This volume makes available both the most recent European scholarship on the Pentateuch and its critical discussion, providing a helpful resource and fostering further dialogue between North American and European interpreters. The contributors are Erhard Blum, David M. Carr, Tho…
Most scholars studying the first five books of the Bible either attempt to dissect it into various pre-pentateuchal documents or, at the very least, analyze Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy as separate, self-contained documents. The Pentateuch as Narrative fo…
Casuistic or case law in the Pentateuch deals with real human affairs; each case law entails a compressed story that can encourage reader engagement with seemingly "dry" legal text. This book is the first to present an interpretive method integrating biblical law, jurisprudence,…
Despite innumerable studies from at least the time of the Reformation, it was not until little more than a century ago that one hypothesis concerning the origin of the Pentateuch, the so-called 'Documentary Theory' formulated by Julius Wellhausen, established itself as the point…
Challenging the view that Mark was written as late as 65-75 CE, James Crossley argues instead for a date thirty years earlier, basing this conclusion on the internal evidence supplied by the gospel itself. After a concise overview of the external evidence, The Date of Mark's Gos…
Challenging the view that Mark was written as late as 65-75 CE, James Crossley argues instead for a date thirty years earlier, basing this conclusion on the internal evidence supplied by the gospel itself. After a concise overview of the external evidence, The Date of Mark's Gos…
This book argues that MarkGÇÖs gospel was not written as late as c. 65GÇô75 CE, but dates from sometime between the late 30s and early 40s CE. It challenges the use of the external evidence (such as Irenaeus and Clement of Alexandria) often used for dating Mark, relying instead …
