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| 978-1-4632-0165-4 | Ben Zvi, Ehud. Perspectives on Hebrew Scriptures VII
The Journal of Hebrew Scriptures (JHS) is an academic peer-reviewed journal that pioneers open-source, freely available, prompt, and academically responsible electronic publication in the area. This printed volume incorporates all the articles and reviews published in the journal in 2009. The review section includes more than eighty reviews. More... | $229.30 | Add to Cart |  | 
| 978-1-59333-980-7 | Kitchen, Robert, and Martien F. G. Parmentier. The Syriac Book of Steps 2
The Syriac Book of Steps collects 30 sermons by a late 4th century anonymous author in the Persian Empire. The author details the spiritual life, highlighting the duties and problems of two ranks of committed Christians, the Upright and the Perfect. More... | $76.25 | Add to Cart | | 
| 978-1-4632-0159-3 | Walters, J. Hymns on the Unleavened Bread
In the Hymns on the Unleavened Bread, Ephrem offers a unique perspective on Christian exegesis, hermeneutics, and self-understanding through the lens of the Christian Paschal feast as he constructs a polemical narrative of symbol fulfilled by reality. More... | $39.50 | Add to Cart | | 
| 978-1-4632-0160-9 | Caspi, Mishael, John Greene, Irit Aharoni, Rachel Havrelock, Tova Forti, . Eve: The Unbearable Flaming Fire
The book is about how Eve, the literary character, has fared in Judaism, Christianity and Islam, as well as by the independent, non-aligned scholar of literature. All of the essays contained in this anthology were presented orally during an international seminar on biblical characters in the three traditions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam that took place at the University of Vienna (2007). More... | $137.50 | Add to Cart | | 
| 978-1-4632-0086-2 | Theophilos, Michael. Jesus as New Moses in Matthew 8-9
This volume explores the fascinating narrative structure and thematic elements of Matthew 8-9 which typologically present Jesus as the ‘New-Moses’ (and at points a greater than Moses) leading his people out of Exile. More... | $134.80 | Add to Cart | | 
| 978-1-61143-957-1 | Lee, Peter. Authority Within the Christian Church
At the present time, when authority for the church's beliefs and actions is the subject of much discussion, this book attempts to look to the authority of God, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit, and how these are transmitted, including the roles of reason and the church. More... | $48.00 | Add to Cart | | 
| 978-1-59333-714-8 | Brock, Sebastian, Aaron Butts, George Kiraz, and Lucas Van Rompay. Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage - Pricing for Instituions
The Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage (GEDSH) is the first major encyclopedia-type reference work devoted exclusively to Syriac Christianity, both as a field of scholarly inquiry and as the inheritance of Syriac Christians today. In more than 600 entries it covers the Syriac heritage from its beginnings in the first centuries of the Common Era up to the present day. Special attention is given to authors, literary works, scholars, and locations that are associated with the Classical Syriac tradition. Within this tradition, the diversity of Syriac Christianity is highlighted as well as Syriac Christianity’s broader literary and historical contexts, with major entries devoted to Greek and Arabic authors and more general themes, such as Syriac Christianity’s contacts with Judaism and Islam, and with Armenian, Coptic, Ethiopian, and Georgian Christianities. More... | $160.00 | Add to Cart | | 
| 978-1-59333-714-8 | Brock, Sebastian, Aaron Butts, George Kiraz, and Lucas Van Rompay. Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage - Pricing for Students and Scholars
The Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage (GEDSH) is the first major encyclopedia-type reference work devoted exclusively to Syriac Christianity, both as a field of scholarly inquiry and as the inheritance of Syriac Christians today. In more than 600 entries it covers the Syriac heritage from its beginnings in the first centuries of the Common Era up to the present day. Special attention is given to authors, literary works, scholars, and locations that are associated with the Classical Syriac tradition. Within this tradition, the diversity of Syriac Christianity is highlighted as well as Syriac Christianity’s broader literary and historical contexts, with major entries devoted to Greek and Arabic authors and more general themes, such as Syriac Christianity’s contacts with Judaism and Islam, and with Armenian, Coptic, Ethiopian, and Georgian Christianities. More... | $98.00 | Add to Cart | | 
| 978-1-4632-0054-1 | Carstens, Pernille, and Niels Peter Lemche. The Reception and Remembrance of Abraham
This book explores the role of the Biblical patriarch Abraham in the formation and use of authoritative texts in the Persian and Hellenistic periods. It reflects a conference session in 2009 focusing on Abraham as a figure of cultural memory in the literature of these periods. More... | $124.00 | Add to Cart | | 
| 978-1-61143-604-4 | Bliss, Frederick Jones. The Religions of Modern Syria and Palestine
This volume represents the Bross Lectures given by Frederick J. Bliss in 1908 in which he describes the religious practices of Christians and Muslims in Syria and Palestine. More... | $155.80 | Add to Cart | | 
| 978-1-4632-0084-8 | Devine, Luke. Second-Wave Jewish Feminism, 1971-1991: Foundational Theology and Sacral Discourse
This book is the definitive critical analysis of the Jewish feminist theological project in the United States, its principal theologians and its foundational, embryonic, and more elaborated sacral discursive. The monograph critically examines each of the diverse theologians, their varied perspectives, and individual contributions, and asks will a prescriptive Jewish feminist theology ever be a reality? More... | $146.80 | Add to Cart | | 
| 978-1-4632-0077-0 | Mack, Russell. Neo-Assyrian Prophecy and the Hebrew Bible: Nahum, Habakkuk, and Zephaniah
This comparative literary study of Neo-Assyrian prophecy and the Old Testament books Nahum, Habakkuk, and Zephaniah highlights similarities and differences in the material. The differences have implications for who produced the material and when. More... | $160.60 | Add to Cart | | 
| 978-1-61143-469-9 | Burkitt, F. Crawford. The Syriac Forms of New Testament Proper Names
Argument by the Norris Professor of Divinity at Cambridge that the spelling of the Syriac version of the Gospels should not be taken as authority for the original Aramaic names. More... | $25.40 | Add to Cart | | 
| 978-1-4632-0034-3 | Weeks, Noel. Sources and Authors: Assumptions in the Study of Hebrew Bible Narrative
This work disputes the common view that Hebrew Bible narrative has been cobbled together out of diverse and contradictory sources. It studies the assumptions that produced that understanding and the application of different assumptions to a number of narrative books. More... | $158.65 | Add to Cart | | 
| 978-1-61143-964-9 | Fitts, William. The Deserted Medieval Village of Cottam and the Settlement Matrix Model
This volume introduces the Settlement Matrix model. Based on the concept of the setting, this approach examines each venue of daily life from the house to the settlement to the field system as integral parts of a single cultural construct.
More... | $153.25 | Add to Cart | | 
| 978-1-61143-969-4 | Sherry, Kurt. Kassia the Nun in Context
Kassia the Nun in Context provides both scholarly and non-expert readers with a wide-ranging analysis of a remarkable female writer of the Iconoclastic period. Her reflections on matters of Christology, gender, and monasticism inject diversity into the study of Byzantium. More... | $123.85 | Add to Cart | | 
| 978-1-61143-966-3 | Simut, Ramona. Elements of Cultural Continuity in Modern German Literature
Providing an analysis of the most important works of Goethe, Nietzsche, and Thomas Mann based on the methodology of comparative literature, this book attempts to determine the elements which reflect a common line of thought in their writings, as well as investigating how these cultural themes reflect their perspective on life and the world, the German spirit and nationality, art and music, politics and society. More... | $157.45 | Add to Cart | | 
| 978-1-61143-684-6 | Devine, Luke. Lily Montagu's Shekhinah
Lily Montagu's Shekhinah outlines Lily Montagu’s theological writing, particularly her appropriation of the feminine aspect of the divine presence, Shekhinah, and provides a much needed corrective to the androcentric Anglo-Jewish historiography that has ignored, marginalized, and completely erased, the founder of the Liberal Jewish movement in England. Indeed, Luke Devine's book is vital reading for students of Anglo-Jewry, First-Wave feminism, Jewish feminism, Liberal Judaism, and Jewish mysticism. More... | $130.00 | Add to Cart | | 
| 978-1-61143-956-4 | Dumbrill, Richard. Idiophones of the Ancient Near East
A comprehensive catalogue of the idiophones of the ancient Near East acquired by the Department of the Near East of the British Museum since the mid-nineteenth century. The book is fully illustrated with updated descriptions and bibliography. More... | $118.75 | Add to Cart | | 
| 978-1-59333-839-8 | Brock, Sebastian. Mary and Joseph, and Other Dialogue Poems on Mary
In this volume of TeCLA, a set of anonymous dialogue poems are presented in both the original Syriac and in an English translation. Four poems are included in this collection; in the namesake piece of this volume the dialogue is between Mary and Gabriel, the angel of the annunciation. The other dialogues are between Mary and Joseph, Mary and the Magi, and Mary and the Gardener. These poems are here translated and introduced by Sebastian Brock, a leading authority on the Syriac language. More... | $36.95 | Add to Cart | | 
| 978-1-61143-925-0 | Leavins, Daniel. Verbs of Leading in the Hebrew Bible
The book is a study of the group of verbs in the Hebrew Bible that indicate the action of leading. Using strategies of context analysis from linguistics, the verb group is defined and the characteristics of individual verbs in the group are highlighted. More... | $148.60 | Add to Cart | | 
| 978-1-61719-626-3 | Gruber, Mayer. The Women of Israel by Grace Aguilar
For almost a century after it was first published in 1845 Grace Aguilar's Women of Israel was presented as a high school graduation gift and even as a Christmas present to employees in businesses. More than 150 years before the current proliferation of books on women in biblical narrative and biblical law, Aguilar offered brilliant and innovative interpretations of abiding value. She took for granted that her readers could read Hebrew and that they, like herself, knew the King James Bible from memory. The extensive introduction and notes will make this new edition once again accessible to laypersons, students, and scholars. More... | $236.25 | Add to Cart | | 
| 978-1-61143-921-2 | Vern, Robyn. Dating Archaic Biblical Hebrew Poetry
The dating of some Archaic Biblical Hebrew poems to the late second millennium – early first millennium BCE on the basis of a handful of linguistic forms in common with second millennium Ugaritic and Amarna-Canaanite texts is brought into question. This critique highlights the problems with the arguments and hypotheses presented in the literature, and concludes that there is no compelling evidence to support the use of linguistic data for dating purposes. More... | $145.30 | Add to Cart | | 
| 978-1-59333-971-5 | Torrance, Iain. The Correspondence of Severus and Sergius
Severus of Antioch was the Patriarch of Antioch and a moderate Miaphysite. Sergius the Grammarian is a lesser-known figure, but the content of his letters demonstrates that he was a more extreme Miaphysite. The correspondence between the two consists of a set of three letters and an apology by Sergius. Made available in the original Syriac along with Torrance’s translation, these letters are an important part of the working out of concerns associated with the context of the Council of Chalecedon. More... | $48.00 | Add to Cart | | 
| 978-1-59333-886-2 | Legge, James. The Nestorian Monument of Hsî-an Fû in Shen-Hsî, China
The “Nestorian Monument” or “Nestorian Stele” is a fascinating attestation of the work of Syriac-speaking missionaries in sixth-century China. Commemorating the diffusion of Christianity in China from 635-781, the inscription was erected in the latter year as a public monument. The inscription in Chinese, supplemented with some Syriac, provides a brief outline of Christian doctrine and provides an account of how Christianity came to China. This book offers an English translation of the monument along with the original language text. More... | $31.10 | Add to Cart | | 
| 978-1-61719-470-2 | Jowett, John Henry. The Epistles of Saint Peter
John Henry Jowett directs his exegesis of the Pauline epistles for the everyday consideration of challenges and grace. Study chapters are organized by verse. More... | $153.25 | Add to Cart | | 
| 978-1-60724-023-5 | Brockelmann, Carl. Ibn Gauzi's Kitab al-Wafa fi fada'il al Mustafa
This investigation of Abu-al-Faraj Ibn al-Jawzi’s al-Wafa bi Fada'il al-Mustafa, according to the Leiden manuscript by one of Germany’s foremost Semiticists, is essential reading for anyone interested in Arabic history and literature. Ibn al-Jawzi was a twelfth-century jurist and perhaps the most prolific writer in the history of Arabic literature. Al-Wafa bi Fada'il al-Mustafa (Detailed Accounts of the Chosen Prophet), is a large work on the biography of the prophet Muhammad. In this manuscript study, Brockelmann analyzes several aspects of this composition, including citations of this work by other notable Islamic writers. More... | $29.60 | Add to Cart | | 
| 978-1-60724-017-4 | Belser, Carl. Babylonische Kudurru-Inschriften
An early study of the Babylonian kudurru (boundary stone) inscriptions of what is now known as the Kassite Era, this booklet presents a self-contained exploration of two of the markers. Focusing on Kudurru Inscriptions III R. 43 and III R. 41, Belser gives transcriptions and translations of both texts. A detailed commentary follows the presentation of the actual texts, and this is accompanied by notes from the original drawings of the text. Carefully reproduced full text hand-drawn copies are also included. More... | $34.70 | Add to Cart | | 
| 978-1-61143-345-6 | Togni, P. Louis, and Thomas Audo. Instructions for Ministers of the Church
Thomas Audo's Syriac translation of P. Louis Togni's instructions for the priesthood. More... | $142.75 | Add to Cart | | 
| 978-1-59333-691-2 | Box, George. Hebrew Studies in the Reformation Period and After
This essay on the history of how the Hebrew Bible was considered during the Reformation period takes the reader into areas largely unexplored. In addition to the Bible, the Kabala is brought into the discussion. Box traces the development up to the advent of the critical study of the Bible which continued to be controversial when his study was published. More... | $31.85 | Add to Cart | | 
| 978-1-61143-682-2 | McKelvey, Michael G. Moses, David and the High Kingship of Yahweh
This work investigates the overall message of Pss 90-106 within OT Psalter. It examines especially the figures of Moses, King YHWH and David, whose literary voices appear to address the occurrence of exile and the post-exilic period. More... | $157.30 | Add to Cart | | 
| 978-1-61143-683-9 | Teugels, Lieve, and Rivka Ulmer. Midrash and the Exegetical Mind
This collection contains papers on rabbinic texts presented at the SBL's annual conferences in 2008 and 2009. Featured rabbinic works are the Babylonian Talmud, the Mekhilta de RaShBY, and a variety of Biblical commentaries found in midrashic works. More... | $132.55 | Add to Cart | |
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