Containing meticulous, up-to-date scholarship yet written in a flowing, enjoyable style, this comprehensive book takes readers on a journey through a breathtaking array of literary texts, encompassing
Early Jews and Christians understood the Holy Spirit in a very different way than most Christians understand it today. They understood the spirit of God as something given to all flesh as part of crea
The Spirit in First Century Judaism lays a cornerstone in the foundation of pneumatological studies by scouring ancient writings like Plato and Plutarch, Daniel and the Dead Sea Scrolls, as well as th
This book provides the most thorough and systematic analysis of early Jewish interpretations of Adam currently available. With detailed exegesis Levison demonstrates that each early Jewish author pain
Should women be priests?Should women submit to their husbands?Is premarital sex okay?Inflammatory questions such as these have splintered Christianity and polarized the church. In Sex, Gender, and Chr
In Return to Babel, each of ten historically significant biblical texts is interpreted by three scholars: one Latin American, one African, and one Asian. Geographic locales range from a tiny village i
Religious scholars explore the origin of the Holy Spirit within the Second Temple period, approximately 100 BCE to 100 CE. Among the topics are the origins of early Christian pneumatology, Luke 1:15 i
