Judaism: sacred texts and revered writings

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.

Professor Moshe Bar-Asher, Professor Emeritus at the Hebrew University and long-time president of the Academy of the Hebrew Language, has published more than 200 articles and sixteen books and edited aboout 90 books and collections.

The present volume is one of the first to concentrate on a specific theme of biblical interpretation in the Dead Sea Scrolls, namely the book of Genesis.

In addition to three scrolls containing the Book of Joshua, the Qumran caves brought to light five previously unknown texts rewriting this book.

The Jehuite Dynasty ruled more than ninety years (841-747 BCE) in the Kingdom of Israel, the longest dynasty in the history of the Northern Kingdom.

The present volume contains papers delivered at the International Conference on the Deuterocanonical Books, held at the Sapientia College of Theology, Budapest, Hungary, 14-16 May, 2009.

This work examines the relationship of the speeches of Wisdom to one another and with the rest of Proverbs 1-9.

Ben Sira lived in an era when Hellenistic influences continued to spread in Palestine.

The festive meal texts of Deuteronomy 12-26 depict Israel as a unified people participating in cultic banquets - a powerful and earthy image for both preexilic Judahite and later audiences.

Exile as Forced Migrations injects cutting edge studies on forced migrations (DIDPS, IDPs, Refugee studies), displacement and resettlement, and generational issues that mark the exilic period (6th century B.

The social and intellectual context of the material in the book of Proverbs has given rise to several proposals concerning the nature of the constituent compendia within the document as well as the function of the discourse as a whole.

Apart from Genesis, Tobit contains more information about marriage than any other biblical book.

This study demonstrates the importance of including narrative ethics in a construction of Old Testament ethics, as a correction for the current state of marginalisation of narrative in this discipline.

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This book investigates the relationship between cult and ethics in the book of Isaiah.

The book investigates Ben Sira's attitudes toward all matters pertaining to sexuality in the context of family relations and gender issues.

Nowadays many scholars are intensively studying the Book of Ben Sira in its different versions.

Im Zentrum von Origenes’ Arbeit stand stets die Exegese der Hl.

Damit, dass Elifas, Bildad und Zofar ganz im Sinne der Tradition von Hiob das Nachdenken über das Verhältnis zwischen Gott und Mensch verlangen, aber am Ende doch von Gott verurteilt werden, wirft das Buch Hiob eine der großen und komplizierten Fragen der alttestamentlichen Exegese auf.

This work explores the theological and social dimensions of generosity in the book of Sirach and contextualizes them within the culture and thought of Second Temple Judaism.

In ancient Israelite literature Exile is seen as a central turning point within the course of the history of Israel.

Scholars have long recognized the importance of Paul's citations from the Pentateuch for understanding the argument of Galatians.

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

Efforts at interpreting Joban poetry have often been divided between philological and literary critics.

The opening sections of some exegetical Midrashim deal with the same type of material that is found in introductions to medieval rabbinic Bible commentaries.

In der vorliegenden Ausgabe werden die bislang wenig beachteten Jesajahomilien des Origenes erstmalig ins Deutsche übersetzt sowie mit Einzelerklärungen und einer umfangreichen Einleitung versehen.

In diesem Band sind die erhaltenen Fragmente aus der Genesiskommentierung ediert; die Auszüge stammen aus seinem Genesiskommentar, der die Schöpfungsgeschichte (Gen 1,1-5,1) kommentierte, und aus den Scholien, die sich auf den Rest des biblischen Buches bezogen.

The author applies the fields of gender studies, psychoanalysis, and literature to Talmudic texts.

Das biblische Buch Esther erzählt den Aufstieg des jüdischen Waisenkindes zur Königin Persiens und die Erhebung des loyalen Juden Mordechai zum zweiten Mann nach dem König sowie die gleichsam wunderbare Errettung des Gottesvolkes Israel, dessen Existenz durch den perfiden Statthalter Haman bedroht ist.

Pirke de-Rabbi Eliezer represents a late development in "e;midrash"e;, or classical rabbinic interpretation, that has enlightened, intrigued and frustrated scholars of Jewish culture for the past two centuries.

This volume contains the proceedings of a Symposium "e;Prophecy in the Book of Jeremiah"e;, arranged by the Edinburgh Prophecy Network in the School of Divinity at the University of Edinburgh, 11-12 May 2007.

Gegenstand der vorliegenden Studie ist die Textgeschichte der Samuel- und Königebücher, die in der Forschung nach wie vor kontrovers diskutiert wird.

This study analyzes several passages in the Former Prophets (2 Sam 19:12-44; 2 Kgs 2:1-18; Judg 8:4-28) from a literary perspective, and argues that the text presents Transjordan as liminal in Israel's history, a place from which Israel's leaders return with inaugurated or renewed authority.

This Oxford dissertation offers a fresh redactional analysis of the Book of Amos.

Die vielschichtigen Beziehungen zwischen Israel und Phönizien im 1.

The theology of Isaiah 40-55 has two seemingly contradictory aspects: the tension between the consolatory message of deliverance, and the harsh tone of accusation and the call to repentance.

The Book of Sirach raises many questions: philological, exegetical, literary, historical, theological.

Recent advances in cognitive linguistics provide new avenues for reading and interpreting Biblical Hebrew prophetic text.

This study examines the physical form and cultic function of the biblical cherubim.