Das Werk, aufgeteilt in sieben Bücher, beginnt mit einer Zusammenfassung der jüdischen Geschichte von der Einnahme Jerusalems durch den Seleukidenherrscher Antiochus IV.
Eines der Hauptwerke des Flavius Josephus sind seine zwanzig Bände der "Jüdischen Altertümer", die im letzten Jahr der Herrschaft des Kaisers Flavius Domitian, etwa 93 oder 94 n.
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.
This book discusses 20th- and 21st-centuries' literary retellings of biblical texts, focusing on how fiction and poetry fill the extant narrative gaps present in the often-sparse biblical accounts and align the narratives with theological and/or cultural expectations of modern interpreting communities.
From Tiberias With Love is a journey to rediscovering the magic and mystery, the intimacy and depth of a lost moment in the history of a remarkably relevant conscious community in the Galilee that still has much to teach us.
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.
Within the chaotic world narrated in the book of Judges, the prophet Deborah spoke under the authority of Israel's God, interpreting an important battle and calling fellow Israelites to faithfulness.
Das Prophetengesetz in Dtn 18,9-22 grenzt einen Propheten Israels deutlich von divinatorischen und magischen Praktiken ab, die den umliegenden Völkern zugeordnet werden.
Seth Whitaker argues that the Psalm texts function as the structural and theological backbone of Hebrews from start to finish, and that few scholars have examined the use of Psalms outside of quotations or connected the author of Hebrews' use of Psalms with his broader eschatological outlook.
Building on his previous work on Hellenistic Interstate Political Ethics (T&T Clark, 2022) leading historian Doron Mendels presents three hundred interstate ethical rules of conduct which he has discovered within three reconstructed Hellenistic codes.
This volume, a translation of book 1 of Philo of Alexandria's De vita Mosis, with introduction and commentary, aims to introduce new readers, both students and scholars, to Philo of Alexandria through what is widely considered to be one of his most accessible works and one that Philo himself may have intended for readers unfamiliar with Judaism.
Ambra Suriano analyses the narrator's techniques, exploring the influence of the readers' understanding and playing with their interpretative freedom in recounting particular episodes in the Book of Genesis.
This book discusses 20th- and 21st-centuries' literary retellings of biblical texts, focusing on how fiction and poetry fill the extant narrative gaps present in the often-sparse biblical accounts and align the narratives with theological and/or cultural expectations of modern interpreting communities.
A trial lawyer by trade, a Christian by heart--author Mark Lanier has trained in biblical languages and devoted his life to studying and living the Bible.
