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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. In the …
In this volume, Lawrence Schiffman and Michael Swartz assemble a collection of Jewish incantation texts which were copied in the Middle Ages and preserved in the Cairo Genizah. …
This study concerns a literary stylistic aspect of the Hebrew Bible known as the pivot pattern, which is an elaborated multilateral chiastic structure. It expresses a clear link …
Recent discussion of biblical law sees it either as a response to socio-economic factors or as an intellectual tradition. In either case it is viewed as the product of elites that …
This collection of papers from the Roehampton conference on the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Bible is the first jubilee volume published to celebrate the discovery of the Scrolls fifty …
Christianson uses a variety of methods from art criticism to Todorov''s actantial model to sketch a compr ehensive picture of some hitherto neglected narrative elemen ts in …
This significantly expanded and revised fourth edition of the English translation of the Scrolls is now a combination of two books. Vermes has replaced nearly all of the original …
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 …
This is the first full-scale assessment of the theological, social and ideational implications of our new understandings of ancient Israel's social and religious development. …
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 …