Judaism: sacred texts and revered writings

Central to understanding the prophecy and prayer of the Hebrew Bible are the unspoken assumptions that shaped them-their genres.

This set of varied and stimulating papers, by an international group of younger as well as senior scholars, examines the manner in which peoplehood was understood by the Jewish communities of the Second Temple period and by the religious traditions that emerged from those communities and later flourished in Christianity and Rabbinic Judaism.

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Designed with the beginning student in mind, this volume introduces the reader to the books that did not make it into the Bible or the Apocrypha but that remained popular among Jews and early Christians for centuries.

A devotional commentary that helps you gain fresh insights into the Bible and understand how you can apply God's Word to your life.

Archaeology is a science in which progress can be measured by the advances made backward into the past.

Die Monografie widmet sich der literatur-, form- und gattungsgeschichtlichen Untersuchung des umfangreichsten in altaramäischer Sprache erhaltenen weisheitlichen Spruchkorpus.

As the greatest book of Jewish mysticism, the Zohar is a revered and much-studied work.

Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav (1772-1810) is widely considered to be one of the foremost visionary storytellers of the Hasidic movement.

Building on the success of the Jewish Annotated New Testament (JANT) and the Jewish Study Bible (JSB), Oxford University Press now proceeds to complete the trilogy with the Jewish Annotated Apocrypha (JAA).

The Septuagint is the term commonly used to refer to the corpus of early Greek versions of Hebrew Scriptures.

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).

A critical edition of the Samaritan Pentateuch is one of the most urgent desiderata of Hebrew Bible research.

In der alttestamentlichen Wissenschaft wird derzeit die Frage nach der lokalen Herkunft des Gottes Yahwe, nach seiner typologischer Einordnung in das Pantheon Syriens, Israels/Palastinas und Nordarabiens in der spaten Bronzezeit und fruhen Eisenzeit sowie nach den Anfangen der kultischen Verehrung Yahwes heftig diskutiert.

The book of Jubilees was written by a Jewish author in the second century BCE.

In this groundbreaking work to identify and address God's absence in three key rape narratives in the Hebrew Bible, Leah Rediger Schulte finds a pattern that indicates a larger community crisis.

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

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.

Melvin traces the emergence and development of the motif of angelic interpretation of visions from late prophetic literature (Ezekiel 4048; Zechariah 16) into early apocalyptic literature (1 Enoch 1736; 7282; Daniel 78).

This book examines an undertheorized topic in the study of religion and sacred texts: the figure of the neighbor.

In the wake of the Babylonian destruction of Jerusalem and the displacement of exile, there is a unique story that is told about the remnant left behind after the invasion.

Im Herzen der drei großen monotheistischen Religionen – Judentum, Christentum und Islam – liegt eine tiefe Verbindung, die auf gemeinsamen Wurzeln und Glaubensvorstellungen basiert.

At the origin of the Watchers tradition is the single enigmatic reference in Genesis 6 to the sons of God who had intercourse with human women, producing a race of giants upon the earth.

Join author and minister David Murray as he introduces you to Jesus through the lens of the Old Testament.

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The Gospel of Thomas, one of the most intriguing and enigmatic texts discovered in the Nag Hammadi Library, offers a unique and thought-provoking window into early Christian thought.

Judaic Sources and Western Thought: Jerusalem's Enduring Presence explores the significance and enduring relevance of Judaic roots and sources of important European and Western moral and political ideas and ideals.

These essays explore new methods and overlooked traditions that appear to shed light on how the founders of the Christian movement understood the older sacred tradition and sought new and creative ways to let it speak to their own times.

Christianity Today 2023 Award of Merit (Apologetics & Evangelism)Critics outside the church often accuse the Old Testament God of genocide, racism, ethnic cleansing, and violence.

This new edition of a bestselling evangelical survey of the Old Testament has been updated throughout.

This book offers new perspectives on animals and animality from the vantage point of the rabbis of the Babylonian Talmud.

In The Power of Equivocation Amy Kalmanofsky addresses the Bible's inherent complexity as well as the complexity of those who seek to read the Bible critically, generously, and honestly.

The NIV Application Commentary helps you communicate and apply biblical text effectively in today's contextThe books of Judges and Ruth have relevance for our lives today.

John Day investigates disputed points of interpretation within Genesis 1-11, expanding on his earlier book From Creation to Babel with 11 stimulating essays.

The bible is indeed a world of the strange and mysterious when it comes to the variety of creatures that are presented in its texts.

David Weiss Halivni's The Formation of the Babylonian Talmud, originally published in Hebrew and here translated by Jeffrey L.

A companion series to the acclaimed Word Biblical CommentaryFinding the great themes of the books of the Bible is essential to the study of God's Word and to the preaching and teaching of its truths.

The Horizontal Society is an exposition of rabbinic thought as exemplified by Maimonides.

This collection of essays seeks to demonstrate that many biblical authors deliberately used Classical and Hellenistic Greek texts for inspiration when crafting many of the narratives in the Primary History.