Jewish texts: Tanakh, Torah, Nevi’im, Ketuvim Books

The structure of the Book of Numbers and its division into textual units has long been of interest to scholars, and various theories have been put forward based on criteria such as time, location or theme. The present volume offers a...

This book deciphers the events of the Exodus story and challenges the reader's understanding of the way these events have traditionally been interpreted.

This book is a landmark work on the life of King David. The author presents a goldmine of insight on the character, heart and walk of David before God. However rejected, however misunderstood, however broken David was, He stood immovable in His life...

La Biblia es su mapa de alta mar. Este libro es un estudio del Espiritu de Profecia, el mapa del puerto. Lo ayudara a obtener una vision mas clara de lo que nos espera en la crisis venidera. Tambien lo ayudara a entender como se relacionan entre si los...

Prominent author and biblical scholar Elizabeth Achtemeier provides an outstanding preaching and study resource with this collection of brief expositions on all of the First Lesson texts contained in Cycle A of the Revised Common and Lutheran...

The Word Biblical Commentary delivers the best in biblical scholarship, from the leading scholars of our day who share a commitment to Scripture as divine revelation. This series emphasizes a thorough analysis of textual, linguistic, structural, and...

The Word Biblical Commentary delivers the best in biblical scholarship, from the leading scholars of our day who share a commitment to Scripture as divine revelation. This series emphasizes a thorough analysis of textual, linguistic, structural, and...

The Word Biblical Commentary delivers the best in biblical scholarship, from the leading scholars of our day who share a commitment to Scripture as divine revelation. This series emphasizes a thorough analysis of textual, linguistic, structural, and...

The Word Biblical Commentary delivers the best in biblical scholarship, from the leading scholars of our day who share a commitment to Scripture as divine revelation. This series emphasizes a thorough analysis of textual, linguistic, structural, and...

The Word Biblical Commentary delivers the best in biblical scholarship, from the leading scholars of our day who share a commitment to Scripture as divine revelation. This series emphasizes a thorough analysis of textual, linguistic, structural, and...

The Word Biblical Commentary delivers the best in biblical scholarship, from the leading scholars of our day who share a commitment to Scripture as divine revelation. This series emphasizes a thorough analysis of textual, linguistic, structural, and...

This unique and highly readable overview of the Old Testament points to a more personal understanding of God.

In How to Preach and Teach the Old Testament for All Its Worth Christopher J. H. Wright shows why and how we should preach from the Old Testament. Covering History, Law, Prophets, Psalms, and Wisdom Literature, combined with practical checklists,...

This compact commentary looks at the Bible as a whole--then shows how all its books fit into the grand picture.

Discovering Isaiah is the perfect introduction to the interpretation of Isaiah Through a critical assessment of key interpreters and interpretative debates, this is an Old Testament commentary that encourages in-depth study of the text and a genuine...

Weaving together Jewish lore, the voices of Jewish foremothers, Yiddish fable, midrash and stories of her own imagining, Ellen Frankel has created in this book a breathtakingly vivid exploration into what the Torah means to women. Here are Miriam,...

This commentary was researched and written using Semitic Bible Study Methods, Aramaic (the language Yeshua spoke), and the culture of Yeshua's day. These methods were initially developed by the Sage Hillel over 2000 years ago augmented and the author...

This commentary was researched and written using Ancient Bible Study Methods. These methods were initially developed by the Sage Hillel over 2000 years ago and augmented by the author. Semitic Bible study methods are based on asking questions about the...

In the course of the last two decades, both the historical reconstruction of the Iron I-Iron IIA period in Israel and Judah and the literary-historical reconstruction of the Books of Samuel have undergone major changes. With respect to the quest for the...

Prophecy was a wide-spread phenomenon in the ancient world - not only in ancient Israel but in the whole Eastern Mediterranean cultural sphere. This is demonstrated by documents from the ancient Near East, that have been the object of Martti Nissinen's...

This is the first full-scale, verse-by-verse commentary on 4 Baruch. The pseudepigraphon, written in the second century, is in large measure an attempt to address the situation following the destruction of the temple in 70 CE by recounting legends about...

In diesem Buch gelingt es erstmals, die literarischen Probleme von II Sam 9 - I Reg 1f zu erklären. Statt der These einer Thronfolgeerzählung rechnet der Vf. damit, dass zeitgenössische prodynastische Quellentexte am Anfang der Überlieferung standen...

Im Unterschied zum Deuteronomisten legt der Chronist großen Wert auf die Darstellung der Hiskianischen Reform. Die vorliegende Arbeit erforscht die Gründe hierfür und versucht, das chronistische Werk unter diesem Gesichtspunkt historisch und theologisch...

Der Sammelband enthält neben zwei bisher unveröffentlichten Aufsätzen 15 Arbeiten von Rainer Albertz aus der Zeit von 1978 bis 2000. Darin spiegelt sich das Anliegen des Autors, die biblischen Überlieferungen vor dem Hintergrund der religions- und...

The collection of essays contains nineteen contributions that aim at locating the Song of Songs in its ancient context as well as addressing problems of interpretation and the reception of this biblical book in later literature. In contrast to previous...

This book presents the development of a theological reading strategy in conversation with contemporary hermeneutical theories. Using that as a model, Gen 1-11 is read as a unified text refracted through the prism of textuality from a canonical approach.

Die Autorin befasst sich mit dem jüdischen Gelehrten Ben Sira und mit der stoischen Philosophie. Sie analysiert dort jeweils die verschiedenen Vorstellungen von der Voraussicht und Fürsorge Gottes für die Welt. Diese werden in ihrem Spannungsverhältnis...

This study subjects the conventional processes of literary criticism to a critical analysis which shows up the weaknesses of arguments from literary criticism in the Old Testament. It explores new ways for literary criticism using a concept of text...

The series Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft (BZAW) covers all areas of research into the Old Testament, focusing on the Hebrew Bible, its early and later forms in Ancient Judaism, as well as its branching into many...

The author here presents an attempt to understand four especially puzzling chapters of late Old Testament prophets (Isaiah 24‑27). He interprets Isaiah 24‑27 as a component of the final redaction of the book of Isaiah. The so-called...

The series Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft (BZAW) covers all areas of research into the Old Testament, focusing on the Hebrew Bible, its early and later forms in Ancient Judaism, as well as its branching into many...

The series Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft (BZAW) covers all areas of research into the Old Testament, focusing on the Hebrew Bible, its early and later forms in Ancient Judaism, as well as its branching into many...

The series Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft (BZAW) covers all areas of research into the Old Testament, focusing on the Hebrew Bible, its early and later forms in Ancient Judaism, as well as its branching into many...

By telling the biblical story of Ruth and bringing the people of the story to life, Miguel Pozo lifts you up from a place of despair about the wider culture or your personal life and offers amazinghope for the future. You will identify with Ruth and the...