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  • Reflection and Refractionby Robert Rezetko; Timothy H. Lim; W. Brian Aucker

    BRILL 2006; US$ 226.00

    Presents 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 Traditionsby Wout Jac. van Bekkum; Jan Houben; Ineke Sluiter; Kees Versteegh

    John Benjamins Publishing Company 1997; US$ 180.00

    The 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 Fictionsby Lesleigh Cushing Stahlberg

    Continuum International Publishing 2009; US$ 130.00

    Even 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 Interpretationby Karl May

    Continuum International Publishing 1995; US$ 150.00

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  • Story as Torahby Gordon Wenham

    Continuum International Publishing 2003; US$ 120.00

    It 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 Dummiesby Arthur Kurzweil

    Wiley 2008; US$ 21.99

    An 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 Testamentby R.A.F. MacKenzie

    University of Minnesota Press 1963; US$ 60.00

    This 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 Israel’s belief and draws upon modern knowledge of the cultures of the anci more...

  • Sleep, Divine and Human, in the Old Testamentby Thomas McAlpine

    Continuum International Publishing 1987; US$ 150.00

    An 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 Egyptby Joel Stevens Allen

    BRILL 2008; US$ 155.00

    Examines 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: Samuelby Bill Bright; Gene A. Getz

    B&H Publishing Group 1997; US$ 12.99

    One 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...