The Trickster Revisited: Deception as a Motif in the Pentateuch explores the use of deception in the Pentateuch and uncovers a new understanding of the trickster s function in the Hebrew Bible. While traditional readings often -whitewash- the biblical characters, exonerating them of any wrongdoing, modern scholars often explain these tales as significant at some earlier point in Israelite tradition. But this study asks the question: what role does the trickster have in the later pentateuchal setting? Considering the work of Victor Turner and the mythic function of the trickster, The...

-My Share of God s Reward- refers to a quote from Ignatius of Antioch, speaking of the desired compensation for his impending martyrdom. The author investigates the roles and widely varying conceptions of the afterlife presented in early Christian martyrdom accounts and concludes that personal immortality is integral to the functioning of these texts, as the anticipated reward for a martyr s death. Accordingly, the very diverse conceptions of the afterlife presented in them are indicative of the frequently ignored theological diversity and experimental spirit prevalent in both early...

This book pays special attention to the hermeneutical location where the fig-tree story appears in Mark 11.

This book will assist Bible scholars, pastors, and theological students in navigating some of key interpretive issues in 1 Corinthians. The book is one of the most extensive discussions of this challenging New Testament passage on women in the church.

In this study the methods of social concept criticism, poststructuralism, social memory theory are innovatively and rewardingly combined with a revalued component of Greimas' system, the morpho-syntactic and actantial model.