12,038円 In Daniel’s Mysticism of Resistance in Its Seleucid Context, Timothy L. Seals proffers a postcolonial interpretation of the book of Daniel, investigating certain texts that constitute Daniel’s mystical way or practice. Daniel uses mysticism to resist the repressive script of Antiochus IV outlawin...

14,089円 In this study the methods of social concept criticism, poststructuralism, and social memory theory are innovatively and rewardingly combined with a revalued component of Greimas’ system, the morpho-syntactic and actantial model. Analysis clearly reveals that the Lukan author reconceptualized soci...

9,119円 Religious encounters with mystery can be fascinating, but also terrifying. So too when it comes to encounters with the monsters that haunt Jewish and Christian traditions. Religion has a lot to do with horror, and horror has a lot to do with religion. Religion has its monsters, and monsters have ...

4,454円 This book presents a new window on the legal system of Ancient Israel. Building on the understanding that Israel was a society where writing was the medium for some forms of discourse but not others, where written texts were performed orally and rewritten from oral performances, Robert D. Miller ...

12,038円 In The Solar Nature of Yahweh: Reconsidering the Identity of the Ancient Israelite Deity, the original nature of the chief god of the Hebrew Bible, Yahweh, is reexamined. Daniel Sarlo challenges the current consensus that Yahweh was initially a storm god by examining the relevant biblical texts a...

1,983円 A dual language Hebrew-English edition These six short books of the Bible, each read in connection with a Jewish holy day, constitute a literature unto themselvesーa poetic, spiritual, and literary treasure. This volume includes The Song of Songs, Ruth, Lamentations, Ecclesiastes, Esther, and Jon...

9,450円 This volume examines Apuleius’ comic donkey novel, The Golden Ass, within the context of the popular beliefs and Jewish and Christian writings that were part of the intellectual culture of his own day in 2nd century C.E. North Africa, a culture which can also be glimpsed in some early Arabic writ...

310円 In "Gebete für Israeliten" präsentiert Abraham Alexander Wolff eine tiefgreifende und einfühlsame Sammlung von Gebeten, die die religiöse und kulturelle Identität des jüdischen Volkes widerspiegeln. Wolffs literarischer Stil ist geprägt von einer sensiblen Sprache und einem klaren Ausdruck, der d...

12,038円 This book examines the relationship between divine in/activity and human agency in the five books of the Megillothーthe books of Ruth, Song of Songs, Ecclesiastes, Lamentations, and Esther. As works of literature dating to the early Second Temple period (ca. 6th–3rd centuries BCE), these books an...

4,400円 Haced discípulos pretende profundizar en el tema del discipulado en el evangelio de Mateo a la luz del discipulado que encontramos en la literatura rabínica. Ambos movimientos beben de la tradición veterotestamentaria y convergen históricamente en el tiempo: mientras se está escribiendo el evange...

12,038円 The term desire in the Hebrew Bible covers a wide range of human longings, emotions, and cravings. The direct and explicit term of desire is nevertheless limited to only two roots found in the Decalogueーthe verb forms of the lexical roots ??? and ???, which reflect not only the dynamics of desir...

9,119円 This book provides a substantive, reliable, and accessible comparison of the Gilgamesh Epic and Genesis 1–11, investigating their presentation of humanistic themes such as wisdom, power, and the ‘good life.’ While the Gilgamesh Epic and Genesis 1–11 are characterized by historical and cultural fe...