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Because You Bear This Name
BRILL 2006; US$ 206.00This study uses conceptual metaphor theory and methodology to analyze the cultural logic and symbolic context, moral content and ethical implications of 1 Peter. Conceptual metaphor study helps explain how people generate ethical understandings; it can help us recognize and account for lively moral discourse between the NT and contemporary readers. more...
Homeland and Exile
BRILL 2009; US$ 262.00This volume is a tribute to B. Oded's career, and it points to the span of his research. It's thirty contributions deal with a wide range of topics, focusing on the Assyrian Empire, as well as on the Hebrew Bible. more...
Recognizing the Stranger
BRILL 2008; US$ 147.00Recognizing the Stranger is the first monographic study of recognition type-scenes and motifs (anagn?risis) in the Gospel of John. The book shows how the Gospel employs and transforms contemporary genre conventions in its portrait of Jesus as the divine stranger. more...
Mark at the Threshold
BRILL 2008; US$ 177.00Drawing on the popular literature of the ancient world, this book offers a fresh look at issues surrounding Markan characterisation, and also calls for scholars to think more openly and flexibly about Markan genre. more...
John
Baker Publishing Group 2006; US$ 22.00The Final Volume in a Well-Received Gospel Study John: Storyteller, Interpreter, Evangelist is an accessible introduction to the Fourth Gospel. This book examines three aspects of John's Gospel: John's telling of the story of Jesus, his interpretation of Jesus for his readers, and his formulation of all of this into the Gospel of Jesus. Carter... more...
Opening the Gates of Interpretation
BRILL 2011; US$ 243.00This study highlights the contributions of the great philosopher-talmudist Moses Maimonides to the rationalist, ?plain sense? (peshat) tradition of Jewish Bible exegesis, assessing his place in the Geonic-Andalusian school and showing how he harnessed Greco-Arabic learning to open new hermeneutical possibilities. more...
Getting the Gospels
Baker Publishing Group 2004; US$ 17.00On March 23, 1998, director James Cameron made an indelible mark on Academy Award history. It wasn't because his film, Titanic , captured so many Oscars. Nor was it because of the movie's unprecedented box-office success. Rather, Cameron will forever be remembered in Hollywood's annals because, upon accepting his award for Best Director, he enthusiastically... more...
Hebraistik ? Hermeneutik ? Homiletik
De Gruyter 2011; US$ 140.00In the 16th century philological competence and theological dynamics led to a new appreciation of the Bible as the foundation of the Christian Church. As a result the question of hermeneutics became an important chapter of theological controversy. The studies presented in this volume analyse the argumentative form of the early modern Philologia Sacra... more...
Paul Through Mediterranean Eyes
SPCK 2012; US$ 24.78The result of over thirty years of research and lecturing, Paul Through Mediterranean Eyes is a ground-breaking study of Paul?s first epistle to the Corinthians. Bailey examines this canonical letter through the lenses of Paul?s Jewish socio-cultural and rhetorical background and the Mediterranean context of the Corinthian recipients. In a set of... more...
Verheißung und Rechtfertigung
De Gruyter 2013; US$ 182.00This second volume of collected studies by the Munich Old Testament scholar, Christoph Levin, is comprised of 19 essays, including two that are published here for the first time. A major focus of this volume is on Old Testament hermeneutics and theology. Other papers examine the editorial history of the Pentateuch, the Book of Kings, the Prophetic... more...









