This book bridges the gap between gendered and geopolitical analyses by interrogating both the sexual and ethnic violence embedded in the Book of Esther, and invites interpreters to consider the larger frameworks of ethnicity and racialization withi...Lasīt vairāk
The significance of this work is monumental, both with regard to New Testament studies and with regard to our understanding of the Shroud of Turin!...Lasīt vairāk
This book discusses 20th and 21st century literary retellings of biblical texts, focusing on how fiction and poetry fill the extant narrative gaps present in the often sparse biblical accounts and align the narratives with theological and/or cultura...Lasīt vairāk
This book introduces the Bible as one of the greatest works of world literature. Ferretter provides a comprehensive history of the field, alongside detailed readings of the Bible and the most influential theories in the area. It is essential reading...Lasīt vairāk
Christology and Myth in the New Testament (1956) enquires into the extent and origin of the mythological language and ideas underlying the Christology of the New Testament. It examines the demythologizing principles, and considers that the mythical...Lasīt vairāk
Democracy and Civilization (1947) is concerned with philosophy, theology and politics, with the nature of history and civilization and politics, using the approach of Christian thinking. It closely allies the political theory of democracy with the C...Lasīt vairāk
This volume by the late Bernd J. Diebner presents an anthology of studies previously published only in German from 1971 to 2020 on a range of topics in biblical studies. Of interest to Anglophone scholars of biblical and ancient Near Eastern studies...Lasīt vairāk
Originally published in 1952, this book discusses the relevant historical facts and the main theories of the different theological schools on the literature of the New Testament. The early chapters of the book deal with the background of Christianit...Lasīt vairāk
Originally published in 1933, from the volume one preface: This is an attempt to combine reading the Bible with learning to understand it. Of particular relevance to those interested in religious studies, today it can be read in its historical cont...Lasīt vairāk
Originally published in 1933, from the preface: ... This is an attempt to combine reading the Bible with learning to understand it. Of particular relevance to those interested in religious studies, today it can be read in its historical context....Lasīt vairāk
Originally published in 1948, this book is of a remarkable gentleman, Alexander Stewart, who was born in Kirkaldy, Fifeshire, in 1790, and died in 1874. In middle life he wrote for his children an account of his adventurous youth. It is a remarkable...Lasīt vairāk
Originally published in 1933, from the preface in volume one: ... This is an attempt to combine reading the Bible with learning to understand it. Of particular relevance to those interested in religious studies, today it can be read in its historica...Lasīt vairāk
First published in 1978, Quran and Bible attempts to delve deeper, to solve some persistent puzzles, and to explore the common culture from which the Holy Books spring. Hebrew and Arabic, the original languages of the Bible and Quran are of the sam...Lasīt vairāk
Originally published in 1958, this book gives an account of the canonical prophets. After chapters on the prophetic literature, the historical background and the archaeological discoveries of the prophetic period, the rise of prophecy and the forms...Lasīt vairāk
First published in 1956, God and Man in Early Israel deals with Old Testament history from Abraham to Solomon in the light of modern archaeological research and biblical scholarship, and in terms of the Christian belief in divine revelation. It will...Lasīt vairāk
Originally published in 1963, this work is a study of the Old Testament books known as The Writings (Ketuvim). Introductory chapters supply the necessary background material and are followed by separate chapters on the books themselves, their origin...Lasīt vairāk
First Published in 1990, The Bible as Rhetoric explores the ways in which the persuasive strategies employed in the biblical texts to their preoccupations with religious and historical truth....Lasīt vairāk
This book explores figurative images of the womb and the simile of a woman in labor from the Hebrew Bible, problematizing previous interpretations that present these as disparate images and showing how their interconnectivity embodies relationship w...Lasīt vairāk
This book provides an in-depth analysis of the relationship between the sciences and the concept of divine revelation. It includes a historical overview of the notion of revelation, its role in scientific debates over the centuries, and current chal...Lasīt vairāk
