Judaism

Metaphors are a vital linguistic component of religious speech and serve as a cultural indicator of how groups understand themselves and the world.

The poet Abraham Shlonsky (1900-1973) can be regarded as the main architect of Jewish Modernism and Hebrew secular culture.

This book employs cognitive linguistics to determine the foundational elements of the ancient Israelites' concept of teaching as reflected in the text of the Hebrew Bible and Ben Sira.

This volume addresses two pivotal questions surrounding the composition of 1Maccabees.

The American Jewish Year Book, which spans three different centuries, is the annual record of the North American Jewish communities and provides insight into their major trends.

Music was one component of the cultural continuum that developed in the contiguous civilizations of the ancient Near East and of Greece and Rome.

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.

Military cemeteries are one of the most prominent cultural landscapes of Israel.

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

Although in Second Temple literature we find a variety of songs concerned with the future of Jerusalem, little attempt has been made to analyse these comparatively as a generic group.

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 volume publishes papers read at the tenth International Conference on the Deuterocanonical Books, Budapest, 2013.

Rabbinic hermeneutics in ancient Judaism reflects this multifaceted world of the text and of reality, seen as a world of reference worth commentary.

The influence of Isaiah on John's narrative and theology has long been recognized, but it has yet to receive monograph-length attention.

We present a comparative epistemological analysis of the wisdom motifs in Psalms 1, 73, 90, and 107.

The Jewish communities of East and Southeast Asia display an impressive diversity.

In the Hebrew Bible, war is a prominent topic which is dealt with in both legal and narrative texts.

Water is a vital resource and is widely acknowledged as such.

The humanitarian concerns of the biblical slave laws and their rhetorical techniques rarely receive scholarly attention, especially the two slave laws in Deuteronomy.

The extent of the so-called History of David's Rise has been indecisive, and as a result, various issues around the document have been left extremely flexible.

The poet Abraham Shlonsky (1900-1973) can be regarded as the main architect of Jewish Modernism and Hebrew secular culture.

This study proposes that both constitutively and rhetorically (through ironic, inferential, and indirect application), Ps 106(105) serves as the substructure for Paul's argumentation in Rom 1:18-2:11.

Western biblical studies have tended to follow either faith-based theological approaches or value-free historical-critical methods.

Long neglected by scholars, the Dead Sea scrolls rewriting Samuel-Kings shed precious light on the ancient Jewish interpretation of these books.

Originating in the collaboration of the international Research Network "e;Gender in Antisemitism, Orientalism and Occidentalism"e; (RENGOO), this collection of essays proposes to intervene in current debates about historical constructions of Jewish identity in relation to colonialism and Orientalism.