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Violence against Women and Children in the Hebrew Bible
What did violence against women and children mean for ancient audiences and how do modern audiences hear and process the meaning of violence in the texts of the Hebrew Bible? The …
Woman's Body and the Social Body in Hosea 1-2
Keefe's analysis dismantles the androcentric and theological assumptions which have determined the dominant reading of Hosea's metaphor of Israel as the adulterous wife of God. It …
The Origin of Israelite Zion Theology
In this examination of Zion theology and how it arises in the book of Psalms Antti Laato’s starting-point is that the Hebrew Bible is the product of the exilic and postexilic …
Subversive Scribes and the Solomonic Narrative
Subversive Scribes and the Solomonic Narrative considers 1 Kgs 1-11 through the optics of propaganda and subversion with primary attention given to subversive readings of …
Queer Commentary and the Hebrew Bible
A collection of specially-commissioned studies by gay, lesbian and other scholars on how 'Queer Theory' and 'queer' readings make a difference to biblical exegesis. It contains …
Leading Captivity Captive
In a methodological discussion of this issue, the contributors cover a range of topics, from ancient poltics to modern ideology. The entity known as 'the Exile' has had an …
Breaking Monotheism
This work offers a social-scientific analysis of Yehud and uses that analysis to construct a model through which to analyze later monotheistic religious developments.
Rethinking Contexts, Rereading Texts
This volume brings together ten essays on the various contexts for texts that social-scientific approaches invoke. These contexts are: the cultural values that inform the writers …
The Chronicler as Theologian
The fifteen articles in this volume, arising from work in the Chronicles-Ezra-Nehemiah Section of the Society of Biblical Literature, engage with the author's thought and message …
Transgression and Transformation
This volume on feminist, postcolonial and queer biblical interpretation gathers perspectives from a global body of researchers; in offering innovative interpretations of key texts …
Israel's Prophets and Israel's Past
" This volume is an inquiry into the complex relationship of the prophetic texts and Israelite history. Taken as a whole, the book provides a "round-table" discussion that examines …
Glory and Power, Ritual and Relationship
The book's point of departure is the return from the Exile, which is presented as an opportunity for Jews, primarly those in Judah, to interpret anew the relationship between God …