Judaism: sacred texts and revered writings

Focuses on a range of Jewish and non-Jewish writers to examine the intersection of Kabbalah, the Jewish mystical tradition, and secular Jewish literatures.

The Word Biblical Commentary delivers the best in biblical scholarship, from the leading scholars of our day who share a commitment to Scripture as divine revelation.

The prophet Haggai advocated for the rebuilding of the temple, destroyed by Babylon, in the tumultuous period of reconstruction under Persian dominion; so much is evident from a surface reading of the book .

Die Kapitel 2Sam 15–20 handeln von einer Krisenzeit in der Herrschaft Davids.

Comprised of debates among the rabbis of late antiquity in the aftermath of the destruction of the Second Temple (70 C.

This book provides a detailed exploration of the important elements of the theology underlying the book of Amos.

Over 2 million copies sold in The Word Biblical Commentary series.

Time stands at the heart of human experience.

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

Originally published in 1958, this book gives a concise account of the canonical prophets, viewed in the light of modern scholarship.

In this timely and highly readable volume, Old Testament scholar William Holladay introduces the reader to the several ways in which Isaiah speaks, from ancient Jewish readings of the text, to Handel's lyrical use of it in his oratorio, Messiah, to the Christian community who has heard it foretelling the life and death of Jesus Christ.

This concise commentary on the Apocrypha, excerpted from the Fortress Commentary on the Bible: The Old Testament and Apocrypha, engages readers in the work of biblical interpretation.

Situates a hotly contested section of Isaiah within its historical and cultural contexts, correcting misunderstandings of older scholarship.

This commentary on the Historical Writings, excerpted from the Fortress Commentary on the Bible: The Old Testament and Apocrypha, engages readers in the work of biblical interpretation.

Ritual has a primal connection to the idea that a transcendent order - numinous and mysterious, supranatural and elusive, divine and wholly other - gives meaning and purpose to life.

The book of Proverbs is more than the sum of its parts.

The foundation stone of Jewish and Christian scriptures, the power of the Book of Genesis lies in its stories - Creation, the Fall, Cain and Abel, Noah, Abraham, Jacob and Joseph.

Over 2 million copies sold in The Word Biblical Commentary series.

Topics discussed in this volume include different types of structure in Talmudic texts from a literary point of view; the study of the Aramaic language utilized in the Bible and the Talmud from a linguistic and interpretive perspective; the redaction of sugyot in the Talmud Bavli analyzed from a textual point of view; and matters of halakha and halakhic rules.

Psalms 146-150, sometimes called "e;Final Hallel"e; or "e;Minor Hallel"e;, are often argued to have been written as a literary end of the Psalter.

Every generation seeks to apply the Bible's timeless truth about God to its context.

The book of Proverbs is more than the sum of its parts.

The Bible shaped nearly every aspect of Jewish life in the ancient world, from activities as obvious as attending synagogue to those which have lost their scriptural resonance in modernity, such as drinking water and uttering one's last words.

Since the late 1700s, when the Jewish community ceased to be a semiautonomous political unit in Western Europe and the United States and individual Jews became integrated-culturally, socially, and politically-into broader society, questions surrounding Jewish status and identity have occupied a prominent and contentious place in Jewish legal discourse.

Winner of the AAR's 2016 Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion: Textual StudiesHow Repentance Became Biblical tells the story of repentance as a concept.

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.

Centering on the first extant martyr story (2 Maccabees 7), this study explores the "e;autonomous value"e; of martyrdom.

The Texts @ Contexts series gathers scholarly voices from diverse contexts and social locations to bring new or unfamiliar facets of biblical texts to light.

The companion to Volume 2 of The New Church's Teaching Series, Roger Ferlo's Opening the Bible, Michael Johnston's Engaging the Word teaches us how to use the critical and practical tools for reading the Bible described by Ferlo to interpret the Hebrew and Christian scriptures: what did they mean for their original audience and what do they mean for us today?

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What accounts for the seemingly atypical pattern of scriptural exegesis that Paul uses to interpret Exodus 34 in 2 Cor 3:7-18?

The following passage from the biography of Arsene Darmesteter, prefixed to Volume I of his Reliques Scientifiques, deserves quotation, both on account of its criticism of Emanuel Deutsch's brilliant article on the Talmund, which originally appeared in the quarterly review for October, 1867, and as an illustration of the phenomenon, often noted in the scientific world, that investigators, wholly independent and perhaps in ignorance of each other, publish work of similar import simultaneously, though the phase of the subject presented may have been completely neglected up to that time.

The Latter Prophets--Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and the Book of the Twelve--comprise a fascinating collection of prophetic oracles, narratives, and vision reports from ancient Israel and Judah.

This book uses rhetorical analysis to illuminate one of the most fascinating and complicated speeches by Saint Paul: 2 Cor 10-13.

Daniel ist eine der bekanntesten Gestalten der Bibel, ein unerschütterlicher Glaubensheld, der sich an heidnischen Königshöfen trotz aller Anfechtung treu zu seinem Gott bekennt.

Exploring the literature of environmental moral dilemmas from the Hebrew Bible to modern times, this book argues the necessity of cross-disciplinary approaches to environmental studies, as a subject affecting everyone, in every aspect of life.