Books from Society of Biblical Lit

History of Biblical Interpretation, Volume 4: From the Englightenment to the Twentieth Century
By Henning Graf Reventlow
... des heiligen Geistes nach der populären Anschauung der apostolischen Zeit und der Lehre des Apostels Paulus (The Workings of the Holy Spirit according to the Popular View of the Apostolic Period and the Teaching of the Apostle Paul). He ...
The Old Testament and Christian Spirituality: theoretical and practical essays from a South African perspective
By Christo Lombaard
This volume represents Christo Lombaard’s reflective, analytical, and exegetical contributions to the field in order to explore how biblical texts mediate faith, both ancient and contemporary.
Centrality Practiced: Jerusalem in the Religious Practice of Yehud and the Diaspora During the Persian Period
By Melody D. Knowles
... Recovering Sarepta, A Phoenician City (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1978); Josette Elayi, “The Phoenician Cities in the Persian Period,” JANES 12 (1980): 13–28; Olivier Masson, “Pèlerins Chypriotes en Phénicie (Sarepta et ...
This Abled Body

... Knowledge and Authority in the Pseudo-Clementine Romance of Recognition. JECS 13:315–48. ———. 2006. Knowledge and Religious Authority in the Pseudo-Clementines: Situating the Recognitions in Fourth-Century Syria. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck ...
The Ancient Egyptian Pyramid Texts
By James P. Allen, Peter Der Manuelian
This volume contains the complete translation of the Pyramid Texts, including new texts recently discovered and published.
Is Samuel among the Deuteronomists? Current Views on the Place of Samuel in a Deuteronomistic History
By Juha Pakkala, Cynthia Edenburg
The book of Samuel tells the story of the origins of kingship in Israel in what seems to be an artistically structured, flowing narrative. Yet it is also marked by an inconsistent outlook, divergent styles, and breaks in the narrative.
Experientia: Inquiry Into Religious Experience in Early Judaism and Christianity
By Rodney Alan Werline, Colleen Shantz, Frances Flannery
... Essays in Honor of Paul Parin. Edited by L. B. Boyer and S. A. Grolnick. Hillsdale, Mass.: Analytic, 989. Meyer, Marvin, ed. The Ancient Mysteries, a Sourcebook: Sacred Texts of the Mystery Religions of the Ancient Mediterranean World ...
Paradise Now: Essays on Early Jewish and Christian Mysticism
By April D. De Conick
... Essays in Honor ofPaul Parin. Edited by L. Bryce Boyer and Simon A. Grolnick. Hillsdale, N.J.: Analytic, 1989 ... Paul's Apostolate, Part 1: The Jewish Sources.” HTR 86 (1993): 177–217. ———. “Paradise Revisited (2 Cor 12:1–2): The Jewish ...
Experientia, Volume 2: Linking Text and Experience
By Colleen Shantz, Rodney Werline
... visions of Eden's amazing features that reflect scripted sensations from other inherited textualized visions. For example, Ephrem repeats details such as Eden's extraordinarily high altitude and its location on a cosmic mountain that ...
New Inscriptions and Seals Relating to the Biblical World
By Meir Lubetski, Edith Lubetski
... personal names connotes the theophoric name 1.31 The r; prefix conveys, literally, the idea of “mouth” or “utterance ... Amarna script. And for this reason, the aleph is not the short form of 'l or yhw, as was assumed. Rather, it is the ...
Rethinking Paul's Rhetorical Education: Comparative Rhetoric and 2 Corinthians 10–13
By Ryan S. Schellenberg
... The Collected Speeches of Sagoyewatha, or Red Jacket. Edited by Granville Ganter. The Iroquois and Their Neighbors. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 2006. ———. “'Make Your Minds Perfectly Easy': Sagoyewatha and the Great Law ...
The Bible as Christian Scripture: The Work of Brevard S. Childs
By Kent Harold Richards, Christopher R. Seitz
... A Tale of Two Paradigms for Construing OT Torah It may be helpful to begin by briefly discussing two approaches to relating the Testaments, one modern and the other ancient, in order to help contextualize the ... A TALE OF TWO TESTAMENTS 189.
Identifying Biblical Persons in Northwest Semitic Inscriptions of 1200-539 B.C.E.
By Lawrence J. Mykytiuk
... Inscription.'” Ori- entalia 40 (1971): 332–34. ———. Studies in Aramaic Inscriptions and Onomastics, I. Orientalia Lovaniensia Ana- lecta 1. Leuven: Leuven University Press, 1974. ———. Studies in Aramaic Inscriptions and Onomastics, II ...
Mark as Story: Retrospect and Prospect
By Christopher W. Skinner, Kelly R. Iverson
... Scripture on the Silver Screen (Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2003); idem, Jesus of Hollywood (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007); Bernard Brandon Scott, Hollywood Dreams and Biblical Stories (Minneapolis: Fortress, 1994); ...
Women in the Damascus Document
By Cecilia Wassén
Women in the Damascus Document
Animosity, the Bible, and Us: Some European, North American, and South African Perspectives
By Society of Biblical Literature. International Meeting, European Association of Biblical Studies
... cosmic reconciliation is not the eschatological future but the lived-in present. In a sense, the present is already eschatological, because of the events of the cross and the resurrection of Jesus. Every personal conversion today is a ...
Studia Philonica Annual XXVI, 2014
By Gregory E. Sterling, David T. Runia
... word and image is apparent in the Bible and early Christianity as well as in Platonic philosophy. Plato repudiates both word and image, but early Christian thinkers saw in Christ both the image of God in the flesh and the word of God in ...
Reading the Dead Sea Scrolls: Essays in Method
By George J. Brooke
... scrolls came to light, the debate concerning midrash has only really taken off in the last two decades, spurred in part ... Northern Lights on the Dead Sea Scrolls: Proceedings ofthe Nordic Qumran Network 2003–2006 (ed. a. Klostergaard ...
Hidden Truths from Eden: Esoteric Readings of Genesis 1–3
By Caroline Vander Stichele, Susanne Scholz
This collection seeks to rectify this oversight by integrating the study of esoteric readings into academic discourse.
Formation and Intertextuality in Isaiah 24–27
By Hyun Chul Paul Kim, J. Todd Hibbard
... Die Kapitel sind durch und durch eschatologisch.” See Hays, Death in the Iron Age II, 318–23. 9. E.g., J. Todd Hibbard, Intertextuality in Isaiah 24–27: The Reuse and Evocation ofEarlier Texts and Traditions (FAT 2/16; Tübingen: Mohr ...