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Where the Gods Are Spatial Dimensions of Anthropomorphism in the Biblical World

Smith Mark S.

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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Introduction to the New Testament

Brown Raymond E.

ISBN: PB: 9780300173123, ISBN: HB: 9780300140163, Yale University Press, May 2016
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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Marginal Jew Volume 5: Probing the Authenticity of the Parables (Rethinking the Historical Jesus)

Meier John P.

ISBN: HB: 9780300211900, Yale University Press, December 2015
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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Responsive Self Personal Religion in Biblical Literature of the Neo-Babylonian and Persian Periods

Niditch Susan

ISBN: HB: 9780300166361, Yale University Press, October 2015
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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Jewish Studies

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Language and Literacy in Roman Judaea A Study of the Bar Kokhba Documents

Wise Michael Owen

ISBN: HB: 9780300204537, Yale University Press, July 2015
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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Women Studies

Women's Divination in Biblical Literature Prophecy, Necromancy, and Other Arts of Knowledge

Hamori Esther J.

ISBN: HB: 9780300178913, Yale University Press, July 2015
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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Archaeology & Paleontology

Alexander to Constantine Archaeology of the Land of the Bible

Meyers Eric M., Chancey Mark A.

ISBN: PB: 9780300205831, ISBN: HB: 9780300141795, Yale University Press, March 2014
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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Jewish Studies

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Social History of Hebrew Its Origins Through the Rabbinic Period

Schniedewind William M.

ISBN: HB: 9780300176681, Yale University Press, December 2013
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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Judaism

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Formation of the Jewish Canon

Lim Timothy H.

ISBN: HB: 9780300164343, Yale University Press, November 2013
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls provides unprecedented insight into the nature of the Hebrew Bible or Old Testament before its fixation. Timothy Lim here presents a complete account of the formation of the canon in Ancient Judaism from the emer...

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Ancient Christian Martyrdom Diverse Practices, Theologies and Traditions

Moss Candida R.

ISBN: HB: 9780300154658, Yale University Press, July 2012
304 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

The importance of martyrdom for the spread of Christianity in the first centuries of the Common Era is a question of enduring interest. In this innovative new study, Candida Moss offers a radically new history of martyrdom in the first and second cen...

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