Judaism: sacred texts and revered writings

Die Bibel ist mehr als ein religiöser Text – sie ist ein Fenster in die Vergangenheit, durch das wir die Geschichte der Menschheit und ihre kulturellen Wurzeln betrachten können.

This book surveys the Jewish Law of testimony as presented in the Talmud and its boundaries on loyalty in non-Jewish courts.

Jeremiah in History and Tradition examines aspects of the Book of Jeremiah from a variety of perspectives including historical, textual, redaction, and feminist criticism, as well as the history of its reception.

This book offers a new way for biblical scholars and archaeologists to envision how the Bible''s story relates to history.

Heresy is a central concept in the formation of Orthodox Christianity.

Endlessly cunning, elusive, and playful--the Bible consistently unsettles even as it assures.

When Scholars have set Jesus against various conceptions of the “messiah” and other redemptive figures in early Jewish expectation, those questions have been bound up with the problem of violence, whether the political violence of a militant messiah or the divine violence carried out by a heavenly or angelic figure.

Walter Moberly is a top Old Testament theologian known for his creative, accessible, and provocative writing.

This volume examines biblical wisdom literature both in its historical context and as it relates to a host of contemporary themes, including overcoming social divisions, reading from a place of inclusion, healing from trauma, and challenging religious attitudes toward climate change and animals.

Reading Hebrew Bible Narratives introduces readers to narrative traditions of the Old Testament and to methods of interpreting them.

Southwestern Journal of Theology 2022 Book Award (Honorable Mention, Biblical Studies)This survey textbook is grounded in the view that the prophetic books of the Old Testament should be read as Christian Scripture.

Die Heilige Schrift Israels - in christlicher Leseweise das Alte Testament - ist der Horizont der neutestamentlichen Christusverkündigung.

Peterson engages the identities and provenances of the authors of the various “editions” of the Deteronomistic History.

This book offers a novel approach for the study of law in the Judean Desert Scrolls, using the prism of legal theory.

2 Maccabees is a Jewish work composed during the 2nd century BCE and preserved by the Church.

This innovative book applies findings from the field of cognitive linguistics to the study of emotions in the Hebrew Bible.

The official prayer book for Orthodox Jews in the UK, with supporting commentary by Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks.

Narrative critics of the Hebrew Bible often describe the biblical narrators as ';laconic,' ';terse,' or ';economical.

Stephen Finlan surveys sacrifice and atonement and what they may reveal about patterns of injury, guilt, shame, and appeasement.

For the first time, the present commentary brings together all relevant aspects necessary to understand and appreciate this late portion of Old Testament Scripture: textual criticism; detailed philological and literary analysis; the text's two-fold historical context in its Hellenistic environment, on the one hand, and in the biblical tradition on the other; and ultimately the very innovative theology of the book of Wisdom.

A fascinating-and stimulating-look at "e;the other Talmud"e; and the possibilities for Jewish life reflected there.

Is there evidence for a distinct “wisdom tradition” in ancient Israel?

In the belief that all the great religions have similarities that confirm and differences that enrich peoples' spiritual outlook on the world, the editors inaugurated a series which they hoped would bring out the essential tenets of religion in what they perceived to be an age of doubt.

Comprised of contributions from scholars across the globe, The Oxford Handbook of Biblical Narrative is a state-of-the-art anthology, offering critical treatments of both the Bible's narratives and topics related to the Bible's narrative constructions.

Vital to an agrarian community’s survival, threshing floors are also depicted in the Hebrew Bible as sites for mourning rites, divination rituals, cultic processions, and sacrifices.

This volume investigates the question of how both Assyria and Judah could remember the war of 701 BCE as their respective victory.

In Not Like Those Who Have No Hope, Nestor O.

In this book the author thoroughly examines the pentateuchal elohistic source, its structural unity and its relationship to the yahwistic source.

1 Enoch was an important and popular text in ancient Judaism, well attested among the manuscripts at Qumran, and a key piece of the puzzle of Jewish origins.