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Reflection and Refraction
BRILL 2006; US$ 226.00Presents a collection of thirty articles covering a range of subjects related to Old Testament study written by colleagues, friends and students of A Graeme Auld - Professor of Hebrew Bible at the University of Edinburgh - to honour the occasion of his sixty-fifth birthday. more...
The Emergence of Semantics in Four Linguistic Traditions
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1997; US$ 180.00The aim of this study is a comparative analysis of the role of semantics in the linguistic theory of four grammatical traditions, Sanskrit, Hebrew, Greek, Arabic. If one compares the organization of linguistic theory in various grammatical traditions, it soon turns out that there are marked differences in the way they define the place of ‘semantics’... more...
Sustaining Fictions
Continuum International Publishing 2009; US$ 130.00Even before the biblical canon became fixed, writers have revisited and reworked its stories. The author of Joshua takes the haphazard settlement of Israel recorded in the Book of Judges and retells it as an orderly military conquest. The writer of Chronicles expurgates the David cycle in Samuel I and II, offering an upright and virtuous... more...
Old Testament Interpretation
Continuum International Publishing 1995; US$ 150.00Story as Torah
Continuum International Publishing 2003; US$ 120.00It can sometimes be difficult for the modern reader to know whether the author of an Old Testament book is commending or condemning certain acts. Professor Wenham turns to modern literary theory and ethical analysis to show how two quite different books of the Old Testament, Genesis and Judges, offer ethical models of behaviour. He focuses on the attitudes... more...
The Torah For Dummies
Wiley 2008; US$ 21.99An easy-to-understand introduction to Judaism's most sacred text The foundation of Hebrew and Jewish religion, thought, law, and society is the Torah-the parchment scroll containing the text of the Five Books of Moses that is located in every synagogue. This accessible guide explains the Torah in clear language, even to those who were not raised... more...
Faith and History in the Old Testament
University of Minnesota Press 1963; US$ 60.00This absorbing and readable account of the religion of ancient Israel is presented against the background of other cultures of the time. Father MacKenzie traces the development of Israels belief and draws upon modern knowledge of the cultures of the anci more...
Sleep, Divine and Human, in the Old Testament
Continuum International Publishing 1987; US$ 150.00An original and absorbing monograph blending researches in several fields: semantics, archaeology, comparative ancient literature, symbolics and the social and religious dimensions of sleep as a concept. Many familiar texts are illuminated by this integrative approach. more...
The Despoliation of Egypt
BRILL 2008; US$ 155.00Examines how Jews defended themselves against anti-Jewish slander concerning the biblical despoliation of Egypt. The embarrassment of the episode was later 'healed' through allegory and became a critically important biblical justification for the Christian appropriation of the Greco-Roman cultural heritage. more...
Men of Character: Samuel
B&H Publishing Group 1997; US$ 12.99One in a series of twelve books by Gene Getz examining role models of the Old and New Testaments in situations relevant to modern times. more...









