Shively T. J. Smith reconsiders what is most distinct, troubling, and potentially thrilling about the often overlooked and dismissed book of 2 Peter. Using the rhetorical strategies of nineteent...więcej »
Drawing on the fields of nonhuman studies and postcolonial ecocriticism, Dong Hyeon Jeong disrupts anthropocentric readings of Mark by engaging animality, vegetality, and animacy theories in lig...więcej »
In YHWH's Divine Images: A Cognitive Approach, Daniel O. McClellan addresses the longstanding question of how it is that divine images could be referred to as if they both were and were not the ...więcej »
This volume brings together scholars from New Testament studies and classics, whose fields of study have much in common but are not often in conversation. The contributors explore how the ancien...więcej »
David Toshio Tsumura's new book illustrates how to read Biblical Hebrew poetry effectively by focusing on the basic linguistic features of word order, parallelistic structure, and rhetorical dev...więcej »
This English translation of the second edition of Christian Frevel's essential textbook Geschichte Israels (Kohlhammer, 2018) covers the history of Israel from its beginnings until the Bar Kokhb...więcej »
This collection of essays evaluates how the Bible continues to influence American art, literature, music, politics, education, and social movements. In this one-volume update of the Society of B...więcej »
Rabbinic literature includes hundreds of stories and brief narrative traditions. These narrative traditions often take the form of biographical anecdotes that recount a deed or event in the life...więcej »
This book offers a unique overview of the development of rhetorical criticism both in North America and internationally through the work of pioneering New Testament scholar Thomas H. Olbricht. N...więcej »
This volume lays out the charged, complicated beginnings of the independent Jewish state founded by the Maccabees in the second century BCE. Contributors offer focused analyses of the archa...więcej »
In this volume dedicated to the life and work of Christopher R. Seitz, biblical scholars and theologians approach the question of who Israel's God is for Christians. Each essay reflects upon the...więcej »
Contributors to this volume come together to honor the lifetime of work of Saul M. Olyan, Samuel Ungerleider Jr. Professor of Judaic Studies and Professor of Religious Studies at Brown Universit...więcej »
Both prophets and prophetesses shared God's divine will with the people of Israel, yet the voices of these women were often forgotten due to later prohibitions against women teaching in public. ...więcej »