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Dangerous Sisters of the Hebrew Bible
Fathers, sons, and mothers take center stage in the Bible's grand narratives, Amy Kalmanofsky observes. Sisters and sisterhood receive less attention in scholarship but, she argues, play an important role in narratives, revealing anxieties related to desire, agency, and solidarity among women playing out (and playing against) their roles in a patrilineal society.
$26.00
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4 Ezra and 2 Baruch: Translations, Introductions, and Notes
This handy volume makes these two important texts accessible to students, provides expert introductions, and illuminates the interrelationship of the texts through parallel columns.
$22.00
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Israel's Poetry of Resistance: Africana Perspectives on Early Hebrew Verse
Hugh R. Page Jr. argues that the careful collection and preservation of Israel's poetic traditions was an act of resistance to the forces of despair.
$32.00
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Portraits of a Mature God: Choices in Old Testament Theology
What difference would it make for Old Testament theology if we turned our attention from the forceful "mighty acts of God" to the more subdued themes of later writings in the Hebrew Bible?
$34.00
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Exodus and Deuteronomy: Texts @ Contexts series
The Texts @ Contexts series gathers scholarly voices from diverse contexts and social locations to bring new or unfamiliar facets of biblical texts to light...
$32.00
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Common Judaism: Explorations in Second-Temple Judaism
E. P. Sanders's monumental Judaism: Practice and Belief inaugurated vigorous debates about the extent and significance of commonality and diversity in ancient...
$35.00
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The Word That Redescribes the World: The Bible and Discipleship
In the last several years, Walter Brueggemann's writings have directly addressed the situation of Christian communities in today's globalized context, with its...
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The Book That Breathes New Life: Scriptural Authority and Biblical Theology
"The purpose of this collection of Brueggemann's essays is to bring to the fore a much more extensive critical engagement on his part with the current...
$25.00
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Disruptive Grace: Reflections on God, Scripture, and the Church
Walter Brueggemann has been one of the leading voices in Hebrew Bible interpretation for decades. His landmark works in Old Testament theology have inspired and...
$39.00
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Gentiles—Jews—Christians: Polemics and Apologetics in the Greco-Roman Era
The roots of anti–Judaism and Jewish–Christian dialogue are examined in their historical contexts with a wide array of Greek, Roman, Jewish, and...
$39.00
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Introduction to the Old Testament as Scripture
This Introduction attempts to offer a different model for the discipline from that currently represented. It seeks to describe the form and function of the...
$44.00
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Soundings in the Theology of Psalms: Perspectives and Methods in Contemporary Scholarship
The many introductions to the psalms available to readers tend to focus on various types and forms of psalms but overlook different theological approaches to...
$32.00
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Hermeneia Old Testament on CD-ROM
Unique, authoritative, indispensable, Hermeneia has in a generation produced many of the most influential and informative commentaries on the Bible in the...
$599.00
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A Theology of the Old Testament: Cultural Memory, Communication, and Being Human
"The remarkable thing about the Old Testament is the persistence of its visions of a better humanity and a better world." Rather than seek to establish "what...
$29.00
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The Messiah: Developments in Earliest Judaism and Christianity
How did the Jews from 250 B.C.E. to 200 C.E. conceive and express their beliefs in the coming of God's Messiah? Why did the Jews closely associated with Jesus...
$45.00
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The Priestly Vision of Genesis 1
For many readers, Genesis 1-2 is simply the biblical account of creation. But ancient Israel could speak of creation in different ways, and the cultures of the...
$29.00
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Revolt of the Scribes: Resistance and Apocalyptic Origins
In previous studies, Richard A. Horsley has set Jesus in the context of Jewish prophetic and social banditry movements and has elaborated the imperial context...
$21.00
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Disturbing Divine Behavior: Troubling Old Testament Images of God
How should we understand biblical texts where God is depicted as acting irrationally, violently, or destructively? If we distance ourselves from disturbing...
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Early Judaism: Texts and Documents on Faith and Piety, Revised Edition
Jewish writings from the period of Second Temple present a rich and potentially overwhelming variety of first-hand materials. George W. E. Nickelsburg and...
$34.00
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