The study of Yehud, the Persian colony that included Jerusalem in the 5th and 4th centuries BC, has led to new knowledge about the holy city at that time. The 12 essays of this volume present new rese
In 1957 Johannine scholars were startled by John A.T. Robinson's assertions that a "new look" at the fourth gospel would soon replace the old orthodoxy, including the then-established dictum that John
In 423 Theodoret was named bishop of Cyrus, a city northeast of Antioch, and though he was responsible for some 800 parishes, found ample time to write commentaries on books of the Old and New Testame
