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Provides an introduction to the background, structure and message of the biblical books. This commentary explains contentious issues. It is suitable for beginning students, lay people, and for scholars, clergy and others involved in helping people to understand the Bible.

Offers an examination of the evidence that the Festival of Weeks was the occasion for the celebration of the renewal of the covenant in the Second Temple period, encompassing chapters on the "Hebrew Bible", book of "Jubilees", "Qumran Scrolls", and the New Testament ("Luke", "Acts" and "Ephesians").

Hebrew tradition presents Haggai and Zechariah as prophetic figures arising in the wake of the Babylonian exile with an agenda of restoration for the early Persian period community in Yehud. This book investigates uses of the Hebrew tradition in the early Persian period as represented by the prophetic corpora of Haggai and Zechariah 1-8.

Examines some of the stories in "1 Sam" 16-25 with the particular focus placed on Saul, Doeg, Nabal and the 'son of Jesse'. This work seeks to discover fresh meaning in the structure as well as in the characters' functions in the narratives by studying the stories synchronically and diachronically.

Explores various aspects of prophecy in ancient Israel and its neighboring cultures. This book presents an overview of the state and future directions of scholarship on prophecy in the biblical world.

Examines the notion of the land and its conquest.

Uses a different approach to explore issues of disability in the Hebrew Bible. This book examines how disability functions in the David Story by focusing on Mephibosheth, the only biblical character with a disability as a sustained character trait.

Discusses various aspects of family in ancient Israel, including research on ancestors and the cult of the dead, configurations of family house structures, and family relational interactions. This book explores the advantages of seeing a topic from two different but complementary perspectives.

Contains essays on the Former Prophets and on the Latter Prophets.

Presents a heuristic reading strategy for a modern reader to engage with YHWH's threats against Israel in "Deuteronomy". This text attempts to discern the logic of YHWH's threats: what motivates the threats, what form the threats take, and what effect the threats expect to produce.

Joshua's characterization has received inadequate scholarly attention, largely because he is seen as a pale character, a mere stereotype in the biblical history. This title offers a narrative treatment of the conquest accounts, with specific attention given to the characterization of Joshua.

A collection that brings consideration of the human body onto the grid of theological studies. It explores three primary clusters of questions: To what extent did the biblical authors portray God as having a body or body parts? How does the medium of divine embodiment help ancient authors to express God beliefs?

At the 2006 annual meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, the Prophetic Texts in their Ancient Contexts section devoted a session to the theme 'The Aesthetics of Violence'. Participants were invited to explore multiple dimensions of prophetic texts and their violent rhetoric. This volume collects those essays.

Addresses some of the historical problems relating to the early history of Israel, from its first mention around 1200 BCE to the beginnings of the kingdoms of Israel and Judah.

Women throughout the centuries have sought to break out of the constraints that their societies deemed appropriate for them. For interpreters in the Christian tradition, this often meant examining biblical texts that had been understood in ways that demeaned women and using their interpretations to encourage women to break out of their spheres.

Brings together eight essays on Amos, which focus on a range of issues. Arising out of a symposium to honour John Barton for his 60th birthday, this title includes essays that respond, either directly or indirectly, to his "Amos' Oracles Against the Nations", and to his lifelong concern with both ethics and method in biblical study.

A title that uses anthropology to investigate the moral dilemma facing Saul's daughter in "1 Samuel 19", concluding that her choice of David (over Saul) is counter-cultural.

"Ezekiel" has long been considered the most difficult of all the prophetic books to understand. The prophet's bizarre visions, extraordinary behaviour, and extravagant imagery have perplexed and fascinated readers for more than 2,500 years. This volume brings together 15 essays on "Ezekiel's" impact by leading scholars.

Focusing on the reception of the "Psalms" through the hand of the unknown author of "Hebrews", this title features Old Testament and New Testament scholars who combine forces to determine the shifts in interpretation of the "Psalms" that took place during the processes of (re)interpretation within the work of a particular early Christian writer.

The Writing/Reading Jeremiah group (SBL) was re-launched at the 2007 annual meeting of the SBL. Its purpose is to invite new readings and constructions of meaning with the book of "Jeremiah" 'this side' of historicist paradigms and postmodernism. This title collects the best of the papers and responses of the Writing/Reading Jeremiah Group (SBL).

Collects five papers focused on biblical cities, especially Jerusalem. This volume takes many creative approaches to its subjects, including innovative work from historical and theological perspectives, social-scientific and literary theory, and more developments in cultural studies and reception history.

Investigates intermarriage and group identity in the Second Temple Period from different points of view with regard to methodology and analyzed texts. This title covers a wide range of texts from almost every part of the "Hebrew Bible" as well as from "Elephantine", "Qumran" and several pseudepigrapha, like "Jubilees".

Includes essays that focus on various dimensions of what it means to read the Bible, which was the abiding concern of Conrad's work. This title honors the work of Edgar Conrad. It focuses on various aspects of Conrad's work, especially the prophetic literature, the Bible as literature, canonical issues, and engaged readings.

Explores a number of instances of unexpected but influential readings of the Bible in popular culture, literature, film, music and politics. This title argues that the effects of the Bible continues to have an effect on contemporary culture in ways that may surprise and sometimes dismay both religious and secular groups.

By emphasising observation and empiricism as a key influence on human behaviour, this title excludes any consideration of tradition or revelation. It takes an original and creative approaches to its subject, including work from historical and theological perspectives, social-scientific and literary theory, and reception history.

Examines the subject of Temple and Worship in biblical Israel, ranging from their ancient Near Eastern and archaeological background, through the Old Testament and Late Second Temple Judaism, and up to the New Testament. This work investigates attitudes to the Temple in the Septuagint, Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha, and the Dead Sea Scrolls.