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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore,...

The ORIGINAL-THOUGHT Trans-LITERATION Project - OTTPOne Of The Greatest Challenges that we have, when we are dealing with Ancient Literature, is in the different use and meanings or implications of the words in each of the respective Ancient Tongues or...

The ORIGINAL-THOUGHT Trans-LITERATION Project - OTTPOne Of The Greatest Challenges that we have, when we are dealing with Ancient Literature, is in the different use and meanings or implications of the words in each of the respective Ancient Tongues or...

The ORIGINAL-THOUGHT Trans-LITERATION Project - OTTPOne Of The Greatest Challenges that we have, when we are dealing with Ancient Literature, is in the different use and meanings or implications of the words in each of the respective Ancient Tongues or...

Dotted throughout the complex storyline of Jesus lies a wealth of simple stories. Tales of lost sheep, praying widows and self-important Pharisees. To comprehend their meaning, you will require open eyes, listening ears and a heart ready to understand...

Have you ever thought that the Bible was anti-women?Did the Apostle Paul really say 'Women should remain silent in the Churches','A woman should learn in silence with all submission', and 'It is good for a man not to marry'?Did the Apostle Peter really...

The Society publishes definitive, up-to-date research through the SBL Press's Journal of Biblical Literature, the flagship journal of the field. 

The Society publishes definitive, up-to-date research through the SBL Press's Journal of Biblical Literature, the flagship journal of the field. 

Contributors to this volume come together to honor the lifetime of work of Saul M. Olyan, Samuel Ungerleider Jr. Professor of Judaic Studies and Professor of Religious Studies at Brown University. Essays by his students, colleagues, and friends focus on...

Both prophets and prophetesses shared God's divine will with the people of Israel, yet the voices of these women were often forgotten due to later prohibitions against women teaching in public. This latest volume of the Bible and Women series focuses on...

This book includes papers given at the XVI Congress of the International Organization for Septuagint and Cognate Studies (IOSCS), held in Stellenbosch, South Africa, in 2016. Essays from scholars from Africa, Asia, Europe, and North America identify and...

In this volume Daniel Justel examines several cuneiform texts from Late Bronze Age Mesopotamia and Syria (ca. 1500–1100 BCE) that focus on legal aspects of childhood, such as child adoptions, marriage, abortion, abandonment of children, and child...

Nearly every day we read about a violent act of Islamic extremism against Christians. What is it really like to live as a Christian among Muslims? And how can the stories of our brothers and siters in other countries challenge us?This companion guide to...

Monks and priests - male celibates - have for centuries described, expressed, and celebrated their love for God in the language of sex, most prolifically and characteristically in a thousand-year tradition of theological commentaries on the scriptural...

Gregory the Great was pope from 590 to 604, a time of great turmoil in Italy and in the western Roman Empire generally because of the barbarian invasions. Gregory's experience as prefect of the city of Rome and as apocrisarius of Pope Pelagius fitted him...

Va-yehi (Genesis 47:28-50:26) and Haftarah (1 Kings 2:1-12): The JPS B'nai Mitzvah Torah Commentary shows teens in their own language how Torah addresses the issues in their world. The conversational tone is inviting and dignified, concise and...

Mikkets (Genesis 41:1-44:17) and Haftarah (1 Kings 3:15-28; 4:1): The JPS B'nai Mitzvah Torah Commentary shows teens in their own language how Torah addresses the issues in their world. The conversational tone is inviting and dignified, concise and...

Va-yishlah (Genesis 32:4-36:43) and Haftarah (Obadiah 1:1-21): The JPS B'nai Mitzvah Torah Commentary shows teens in their own language how Torah addresses the issues in their world. The conversational tone is inviting and dignified, concise and...

Va-yetse' (Genesis 28:10-32:3) and Haftarah (Hosea 12:13-14:10): The JPS B'nai Mitzvah Torah Commentary shows teens in their own language how Torah addresses the issues in their world. The conversational tone is inviting and dignified, concise...

Toledot (Genesis 25:19-28:9) and Haftarah (Malachi 1:1-2:7): The JPS B'nai Mitzvah Torah Commentary shows teens in their own language how Torah addresses the issues in their world. The conversational tone is inviting and dignified, concise and...

Hayyei Sarah (Genesis 23:1-25:18) and Haftarah (1 Kings 1:1-31): The JPS B'nai Mitzvah Torah Commentary shows teens in their own language how Torah addresses the issues in their world. The conversational tone is inviting and dignified, concise and...

Va-yera' (Genesis 18:1-22:24) and Haftarah (2 Kings 4:1-37): The JPS B'nai Mitzvah Torah Commentary shows teens in their own language how Torah addresses the issues in their world. The conversational tone is inviting and dignified, concise and...

Lekh Lekha (Genesis 12:1-17:27) and Haftarah (Isaiah 40:27-41:16) The JPS B'nai Mitzvah Torah Commentary shows teens in their own language how Torah addresses the issues in their world. The conversational tone is inviting and dignified, concise and...

Noah (Genesis 6:9-11:32) and Haftarah (Isaiah 54:1-55:5): The JPS B'nai Mitzvah Torah Commentary shows teens in their own language how Torah addresses the issues in their world. The conversational tone is inviting and dignified, concise and...

'Cuando la gente describe mi estilo de mi vida oa mi familia como raros, yo siento alivio', escribe el autor y pastor Craig Groeschel. Camine con él mientras comparte con usted una filosofía cristocéntrica que lo abarca todo, desde el uso del dinero...

Va-yeshev (Genesis 37:1-40:23) and Haftarah (Amos 2:6-3:8): The JPS B'nai Mitzvah Torah Commentary shows teens in their own language how Torah addresses the issues in their world. The conversational tone is inviting and dignified, concise and...

Este libro, escrito para obreros y ministros, incluye una exposición, capitulo por capítulo, de los textos así como un bosquejo general de todo el libro.

Bere'shit (Genesis 1:1-6:8) and Haftarah (Isaiah 42:5-43:10): The JPS B'nai Mitzvah Torah Commentary shows teens in their own language how Torah addresses the issues in their world. The conversational tone is inviting and dignified, concise and...

By taking a closer look at the "stones" that impeded Jesus's last week, we are challenged to identify the obstructions to our spiritual lives. When Jesus descends the Mount of Olives into Jerusalem to the acclamation of the crowd, he announces "I tell...

These six prophets proclaim powerful messages about judgment and the sovereignty of God. Amos challenges hypocrisy and injustice. Hosea's marriage symbolizes the covenant between God and Israel, moving from love to separation and then reunion. Micah,...

Jeremiah grew up in a time of peace and died in exile. He lived to see the temple burned to the ground, Jerusalem destroyed, and his people marched into a foreign land. A reluctant prophet, Jeremiah preached the renewal of the covenant, teaching in...

These accounts of the Maccabean revolt, by which the sons of Mattathias reclaimed the temple of Jerusalem, tell an important story of the founding of the Jewish people. "The Hammerers" is the meaning of the nickname "Maccabees," given...

In the history of Judaism and Christianity the biblical ban against images has been a decisive factor in shaping collective identity around opposition to the veneration of images. The biblical ban inspired the iconoclastic controversy in Byzantium as...

This volume explores nearly every facet of contemporary Jesus research -- from eyewitness criteria to the reliability of memory, from archaeology to psychobiography, from oral traditions to literary sources.With contributions from forty internationally...

Redaction criticism attempts to identify biblical authors' theological interests by examining their adaptation of sources. Focusing on representative studies of Jesus' disciples in the Gospel of Mark, this pioneering book by C. Clifton Black has...

In recent years, the disciplines of biblical studies and systematic theology have grown apart and largely lost the means of effective communication with one another. Unfortunately, this relational disconnect affects more than just these particular fields...

Paul's letter to the Romans is often regarded as the most profoundly doctrinal book in the Bible. While not overlooking its complex theology, Joseph Fitzmyer here shows Romans to be also a wellspring of devotional insight, accessible and deeply rewarding...

Proclaiming the Parables contains a general discussion of the term parable, followed by a thorough exegetical, textual, and homiletical study of five parables: Mark 4:26-29 (Parable of the Growing Seed), Matthew 21:28-32 (Parable of the Two Sons), Luke...

This volume contains both fundamental biblical Hebrew and Aramaic.The fundamental biblical Hebrew is organized in a manner that facilitates learning and serves as an easy-to-use reference tool, including vocabulary, morphology, and syntax. While it...

Most one-volume Bible commentaries focus on standard scholarly issues, answering questions such as who wrote the book, who was addressed, and how was the book structured. In contrast, this is the fi rst one-volume commentary to emphasize theological...