Christianity: sacred texts and revered writings

Western biblical studies have tended to follow either faith-based theological approaches or value-free historical-critical methods.

Beginning in 2004, De Gruyter publishes the Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature * Yearbook (DCLY) in cooperation with the International Society for the Study of Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature.

This book employs cognitive linguistics to determine the foundational elements of the ancient Israelites' concept of teaching as reflected in the text of the Hebrew Bible and Ben Sira.

Professor Maurice Gilbert SJ is widely acknowledged as one of the leading authorities on biblical wisdom literature, in particular the Book of Ben Sira and the Wisdom of Solomon, on which he has produced many publications.

The volume publishes papers read at the tenth International Conference on the Deuterocanonical Books, Budapest, 2013.

The influence of Isaiah on John's narrative and theology has long been recognized, but it has yet to receive monograph-length attention.

The humanitarian concerns of the biblical slave laws and their rhetorical techniques rarely receive scholarly attention, especially the two slave laws in Deuteronomy.

The extent of the so-called History of David's Rise has been indecisive, and as a result, various issues around the document have been left extremely flexible.

Writing, reading, and interpretation are acts of human minds, requiring complex cognition at every point.

Scholars of early Christian and Jewish literature have for many years focused on interpreting texts in their hypothetical original forms and contexts, while largely overlooking important aspects of the surviving manuscript evidence and the culture that produced it.

Western biblical studies have tended to follow either faith-based theological approaches or value-free historical-critical methods.

The Gothic version of the New Testament is the oldest extant writing in a Germanic language and one of the earliest translations from the Greek.

The volume contains eight original studies, each of which focuses on a different chapter or central passage in Daniel and offers a new interpretation or reading of the passage in question.

Gender in the Book of Ben Sira is a semantic analysis and, also, an investigation of hermeneutical pathways for performing such an analysis.

The Book of Judith has aroused a great deal of scholarly interest in the last few decades.

Jewish anthropological beliefs during the Hellenistic-Roman period are an important but previously neglected area of biblical exegesis and Jewish studies.

This volume discusses various conceptions of family and kinship in the context of deuterocanonical literature.

Early Christian claims to the Holy Spirit arose in a vibrant cultural matrix that included Stoicism, Jewish mysticism, the Dead Sea Scrolls, Greco-Roman medicine, and the perspectives of Plutarch.

The phrase "e;Daughter of Zion"e; is in recent Bible translations often rendered "e;Daughter Zion"e;.

Since David Hume, the interpretation of miracle stories has been dominated in the West by the binary distinction of fact vs.

In comparison to Mark and Luke, the First Gospel contains a striking preponderance of economic language in passages dealing with sin, righteousness, and divine recompense.

This monograph is an investigation of Yahwistic votive practice during the Hellenistic period.

The 'Euthalian apparatus' is a corpus of auxiliary texts that summarize Acts and the New Testament Letters.