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This volume contains 20 articles by leading scholars on the king and Messiah, mostly in the Old Testament, but also in the ancient Near East and post-biblical Judaism and New …
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 …
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 …
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 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. It is John Day's …
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. …
This book is for anyone interested in religious studies and womens studies, as well as for biblical scholars. It offers a feminist oppositional reading of the biblical text. The …
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 …