Noegel (Biblical and ancient Near Eastern Studies, University of Washington) and Rendsburg (Jewish history, Rutgers University) put forth the proposal that the Bible book, "The Song of Songs" was writ
In this third collection of exegesis on the biblical book of Isaiah, Everson (religion, California Lutheran College, CA) and Kim (biblical studies, Methodist Theological School, Ohio) and their contri
Editors Kirk-Duggan (Theology and Women's Studies, Shaw University Divinity School) and Pippin (Religious Studies, Agnes Scott College) have assembled essays that deconstruct motherhood in the Bible,
Plato's Parmenides and Its Heritage presents in two volumes ground-breaking results in the history of interpretation of Plato's Parmenides, the culmination of six years of international collaboration
Plato's Parmenides and Its Heritage presents in two volumes ground-breaking results in the history of interpretation of Plato's Parmenides, the culmination of six years of international collaboration
This unique collection of essays, originating in seminars held at SBL's Annual and International Meetings, explores the current ethos and discipline of graduate biblical education from different soci
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
Religious scholars continue the effort to describe Christian origins in terms of anthropology, social history, and the human sciences, rather than simply continuing to paraphrase the dominant, essenti
Later poetry in the Hebrew Bible has been unfavorably compared to the classical poetry of Proverbs. In a study based on his 1999 dissertation, Reymond (St. John's U. and Long Island U.) reassesses Ben
Although narratives about Israel's tabernacle comprise about one-third of the biblical book of Exodus, little attention has been paid to its relation to other historical matters writes George (Hebrew
The long-held view that the Persian period in Israel (known as Yehud) was a historically derivative era that engendered little theological or literary innovation has been replaced in recent decades b
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
The Ramesside period in Egypt (ca. 1290-1070 B.C.E.) corresponds to the late Bronze Age, a time of great change both in Egypt and the Near East. Viewed as an age of empire, dominated by the figure of
Ancient Nuzi, buried beneath modern Yorghan Tepe in northern Iraq, is a Late Bronze Age town belonging to the kingdom of Arrap?a that has yielded between 6,500 and 7,000 legal, economic and administr
