptic literature in the Armenian tradition.
"This book examines how many different constituencies (both secular and religious) fought to keep the Bible the preeminent text in the United States as the country's print marketplace experienced explosive growth. The author shows how these heated battles had profound consequenc…
Among the more than 300 terms defined you'll discover types of biblical criticism, from genre criticism to tradition criticism; Greek and Latin terms, from agrapha to vaticinium ex eventu; German terms, from Frühkatholizismus to Wissenschaft; ancient texts, from Aleppo Codex to …
Did God approve of Rahab's lie' Why are many of the Old Testament quotes in the New Testament not literal' Does the Bible class abortion with murder' Where did Adam and Eve's sons get their wives' Does 1 Corinthians 7:10-16 authorize divorce for desertion' What do you make of th…
Senses of Scripture, Treasures of Tradition offers recent findings on the reception, translation and use of the Bible in Arabic among Jews, Samaritans, Christians and Muslims from the early Islamic era to the present day. In this volume, edited by Miriam L. Hjälm, scholars from …
Scriptural Interpretation at the Interface between Education and Religion examines prominent texts from Jewish, Christian, and Islamic communities with a view to determining to what extent education ( Bildung ) represents the precondition, the central feature and/or the aim of t…
