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Best Seller | Pre-Owned Religion & Culture in Ancient Israel (Hardcover) 0943575907 9780943575902 Religion in ancient Israel didn t develop in a vacuum; it was influenced by the Near Eastern culture around it as much as it in turn influenced that culture. Dearman explores that dynamic interplay in this thought-provoking study. Using archaeological... more | FREE shipping go to store |
This book examines the portrayal of Israel as a royal-priestly nation within Exodus and against the background of biblical and ancient Near Eastern thought. Central to the work is a literary study of Exodus 19:4GÇô6 and a demonstration of the pivotal... more | FREE shipping go to store |
The festive meal texts of Deuteronomy 12-26 depict Israel as a unified people participating in cultic banquets - a powerful and earthy image for both preexilic Judahite and later audiences. Comparison of Deuteronomy 12:13-27 14:22-29 16:1-17 and... more | FREE shipping go to store |
Biblical scholars and scholars of the ancient Mediterranean consider Old Testament prophetic texts prophecy in ancient Mesopotamia and in early Christianity. Using the most current theoretical categories they demonstrate how essential a broad... more | FREE shipping go to store |
Biblical scholars and scholars of the ancient Mediterranean consider Old Testament prophetic texts prophecy in ancient Mesopotamia and in early Christianity. Using the most current theoretical categories they demonstrate how essential a broad... more | FREE shipping go to store |
9789088905391. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Trade paperback. Language: English. Pages: 175. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 175 p. Papers on Archaeology of the Leiden Museum of Antiquities 18. Papyrus Leiden I 343 + 345 is one of the most... more | $60.71 $38.44 FREE shipping go to store |
Errors of many kinds abound in Akkadian writings but this fact s far-reaching implications have never been unraveled and systematized. To attempt this is the aim of this book. Drawing on scholarship from other fields it outlines a framework for the... more | FREE shipping go to store |
Reader of Ancient Near Eastern Texts: Sources for the Study of the Old Testament (Paperback) In A Reader of Ancient Near Eastern Texts: Sources for the Study of the Old Testament leading biblical scholar Michael D. Coogan presents a collection of texts that introduce students to the larger world surrounding the Old Testament. Dating from the... more | $49.99 $42.65 FREE shipping go to store |
Prophecy in Its Ancient Near Eastern Context: Mesopotamian Biblical and Arabian Perspectives more | go to store |
This is the seventh volume of Babel und Bibel an annual of ancient Near Eastern Old Testament and Semitic studies. The principal goal of the annual is to reveal the inherent relationship between Assyriology Semitics and biblical studies--a relationship... more | FREE shipping go to store |
While an individual referring to themselves in the third person may sound unusual this phenomenon (known as illeism) is consistently and extensively reflected in the direct speech of both Jesus and Yahweh. This in turn raises various questions: why are... more | $44.95 $40.46 go to store |
Since time immemorial the Song of Songs (SofS) has been a source of amazement and inspiration. The countless translations and interpretations of this book differ strongly from each other. Does the Hebrew text indeed justify this? To answer this... more | FREE shipping go to store |
This volume offers a reinterpretation of the history of religion and ritual that developed in ancient Israel. more | FREE shipping go to store |
Symbolism of the Biblical World: Ancient Near Eastern Iconography and the Book of Psalms (Hardcover) This pioneering work that first appeared in 1972 in German was the first to compare the conceptual world of a biblical book with ancient Near Eastern iconography. Eisenbrauns English edition of Keel s classic work provides the 21st century scholar with... more | $52.94 $47.65 FREE shipping go to store |
Examines the dilemma of whether ancient Near Eastern images - while providing unique aspects of the world-views of the cultures from which the Bible arose - can be interpreted in a way that traceably relates them to the biblical text. To avoid the... more | go to store |
9780791426845. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Trade paperback. Language: English. Pages: 189. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 189 p. Contains: Unspecified. Focusing on gender issues this book compares and contrasts the treatment of the Potiphar s Wife... more | FREE shipping go to store |
9780691035031. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Hard cover. 3rd Revised ed. Language: English. Pages: 744. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 744 p. Princeton Studies on the Near East. This anthology brought together the most important historical legal... more | $155.69 $121.26 FREE shipping go to store |
Prophets and Prophecy in the Ancient Near East (Hardcover) This volume brings together a representative sample of ancient Near Eastern written documents of prophecy from the second and first millennia BCE and provides nonspecialist readers translations transliterations and discussions of oracle reports and... more | go to store |
Urbanism in ancient society has now become an important topic for both classical and ancient Near Eastern scholars. Equally the question of prophecy as social institution and literary corpus has been increasingly problematized. The essays in this... more | FREE shipping go to store |
Divine emotion is a ubiquitous feature of ancient Near Eastern documents. These texts regularly assign the same spectrum of feelings experienced by humans (e.g. love anger joy) to the divine realm. Divine and Human Hate in the Ancient Near East: A... more | FREE shipping go to store |
Striving in the Path of God : Jihad and Martyrdom in Islamic Thought Striving in the Path of God : Jihad and Martyrdom in Islamic Thought more | FREE shipping go to store |
The Scriptures of Ancient Judaism (Paperback) The Scriptures of Ancient Judaism: A Secular Introduction provides students with a scholarly exploration of the literature and themes of the Old Testament/Hebrew Bible and cognate Near Eastern materials. The text features diverse interdisciplinary and... more | FREE shipping go to store |
Christian Attitudes to Marriage: From Ancient Times to the Third Millennium (Paperback) An all-encompassing account of Christian attitudes and sources of attitudes to marriage traced through Near Eastern Classical and Biblical histories suitable for the student or lay trainer wishing to know more than an Alpha course. It covers all... more | go to store |
The Old Testament was written for us but not to us. Inviting us to leave our modern Christian preconceptions behind John Walton contends that we will only grasp the Old Testament s theology when we are immersed in its Ancient Near Eastern context being... more | $29.72 $23.06 FREE shipping go to store |
Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament St Image Text Exegesis Book 588 (Hardcover) Images from the ancient Near East are an important though generally underutilized source of data for interpreting the Hebrew Bible and the cultural context from which it emerged. The essays in this volume highlight the ways that ancient Near Eastern... more | FREE shipping go to store |
The Essential Vedanta : A New Source Book of Advaita Vedanta (Paperback) This book will be of great interest to all students of Hinduism students of both Eastern and Western philosophy and spiritual seekers who wish to better understand this ancient Indian tradition of non-dualist thought. more | FREE shipping go to store |
This book offers a careful study of biblical texts on menstruation and childbirth in the light of their ancient Near Eastern background. Close reading of the biblical texts based on classical and feminist biblical interpretation and supported by... more | FREE shipping go to store |
The conquest and settlement of Canaan is one of the most exciting eras of Israel s history. This concise analysis of this era uses archaeological discoveries ancient Near Eastern history and the Hebrew text to interpret these books. more | FREE shipping go to store |
Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament St The Ammonites Book 585 (Hardcover) This book investigates the archaeological epigraphic and biblical evidence for the course of Ammon s history setting it squarely within the context of ancient Near Eastern imperialism. Drawing on cross-cultural parallels from the archaeology of empires... more | $195.00 $147.00 FREE shipping go to store |
Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies: Religion of the Patriarchs (Hardcover) Patriarchal religion was distinct from both ancient Near Eastern and Israelite religions and compatible only with the patriarchal lifestyle portrayed in Genesis. Since Wellhausen the study of patriarchal religion has been chiefly confined either to the... more | FREE shipping go to store |
Art & Imagination: Goddess : Mother of Living Nature (Paperback) Beginning with the Paleolithic Age and drawing on ancient Greek Chinese Native American and Near Eastern cultures Adele Getty portrays the myriad historical and mythological perspectives of the female archetype. Illustrated. Describes the role and... more | go to store |
Conquest and Crisis : Studies in Joshua Judges and Ruth 9780884692584 Used / Pre-owned The conquest and settlement of Canaan is one of the most exciting eras of Israel s history. This concise analysis of this era uses archaeological discoveries ancient Near Eastern history and the Hebrew text to interpret these books. CONDITION –... more | FREE shipping go to store |
Commentary on the Prophets of the Old Testament: 2 (Paperback) This classic work of biblical scholarship by Heinrich Ewald offers a detailed and insightful commentary on the prophetic books of the Old Testament. With his deep knowledge of Hebrew and ancient Near Eastern history Ewald provides a rich and nuanced... more | go to store |
This is a print on demand book and is therefore non- returnable. Erhard Gerstenberger begins this volume with an examination of the nature of cultic poetry its role in ancient Near Eastern religion and more specifically its role in the religion of... more | $23.25 $21.10 FREE shipping go to store |
Pre-Owned Major Cities of the Biblical World (Hardcover) 0840775202 9780840775207 Essential to our understanding of the biblical text is a knowledge of the urban centers in the ancient Near Eastern world. R. K. Harrison has assembled a formidable group of scholars to examine these cities and villages in which the pageant of biblical... more | $9.85 $8.28 FREE shipping go to store |
Notes Critical and Practical on the Book of Joshua (Paperback) In this classic work of biblical scholarship George Bush provides a thorough and insightful analysis of the Book of Joshua. Drawing upon his extensive knowledge of Hebrew and ancient Near Eastern culture Bush offers critical and practical commentary on... more | go to store |
Pre-Owned Let There Be Light: The Seven Keys (Paperback) 0875165559 9780875165554 The Bible is more than anything else a Near Eastern account of spiritual events and teachings. Let There Be Light: The Seven Keys opens the door to the ancient Aramaic world from which the Bible emerged. Bypassing doctrinal creeds and rigid... more | FREE shipping go to store |
Old Testament Themes (Paperback) This volume provides a road map of four major Old Testament/Hebrew Bible themes: covenant universalism remnant and wisdom. Each theme draws on specific examples from the biblical text and ancient Near Eastern literature. The themes demonstrate how... more | go to store |
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