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Biblical Studies
Dress Hermeneutics and the Hebrew Bible
"Let Your Garments Always Be Bright"
Edited by Antonios Finitsis, Pacific Lutheran University, USA Antonios Finitsis and contributors examine dress and clothing in the Hebrew Bible in this collection of illuminating essays. Using primary evidence, the contributors are able to reveal the social, psychological, aesthetic, ideological and symbolic meanings of dress in the Hebrew Bible, thereby producing insights into the literature and cultural world of the ancient Near East.
UK July 2022 • US July 2022 • 224 pages • 8 bw illus HB 9780567702685 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePdf 9780567702692 • £76.50 / $100.32 Series: The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies • T&T Clark
Creating Gender in the Garden
The Inconstant Partnership of Eve and Adam
Barbara Deutschmann, University of Divinity, Australia What can explain the persistence of gender inequality throughout history? Do narratives such as the Eden story explain that dissymmetry or contribute to it? This book suggests that the Hebrew Bible began and has sustained a rich conversation about sex and gender throughout its life. A literary study of the Eden story reveals a focus on the human partnership as integral to the divine creation project. Understanding the different ways that Adam and Eve have been conceived gives us perspective on our own 21st century gender architecture.
UK March 2022 • US March 2022 • 272 pages HB 9780567704566 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePdf 9780567704573 • £76.50 / $100.32 Series: The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies • T&T Clark
Hate and Enmity in Biblical Law
Klaus-Peter Adam, Lutheran School of Theology, USA Enmity between individuals was an ubiquitous phenomenon in the ancient world. Using the method of legal anthropology, this book examines patterns of hate-driven feuding in kinship-based and segmentary societies and applies these insights to biblical law. It defines the fundamental categories of enmity, love, revenge, honor and shame in the context of feuding. It then illustrates certain legal actions, such as giving false witness, and shows how they are expressions of hateful relationships. Adam also uses this to unpack the meaning of the quintessential biblical command to "love your neighbor".
UK May 2022 • US May 2022 • 304 pages HB 9780567681898 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePdf 9780567681904 • £76.50 / $100.32 Series: The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies • T&T Clark
Loanwords in Biblical Literature
Jonathan Thambyrajah, Broken Bay Institute and Sydney University, Australia In contrast to previous scholarship which has approached loanwords from etymological and lexicographic perspectives, Jonathan Thambyrajah considers them not only as data but as rhetorical elements of the literary texts of which they are a part. He explains why certain biblical texts strongly prefer to use loanwords whereas others have few. Thambyrajah studies the loanwords of Esther, Daniel, Ezra and Exodus rhetorically, considering their impact on audiences and readers, and paying close attention to how these texts present ethnicity.
UK June 2022 • US June 2022 • 272 pages HB 9780567703064 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePdf 9780567703071 • £76.50 / $100.32 Series: The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies • T&T Clark
Psalms and the Use of the Critical Imagination
Essays in Honour of Professor Susan Gillingham
Edited by Katherine E. Southwood, University of Oxford, UK & Holly Morse, University of Manchester, UK Contributors provide fresh insight into the context surrounding the composition and reception of the Psalms, the relationships between the Psalms, and of early audiences who engaged with the material. Close attention is also paid to specific interpretative problems which emerge in the Psalms, both linguistic and theological.
UK April 2022 • US April 2022 • 256 pages HB 9780567696328 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePdf 9780567696335 • £76.50 / $100.32 Series: The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies • T&T Clark
Reading Esther Intertextually
Edited by David Firth, Trinity College Bristol, UK & Brittany N. Melton, Palm Beach Atlantic University, USA Looking at the Book of Esther through the lens of intertextuality, this collection considers its connections with each division of the Hebrew Bible, along with texts throughout history. It provides and invites further study into the relationship between Esther and its intertexts, many which are under explored. As an edited collection, the book draws together scholars with expertise in the wide variety of texts that are intertextually connected with Esther, offering the reader a more nuanced and informed discussion and facilitating greater insight on both the Book of Esther and current methodological research.
UK June 2022 • US June 2022 • 272 pages HB 9780567703019 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePdf 9780567703026 • £76.50 / $100.32 Series: The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies • T&T Clark
The Judgement of Jonah
Yahweh, Jerusalem and Nineveh
Alastair G. Hunter, University of Glasgow, UK This is a commentary with a difference, in which the reading of the prophet’s travails is explored in the context of two wider themes. These are the overt and highly sophisticated intertwining of Jonah’s story with an impressively wide range of other biblical texts, often deployed in surprising ways; and the clearly contrarian relationship between God and Jonah which has both vexed and intrigued scholars and lay readers alike for millennia.
UK May 2022 • US May 2022 • 288 pages HB 9780567673619 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePdf 9780567673626 • £76.50 / $100.32 Series: The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies • T&T Clark
Women of the Bible
From Text to Image
Edited by Guadalupe Seijas, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain The Hebrew Bible and art are at the core of this book, which analyzes the iconographic representation of several women of the Bible. The contributors consider the ways in which the biblical texts regarding these women have been read and understood through time and the means by which they have been represented. By examining figures such as Bathsheba, Moses' Mother, Pharoah's Daughter, Ruth and Naomi, the book also explores the different values associated with these representations according to the problems, worries and concerns of each period.
UK June 2022 • US June 2022 • 224 pages • 21 bw illus HB 9780567703606 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePdf 9780567703613 • £76.50 / $100.32 Series: The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies & Scriptural Traces • T&T Clark
Conversations with a Suffering Servant
David Wyn Williams, Independent Scholar, New Zealand This literary reimagining of the Suffering Servant – through the lens of the work of Mikhail Bakhtin – offers insight into how the prophetic characterisation influenced Paul’s construction of faith, hope and love as epistemologies (in Corinthians). It provides new insight into how faith, hope and love act as a dynamic equilibrium of knowing that opens us up to lives of story, encounter, and innovation—lives that resonate with the suffering servant, and which challenge contemporary ideas of power, wisdom and prosperity.
UK May 2022 • US May 2022 • 232 pages PB 9780567696885 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9780567676108 ePub 9780567696878 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9780567676115 • £76.50 / $100.32 T&T Clark
Arms, Men and Society in Roman Judaea
Guy D. Stiebel, Tel-Aviv University, Israel An in-depth study of Roman weaponry as used in Judaea from the arrival of the Romans in the area in around 63 BCE until the time of the Bar Kochba Revolt (135/136 CE). The book is in three parts. In part one Stiebel examines Roman militaria and provides a study of the types of weapon used and how they were produced and stored. Part two looks at how the types of weapon marked identity and carried symbolic meaning. Finally, part three outlines how the Romans dealt with the aftermath of conflict, reusing and reshaping the ruins of conquered territories.
UK June 2022 • US June 2022 • 224 pages • 10 bw illus HB 9780567691729 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9780567691750 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9780567691736 • £76.50 / $100.32 T&T Clark
The Library of Second Temple Studies
Lester L. Grabbe, University of Hull, UK
The Matriarchs in Genesis Rabbah
Katie J. Woolstenhulme, Independent Scholar, UK This volume focuses on the role and status of the biblical matriarchs in Genesis Rabbah, the CE rabbinic Jewish commentary on Genesis. Whilst scholarship on the role of women in the Bible and rabbinic Judaism has greatly increased, the authoritative group of women known as ‘the matriarchs’ has been neglected. Katie J. Woolstenhulme redresses that balance though an in-depth study of the ways in which these women are portrayed in the rabbinic material.
UK June 2022 • US June 2022 • 296 pages PB 9780567696847 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9780567695734 ePub 9780567695765 • £81.00 / $106.83 ePdf 9780567695741 • £81.00 / $106.83 Series: The Library of Second Temple Studies • T&T Clark
The Use and Function of Scripture in 1 Maccabees
Dongbin Choi, Independant Scholar, UK Dongbin Choi provides a comprehensive study of the use of Scripture in 1 Maccabees, attuned to the literary socio-political and cultural backgrounds of the texts. Choi argues that the text was written with a linguistic technique that utilizes earlier Jewish texts to promote the religiopolitical agendas of its author. Choi offers a philological and thematic analyses on this scriptural language, suggesting a radical view that considers 1 Maccabees not simply as a religious writing, but as a political propaganda.
UK April 2022 • US April 2022 • 288 pages PB 9780567696458 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9780567695420 ePub 9780567695451 • £81.00 / $106.83 ePdf 9780567695437 • £81.00 / $106.83 Series: The Library of Second Temple Studies • T&T Clark
Exodus in the New Testament
Edited by Seth M. Ehorn, Wheaton College, USA By focusing exclusively on the book of Exodus and its’ constant allusions found throughout the body of the New Testament, the contributors to this volume seek to enhance awareness of the textual transmission of Exodus in the first century. This volume is thus able to encourage further methodological reflection on the use of scripture vs. scriptural traditions as employed by ancient authors.
UK April 2022 • US April 2022 • 256 pages HB 9780567702777 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9780567702807 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9780567702784 • £76.50 / $100.32 Series: The Library of New Testament Studies • T&T Clark
Reading Acts Theologically
Steve Walton, Trinity College, Bristol, UK Steve Walton collects several of his key essays into an expansive and coherent perspective, bringing together studies published over nearly two decades, and his reflection in the process of writing the Word Biblical Commentary on Acts. Walton explores the divine perspective of Acts and its place alongside biblical histories, and analyzes the nature of the early Church and the main terms used by the communities, including the believers’ sharing of possessions and their attitudes towards the Jewish temple. Concluding with theological themes in Acts, Walton provides a new reflection on the early Christian understanding of God, Jesus and humanity.
UK May 2022 • US May 2022 • 240 pages HB 9780567702821 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9780567702852 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9780567702838 • £76.50 / $100.32 Series: The Library of New Testament Studies • T&T Clark
Paul and the Corinthians
Leadership, Ordeals, and the Politics of Displacement
Jonathan B. Ensor, Oklahoma Wesleyan University, USA Jonathan B. Ensor revisits the scholarly consensus concerning Paul’s intermediate visit to the Corinthians between his first and second epistles. Ensor re-evaluates the textual evidence and interprets the event through a socio-historical lens, focusing upon ancient trial by ordeal and exit in the context of communal conflict. His analysis sheds significant light upon the social behaviours involved in Paul's visit and its interpretation.
UK March 2022 • US March 2022 • 224 pages HB 9780567700797 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9780567700827 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9780567700803 • £76.50 / $100.32 Series: The Library of New Testament Studies • T&T Clark
The Moral Life According to the Gospel of Mark
M. John-Patrick O’Connor, North Central University, USA M. John-Patrick O'Connor proposes that Mark’s Gospel — as the earliest record of the life of Jesus — presents a theological description of the moral life. O'Connor argues for Mark's ethical validity in comparison to Matthew and Luke. He examines Greco-Romanic conceptions of morality and moral accountability according to Mark, and explores the personification of evil in the gospel, human responsibility, punitive consequences and evil's role in Mark's moral landscape.
UK May 2022 • US May 2022 • 224 pages HB 9780567705587 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9780567705617 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9780567705594 • £76.50 / $100.32 Series: The Library of New Testament Studies • T&T Clark
The Pauline Book and the Dilemma of Ephesians
Benjamin Petroelje, Western Theological Seminary, USA Benjamin J. Petroelje argues that how one reads Ephesians is a function of deeper questions about how to read the Pauline book. Using Ephesians 3:1-13 a point of analysis, Petroelje theorizes that the text’s “image of Paul” not only anticipates recent revisionist interpretations of Paul’s Jewish identity and gentile gospel, but also holds together tensions in the collection itself surrounding these questions. By analysing ancient letter collections beside their own hermeneutical priorities, and applying this method to the late-antique and modern reception of the corpus Paulinum, Petroelje historicizes the origins of the split of Paul's corpus.
UK June 2022 • US June 2022 • 256 pages HB 9780567703729 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9780567703767 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9780567703736 • £76.50 / $100.32 Series: The Library of New Testament Studies • T&T Clark
Writing With Scripture
Scripturalized Narrative in the Gospel of Mark
Nathanael Vette, University of Edinburgh, UK Nathanael Vette proposes that the Gospel of Mark, like other narrative works in the Second Temple period, uses the Jewish scriptures as a model to compose episodes and tell a new story. Vette compares Mark’s use of scripture with contemporary works like Pseudo-Philo, the Genesis Apocryphon, 1 Maccabees, Judith, and the Testament of Abraham; diverse texts which, combined, support the existence of shared compositional techniques.
UK February 2022 • US February 2022 • 224 pages HB 9780567704641 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9780567704672 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9780567704658 • £76.50 / $100.32 Series: The Library of New Testament Studies • T&T Clark
Biblical Interpretation in Early Christian Gospels
Volume 4: The Gospel of John
Edited by Thomas R. Hatina, Trinity Western University, Canada Shedding light on the function of allusion and quotation in the gospel of John, Thomas R. Hatina presents specially commissioned studies in four categories: (1) historical-critical approaches, (2) rhetorical and linguistic approaches, (3) social memory approaches, and (4) literary approaches. Each study contains not only recent research on the function of scripture in John, but also an explanation of the approach that is taken, making the collection an ideal resource for both scholars and students who are interested in the complexities of interpretation.
UK November 2021 • US November 2021 • 304 pages PB 9780567703804 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9780567684158 ePub 9780567684110 • £26.09 / $35.17 ePdf 9780567684141 • £26.09 / $35.17 Series: The Library of New Testament Studies • T&T Clark
Mutual Boasting in Philippians
The Ethical Function of Shared Honor in its Biblical and Greco-Roman Context
Isaac D. Blois, Biola University, USA While past studies of Philippians recognize the theme of honour in Philippians and Paul’s emphasis on his mutual relations with the culture, the integral relation between these two central themes and the role it plays in Paul’s exhortations to the Philippians have not been previously developed. Taking the intersection of these two themes in the pivotal passages of Phil 1:26 and 2:16 as his focus, Isaac Blois argues that Paul’s focus on the mutual boasting shared between Paul and his converts alludes back to the mutual boasting shared between Israel and her covenant God.
UK April 2022 • US April 2022 • 224 pages PB 9780567697776 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9780567694041 ePub 9780567694072 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9780567694058 • £76.50 / $100.32 Series: The Library of New Testament Studies • T&T Clark
Paul’s Emotional Regime
The Social Function of Emotion in Philippians and 1 Thessalonians
Ian Y. S. Jew, Chinese Annual Conference of the Methodist Church, Singapore This is the first full-length treatment of emotion in the Pauline corpus. Jew’s exploration of the emotions in early Christianity represents new terrain in New Testament studies and he combines rigorous social-scientific analysis and exegetical enquiry to argue that emotions are intrinsic to the formation of the Pauline communities. Jew shows that the emotions encode belief structures and influence patterns of social experience in social communities and his research demonstrates robust social-scientific analysis combined with careful exegetical investigation.
UK April 2022 • US April 2022 • 240 pages PB 9780567696441 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9780567694126 ePub 9780567694157 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9780567694133 • £76.50 / $100.32 Series: The Library of New Testament Studies • T&T Clark
Common Property, the Golden Age, and Empire in Acts 2:42-47 and 4:32-35
Joshua Noble, Thomas Aquinas College, USA Joshua Noble shows how Luke’s use of the motif of common property is significant for understanding his attitude toward the Roman Empire. Noble suggests that the motif, which has no biblical precedent, alludes to the Golden Age myth – a prominent myth in Greek and Roman traditions – which held that the earliest humans lived in utopian conditions whereby no-one possessed any private property but "all things were common".
UK April 2022 • US April 2022 • 208 pages PB 9780567696434 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9780567695819 ePub 9780567695840 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9780567695826 • £76.50 / $100.32 Series: The Library of New Testament Studies • T&T Clark
New Studies in Textual Interplay
Edited by B. J. Oropeza, Azusa Pacific University and Seminary, USA, Craig A. Evans, Houston Baptist University, USA & Paul T. Sloan, Houston Baptist University, USA This volume examines just what is meant by ‘intertextuality,’ including metalepsis and the controversial and exciting approach known as ‘mimesis.’ Beginning with an introduction from B.J. Oropeza which orients readers in a complex and evolving field, the contributors first establish the growing research surrounding the discipline, before examining important texts and themes in the New Testament Gospels and epistles.
UK June 2022 • 256 pages PB 9780567698223 • £28.99 Previously published in HB 9780567678973 ePdf 9780567678980 • £76.50 / $100.32 Series: The Library of New Testament Studies • T&T Clark
Saint Thecla
Body Politics and Masculine Rhetoric
Rosie Andrious, King’s College London, UK This volume questions the prevailing “female empowering” interpretation of Thecla in the Acts of Paul and Thecla. Andrious examines the way that Thecla is voyeuristically paraded and subjected to a kind of sado-erotic torture, and shows how this clashes with any notion that she is presented as a positive role model for a woman.
UK May 2022 • US May 2022 • 248 pages • 5 bw illus PB 9780567699084 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9780567691767 ePub 9780567691798 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9780567691774 • £76.50 / $100.32 Series: The Library of New Testament Studies • T&T Clark
A Narrative Analysis of the Function of Satan in the Book of Revelation
Cato Gulaker, Ansgar University College and Theological Seminary, Norway This book is a narrative-critical analysis of the literary function of the character of Satan in the Book of Revelation. Gulaker shows how Satan, commonly perceived to gradually evolve from the first divine agents in the Hebrew Bible to the full-blown enemy of God of the post-biblical era, is more complex and divergent than the characterisation offered by these two roles. By employing narrative criticism, Gulaker explores where the Satan found in the Book of Revelation is positioned along this axis.
UK June 2022 • US June 2022 • 272 pages PB 9780567697554 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9780567696502 ePub 9780567696533 • £81.00 / $106.83 ePdf 9780567696519 • £81.00 / $106.83 Series: The Library of New Testament Studies • T&T Clark
Patristic Perspectives on Luke’s Transfiguration
Interpreting Vision
Peter Anthony, St Benet’s Church, UK Peter Anthony explores how visionary elements in Luke’s version of the Transfiguration had a particular influence on the early interpretation of the event, compared with contemporary interpretation. He thus reveals the rich hermeneutical traditions that emerged particularly in the Latin West, as the Transfiguration was first depicted visually in art.
UK April 2022 • US April 2022 • 272 pages • 20 B&W illus HB 9780567699756 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9780567699787 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9780567699763 • £76.50 / $100.32 Series: The Library of New Testament Studies & Scriptural Traces • T&T Clark
The Divine-Human Relationship in Romans 1–8 in the Light of Interdependence Theory
Yoonjong Kim, All Nations Bible Instutite, Republic of South Korea Yoonjong Kim analyses the divine-human relationship in Paul’s theology, focusing closely on Romans 1–8. Kim demonstrates that this relationship progresses and develops towards a goal, and examines the human role in this trajectory. Addressing the significance of the human agent’s role in the relationship, Kim employs interdependence theory to offer a consistent analytic framework for diagnosing the interactions in terms of the dependency created by each partner’s expectations of outcomes.
UK May 2022 • US May 2022 • 216 pages PB 9780567696823 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9780567695772 ePub 9780567695802 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9780567695789 • £76.50 / $100.32 Series: The Library of New Testament Studies • T&T Clark
Found Christianities
Remaking the World of the Second Century CE
M. David Litwa, Australian Catholic University, Australia M. David Litwa tells the stories of the early Christians whose religious identity was either challenged or outright denied. Litwa shows how those groups and figures on the side of developing Christian Orthodoxy came to dominate the faith, outlining theses different groups and the controversies that surrounded them and thus presenting readers with an overview of the vast tapestry of beliefs that made up second-century Christianity. By moving beyond notions of “gnostic”, “heretical” and “orthodox” Litwa allows these “lost Christianities” to speak for themselves.
UK March 2022 • US March 2022 • 272 pages PB 9780567703866 • £24.99 / $34.95 • HB 9780567703873 • £75.00 / $100.00 ePub 9780567703897 • £22.49 / $29.96 ePdf 9780567703880 • £22.49 / $29.96 T&T Clark
Ferdinand Christian Baur: A Reader
Edited by Johannes Zachbucher, University of Oxford, UK & David Lincicum, University of Notre Dame, USA This reader brings together, for the first time, a selection of texts in English translation, from Baur’s wide range of exegetical, historical, philosophical and theological expertise. In these excerpts, readers gain a comprehensive overview of Baur’s output and his remarkable role in the shaping of modern scholarly discourse. Readers will also see how Baur was instrumental in some of the most fundamental intellectual paradigm shifts of the 19th century, including the radical historicisation of Christian theology and its exposure to major philosophical innovations. This edition includes a full scholarly introduction.
UK May 2022 • US May 2022 • 240 pages HB 9780567694485 • £95.00 / $130.00 ePub 9780567694515 • £85.50 / $112.04 ePdf 9780567694492 • £85.50 / $112.04 T&T Clark
Persian Influence on Daniel and Jewish Apocalyptic Literature
Vicente Dobroruka, University of Brasilia, Brazil Dobroruka investigates the nature of the Iranian influence on Second Temple Judaism, addressing the problems created by a dualistic worldview, the Indo-European origins of Zoaster and his ideas, and the long term implications for the notion of free will. Dobroruka refers to a number of concepts that illuminate this influence, including the idea of an 'Anointed One' and the resurrection.
UK April 2022 • US April 2022 • 288 pages HB 9780567205056 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePdf 9780567705280 • £76.50 / $100.32 Series: Jewish and Christian Texts • T&T Clark
