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Biblical studies – Old Testament, Hebrew Bible
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Jesus the Jew in Christian Memory
Theological and Philosophical Explorations Barbara U. Meyer | Tel-Aviv University The last forty years have witnessed a revolution in the historical study of Jesus’ Jewishness but little on how this scholarship can revitalize Christian memory and theological discourse. This book shows how awareness of Jesus’ Jewishness enables a striking rethinking of Christian approaches to otherness, law and ethics, vulnerability and suffering.
224pp Oct. 2022 9781108712835 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 Mar. 2020 9781108498890 Hardback GBP 78.99 / USD 105.00 eISBN 9781108689755
New Testament Theology and the Greek Language
A Linguistic Reconceptualization Stanley E. Porter | McMaster University, Ontario Offers a unique, language-based critique of New Testament theology by comparing it to the development of language study from the Enlightenment to the present, establishing a new linguistic model with the Son of Man as a major example. New Testament theology follows outmoded models and must be reconceptualized along modern linguistic lines.
350pp Oct. 2022 9781009240048 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781009240024
Paul and Religion
Unfinished Conversations Paul W. Gooch | University of Toronto Paul and Religion demonstrates the continuing and contemporary relevance of the most important, and most controversial, figure of early Christianity. In a conversational style, Gooch explores Paul’s experience of grace and his dismissal of distinctive markers of religious identity in favour of love as binding together a community.
Cambridge Studies in Religion, Philosophy, and Society
200pp Mar. 2022 9781108477109 Hardback GBP 69.99 / USD 89.99 Mar. 2022 9781108701921 Paperback GBP 19.99 / USD 26.99 eISBN 9781108569538
Paul’s Gospel of Divine Self-Sacrifice
Righteous Reconciliation in Reciprocity Paul Moser | Loyola University, Chicago This book explains how reparative self-sacrificial righteousness is at the heart of Paul’s gospel, and how divine self-sacrifice authenticates that gospel via human reciprocity toward God in reconciliation. Paul Moser explores the controversial matters regarding Paul’s message in a way that highlights the coherence and profundity of his message.
300pp Sep. 2022 9781009249188 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009249171
Sarcasm in Paul’s Letters
Matthew Pawlak | University of Tubingen, Germany This book is the first treatment of sarcasm in New Testament studies. A direct contribution to work on Paul, and with interdisciplinary case studies on the Septuagint and Lucian, anyone working with ancient Greek texts containing irony-whether in theology, religious studies, Old Testament, classics, or humour studies-will need to cite this book.
Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series
300pp Jan. 2023 9781009271912 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009271929
The Historical Jesus and the Temple
Memory, Methodology, and the Gospel of Matthew Michael Patrick Barber This volume examines the role of the temple in the historical Jesus’s teaching. It explains and responds to recent discussions about methodology in Jesus studies, proposing a fresh approach that draws insights from both memory research and new developments in Gospel of Matthew scholarship.
350pp Dec. 2022 9781009210850 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009210843
The Revelation of the Messiah
The Christological Mystery of Luke 1-2 and Its Unveiling in Luke-Acts Caleb Friedeman This monograph for biblical scholars and graduate students presents a new model for understanding the christological relationship between Luke 1–2 and the rest of Luke-Acts and thus constitutes a significant contribution to Lukan Christology.
Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series
275pp Nov. 2022 9781009189613 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009189620
Biblical Aramaic and Related Dialects
An Introduction Edward Cook | Catholic University of America, Washington DC A comprehensive, introductory-level textbook for anyone who wants to learn the Aramaic of the Old Testament, and other related dialects (including Dead Sea Scrolls). Includes inductive lessons for students, which introduce primary texts from the start.
300pp Sep. 2022 9781108494366 Hardback GBP 120.00 / USD 160.00 Sep. 2022 9781108714488 Paperback GBP 38.99 / USD 44.99 eISBN 9781108637596
Ecclesiastes and the Meaning of Life in the Ancient World
Arthur Keefer Drawing on recent psychological research, Arthur Keefer offers a timely assessment of Ecclesiastes and what it has to do with the meaning of life, one that will be of interest to researchers and scholars within both biblical and ancient Near Eastern disciplines, and scholars of psychology.
350pp Apr. 2022 9781009100250 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009110082
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Genres of Rewriting in Second Temple Judaism
Scribal Composition and Transmission Molly M. Zahn This book targets scholars and students specializing in Hebrew Bible and early Judaism. It demonstrates the importance of rewriting in understanding the composition and transmission of biblical and other texts, with implications for our picture of the development of the Hebrew canon and the early Jewish literary landscape more broadly.
276pp 2 b/w illus. Feb. 2022 9781108725750 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 Jun. 2020 9781108477581 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108769983
Hosea, Joel, and Amos
Graham R. Hamborg | University of Nottingham This commentary offers a timely and up to date assessment of the books of Hosea, Joel and Amos, and shares the best of contemporary Old Testament scholarship in non-technical language and an accessible style. It enables an appreciation of the books of Hosea, Joel and Amos as literary texts with continuing theological value.
New Cambridge Bible Commentary
350pp Dec. 2022 9781108482387 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00 Dec. 2022 9781108712156 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 34.99 eISBN 9781108687362
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Portraying Violence in the Hebrew Bible
A Literary and Cultural Study Matthew J. Lynch | Regent College, Vancouver This work examines four key ways that writers of the Hebrew Bible conceptualize and critique acts of violence: violence as an ecological problem; violence as a moral problem; violence as a judicial problem; violence as a purity problem.
304pp Sep. 2022 9781108714471 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 Apr. 2020 9781108494359 Hardback GBP 78.99 / USD 105.00 eISBN 9781108637558
Qumran Wisdom and the New Testament
Exploring Early Jewish and Christian Textual Cultures Benjamin Wold | Trinity College Dublin In the last two decades a profound shift has taken place in how we understand the category of Jewish ‘wisdom’. This book explores how diverse writings found at Qumran and in the New Testament are mutually illuminating and taken together demonstrate participation in a common wisdom worldview.
325pp Feb. 2023 9781009305068 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781009305082
Remembering the Story of Israel
Historical Summaries and Memory Formation in Second Temple Judaism Aubrey E. Buster | Wheaton College, Illinois Aubrey Buster demonstrates how methods adapted from cultural and social memory studies and the new formalism can illuminate the communal function of biblical and extra-biblical historical summaries in Second Temple Judaism.
World Trade Organization Dispute Settlement Reports
350pp May. 2022 9781009150682 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781009150675
The Book of Esther between Judaism and Christianity
Isaac Kalimi | Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz, Germany Engages ‘traditional’ historical-critical analysis of Esther, situated alongside comparative Jewish and Christian traditions, while exemplifying how the former serves the latter. This volume demonstrates how the different interpretations of the biblical text have crucial impacted on those receptions and on Jewish-Christian relation.
350pp Apr. 2023 9781009266123 Hardback GBP 100.00 / USD 130.00 eISBN 9781009266147
The Cambridge Companion to Biblical Wisdom Literature
Katherine J. Dell | University of Cambridge This Companion serves as an essential guide to wisdom texts, a body of biblical literature with ancient origins that continue to have universal and timeless appeal. The twenty-two contributions provide a wide-ranging overview of biblical and non-biblical wisdom literature.
Cambridge Companions to Religion
375pp Jun. 2022 9781108483162 Hardback GBP 99.99 / USD 135.00 Jun. 2022 9781108716475 Paperback GBP 34.99 / USD 44.99 eISBN 9781108673082
