"Thirty years on from Colin Renfrew's landmark publication, The Emergence of Civilisation, a group of Aegean prehistorians came together as part of the Sheffield Centre for Aegean Archaeology's Round Table discussions to acknowledge this ground-breaking work and to bring the sub…
The story of Abraham smashing his father's idols might be the most important Jewish story ever told and the key to how Jews define themselves. In a work at once deeply erudite and wonderfully accessible, Rabbi Salkin conducts readers through the life and legacy of this powerful …
"The Old English poems in this volume are among the first retellings of scriptural texts in a European vernacular. More than simple translations, they recast the familiar plots in daringly imaginative ways, from Satan's seductive pride (anticipating Milton), to a sympathetic yet…
Seth Jacobs highlights the context of American cultural conceptions about race & especially religion, in arguing that blind faith in the devoutly catholic Ngo Dinh Diem eclipsed what little real knowledge about predominantly Buddhist Vietnam was possessed by the Eisenhower admin…
This study is an exploration of the magico-religious dynamics of the spoken word in Antiquity. To limit the parameters of the discussion to a manageable size, I have chosen to focus on the use of words and speech in acts of Creation from ancient Near Eastern myths. By researchin…
This study explores the topic of menstruation in the Hebrew Bible. The main texts examined include ritual-legal material (Leviticus 15), narrative (Genesis 31 and 2 Samuel 11) and prophecy (Ezekiel 7, 16, 18, 22, 36). For the most part this study employs the historical-literary …
This study treats the stories of Hagar and Sarah as they appear in the texts of Genesis, Galatians, and the Qur'an. It assesses the constructions of female subjectivity, voice and agency in the various textual strata in order to produce gender-nuanced readings which may serve as…
Introduction -- Content and structure -- Composition -- Theology -- Suggested readings on Genesis -- Commentaries -- Literary studies -- Feminist studies -- Sociological and anthropological studies -- Additional monographs and articles of interest -- Commentary part one: the pri…
This commentary is an innovative interpretation of one of the most profound texts of world literature: the book of Genesis. The first book of the Bible has been studied, debated, and expounded as much as any text in history, yet because it addresses the weightiest questions of l…
This commentary is an innovative interpretation of one of the most profound texts of world literature: the book of Genesis. This new commentary combines older critical approaches with the latest rhetorical methodologies to yield fresh interpretations accessible to scholars, cler…