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From Qumran to the Yaad
BRILL 2009; US$ 173.00Since the discovery of the Cave 4 versions of "The Community Rule" (Serekh ha-Yaad or S), scholars have been perplexed about its complex textual history. This book offers a fresh, broader model for reading "S" that better accounts for the long and diverse history behind the text. more...
The Impact of Unit Delimitation on Exegesis
BRILL 2009; US$ 123.00Contains papers dealing with the impact of unit delimitation on exegesis. This volume includes contributions on the Books of "Genesis", "Isaiah", "Jeremiah", "Daniel", "Hosea", "Nahum", "Habakkuk", "Romans", and "Mark". It also discusses the delimitation of units... more...
The Orion Center Bibliography of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Associated Literature (2000-2006)
BRILL 2007; US$ 173.00Presents the bibliography of scholarship on the Dead Sea Scrolls, Qumran, and related fields (including New Testament studies); source, subject, and language indices facilitate its use by scholars and students within and outside the field. more...
A Critical Study of the Euthalian Apparatus
De Gruyter 2009; US$ 126.00Manuscripts of the New Testament frequently contain, in addition to the text, supplementary information such as excerpts from the Fathers, chapter lists, quotation lists, introductions to sections, for example, the Pauline letters, and to individual books. The ?Euthalian apparatus? is the name given to one such collection of helps to the reader. Unfortunately,... more...
Rhetoric and Theology
De Gruyter 2009; US$ 147.00This monograph on John 9 makes extensive use of premodern Christian exegesis as a resource for New Testament studies. It draws on ancient Christian ways of reading Scripture in a ?more-than-literal? or ?figural? way to critique the modern trend to understand John?s Gospel as recounting the history of the evangelist?s community. This study also examines... more...
Biblical Translation in Chinese and Greek
BRILL 2009; US$ 216.00This study integrates three independent subjectsa "translation theory, Mandarin aspect, and Greek aspecta "for the purpose of formulating a theory applicable to translating the Bible. Two passages from John 18a "19 and 1 Corinthians 15 are provided as test cases. more...
Sacred Tropes
BRILL 2009; US$ 241.00Contemporary sacred text scholarship has been stimulated by a number of intersecting trends: a surging interest in religion, sacred texts, and inspirational issues; burgeoning developments in and applications of literary theories; intensifying academic focus on diverse cultures whether for education or scholarship. Although much has been written individually... more...
A New Glimpse of Day One
De Gruyter 2009; US$ 168.00With Day One, Genesis 1.1?5, as a focus and informed by the understanding that all texts are intertexts, S. D. Giere shapes and employs a method that harnesses the idea of intertextuality for the purpose of exploring the history of interpretation of a biblical text. With a unique compilation of intertexts of Gen 1.1-5, the work explores the intertexual... more...
The Bible Says So!
Equinox Publishing Ltd 2008; US$ 81.00Do you sometimes hear people quote passages from the Bible to support their point of view or to justify a particular value or action? Often, passages are taken out of context, infused with meaning that reflects todays world, and interpreted to fit our present frame of reference. However, this does injustice to the Bible and to the messages that... more...
The City in Biblical Perspective
Equinox Publishing Ltd 2009; US$ 85.50This book explores the archaeological and social backgrounds to cities in the biblical world and draws out the implications of the deliberate ambiguities in the biblical text. It asks whether and how the Bible can provide resources for the city today, in a world in which the majority of earths burgeoning population is located in cities. more...









