Judaism

These critical readings explore the history of ancient Israel, from the Late Bronze Age to the Persian period, as it relates to the Bible.

Analysis of the scroll fragments of the Qumran Aramaic scrolls has been plentiful to date.

William Horbury considers the issue of messianism as it arises in Jewish and Christian tradition.

William Horbury considers the issue of messianism as it arises in Jewish and Christian tradition.

This Festschrift draws on the research interests of Christopher Rowland.

The Second Temple period is an era that marked a virtual explosion in the world of literature, with the creation, redaction, interpretation, and transmission of Jewish texts that represented diverse languages and ideologies.

Larry Hurtado's One God, One Lord has been described as 'one of the most important and provocative Christologies of all time' (Alan F.

Larry Hurtado's One God, One Lord has been described as 'one of the most important and provocative Christologies of all time' (Alan F.

The Pentateuch (or the Torah) consists of the first five books of the Bible and is a foundational scripture for millions of people, both Jews and Christians.

The Pentateuch (or the Torah) consists of the first five books of the Bible and is a foundational scripture for millions of people, both Jews and Christians.

The studies that make up this book explore in what ways Israel's sacred tradition developed into canonical scripture and in what ways this sacred tradition was interpreted in early Judaism and Christianity.

This book continues a series of volumes containing the papers read at an annual conference held in turn by Tel Aviv and Bochum in the course of a co-operation between the Lester and Sally Entin Faculty of Humanities, Chaim Rosenberg School of Jewish Studies, the Department of Bible of Tel Aviv University and the Faculty of Protestant Theology in the University of the Ruhr, Bochum, since 1985.

This challenging provocative book argues that there was in ancient Israel a considerable degree of overlap between the worship of the sun and of Yahweh-even that Yahweh was worshipped as the sun in some contexts.

A study of the growth of Joshua and Judges illustrates how the theme of divine anger has been used differently, according to different historical and social settings.

The biblical jubilee represents one of the most radical programmes for land reform from the ancient Near East, yet it was never practised in ancient Israel.

These studies break new ground in the exploration of early Christianity and Judaism towards the end of the Second Temple period.

This book contains the papers delivered at the 1996 Copper Scroll Symposium which was organized by the Manchester-Sheffield Centre for Dead Sea Scrolls Research to mark the 40th Anniversary of the opening of this enigmatic scroll in Manchester.

It can sometimes be difficult for the modern reader to know whether the author of an Old Testament book is commending or condemning certain acts.

Emil Schürer's Geschichte des judischen Volkes im Zeitalter Jesu Christi, originally published in German between 1874 and 1909 and in English between 1885 and 1891, is a critical presentation of Jewish history, institutions, and literature from 175 B.

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The Dead Sea Scrolls are one of the most important archaeological discoveries of the last century.

The Companion to the Qumran Scrolls series offers comprehensive and accessible introductions to the corpus of texts from Qumran.

Both scholars and popular writers have long been fascinated with the cult of Molek in the Old Testament.

Sirach is a book that raises a very distinctive set of problems.

This book provides a general introduction to Jewish law (Torah) for students of New Testament studies.

This volume brings together Jewish and Christian scholars with perspectives on Creation in the Bible (Tanakh, Old Testament, New Testament), in ancient Egypt and Israel, and at Qumran, as well as contemporary theological, philosophical and political issues raised by the biblical, Jewish and Christian concepts of creation.

The Damascus document is one of the most important texts from the Qumran caves.

Written by two leading Old Testament scholars with a wide range of expertise, this unique introduction describes the historical, social and cultural setting in which the Old Testament was written and a description of the major genres of literature that it contains.

A twentieth-anniversary reprint of the landmark book that launched the current explosion of social-scientific studies in the biblical field.

This masterly book is the climax of over twenty-five years of study of the impact of Canaanite religion and mythology on ancient Israel and the Old Testament.

Abraham's Children brings together essays by leading scholars of each faith to address key issues for the faiths and to collaboratively identify common ground and pose challenges for the future.

Louis Jacobs has made a formidable contribution to Jewish scholarship over the last 40 years.

The authors seek to identify the recurrent tensions, the blatant points of emphasis, the recurring indications of conflict and polemic.

The family tomb as a physical claim to the patrimony, the attributed powers of the dead and the prospect of post-mortem veneration made the cult of the dead an integral aspect of the Judahite and Israelite society.

Israel, Servant of God is an English translation of the Second Edition of a book which first appeared in 1983.

In a methodological discussion of this issue, the contributors cover a range of topics, from ancient poltics to modern ideology.

In this title, Shirley Lucass examines the history of the concept of messiah in biblical, and post-biblical traditions.

Urbanism in ancient society has now become an important topic for both classical and ancient Near Eastern scholars.

This volume is a comprehensive but accessible guide to the major questions raised by the Hellenistic Jewish work, Joseph and Aseneth.

The 'New Perspective on Paul' cleared Judaism contemporary to Paul of the accusation that it was a religion based on works of righteousness.

This classic text, the last major work by the great Hebrew Bible scholar Gerhard von Rad, has long been unavailable in North America.

Early Christology must focus not simply on "e;historical"e; but also on theological ideas found in contemporary Jewish thought and practice.

Is the Bible a Hellenistic book?

Purity Texts is a handbook that gathers the data of the Dead Sea Scrolls on ritual purity and analyzes it systematically as part of a coherent ideology.

The book brings together the essays on Second Temple Judaism by Moshe Weinfeld, one of the leading figures in comparative literature and the history of religion in ancient Near Eastern studies.

A comprehensive new translation and commentary by one of today's most widely acclaimed scholars in the field.

Judith Lieu examines the rhetorical function of Jews in the early texts of the second century and seeks to acknowledge the complex nature of an issue which is too easily proclaimed 'Christian anti-Semitism'.

Gershon Brin examines the development of biblical law, suggesting that it may be due to different authors with different legal outlooks, or that the differing policies were required in response to different social needs, etc.