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 Perspectives on Hebrew Scriptures and its Contexts (1935-6897): The series Perspectives on Hebrew Scriptures and its Contexts publishes academic works dealing with study of the Hebrew Bible, ancient Israelite society and related ancient societies, biblical Hebrew and cognate languages, the reception of biblical texts through the centuries, and the history of the discipline. Volumes in the series include monographs, collective works, and the printed version of the contents of the important on-line Journal of Hebrew Scriptures
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| 978-1-60724-015-0 | Miller, Robert. Covenant and Grace in the Old Testament
This book examines the Old Testament language about Israel’s relationship with God in the light of Assyrian royal propaganda. Unpacking this language’s meaning in both Assyrian and biblical contexts, it shows the centrality of “grace” to this notion. More... | $161.95 | Add to Cart |  | 
| 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 | | 
| 978-1-4632-0054-1 | Carstens, Pernille, Niels Peter Lemche, Philip Davies, Beate Ego, Klaus Baltzer, . 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 | | 
| 978-1-4632-0077-0 | 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 | | 
| 978-1-4632-0034-3 | 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 | | 
| 978-1-61143-925-0 | 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 | | 
| 978-1-59333-653-0 | Botica, Aurelian. The Concept of Intention in the Old Testament, Philo of Alexandria and the Early Rabbinic Literature
The book answers a number of questions about human intentionality, raised by the Old Testament, Philo of Alexandria and by the early rabbies. It does so exploring this concept in the areas of criminal and cultic law, and in the spheres of piety and ethics. More... | $176.95 | 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 | | 
| 978-1-61143-004-2 | Ben Zvi, Ehud. Perspectives on Hebrew Scriptures VI
This volume incorporates all the articles and reviews published in the Journal of Hebrew Scriptures in 2009. It includes contributions by Mark A. Christian, George Athas, Philippe Guillaume, Thomas M. Bolin, Ehud Ben Zvi, Jakob Wöhrle, Klaas Spronk, Daniel Timmer, Rachelle Gilmour, Mark J. Boda, Matthew Forrest Lowe, Roland Boer, Steven Schweitzer, James M. Kennedy, Andrew C. Gow, Saul M. Olyan, Bob Becking, Raymond F. Person Jr., Richard Nelson, Steven McKenzie, Eckart Otto, Yairah Amit, Thomas Römer, Ernst Axel Knauf, Robert D. Holmstedt, Oded Lipschits, Aron Pinker, Karolien Vermeulen, Thomas Renz, Israel Finkelstein, George Savran, and John Van Seters. The review section includes more than eighty reviews. More... | $246.10 | Add to Cart | | 
| 978-1-61143-546-7 | Donahou, Michael. A Comparison of the Egyptian Execration Ritual to Exodus 32:19 and Jeremiah 19
Ancient Egyptians preserved stability by using military might and the execration ritual to control perceived threats. Ritual actions by Moses and Jeremiah in breaking items representing idolatrous people mimic those used by the ancient Egyptians to magically restore societal order. More... | $137.50 | Add to Cart | | 
| 978-1-60724-326-7 | Ben Zvi, Ehud. Perspectives on Hebrew Scriptures V
This volume incorporates all the articles and reviews published in the Journal of Hebrew Scriptures in 2008. Contributors include D. Stein, R. Kletter, J. Cook, Y. Shemesh, A. Pinker, R. Hendel, S. Olyan, A. Marx, R. Schmitt, D. Wright, S. Apóstolo, H. Basser, T. Römer, J. Jacobs, M. Kline, M. Avioz, E. Assis, F. W. Dobbs-Allsopp, N. Na'aman, Y. Garfinkel, S. Ganor, A. Steinmann, and I. Young. The review section includes more than fifty reviews. More... | $206.35 | Add to Cart | | 
| 978-1-60724-584-1 | Ben Zvi, Ehud, Diana Edelman, Frank Polak, Francesca Stavrakopoulou, Philippe Guillaume, . A Palimpsest: Rhetoric, Ideology, Stylistics, and Language Relating to Persian Israel
A collected-essays volume that explores what we can learn by looking into the matters of language, rhetoric, style, and ideology about the producers and readers of biblical books. Contributors include P. Guillaume, J-D Macchi, R. Rezetko, D. Rom-Shiloni, F. Stavrakopoulou, I. Young and the three editors. More... | $151.45 | Add to Cart | | 
| 978-1-59333-976-0 | Ben Zvi, Ehud. Perspectives on Hebrew Scriptures III
This volume incorporates all the articles and reviews published in the Journal of Hebrew Scriptures in 2006. Contributors include R. D. Holmstedt, J. Wöhrle, W. K. Gilders, A. Pinker, S. S. Scatolini Apóstolo, J. M. Tebes, R. Benun, D. M. Carr, J. J. Collins, F. W. Chip Dobbs-Allsop, A. Kalmanofsky, Yung Suk Kim, G. N. Knoppers, E. Ben Zvi, R. L. Hubbard, Jr., R. W. Klein, M. A. Throntveit, and I. Kalimi. The review section includes more than forty reviews. More... | $125.00 | Add to Cart | | 
| 978-1-59333-920-3 | Ben Zvi, Ehud. Perspectives on Hebrew Scriptures IV
This volume incorporates all the articles and reviews published in the Journal of Hebrew Scriptures in 2007. Contributors include D. Henige, D. Vanderhooft, R. Albertz, T. Eskenazi, G. Knoppers, D. Master, H. Williamson, O. Lipschits, L. Fried, S. Noegel, M. Sneed, R. Boer, D. Fulton, D. Janzen, R. W. Klein, M. Knowles, J. Van Seters, A. Pinker, M. Leuchter, J. Wright, J. Geoghegan, L. Monroe, E. Assis, D. N. Fulton, D. Carr, K. Bodner, E. Ben Zvi, P. R. Davies, J. Kugel, H. Najman, J. Barton, and P. Guillaume. The review section includes more than twenty reviews. More... | $185.95 | Add to Cart | | 
| 978-1-59333-612-7 | Ben Zvi, Ehud. Perspectives on Hebrew Scriptures II
This volume incorporates all the articles and reviews published in the Journal of Hebrew Scriptures from 2004 to 2005. It includes contributions by G. N. Knoppers, P.R. Davies, F. Landy, A. Brenner, and W. M. Schniedewind. The review section includes almost ninety reviews. More... | $200.00 | Add to Cart | | 
| 1-59333-310-2 | Ben Zvi, Ehud. Perspectives on Hebrew Scriptures I
This volume incorporates all of the articles and reviews published in the Journal of Hebrew Scriptures from 1996 to 2003. It includes contributions by M. J. Boda, P. R. Davies, T. C. Eskenazi, G. N. Knoppers, F. Landy, N. P. Lemche, O. Lipschits, and J. W. Wesselius. The review section includes more than one hundred reviews. More... | $236.25 | Add to Cart | |
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