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Perspectives on Hebrew Scriptures and its Contexts

This series contains volumes dealing with the 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. The series includes monographs, edited collections, and the printed version of the Journal of Hebrew Scriptures.

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Assumptions in the Study of Hebrew Bible Narrative

ISBN: 978-1-4632-0034-3
The foundational period of Hebrew Bible scholarship promulgated the assumption that the original “authors” were incapable of the sophisticated literary technique displayed in that work. Complexity was ascribed to a later stage. Yet in that later stage the supposedly more sophisticated redactors were unable to see blatant contradictions and redundancies. This work investigates Genesis, Judges, Samuel, Kings, and Chronicles looking at how the message conveyed has been misunderstood through assumptions about the capacities and intentions of original writers. It shows how retaining the assumptions about the inability of early writers inevitably leads to conclusions of a late provenance.
$206.00 $144.20
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Verbs of Leading in the Hebrew Bible

ISBN: 978-1-61143-925-0
Authors of the Hebrew Bible had at least 17 different verbs which they could use to represent “leading” or “guiding” in the Hebrew Bible. What are these “verbs of leading” and how are they related to one another? Why did an author choose the particular “leading” verb he chose in a particular context? Every occurrence of a verb of leading in the Hebrew Bible is examined through the lens of semantic-role theory by assigning roles to each of the phrases typically used with the verbs. This study resolves some problem passages and supplements traditional lexicographical research.
$193.00 $135.10
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The Concept of Intention in the Old Testament, Philo of Alexandria and the Early Rabbinic Literature

A study in human intentionality in the area of criminal, cultic and religious and ethical law.
ISBN: 978-1-59333-653-0
Does God take into account only the physical act, or does He also consider intention? Does inward motivation truly matter in the areas of criminal or cultic law? Were there differences between the biblical, hellenistic and rabbinic views on intention? This book explores what the Old Testament, Philo, and the early Rabbis thought about human intentionality in a legal context.
$230.00 $161.00
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Dating Archaic Biblical Hebrew Poetry

A Critique of the Linguistic Arguments
ISBN: 978-1-61143-921-2
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.
$158.00 $110.60
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Perspectives on Hebrew Scriptures VI

Comprising the Contents of Journal of Hebrew Scriptures, Vol. 9
Edited by Ehud Ben Zvi
ISBN: 978-1-61143-004-2
This volume incorporates all the articles and reviews published in Volume 9 (2009) of the Journal of Hebrew Scriptures.
$321.00 $224.70
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19 and Jeremiah 19

ISBN: 978-1-61143-546-7
Ancient Egyptian leaders sought to preserve the status quo by using not only their military might, but also enlisting magical rituals to help control any perceived threats to their way of life. Biblical leaders also sought to control their respective peoples by means of divine authority, brute force, and/or ritual actions. Examples of ritual actions by Moses and Jeremiah mimic those used by the ancient Egyptians in order to preserve or restore order to their given societies.
$145.00 $101.50
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Perspectives on Hebrew Scriptures V

Comprising the Contents of Journal of Hebrew Scriptures, Vol. 8
Edited by Ehud Ben Zvi
ISBN: 978-1-60724-326-7
This volume incorporates all the articles and reviews published in Volume 8 (2008) of the Journal of Hebrew Scriptures.
$268.00 $187.60
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Rhetoric, Ideology, Stylistics, and Language Relating to Persian Israel

ISBN: 978-1-60724-584-1
A volume of collected essays that explores what we can learn about the producers and readers of biblical books by looking into matters of language, rhetoric, style, and ideology. What do they teach us about these literati’s world of knowledge and imagination, about the issues they had in mind and the ways they came to deal with them through authoritative literature? The book includes essays on such issues as whether linguistic theories can solve literary-critical problems, on what is “late biblical Hebrew,” on parallelism and noun groups in biblical poetry, and the communicative meaning of some linguistic choices.
$197.00 $137.90
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Perspectives on Hebrew Scriptures IV

Comprising the Contents of Journal of Hebrew Scriptures, Vol. 7
Edited by Ehud Ben Zvi
ISBN: 978-1-59333-920-3
This volume incorporates all the articles and reviews published in Volume 7 (2007) of the Journal of Hebrew Scriptures.
$242.00 $169.40
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Perspectives on Hebrew Scriptures III

Comprising the Contents of Journal of Hebrew Scriptures, Vol. 6
ISBN: 978-1-59333-976-0
This volume incorporates all the articles and reviews published in Volume 6 (2006) of the Journal of Hebrew Scriptures.
$227.00 $158.90
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Perspectives on Hebrew Scriptures II

Comprising the contents of Journal of Hebrew Scriptures, vol. 5
ISBN: 978-1-59333-612-7
This volume incorporates all the articles and reviews published in Volume 5 (2004-2005) of the Journal of Hebrew Scriptures.
$268.00 $187.60
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Perspectives on Hebrew Scriptures I

Comprising the contents of Journal of Hebrew Scriptures, volumes 1–4
ISBN: 978-1-59333-310-2
This volume incorporates all the articles and reviews published in Volumes 1-4 (1996-2003) of the Journal of Hebrew Scriptures.
$318.00 $222.60