Christianity
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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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Death's Dominion
Through a discussion of power dynamics with a critical eye towards the political situation of influential Christian leaders including Constantine, Damasus, Ambrose, and Augustine, Death's Dominion demonstrates the ways in which these individuals sought to craft Christian identity and cultural memory...
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Finding Myth and History in the Bible
Lukasz Niesiolowski-Spano, Chiara Peri, Jim West
The essays collected in this volume focus on methodological and historical topics related to the study of the history of ancient Israel. Contributors offer readers new readings of disputed texts, new methodological tools for study of the ancient world inhabited by an entity called "Israel," and a va...
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Iconic Books and Texts
James W. Watts, William A. Graham, Deirdre C. Stam, Dorina Miller Parmenter, Michelle P. Brown, S. Brent Plate, Zeev Elitzur, Jacob Kinnard, M. Patrick Graham, Natalia K. Suit, Timothy Beal, Shawn Loner, Kristina Myrvold, Joanne Punzo Waghorne, Yohan Yoo, Brian Malley, Karl Ivan Solibakke, Philip P. Arnold, Jason T. Larson, Claudia V. Camp
Images of books appear in art, advertising and commercial logos to symbolize learning, knowledge and wisdom. In religious and secular rituals around the globe, people carry, show, wave, touch and kiss books and other texts, as well as read them. Such images and rituals utilize the iconic dimension o...