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The Jewish Bible.
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ISBN: 0827610327 9780827610323 9780827608511 0827608519 Year: 2008 Publisher: Philadelphia : Jewish Publication Society,


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Leben nach der Weisung : exegetisch-historische Studien zum Alten Testament
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ISBN: 9783525530870 3525530870 Year: 2008 Volume: 224 Publisher: Göttingen Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht


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Berührungspunkte : Studien zur Sozial- und Religionsgeschichte Israels und seiner Umwelt: Festschrift für Rainer Alberts zu seinem 65. Geburtstag.
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ISBN: 9783868350081 386835008X Year: 2008 Volume: 350 Publisher: Münster Ugarit-Verl.


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Jewish biblical interpretation and cultural exchange : comparative exegesis in context.
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ISBN: 9780812240740 081224074X Year: 2008 Publisher: Philadelphia University of Pennsylvania Press

The Hebrew Bible
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ISBN: 0814733085 0814732070 9780814732076 9780814731871 0814731872 9780814731888 0814731880 9780814733080 Year: 2008 Publisher: New York New York University Press

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In April of 2001, the headline in the Los Angeles Times read, “Doubting the Story of the Exodus.” It covered a sermon that had been delivered by the rabbi of a prominent local congregation over the holiday of Passover. In it, he said, “The truth is that virtually every modern archeologist who has investigated the story of the exodus, with very few exceptions, agrees that the way the Bible describes the exodus is not the way it happened, if it happened at all.” This seeming challenge to the biblical story captivated the local public. Yet as the rabbi himself acknowledged, his sermon contained nothing new. The theories that he described had been common knowledge among biblical scholars for over thirty years, though few people outside of the profession know their relevance.New understandings concerning the Bible have not filtered down beyond specialists in university settings. There is a need to communicate this research to a wider public of students and educated readers outside of the academy. This volume seeks to meet this need, with accessible and engaging chapters describing how archeology, theology, ancient studies, literary studies, feminist studies, and other disciplines now understand the Bible.


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Of Wings and Wheels
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ISBN: 1283397269 9786613397263 3110211211 9783110211214 9781283397261 3110205289 9783110205282 Year: 2008 Publisher: Berlin Boston

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This study examines the physical form and cultic function of the biblical cherubim. Previous studies of the cherubim have placed too great an emphasis on archaeological and etymological data. This monograph presents a new synthetic study, which prioritises the evidence supplied by the biblical texts. Biblical exegesis, using literary and historical-critical methods, forms the large part of the investigation (Part I). The findings arising from the exegetical discussion provide the basis upon which comparison with etymological and archaeological data is made (Parts II and III).The results suggest that traditions envisaging the cherubim as tutelary winged quadrupeds, with one head and one set of wings, were supplanted by traditions that conceived of them as more enigmatic, obeisant beings. In the portrayal of the cherubim in Ezekiel and Chronicles, we can detect signs of a conceptual shift that prefigures the description of the cherubim in post-biblical texts, such as The Songs of the Sabbath Sacrifice and the Enochic texts.


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Echoes of Scripture in the letter of Paul to the Colossians
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ISBN: 1282400053 9786612400056 9047424123 9789047424123 9789004170810 9004170812 9781282400054 6612400056 Year: 2008 Publisher: Leiden Boston Brill

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While the use of the Old Testament in the New Testament has captured the attention of biblical scholars over the years, no study has been devoted to the presence of Scripture in Colossians, largely because there are no explicit quotations in Colossians. With the introduction of literary intertextuality into the discipline, however, scholars have begun to devote more attention to the NT authors’ less explicit references to Scripture, often labelled as ‘allusions’ and/or ‘echoes.’ Scholars, however, continue to debate what constitutes an allusion or echo, or how one validates a given proposal as such. This study proposes new definitions of these terms and offers a methodology on how to detect and validate them, using Colossians as a test case.

The Old Testament : a very short introduction
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ISBN: 0199719462 1435633636 9786611341947 1281341940 9780199719464 9781435633636 9780199885442 0199885443 9780195305050 0195305051 9781281341945 9780199365531 0199365539 6611341943 Year: 2008 Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press,

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The author offers an exploration of the 'Old Testament' illuminating its importance as history, literature, and sacred text. He provides an overview of one of the great pillars of Western religion and culture, a book which remains important today for Jews, Christians, and Muslims worldwide.


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Sustaining fictions : intertextuality, Midrash, translation, and the literary afterlife of the Bible.
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ISBN: 9780567027092 0567027090 Year: 2008 Volume: 486 Publisher: New York Clark

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