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Israel in Egypt
Continuum International Publishing 1992; US$ 130.00This close synchronic analysis of Exodus 1-2 looks at how the pericope's structure, language, focalization and management of information form its conception and judgement of its events and characters. A coherence of concerns is detectable in Exodus 1-2 with allusions to Genesis and the later chapters of Exodus. One chapter is assigned to each of... more...
Fragmented Women
Continuum International Publishing 1997; US$ 130.00In the biblical narratives, women are usually minor characters in the stories of men. Fragments of women's stories must be gleaned from the more cohesive stories of their fathers, husbands and sons. Fragmented Women begins with the premise that, to recover shards of women's stories from androcentric texts like the Bible, it is necessary to... more...
Sodom and Gomorrah
Continuum International Publishing 1997; US$ 130.00According to Fields, biblical narrative is didactic socio-religious commentary on human experience, reflected in 'history', and that such 'history' is a way of describing the conceptual universe of the ancient authors. Biblical narrative is strikingly free of abstract formulations but encapsulates abstract reflections, within recurring... more...
Ideology of Ritual
Continuum International Publishing 1990; US$ 140.00For the Priestly writers, ritual was a fundamental form of theological reflection. This study analyses the conceptual categories of space, time and status in an effort to clarify the larger cultural and conceptual categories operative in the Priestly ritual system. Drawing on interpretative models derived from cultural anthropology, the author argues... more...
Leading Captivity Captive
Continuum International Publishing 1998; US$ 110.00In 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 extremely forceful influence in Old Testament scholarship, both as an event and as a symbol. But was there an 'Exile'? And if so, how did it fit into the pattern... more...
Forms of Deformity
Continuum International Publishing 1991; US$ 170.00A vigorous imagination is the principal source for many of the abnormalities of fictional characters. Many of the motifs also bear some relation to the rituals and religious symbols embraced by the people among whom they are or were at one time, current. Another important source can be found in symbolism of a religious or social kind. This motif-index... more...
The Jubilee from Leviticus to Qumran
BRILL 2007; US$ 182.00Beginning with the historical origins of the jubilee in ancient Israel, this book traces the reinterpretation of the jubilee through the "Old Testament", "Second Temple" literature", and "Qumran" documents, demonstrating a tendency toward eschatological re-readings with the passage of time. more...
Mediating the Divine
BRILL 2007; US$ 212.00A comprehensive treatment of prophecy and revelation in the Dead Sea Scrolls. This book examines the reconfiguration of biblical prophecy and revelation, the portrait of prophecy at the end of days, and the evidence for ongoing prophetic activity. more...
Everlasting Dominion
B&H Publishing Group 2006; US$ 39.99Taking a high view of Scripture as the inspired, authoritative Word of God, esteemed seminary professor Merrill offers this thoroughly in-depth theology of the Old Testament after decades of study. more...









