Decisive Meals discusses various aspects of meal traditions and their relevance in terms of boundaries between different groups in the context of first century Judaism and the early Christ-movement. T
Decisive Meals discusses various aspects of meal traditions and their relevance in terms of boundaries between different groups in the context of first century Judaism and the early Christ-movement. T
There are many examples of disability in the Hebrew Bible from generic admonishments regarding the lame and the blind in the legal texts to the afflictions of job. Raphael, a biblical scholar teaching
This volume offers a meeting between genre theory in biblical studies and the work of Mikhail Bakhtin, who continues to be immensely influential in literary criticism. Here Bakhtin comes face to face
How did ancient Israelites live? What did they eat, and what affected their health? How did the family function? To answer these and similar questions, Borowski describes the natural setting and the p
Though researchers in both Biblical studies and archaeology have finally recognized the contributions they can make to each others' disciplines, the integration has been difficult to transfer to teach
The burgeoning field of disability studies has recently emerged within the humanities and social sciences and, as a result, disability is no longer seen as the biological condition of an individual b
A science student before studying religion, Lioy (Southwestern College, Kansas) challenges the anti-evolution stance of his fellow evangelical Christians by trying to discern the theological meaning a
Carasik (biblical Hebrew, U. of Pennsylvania) takes the study of how ancient Israelites thought in a different direction by looking at what the Bible has to say about thinking. He first reviews biblic
In 28 essays and articles reprinted from original publication between 1964 and 2003, Van Seters (emeritus, biblical literature, U. of North Carolina-Chapel Hill) discusses aspects of Israel at differe
While many studies explore the literary role of the oath in general literature, none have contended with the role of the oath in the biblical narratives. This study seeks to fill that vacuum. This stu
This collection brings together into one volume papers first delivered in the Section on Biblical Greek Language and Linguistics at the Society of Biblical Literature annual meetings in 1992 and 1993.
Traditions at Odds explores the Pentateuch's literary influence on other biblical texts. There exist a number of content discrepancies between pentateuchal and non-pentateuchal texts that treat the sa