"Jon Berquist's thesis is strikingly original and a significant contribution to the field. He sifts carefully through an impressive range of materials so that the ubiquity of the social system emerges with clarity and force. Hence, the reader is provided with an inner logic to ancient social meanings."--David M. Gunn, A. A. Bradford Professor of Religion, Texas Christian University Human bodily existence--from birth to death--is at the core of the Torah and many other books of the Hebrew Scriptures. From God's creation of Adam out of clay to the narratives of priests and kings whose...
"Jon Berquist's thesis is strikingly original and a significant contribution to the field. He sifts carefully through an impressive range of materials...
Tangled in the puzzling images of the book of Ezekiel is a message that is very relevant to our lives today. This insightful study explores the scripture in terms of its themes.
Tangled in the puzzling images of the book of Ezekiel is a message that is very relevant to our lives today. This insightful study explores the script...
Looking at their stories in the context of their times, Berquist casts new light on how and why these women in a man's world acted as they did and what they still have to teach us.
Looking at their stories in the context of their times, Berquist casts new light on how and why these women in a man's world acted as they did and wha...
The Constructions of Ancient Space Seminar ran as a joint project of the AAR and SBL from 2000-2005, the only cross-society venture of its time. For the first time in the development of biblical studies, participants in the seminar attempted to foreground and critically analyze space with the same theoretical nuance that biblical scholars have traditionally devoted to history. This volume, first, collects five papers focused on biblical cities, and especially Jerusalem. The female personification of Zion allows for, among other things, a specifically feminist slant on spatiality theory....
The Constructions of Ancient Space Seminar ran as a joint project of the AAR and SBL from 2000-2005, the only cross-society venture of its time. Fo...
This volume makes a positive intervention into maximalist/minimalist debates about Israelite historiography by pointing to the events that happened during the Persian and Hellenistic periods. During this historical epoch, traditions about Israel and Judah's founding became fixed as markers of ethnic identity, and much of the canonical Hebrew Bible came into its present form. Concentrating on these events, a clearer historical picture emerges. The entire volume is set within the context of Doug Knight's contributions, which have encouraged a rigorous social-scientific and...
This volume makes a positive intervention into maximalist/minimalist debates about Israelite historiography by pointing to the events that happened...
