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'The Spirit of the Lord Came Upon Me'
Lester Grabbe here distills his wide body of work on the subject of prophecy. The volume considers prophecy in different cultural contexts across ancient Israel and surrounding …
Illiterate Apostles
Allen Hilton examines how pagan critics ridiculed the early Christians for being uneducated, and how a few literate Christians took up pen to defend the illiterate members of their …
Land of Canaan in the Late Bronze Age
This volume provides a series of contributions on the crucial aspects relating to the Bible and the Late Bronze Age period. The volume is introduced with a background essay …
Image, the Depths and the Surface
The purpose of this book is to illustrate that reading is a subjective process which results in multivalent interpretations. This is the case whether one looks at a text in its …
T&T Clark Handbook of Food in the Hebrew Bible and Ancient Israel
Food and feasting are key themes in the Hebrew Bible and the culture it represents. The contributors to this handbookdraw on a multitude of disciplines to offer an overview of food …
Luke and the Restoration of Israel
Ravens argues that Luke's belief in God's restoration of Israel provides the key context for understanding Luke-Acts. His attitudes to Jews, his surveys of Israel's history and his …
Lived Wisdom in Jewish Antiquity
Moving away from focusing on wisdom as a literary genre, this book delves into the lived, embodied and formative dimensions of wisdom as they are delineated in Jewish sources from …
Sennacherib and the War of 1812
This volume investigates the question of how both Assyria and Judah could remember the war of 701 BCE as their respective victory. Whilst surveying available evidences for …
Situating Josephus Life within Ancient Autobiography
Davina Grojnowski examines Life, the autobiographical text written by ancient Jewish historian Flavius Josephus, from a literary studies perspective and in relation to genre …
Encounter with the Divine in Mesopotamia and Israel
While most of its contemporary religions have faded away, Israelite religion continues to have a major influence in the world. First delivered in 1975 as a Jordan Lecture in …