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Israelite Religion, Hebrew Bible, &
Early Judaism
 Daughter Zion: Her Portrait, Her Response
Mark J. Boda, Carol J. Dempsey, and LeAnn Snow Flesher, editors
This volume showcases recent exploration of the portrait of Daughter Zion as “she” appears in biblical Hebrew poetry. The contributors to this volume explore the image of Daughter Zion in its many dimensions in various texts in the Hebrew Bible. Approaches used range from poetic, rhetorical, and linguistic to sociological and ideological.
 Philo of Alexandria's Exposition of the Tenth Commandment
Hans Svebakken
This volume offers the first complete study of Philo’s exposition, beginning with an overview of its content, context, and place in previous research. A new translation of the exposition, with commentary, offers a definitive explanation of Philo’s view of the Tenth Commandment, including precisely the sort of excessive desire it targets and how the dietary laws work as practical exercises for training the soul in self-control.
 Studia Philonica Annual XXIV, 2012
David T. Runia and Gregory E. Sterling
The Studia Philonica Annual is a scholarly journal devoted to furthering the study of Hellenistic Judaism, in particular the writings and thought of the Hellenistic-Jewish writer Philo of Alexandria (ca. 15 B.C.E. to ca. 50 C.E.). Each year the Annual publishes the most current Philonic scholarship along with an extensive bibliography that is maintained by David Runia.
 Social Theory
and the Study of Israelite Religion: Essays in Retrospect and Prospect
Saul
M. Olyan, editor
This volume assesses past, theoretically engaged work on
Israelite religion and presents new approaches to particular problems and
larger interpretive and methodological questions. Topics of interest to the
contributors include gender, violence, social change, the festivals, the
dynamics of shame and honor, and the relationship of text to ritual. The
contributors engage theory from social and cultural anthropology, sociology,
postcolonial studies, and ritual studies.
 The Hodayot
(Thanksgiving Psalms): A Study Edition of 1QHa
Eileen
M. Schuller and Carol A. Newsom
This volume contains the text of 1QHodayot published in
the definitive Discoveries in the Judaean Desert volume 40 and the English
translation from that volume, lightly revised. It provides the most up-to-date,
accessible, and inexpensive access to the text, translation, and official
numbering of the columns and lines of 1QH.
Mark R. Sneed
This book argues that, instead of being the most secular and modern of biblical books, Ecclesiastes is perhaps one of the most religious and primitive. Bringing a Weberian approach to Ecclesiastes, it represents a paradigm of the application of a social-science methodology, offering an interpretation of Ecclesiastes that both acknowledges the unorthodox nature of Qoheleth’s words and accounts for its acceptance among the canonical books of the Hebrew Bible.
Diana Lipton, editor
This book reexamines the Sodom and Gomorrah narrative in Genesis 18–19, in twelve essays that explore this troubling text through the lens of universalism and particularism. Readers of these exegetically and theologically attentive essays published in memory of Ron Pirson will experience a rare sense of an ancient text being read in and for the modern world.
Todd R. Hanneken
This book builds on scholarship on genre to establish a clear pattern among the ways Jubilees resembles and differs from other apocalypses.
New Testament and Christianity
 Gregory of Nyssa: Homilies on the Song of Songs
Richard A. Norris, Jr.
In addition to offering the original text and an English translation of all fifteen homilies, Norris provides an analysis of the characteristic themes of Gregory’s ascetical teaching, emphasizes its connection in his mind with the institution of baptism, and stresses the degree to which Gregory sees the teaching of the Song as addressed not to a special class of believers but to any and all Christians.
 Reading Paul’s Letter to the Romans
Jerry L. Sumney, editor
In this volume, leading scholars in the study of Romans invite students and nonspecialists to engage this text and thus come to a more complete understanding of both the letter and Paul’s theology. Each essay includes a short review of different positions on a topic and an argument for the author’s position, set out in clear, nontechnical terms, making the volume an ideal classroom tool.
 The Chreia and Ancient Rhetoric: Commentaries on Aphthonius's Progymnasmata
Ronald F. Hock
The first translations in English and a preliminary analysis of the commentaries on the chreia chapter in Aphthonius’s standard Progymnasmata, a classroom guide on composition. Aphthonius's treatment of the chreia classroom exercise, however, was so brief that commentators needed to clarify, explain, and supplement what he had written. By means of these Byzantine commentaries, we can thus more clearly how this important form and its confirmation were taught in classrooms for over a thousand years
 Miracle Discourse in the New Testament
Duane F. Watson, editor
This volume explores the rhetorical role that miracle discourse plays in the argumentation of the New Testament and early Christianity. It also examines the social, cultural, religious, political, and ideological associations that miracle discourse had in the first-century Mediterranean world, bringing these insights to bear on the broader questions of early Christian origins.
 The Samaritan Pentateuch: An Introduction to Its Origin, History, and Significance for Biblical Studies
Robert T. Anderson and Terry Giles
The Samaritan Pentateuch is the sacred scripture of the Samaritans, a tenacious religious community made famous by Jesus’ Good Samaritan story that persists to this day. Recently there has been a resurgence of interest in this scripture. This volume presents a general introduction to and overview of the Samaritan Pentateuch, suitable for a course text and as a reference tool for the professional scholar.
 Paul and Scripture: Extending the Conversation
Christoper D. Stanley, editor
This book explores some of the methodological problems that have arisen during the last few decades of scholarly research on the apostle Paul’s engagement with his ancestral Scriptures. All of the essays look at old questions through new lenses in an effort to break through scholarly impasses and advance the debate in new directions.
Christopher
W. Skinner and Kelly R. Iverson
This volume addresses the perennial issue of unity and
diversity in the New Testament canon. Celebrating the academic legacy of Fr.
Frank J. Matera, colleagues and friends interact with elements of his many
important works. The volume includes contributions from leading scholars in the
field, offering a rich array of insights on issues such as Christology, social
ethics, soteriology, and more.
Dennis
R. MacDonald
MacDonald offers an alternative reconstruction of Q and an
alternative solution to the Synoptic Problem: the Q+/Papias Hypothesis. To do
so, he reconstructs and interprets two lost books about Jesus: the earliest
Gospel, which was used as a source by the authors of Mark, Matthew, and Luke;
and the earliest commentary on the Gospels, by Papias of Hierapolis, who
apparently knew Mark, Matthew, and the lost Gospel, which he considered to be
an alternative Greek translation of a Semitic Matthew.
F.
Stanley Jones, editor
This
collection uncovers the roots of the study of ancient Jewish Christianity in
the Enlightenment in early eighteenth-century England, and explores why and how
this rediscovery set off the entire modern historical debate over Christian
origins. It examines how this critical impulse made its way to Germany,
eventually to flourish in the nineteenth century under F. C. Baur and the
Tübingen School.
Biblical Interpretation
Rodney Werline and Colleen Shantz, editors
This collection of essays continues the investigation of religious experience in early Judaism and early Christianity begun in Experientia, Volume 1, by addressing the relationship between the surviving evidence, which is textual, and the religious experiences that precede or ensue from those texts. The authors demonstrate the possibility of moving from written documents to assess the lived experiences that are linked to them.
Caroline Vander Stichele and Hugh S. Pyper, editors
Children’s Bibles are often the first encounter people have with the Bible, shaping their perceptions of its stories and characters at an early age. The shared focus of the essays in this volume is on the representation of “others”—foreigners, enemies, women, even children themselves—in predominantly Hebrew Bible stories.
Musa W. Dube, Andrew M. Mbuvi, and Dora R. Mbuwayesango, editors
This volume foregrounds biblical interpretation within the African history of colonial contact, from North Atlantic slavery to the current era of globalization. It is an important addition to postcolonial and empires studies in biblical scholarship.
Christo Lombaard, editor
This volume systematically collects the author’s reflective, analytical, and exegetical contributions to the field in order to explore how biblical texts mediate faith, both ancient and contemporary, in theory and in practice. The volume incorporates insights from North American, British, Dutch, German, French, and South African scholarly traditions and intends to stimulate further thought among scholars interested in this small but internationally expanding discipline.
John S. Kloppenborg and Judith H. Newman, editors
This volume, representing experts in the editing of the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament, discusses both current achievements and future challenges in creating modern editions of the biblical texts in their original languages.
Archaeology and Ancient Near East
 Predicting the Past in the Ancient Near East: Mantic Historiography in Ancient Mesopotamia, Judah, and the Mediterranean World
Matthew Neujahr
An in-depth investigation of after-the-fact predictions in ancient Near Eastern texts from roughly 1200 B.C.E.–70 C.E. It argues that the Akkadian, Aramaic, Hebrew, and Greek works discussed are all part of a developing scribal discourse of “mantic historiography” by which scribes blend their local traditions of history writing and predictive texts to produce a new mode of historiographic expression.
 Judah in the Neo-Babylonian Period: The Archaeology of Desolation
Avraham Faust
This volume examines the archaeological reality of Judah in the sixth century in order to shed new light on the debate over the extent of the impact of the Babylonian conquest of Jerusalem in 586 B.C.E. on Judah. The author arrives at fresh insights that support the traditional view of sixth-century Judah as a land whose population, both urban and rural, was devastated and whose recovery took centuries.
 New Inscriptions and Seals Relating to the Biblical World
Meir Lubetski and Edith Lubetski, editors
This volume features analyses by eminent scholars of some of the archaeological treasures from Dr. Shlomo Moussaieff’s outstanding collection. These contributions signal fresh approaches to the study of ancient artifacts and underscore the role of archaeological evidence in reconstructing the legacy of antiquity, especially that of the biblical period.
 Iron Age Hieroglyphic Luwian Inscriptions
Annick Payne
This volume collects some of the most important and representative of the Hieroglyphic Luwian inscriptions in transliteration and translation, organized by genre. Each text is accompanied by relevant information on provenance, dating, and other points of interest that will engage specialist and nonspecialist alike.
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