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The first contemporary analysis of Bedouin and biblical cultures sheds new light on biblical laws, practices, and Bedouin history.

Bedouins in the Bible --- 221.08*3 --- 221.08*3 Theologie van het Oude Testament: themata --- Theologie van het Oude Testament: themata --- Bedouins in the Bible. --- Bedouins --- Nomads --- Nomadic peoples --- Nomadism --- Pastoral peoples --- Vagabonds --- Wanderers --- Persons --- Herders --- Beduins --- Arabs --- Ethnology --- North Africans --- Social life and customs. --- Bible --- Criticism, interpretation, etc.

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Bernard F. Batto spent the bulk of his career examining the ancient Near Eastern context of the Hebrew Bible, with particular interest in the influence of the surrounding cultures on the biblical creation stories. This collection gathers six of his most important previously published essays and adds two new contributions. Among the essays, Batto identifies various creation motifs prevalent in the ancient Near East and investigates the reflexes of these motifs in Genesis 1–11 and other biblical accounts of the primeval period. He demonstrates how the biblical writers adapted and responded to the creation ideas of Mesopotamia, Egypt, Ugarit, and elsewhere.The articles in the volume were written as independent essays. Nevertheless, they are united by theme. Throughout, Batto makes clear his understanding of the Hebrew Bible as a patently unique text, yet one that cannot possibly be understood independent of greater cultural sphere in which it developed. In the Beginning will serve as an indispensable resource for those interested in both the biblical ideas of creation and the mythology of the ancient Near East that influenced them.

Creation --- Middle Eastern literature --- Biblical teaching. --- History and criticism. --- Bible. --- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- Middle East --- Religion. --- -221.08*3 --- 231.51 --- 231.51 De Deo creatore. Schepping --- De Deo creatore. Schepping --- 221.08*3 Theologie van het Oude Testament: themata --- Theologie van het Oude Testament: themata --- Biblical cosmogony --- Cosmogony --- Natural theology --- Teleology --- Beginning --- Biblical cosmology --- Creation windows --- Creationism --- Evolution --- Biblical teaching --- Religion --- History and criticism --- Bible. -- Genesis I-XI -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- -Middle East

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The prophetic books of the Old Testament offer a fascinating collection of oracles, poetic images, and theological ideas. Among the most prominent themes are those of judgment and salvation, especially concerning the fate of Zion. This place, where the people of God dwell, is alternately presented as either the object of divine wrath or the image of a salvific ideal. Representing Zion provides a thorough and critical study of the images of Zion in the entire prophetic literature of the Old Testament. The book challenges traditional interpretations of Zion and offers a fresh exploration of the literary and theological nature of the biblical writings. Zion has largely been treated by scholars as an image of the inviolable city consistently and unambiguously used by Old Testament authors. Representing Zion reveals the Zion motif to be contested, complex and profoundly theological-a reflection of the ambiguous role of YHWH as judge and saviour.

Bible. -- Old Testament -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- Religion --- Philosophy & Religion --- Judaism --- 221.08*3 --- 224 --- 221.08*3 Theologie van het Oude Testament: themata --- Theologie van het Oude Testament: themata --- Profetische boeken van het Oude Testament --- Bible. --- Antico Testamento --- Hebrew Bible --- Hebrew Scriptures --- Kitve-ḳodesh --- Miḳra --- Old Testament --- Palaia Diathēkē --- Pentateuch, Prophets, and Hagiographa --- Sean-Tiomna --- Stary Testament --- Tanakh --- Tawrāt --- Torah, Neviʼim, Ketuvim --- Torah, Neviʼim u-Khetuvim --- Velho Testamento --- Criticism, interpretation, etc.

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Were David and Jonathan "gay" lovers? This very modern question lies behind the recent explosion of studies of the David and Jonathan narrative. Interpreters differ in their assessment of whether 1 and 2 Samuel offer a positive portrayal of a homosexual relationship. Beneath the conflict of interpretations lies an ambiguous biblical text which has drawn generations of readers - from the redactors of the Hebrew text and the early translators to modern biblical scholars - to the task of resolving its possible meanings. What has not yet been fully explored is the place of David and Jonathan in the evolution of modern, Western understandings of same-sex relationships, in particular how the story of their relationship was read alongside classical narratives, such as those of Achilles and Patroclus, or Orestes and Pylades. The Love of David and Jonathan explores this context in detail to argue that the story of David and Jonathan was part of the process by which the modern idea of homosexuality itself emerged.

Homosexuality in the Bible. --- David, --- Jonathan --- Daud, --- Dāwūd, --- Nabī Dāwūd, --- דוד --- דוד, --- דוד המלך --- David (Biblical figure) --- Jonathan, --- Jonathas --- יהונתן --- Bible. --- Samuel (Book of the Old Testament) --- Shemuʼel (Book of the Old Testament) --- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- History. --- Gay interpretations. --- Homosexuality in the Bible --- 221-05 --- 221.08*3 --- 222.6 --- 221.08*3 Theologie van het Oude Testament: themata --- Theologie van het Oude Testament: themata --- 221-05 Personen in het Oude Testament --- Personen in het Oude Testament --- Samuelboeken. Boeken der koningen. David. Salomon. Elia. Elisa. Josias

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This original study concerns itself with the manumission laws of Exodus 20, Deuteronomy 15 and Leviticus 25. It begins with the social background to debt slavery and the socioeconomic factors encouraging the rise of debt slavery in Mesopotamia. After a comparative analysis of the Mesopotamian and biblical material Chirichigno examines the social background to debt slavery in Israel, the various slave laws in the Pentateuch (in order to delimit the chattel-slave laws from the debt-slave laws), and the biblical manumission laws themselves.

Slavery --- Slavery in the Bible. --- Debt --- Abolition of slavery --- Antislavery --- Enslavement --- Mui tsai --- Ownership of slaves --- Servitude --- Slave keeping --- Slave system --- Slaveholding --- Thralldom --- Crimes against humanity --- Serfdom --- Slaveholders --- Slaves --- Indebtedness --- Finance --- Law and legislation --- Jews --- History. --- 326 <33> --- Slavery (Jewish law) --- -Middle Eastern literature --- -Slavery in the Bible --- Jewish law --- Near Eastern literature --- 326 <33> Slavernij--(algemeen)--Oud-Palestina. Judea --- Slavernij--(algemeen)--Oud-Palestina. Judea --- History --- Relation to the Old Testament --- 221.08*3 --- Slavery in the Bible --- Vows in the Bible --- 221.08*3 Theologie van het Oude Testament: themata --- Theologie van het Oude Testament: themata --- Bible. --- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- Antico Testamento --- Hebrew Bible --- Hebrew Scriptures --- Kitve-ḳodesh --- Miḳra --- Old Testament --- Palaia Diathēkē --- Pentateuch, Prophets, and Hagiographa --- Sean-Tiomna --- Stary Testament --- Tanakh --- Tawrāt --- Torah, Neviʼim, Ketuvim --- Torah, Neviʼim u-Khetuvim --- Velho Testamento --- Enslaved persons