Criticism and exegesis of sacred texts
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Critical Theory and Early Christianity
This volume aims to create--in Walter Benjamin's terms--dialectical images from early Christian texts and the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It blasts the past and the present into one another, creating new constellations of thought, ones connected with tensions and mediated by theory (mediat...
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The Economy of Deuteronomy's Core
The Economy of Deuteronomy's Core contributes to the current debate over the date and purpose of the biblical book of Deuteronomy to advance the discussion beyond the Josianic hypothesis of Wilhelm M. L. de Wette that has dominated the field for the last two centuries. It is the first comprehensive...
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Back to Reason
Twenty years ago some biblical scholars at the University of Copenhagen were denounced as being nihilists and a threat to western civilization. What was their crime? They had exposed the fallacies of traditional historical-critical biblical scholarship, which was neither historical nor critical. Alt...
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About Edom and Idumea in the Persian Period
Benedikt Hensel, Piotr Bienkowski, Yigal Levin, Ian Stern, Andrew J. Danielson, Dafna Langgut, Oded Lipschits, Alexander Fantalkin, Oren Tal, Adi Erlich, Michal Haber, Oren Gutfeld, Pablo Betzer, Hanspeter Schaudig, Bob Becking, Diana V. Edelman, Esther Eshel, Michael Langlois, Mark Geller, Ehud Ben Zvi, Stephen Germany
Benedikt Hensel, Ehud Ben Zvi, Diana V. Edelman
This volume highlights and advances new developments in the study of Edom and Idumea in eighteen essays written by researchers from different disciplines (History, Archaeology, Assyriology, Epigraphy, Memory Studies, and Hebrew Bible studies). The topics examined include the emergence of Idumea, the...
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Josiah
This book considers the various ways in which the last major King of Judah has been presented in biblical texts and the subsequent cultures that have made use of the biblical narratives. It is posited that there is no reliable material that can be dated to the time of Josiah and that the literary co...
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Social and Cognitive Perspectives on the Sermon on the Mount
Rikard Roitto, Colleen Shantz, Petri Luomanen
Social and Cognitive Perspectives on the Sermon on the Mount offers fresh readings of themes and individual sayings in the Sermon on the Mount (SM) using socio-cognitive approaches. Because these approaches are invested in patterns of human cognition and social mechanisms, the resulting collection h...
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The Bible for the Curious
This book is for anyone curious about the Bible: what it is, and what modern research reveals about it. Unlike most textbooks, it has no footnotes, avoids technical discussion as much as possible, and makes no assumptions about religious belief. Its aim is to introduce the contents a way that engage...
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Subtle Citation, Allusion, and Translation in the Hebrew Bible
Biblicists have long been aware that some compositions in the Bible cite and allude to other compositions. At times these practices are obvious; often, however, they are not. Essays in this volume focus on subtle, not-so-obvious, unrecognized cases of citation and allusion as well as on unrecognized...
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Leadership, Social Memory and Judean Discourse in the Fifth-Second Centuries BCE
Diana V. Edelman, Ehud Ben Zvi, Diane Hughes, James Bos, Kåre Berge, Reinhard Muller, Geoffrey Parsons Miller, Christophe Nihan, Terje Stordalen, Thomas Bolin, Beate Ego, Anne Fitzpatrick-McKinley, Lynette Mitchell, Wolfgang Oswald, Anne-Mareike Schol-Wetter
Diana V. Edelman, Ehud Ben Zvi
The theme of leadership played an important role in ancient Israel and its discourse. It was explored time and again through memories of proper, improper and in-between leaders and through memories of particular institutions like monarchy, priesthood, and prophethood. The ways in which this theme wa...
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A History of Biblical Israel
Ernst Axel Knauf, Philippe Guillaume
There was probably only one past, but there are many different histories. As mental representations of narrow segments of the past, 'histories' reflect different cultural contexts and different historians, although 'history' is a scientific enterprise whenever it processes representative data using...