Criticism and exegesis of sacred texts

This volume is a comprehensive but accessible guide to the major questions raised by the Hellenistic Jewish work, Joseph and Aseneth.

This volume describes the lifecycle events and daily life activities experienced by girls and women in ancient Israel examining recent biblical scholarship and other textual evidence from the ancient Near East and Egypt including archaeological, iconographic and ethnographic data.

Late-modern theology is marked by persistent and widespread uncertainty as to how the wrath of God can be taken up as a legitimate theme within dogmatics.

This volume in the acclaimed feminist companion to the bible series, edited by Athalya Brenner, draws together a range of leading biblical commentators to discuss one of the most challenging and fascinating biblical texts for feminist interpretation, the book of Genesis.

The second series of Feminist Companions moves beyond the confines of sex- and gender-specific issues and studies of biblical women.

A comprehensive new translation and commentary by one of today's most widely acclaimed scholars in the field.

The seventh volume of this Companion series is devoted to the writings ascribed to Paul but widely thought not to be genuiinely from the Apostle.

Are there Old Testament roots of the veneration of the Blessed Virgin Mary?

2 Baruch is a Jewish pseudepigraphon from the late first or early second century CE.

The 'pivot pattern' is a unique type of chiasmus, a linguistic pattern characterized by an inversion of the internal order of a phrase or passage.

'Content analysis'-which is a computer-assisted form of textual analysis-is used to examine divine activity in six prophetic texts, comparing God's activity to that of humans.

While people often believe that the feminist movements in Britain and North America began in the late twentieth century, this is certainly not the case.

Since Albert Schweitzer's monumental work, nearly a century ago, psychology has been banned from Historical Jesus research.

Are there Old Testament roots of the veneration of the Blessed Virgin Mary?

How do the different books of the Christian bible contribute to telling the story of God's salvation in Jesus Christ?

The reception of early Jewish/Israelite texts in early Christianity provides valuable insights into the hermeneutics of ancient authors and studies in this regard are vital for an understanding of their theology/ies.

Conjoining diverse methodological and ideological approaches with a focus on specific texts, this inaugural volume to the new series presents ground-breaking insights on the Gospel of Matthew.

Late-modern theology is marked by persistent and widespread uncertainty as to how the wrath of God can be taken up as a legitimate theme within dogmatics.

The book provides a introduction to Paul's Letter to the Philippians as well as to the history, development, and foundation of the Church in Philippi.

The stories of Elisha the prophet have received scant attention in recent years, perhaps because they are so enigmatic.

This final volume in the Feminist Companion to the Bible Second series is a sparkling collection.

This magnum opus is not another catalogue of the forms of biblical literature, but a deeply reflected account of the significance of form itself.

How do the different books of the Christian bible contribute to telling the story of God's salvation in Jesus Christ?

Deuteronomy 32:47 says the Pentateuch should not be 'an empty matter.

Given the extraordinary richness and range of contemporary theology, questions about the authority and inspiration of the Bible tend to garner ever increasing variety, complexity and controversy.

This is an ideal introduction to modern biblical studies.

This volume had its origins in a session presented to the Society of Biblical Literature in Washington in 2006 in order to examine the legacy of Peter Ackroyd to the field of biblical studies.

The book provides a introduction to Paul's Letter to the Philippians as well as to the history, development, and foundation of the Church in Philippi.

This collection of studies, reflecting developments in feminist exegesis over the last few years in Europe and the United States, includes treatments of key female figures ('Tamar and the "e;Coat of Many Colours"e;' by Adrien Janis Bledstein; 'Michal, the Barren Wife' by Lillian R.

Judges is a book with much to say about women, especially about their fate in a masculine world, subject to male values.

The language, themes and imagery of the Bible have been rewritten into texts across time.

An essential biography of one of the Bible's most powerful and inspiring booksExodus is the second book of the Hebrew Bible, but it may rank first in lasting cultural importance.

The story of the woman taken in adultery features a dramatic confrontation between Jesus and the Pharisees over whether the adulteress should be stoned as the law commands.

This book focuses on the question of how different contexts are relevant in the shaping and expression of individual spirituality spanning from early childhood to young adulthood.

Parmi les personnages et les thèmes de la Bible souvent exploités dans l’art, la littérature, les réflexions philosophique, théologique, politique et liturgique, le roi et la royauté se taillent la part du lion : par exemple, l’institution de la royauté en Israël, Saül le roi fou, le jeune David qui devient le roi selon le cœur de Dieu, Salomon le roi sage, les deux royaumes d’Israël et de Juda, la reine Jézabel et bien d’autres rois encore, accompagnés de prophètes qui les conseillent et les critiquent, le roi Hérode, mégalomane et massacreur d’enfants, mais aussi grand bâtisseur, l’espérance de la venue du Messie, celui qui a reçu l’onction royale, Jésus le Messie des chrétiens, nommé dans le Nouveau Testament roi des Juifs ou roi des rois.

Painstakingly reproduced from a rare volume of German engravings, this splendid work comprises all of the Bible's best-loved, most-quoted stories.

The second edition of this fascinating book is the ideal introduction to the importance of the Dead Sea Scrolls from Qumran and their impact on our understanding of the rise of Christianity.

Queer Theologies: The Basics is a concise and illuminating introduction to the study of this controversial and discursive subject area.

Queer Theologies: The Basics is a concise and illuminating introduction to the study of this controversial and discursive subject area.

After the publication of On the Origin of Species in 1859, theologians were faced with the dilemma of God creating through evolution.

After the publication of On the Origin of Species in 1859, theologians were faced with the dilemma of God creating through evolution.

Since the nineteenth-century rediscovery of the Gilgamesh epic, we have known that the Bible imports narratives from outside of Israelite culture, refiguring them for its own audience.

Since the nineteenth-century rediscovery of the Gilgamesh epic, we have known that the Bible imports narratives from outside of Israelite culture, refiguring them for its own audience.

Christian tradition has largely held three theological affirmations on the resurrection of the physical body.

Christian tradition has largely held three theological affirmations on the resurrection of the physical body.

The Bible and Digital Millennials explores the place of the Bible in the lives of 18 to 35 year-olds who have been born into the digital age.

The Bible and Digital Millennials explores the place of the Bible in the lives of 18 to 35 year-olds who have been born into the digital age.

This book centres on the use of the Bible within contemporary digital social media culture and gives an overview of its use online with examples from brand-new research from the CODEC Research Centre at Durham University, UK.

Hermeneutics, as a discipline of the humanities, is often assumed to be in thrall to the same subjectivity of every interpretive method, in direct contrast to the objectivity prized by the natural sciences.