Kategoria BISAC: Religion >> Biblical Criticism & Interpretation - General

In his new book Doron Mendels addresses the topic of the authority of texts and their transmission, as well as different strategies of narration in ancient texts. Mendels provides extensive treatment of issues such as linearity, emporality and simultaenity of texts, whilst working to examine four core themes. First, the narrator and his strategies in the historiography of the Hellenistic period. Secondly, Jewish Historical thought in the Hellenistic period and beyond. Thirdly, issues of Hellenization in Palestine - power, honour, gifting, etiquette and sovereignty and their presentation in...

Truly a book unlike any other, Simple Physics successfully marries science and spirituality, physics and the Bible. It is written with the firm conviction that the universe is not an accident but the creation of an almighty God named יהוה (Yahowah). He was joined in creation by his only begotten son, named Michael. The name is in the form of a question, the first question ever asked--"Who is like God?" We are all helped to answer that question by this little book. Romans 1:20 states, "His invisible qualities are seen from the world's creation onward, because...

In his Epistle to the Philippians, Paul positions himself as an example of 'being in Christ'. The way in which he does this points out that he consciously positions himself in the tradition of classical rhetoric, where the use of paradigms (exempla) was a standard element in deliberative arguing. Paul describes his life as coloured by Christ in such a way that he represents Christ to the Philippians, and the
response he hopes to evoke in their congregation is that of similar behaviour.

The analysis of Smit combines observations on classical rhetoric, exegetical analyses of...

This volume presents a collection of essays aimed at further integration of literary analysis in the study of the Hebrew Bible. In three sections, Bodner studies a range of texts in order to illustrate that literary analysis has value for exploring numerous issues in the discipline, including text-critical problems, the Deuteronomistic History, and Chronicles.

Beginning with a discussion of how literary analysis is a vital, yet neglected, component of textual criticism, Bodner then offers a sustained engagement with one particular section of the Hebrew Bible, the so-called "ark...