Friendship in the Hebrew Bible
ISBN: HB: 9780300182682,
Yale University Press,
March 2017
208 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm
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.
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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75.00 GBP
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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
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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60.00 GBP
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Introduction to the New Testament
ISBN: PB: 9780300173123,
ISBN: HB: 9780300140163,
Yale University Press,
May 2016
928 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, maps
928 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, maps
From the experience of a lifetime of scholarship, preaching, teaching, and writing, Raymond E. Brown covers the entire scope of the "New Testament" with ease and clarity. He walks readers book by book through the basic content and issues of the "New...
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24.00 GBP
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55.00 GBP
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Marginal Jew
Volume 5: Probing the Authenticity of the Parables (Rethinking the Historical Jesus)
ISBN: HB: 9780300211900,
Yale University Press,
December 2015
464 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 2 black&white illus.
464 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 2 black&white illus.
Since the late nineteenth century, New Testament scholars have operated on the belief that most, if not all, of the narrative parables in the Synoptic Gospels can be attributed to the historical Jesus. This book challenges that consensus and argues i...
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45.00 GBP
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Responsive Self
Personal Religion in Biblical Literature of the Neo-Babylonian and Persian Periods
ISBN: HB: 9780300166361,
Yale University Press,
October 2015
200 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm
200 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm
Works created in the period from the Babylonian conquest of Judea through the takeover and rule of Judea and Samaria by imperial Persia reveal a profound interest in the religious responses of individuals and an intimate engagement with the nature of...
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43.00 GBP
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Language and Literacy in Roman Judaea
A Study of the Bar Kokhba Documents
ISBN: HB: 9780300204537,
Yale University Press,
July 2015
544 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 18 black&white illus.
544 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 18 black&white illus.
This comprehensive exploration of language and literacy in the multi-lingual environment of Roman Palestine (c. 63 B.C.E. to 136 C.E.) is based on Michael Wise's extensive study of 145 Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek, and Nabataean contracts and letters prese...
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70.00 GBP
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Women's Divination in Biblical Literature
Prophecy, Necromancy, and Other Arts of Knowledge
ISBN: HB: 9780300178913,
Yale University Press,
July 2015
272 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm
272 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm
Divination, the use of special talents and techniques to gain divine knowledge, was practiced in many different forms in ancient Israel and throughout the ancient world. The Hebrew Bible reveals a variety of traditions of women associated with divina...
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65.00 GBP
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Alexander to Constantine
Archaeology of the Land of the Bible
ISBN: PB: 9780300205831,
Yale University Press,
March 2014
392 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 17 colour images, 203 black&white illus.
392 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 17 colour images, 203 black&white illus.
This comprehensive and richly illustrated book explores the archaeological record of the land of the Bible from its conquest by Alexander the Great in the fourth century B. C. E. until the reign of the Roman Emperor Constantine in the fourth century...
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22.50 GBP
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Social History of Hebrew
Its Origins Through the Rabbinic Period
ISBN: HB: 9780300176681,
Yale University Press,
December 2013
288 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm
288 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm
More than simply a method of communication shared by a common people, the Hebrew language was always an integral part of the Jewish cultural system and, as such, tightly interwoven into the lives of the prophets, poets, scribes and priests who used i...
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32.50 GBP
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