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Isaiah: An Introduction and Study Guide A Paradigmatic Prophet and His Interpreters
C.L. Crouch, Radboud University & Christopher B. Hays, Fuller Theological Seminary, USA Introducing the Book of Isaiah, this guide examines its structure and characteristics. It covers the latest Biblical scholarship, including its composition history and key historical and interpretive issues, and considers a range of scholarly approaches. In particular, Crouch and Hays look at the presence of an Isaianic community around the text, and examine the strong themes of righteousness and holiness. This guide also considers the reception history of Isaiah and what the text has meant to people across history. UK August 2022 • US August 2022 • 144 pages PB 9780567680341 • £17.99 / $24.95 • HB 9780567693761 • £55.00 / $75.00 ePub 9780567680365 • £16.19 / $23.34 ePdf 9780567680358 • £16.19 / $23.34 Series: T&T Clark’s Study Guides to the Old Testament • T&T Clark
Laura Quick, University of Oxford, UK and Jacqueline Vayntrub, Yale University, USA
Characters and Characterization in the Book of Judges Edited by Keith Bodner, Crandall University, Canada & Benjamin J.M. Johnson, LeTourneau University, USA
How does our assessment of the characters of a story shape the way we read it? By analyzing the complex characterization in the Book of Judges, this book pays attention to an often neglected but important area of study in the Hebrew Bible. Its international group of contributors explore the implications of characterization on storytelling, situating their contributions within the context of literary studies of the Hebrew Bible, and offering multiple perspectives on the many and various characters one encounters in the Book of Judges. UK December 2022 • US December 2022 • 272 pages HB 9780567700506 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePdf 9780567700513 • £76.50 / $105.78 Series: The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies • T&T Clark
Human Interaction with the Natural World in Wisdom Literature and Beyond Essays in Honour of Tova L. Forti
Edited by Mordechai Cogan, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, Katharine J. Dell, University of Cambridge, UK & David GlattGilad, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel Created in honor of the work of Professor Tova Forti, this collection considers the natural world in key wisdom books – Proverbs, Job and Qoheleth/Ecclesiastes, Ben Sira and Song of Songs/Solomon. It also examines particular animal and plant imagery in other texts in the Hebrew Bible. UK December 2022 • US December 2022 • 288 pages HB 9780567701206 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePdf 9780567701213 • £76.50 / $105.78 Series: The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies • T&T Clark
The Animalising Affliction of Nebuchadnezzar in Daniel 4 Reading Across the Human-Animal Boundary
Peter Joshua Atkins, University of Chester, UK A detailed investigation into the nature of Nebuchadnezzar's animalising affliction in Daniel 4 and the degree to which he is depicted as actually becoming an animal. Atkins demonstrates that when Daniel 4 is read in the context of Mesopotamian texts, however, which appear to conceive of the human animal boundary as being indicated primarily in relation to possession or lack of the divine characteristic of wisdom, the affliction represents a far more significant categorical change from human to animal than has hitherto been identified. UK December 2022 • US December 2022 • 272 pages HB 9780567706195 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePdf 9780567706201 • £76.50 / $105.78 Series: The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies • T&T Clark
The Ark of the Covenant and Divine Wrath in the Ancient Near East Raging Gods
Maria J. Metzler, Harvard University, USA An examination of the violent episodes featuring the Ark of the Covenant of Yahweh in the Hebrew Bible. Maria J Metzler considers these alongside tales of destruction inflicted by other ancient Near Eastern deities, especially the Mesopotamian plague god Nergal/Erra. It considers the Ark of the Covenant as a piece of cultic furniture mysteriously infused with the presence—and wrath—of Yahweh, providing both a biography of the Ark, and an analysis of the unaccountable rage of God in the Hebrew Bible. It also includes a feminist dimension to the reading, through a comparison with Aeschylus’ Agamemnon. UK December 2022 • US December 2022 • 224 pages HB 9780567700643 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePdf 9780567700650 • £76.50 / $105.78 Series: The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies • T&T Clark
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Anonymous Prophets and Archetypal Kings Reading 1 Kings 13
Paul Hedley Jones, Trinity College Queensland, Australia Paul Hedley Jones provides an analysis of 1 Kings 13 that is attentive to literary, historical and theological concerns. He presents readers with a summary and evaluation of Karl Barth’s overtly theological exposition of the chapter—as set out in his Church Dogmatics—and explores how this analysis was received and critiqued by Barth's academic peers, who focused on very different questions, priorities and methods. He also considers how his readings may be brought into discussion with contemporary biblical scholarship. UK October 2022 • US October 2022 • 272 pages • 1 bw illus PB 9780567699626 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9780567695260 ePdf 9780567695277 • £76.50 / $105.78 Series: The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies • T&T Clark
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