Kategoria BISAC: Religion >> Biblical Reference - Language Study

This volume collects studies of classical Hebrew by one of the foremost scholars of this language in our time. Moshe Bar-Asher has published dozens of studies of Hebrew, Aramaic, and Arabic, spanning nearly three thousand years of texts and dialects. This volume presents 24 of them in English, dealing with the language of the Bible, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and Rabbinic Literature.

This collection of essays fills a gap in research on the recurring theme of the Wisdom of the deity, its decryption and reception. South African and international scholars have applied new critiques to the Old Testament and associated Apocryphal and Cognate literature, with a specific focus on Wisdom. The results will be of interest to scholars working with Septuagint and Cognate literature, especially those with a focus on Biblical hermeneutics.

Since the epoch failure of Adam in Eden, Mankind's journey has been fraught with peril. An adversary awaits our every step lurking in the shadows of tradition. This Enemy enjoys relative anonymity. The only viable, available instruction manual - The Bible - has been intentionally mistranslated, separated from the origins of the Hebrew language and thus, depriving those who would escape the clutches of this ravening beast any semblance of victory. The mechanisms of Mainstream religion are culpable, our Pastors complicit, in the single greatest cover-up imaginable Because of what amounts to...

Our understanding of the textual history of the Hebrew Bible has been transformed in the wake of the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls.  Hendel explores and refines this new knowledge and formulates a rationale for a new edition of the Hebrew Bible.  The chapters situate The Hebrew Bible; A Critical Edition project in a broad historical context, from the beginnings of textual criticism in late antiquity and the Renaissance to the controversies in contemporary theory and practice.  This book combines close analysis with broad synthesis, yielding new perspectives on the text...

Die altesten Stucke des Jeremiabuches, die sich den Arbeiten von K.-F. Pohlmann (1978), C. Levin (1985) und K. Schmid (1996) zufolge u.a. im Bereich von Jer 4-6; 8-10 befinden, beklagen die Verwustung des Landes durch einen von Norden kommenden Feind. Sie nennen allerdings weder den Namen Jeremia, noch lassen sie sich im altorientalischen Sinn als -prophetisch- bezeichnen.

Unter diesem Aspekt werden die Klagen in Jer 4,19-22; 6,9-15; 8,18-23; 10,19-25 historisch-kritisch untersucht und einem umfassenden Vergleich mit der altorientalischen Klageliteratur des kalu unterzogen. Die...

In Going Up and Going Down Yitzhak Peleg argues that the story of Jacob's dream (Genesis 28.10-22), functions as a mise en abyme ('as a figure, trope or structure that somehow reflects in compact form, in miniature, the larger structure in which it appears', Greenstein). Close examination reveals that focusing on the vision of Jacob's dream and understanding it as a symbolic dream facilitates an explanation of the dream and its meaning.

Scholars have historically classified the dream as theophany, the purpose of which is to explain how Beth-El became a sacred place,...