Deuteronomy and the Pentateuch
ISBN: HB: 9780300167511, Yale University Press, June 2022
296 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm
This indispensable monograph synthesizes current debates and offers a new historical and literary analysis of the book of Deuteronomy. The book of Deuteronomy introduces and develops many of the essential ideas, events, and texts of both Judaism an...
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Spirit within Me Self and Agency in Ancient Israel and Second Temple Judaism
ISBN: HB: 9780300208689, Yale University Press, January 2022
296 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm
Conceptions of "the self" have received significant recent attention in philosophy, anthropology, and cultural history. Scholars argue that the introspective self of the modern West is a distinctive phenomenon that cannot be projected back onto the c...
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Gnostic Scriptures Second Edition
ISBN: PB: 9780300208542, Yale University Press, July 2021
744 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm, 13 black&white illus.
This definitive introduction to the gnostic scriptures provides a crucial look at the theology, religious atmosphere, and literary traditions of ancient Christianity and Hellenistic Judaism. It provides authoritative translations of ancient texts fro...
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Kinship by Covenant A Canonical Approach to the Fulfillment of God's Saving Promises
ISBN: PB: 9780300248432, Yale University Press, November 2019
608 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm
While the canonical scriptures were produced over many centuries and represent a diverse library of texts, they are unified by stories of divine covenants and their implications for God's people. In this deeply researched and thoughtful book, Scott H...
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Temple in Early Christianity Experiencing the Sacred
ISBN: HB: 9780300197884, Yale University Press, June 2019
496 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm
The first scholarly work to trace the Temple throughout the entire New Testament, this study examines Jewish and Christian attitudes toward the Temple in the first century and provides both Jews and Christians with a better understanding of their res...
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Revelation and Authority Sinai in Jewish Scripture and Tradition
ISBN: PB: 9780300234688, Yale University Press, May 2018
448 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm
At once a study of biblical theology and modern Jewish thought, this volume describes a "participatory theory of revelation" as it addresses the ways biblical authors and contemporary theologians alike understand the process of revelation and hence t...
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Philo of Alexandria An Intellectual Biography
ISBN: HB: 9780300175233, Yale University Press, February 2018
344 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm
Philo was a Hellenistic Jewish philosopher who left behind one of the richest bodies of work from antiquity, yet his personality and intellectual development have remained a riddle. Maren Niehoff presents the first biography of Philo, arguing that hi...
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Friendship in the Hebrew Bible
ISBN: HB: 9780300182682, Yale University Press, March 2017
208 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm
The first comprehensive study of friendship in the Hebrew Bible Friendship, though a topic of considerable humanistic and cross disciplinary interest in contemporary scholarship, has been largely ignored by scholars of the Hebrew Bible, possibly beca...
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42.50 GBP
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House of the Mother The Social Roles of Maternal Kin in Biblical Hebrew Narrative and Poetry
ISBN: HB: 9780300197945, Yale University Press, January 2017
360 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 12 black&white illus.
A novel approach to Israelite kinship, arguing that maternal kinship bonds played key social, economic, and political roles for a son who aspired to inherit his father's household Upending traditional scholarship on patrilineal genealogy, Cynthia Cha...
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Where the Gods Are Spatial Dimensions of Anthropomorphism in the Biblical World
ISBN: HB: 9780300209228, Yale University Press, July 2016
224 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm
The issue of how to represent God is a concern both ancient and contemporary. In this wide-ranging and authoritative study, renowned biblical scholar Mark Smith investigates the symbols, meanings, and narratives in the Hebrew Bible, Ugaritic texts, a...
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