For the right understanding of the Sayings Source Q not only the relation to early Judaism but also the social "e;landscape"e; in which the texts evolved is undeniably crucial.
In the Book of Judges, why, if we view Samson as a heroic bermensch, do we read his story one way, yet if we read him as a buffoonish and violent oaf, we read the story another way?
This book invites a close textual encounter with the first 11 chapters of Genesis as an intimate drama of marginalised peoples wrestling with the rise of the world's first grain states in the Mesopotamian alluvium.
Circumventing the Law probes the rabbinic logic behind the use of loopholes, the legal phenomenon of finding and using gaps within law to achieve otherwise illegal outcomes.
Circumventing the Law probes the rabbinic logic behind the use of loopholes, the legal phenomenon of finding and using gaps within law to achieve otherwise illegal outcomes.
This volume of essays is focused on the significance of the book of Exodus for studies in the Septuagint, Second Temple Jewish literature, the New Testament, and Christian theology.
The commentary interprets Jeremiah 1-25 as a dramatic text: In laments, accusations, and announcements of doom, a polyphonic message about the fall of Jerusalem and Judah emerges.
'The essence of Jewish life is not the bland performance of the Torah's commandments, but rather love of Torah and the way of life to which it is the guide.
Demonstrating the connections between contemporary psychoanalysis, Jewish thought and Jewish history, this volume is a significant contribution to the traditions of dialogue, debate and change-within-continuity that epitomize these disciplines.
The poetry, imagery, speeches, and emotions readers encounter in texts like Job, Psalms, and Jeremiah are abundant resources for articulating the painful experiences of the human condition.
For fourteen centuries, a gap of mutual suspicion and hostility has existed between Christians and Muslims, despite attempts to engage theologically, apologetically, polemically, and militarily (such as the Crusades).
For fourteen centuries, a gap of mutual suspicion and hostility has existed between Christians and Muslims, despite attempts to engage theologically, apologetically, polemically, and militarily (such as the Crusades).
Offering a reading of the intermarriage debate and expulsion of the foreign women in Ezra 9-10, this book engages with the production and performance of masculinities in this biblical text, shifting the focus away from the 'foreign women' to the men who are the primary actors in this work.
El libro de los Proverbios del rey Salomón es considerado una de las obras maestras de la literatura de máximas y sentencias, y forma parte del canon bíblico.
Stephen Wunrow addresses the pressing question of what the author of Hebrews meant by his descriptions of heaven, arguing that the author intended his references to heavenly space to be interpreted as realistic descriptions of a real place.
The Jewish teachings of the Torah in the law and prophets contain a treasure of knowledge and understanding revealing the Jewish Messiah Yeshua or Jesus Christ.
Der Midrasch zum fünften Buche Mose begleitet den biblischen Text nicht fortgehend, sondern hebt nur gewisse Verse heraus, welche als Themen hingestellt und verschieden variiert werden.
Haced discípulos pretende profundizar en el tema del discipulado en el evangelio de Mateo a la luz del discipulado que encontramos en la literatura rabínica.
Edición del targum de Deuteronomio que presenta (en paralelo) las versiones del Targum Neófiti y del Targum Pseudo-Jonatán, acompañadas de notas explicativas y anotando variantes que se consideran de interés de las versiones marginales e interlineales del Neófiti.
In the new Hermeneia volume, the Jonah translation and commentary, renowned biblical scholar Susan Niditch encourages the reader to investigate challenging questions about ancient conceptions of personal religious identity.
