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Biblical Studies
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
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 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 Laura Quick, University of Oxford, UK and Jacqueline Vayntrub, Yale University, USA
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
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
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
Ezekiel and the World of Deuteronomy
Jason Gile, Northern Seminary, USA Jason Gile argues that the ideas of Deuteronomy influenced Ezekiel’s response to the crisis surrounding the fall of Jerusalem and the Babylonian exile in significant ways. Gile argues that these ideas shaped Israel’s past history of rebellion against Yahweh, present situation of divine judgment, and future hope of restoration. The book aids understanding of the book of Ezekiel in its literary-historical context and supplies a new methodological framework for allusion and influence in the Hebrew Bible. It breaks new ground in the study of what allusion means in an oral culture like ancient Israel’s.
UK December 2022 • US December 2022 • 280 pages PB 9780567701336 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9780567694300 ePdf 9780567694317 • £76.50 / $105.78 Series: The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies • T&T Clark
Prophetic Otherness
Edited by Steed Vernyl Davidson, McCormick Theological Seminary, USA & Daniel Timmer, Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary, USA This collection argues that the final form of prophetic texts attempts a picture of stability; of a new world that emerges in the aftermath of the turbulent experiences of Israel/Judah’s history, sustained by a coherent community and identity. The essays both describe and analyse the various categories of otherness in prophetic literature which threaten such an identity, displaying the complex and contradictory nature of such depictions.
UK December 2022 • US December 2022 • 248 pages PB 9780567700612 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9780567687821 ePdf 9780567687838 • £76.50 / $105.78 Series: The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies • T&T Clark
Jewish and Christian Texts
An Ecology of Scriptures
Experiences of Dwelling Behind Early Jewish and Christian Texts
Jolyon G. R. Pruszinski, Princeton Theological Seminary, USA Pruszinski examines the experiences of domestic and quotidian space that contributed to the extant form of many foundational early Jewish and Christian scriptures. Analytical approaches are derived from diverse sources including modern psychological science, Gaston Bachelard’s critical theories of domestic space, and Henri Lefebvre’s observations regarding 'spatial practice'. The result is an innovative exploration of classic texts yielding exciting new interpretive possibilities for the Gospel of John, the Parables of Enoch, the Book of Revelation, and the Apocalypse of Zosimos.
UK December 2022 • US December 2022 • 224 pages • 14 bw illus PB 9780567699954 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9780567694942 ePub 9780567694973 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9780567694959 • £76.50 / $105.78 Series: Jewish and Christian Texts • T&T Clark Else K. Holt, University of Aarhus, Denmark This collection of essays considers the Book of Esther from a literary and sociological perspective. Else Holt outlines the main questions of historicalcritical research, and offers a deconstructive reading of themes hidden under the surface-levels of the book. Chapters include discussions of intertextual conversation with two much later texts, The Arabian Nights and The Story of O. The study introduces the sociological concept of ethnicity-construction as the backdrop for perceiving the instigation of the Jewish festival Purim and the violence connected to it, and also looks at the Book of Esther as an example of trauma literature.
UK October 2022 • US October 2022 • 184 pages • 4 bw illus PB 9780567697646 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9780567697615 ePdf 9780567697622 • £76.50 / $105.78 Series: The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies • T&T Clark
The Bible and Comics
Women, Power and Representation in Graphic Narratives
Zanne Domoney-Lyttle, University of Glasgow, UK This interdisciplinary volume traces the diverse ways in which creators of biblical comics present women, constructs of power and ideas of motherhood. Using examples from both secular and religious comic Bibles, and comic Bibles aimed at children and older audiences, Zanne Domoney-Lyttle fully considers contemporary remediations of biblical narratives and how the graphic novel medium affects the reception of the text in several ways. She investigates how the production, format and function of comic Bibles encourage the depiction of biblical characters from a contemporary perspective, while at the same time showing some fidelity to the text.
UK December 2022 • US December 2022 • 240 pages • 20 images, four per chapter HB 9780567687968 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePdf 9780567687975 • £76.50 / $105.78 Series: The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies & Scriptural Traces • T&T Clark
Cyprus Within the Biblical World
Are Borders Barriers?
Edited by James H. Charlesworth, Princeton Theological Seminary, USA & Jolyon G. R. Pruszinski, Princeton Theological Seminary, USA This is the first volume to examine the links between Cyprus and Israel/Palestine in antiquity, including the voices of leading scholars from archaeology, biblical studies and classical studies. The contributors offer archaeological and biblical insights into how and in what ways, Cyprus and Cyprian culture were related to biblical life and show that although the Mediterranean separated Palestine from Cyprus, it also joined them. Archaeological finds expose significant trade relations and cultural commonalities, not only in the Hellenistic and late-Roman eras, but for many centuries prior.
UK November 2022 • US November 2022 • 256 pages • 51 bw illus PB 9780567699473 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9780567694904 ePub 9780567694935 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9780567694911 • £76.50 / $105.78 Series: Jewish and Christian Texts • T&T Clark
Paul and Asklepios
The Greco-Roman Quest for Healing and the Apostolic Mission
Christopher D. Stanley, St Bonaventure University, USA This volume explores the reasons for Paul's silence on health, medical care and healing in his letters, and what we might reasonably infer regarding Paul’s views on the subjects. Christopher D. Stanley focuses in particular on two questions that have been neglected in previous scholarship on the apostle Paul: first, what did Paul think, say, and do regarding the treatment of his own and his followers’ illnesses and injuries, including “pagan” modes of medical care? And second, how did his ideas on this subject affect the success of his missionary enterprise?
UK September 2022 • US September 2022 • 288 pages HB 9780567696557 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9780567696588 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9780567696564 • £76.50 / $105.78 Series: The Library of New Testament Studies • T&T Clark
Atonement and Ethics in 1 John
A Peacemaking Hermeneutic
Christopher Armitage, St. Mark's National Theological Centre, Australia Christopher Armitage considers previous theological perceptions of 1 John as a text which stresses that God abhors violence. Armitage contrasts such views with biblical scholarship that focuses upon 1 John's birth from hostile theological conflict between 'insiders' and 'outsiders'. The volume argues that a peace-oriented reading of 1 John is still viable, but questions if the commandment that the community loves each other is intended to include their opponents, and whether the text can be of hermeneutic use to advocate non-violence and love of one’s neighbour.
UK December 2022 • US December 2022 • 240 pages PB 9780567700780 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9780567700742 ePub 9780567700773 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9780567700759 • £76.50 / $105.78 Series: The Library of New Testament Studies • T&T Clark
Relating the Gospels
Memory, Imitation and the Farrer Hypothesis
Eric Eve, Harris Manchester College, UK Presenting a defence of the Farrer Hypothesis, Eric Eve argues that a flexible understanding of memory easily explains Luke's use of Matthean material out of sequence. Eve also introduces ancient literary imitation as a mode of source utilization into discussion of the synoptic problem, drawing insights from this to suggest that Luke's gospel is best seen as an emulation of Matthew. Using a framework based in an understanding of how ancient authors used their sources, Eve concludes that the Farrer hypothesis is the most likely answer to the synoptic problem.
UK October 2022 • US October 2022 • 240 pages PB 9780567699060 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9780567681102 ePub 9780567681140 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9780567681119 • £76.50 / $105.78 Series: The Library of New Testament Studies • T&T Clark Reading Obedience in Romans
Jason A. Myers, Greensboro College, USA A reconsideration of the phrase “the obedience of faith” and the theme of obedience in Romans. In contrast to previous studies that have near exclusively focused on the obedience language in light of the Hebrew Bible and 2nd Temple literature, Myers instead investigates how this language functioned within the Greco-Roman world, particularly in the discourse of the Roman Empire. He also explores how some in Paul’s audience may have understood the language of obedience.
UK September 2022 • US September 2022 • 240 pages HB 9780567705839 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9780567705860 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9780567705846 • £76.50 / $105.78 Series: The Library of New Testament Studies • T&T Clark
Constructing Ethnic Identity in 1 Peter
Who You Are No Longer
Janette H. Ok, Fuller Theological Seminary, USA Janette Ok explores the benefits and liabilities of defining Christian identity along ethnic lines, challenging the Christian acceptance of geopolitical rhetorics of protecting borders, building walls, and keeping out illegal or unwanted immigrants. She examines how the writer of 1 Peter makes use of various literary and rhetorical strategies to characterize Christian Identity as an ethnic identity, including establishing a sense of shared history and ancestry, delineating boundaries, stereotyping and negatively characterizing 'the other'. Ok thus is able to highlight how these strategies bear striking resemblances to what modern anthropologists and sociologists describe as the characteristics of ethnic groups.
UK October 2022 • US October 2022 • 136 pages PB 9780567698544 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9780567698506 ePub 9780567698537 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9780567698513 • £76.50 / $105.78 Series: The Library of New Testament Studies • T&T Clark
Religious Experience and the Creation of Scripture
Examining Inspiration in Luke-Acts and Galatians
Mark Wreford, Diocese of Southwell and Nottingham, UK Mark Wreford examines the reasons that prompted the New Testament writers to create the texts which would become the formation of the Christian religion. Wreford explores the possibility that certain religious experiences were understood as revelatory, and consequently inspired the writing of texts which were seen as special from their inception. Wreford uses Luke-Acts and Galatians as test-cases within the New Testament, in order to reflect on both the stated importance of religious experiences – whether the author’s own or others’ – to the development of these texts, and the status of the texts intend to claim for themselves.
UK October 2022 • US October 2022 • 224 pages PB 9780567698698 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9780567696632 ePub 9780567696663 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9780567696649 • £76.50 / $105.78 Series: The Library of New Testament Studies • T&T Clark
Philological Windows on the Theopneustia of Scripture
John C. Poirier, Independant Scholar, USA In this first full-length study of the word "theopneustia" in the New Testament, John C. Poirier examines the “inspired” nature of the Scripture, as a response to the view that such “inspiration” lies at the heart of most contemporary Christian theology. In contrast to the traditional rendering of theopneustia as “Godinspired” in 2 Tim 3:16, Poirier argues that this traditional inspirationist understanding of the term only arose with Origen (early third c. CE), and that in earlier contexts it meant “lifegiving”.
UK October 2022 • US October 2022 • 272 pages PB 9780567698681 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9780567696731 ePub 9780567696762 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9780567696748 • £76.50 / $105.78 Series: The Library of New Testament Studies • T&T Clark
The Shepherd of Hermas
A Literary, Historical, and Theological Handbook
Jonathon Lookadoo, Presbyterian University and Theological Seminary, Korea This is a guide through the early Christian apocalypse known as the Shepherd of Hermas, providing a clear overview of the numerous literary, historical, and theological insights the text has for those researching early Christianity. Jonathon Lookadoo introduces the Shepherd by providing an overview of the text to those with limited familiarity, while also focusing on critical issues such as authorship, date, and the complex manuscript tradition and reception history, and providing a fresh perspective that arises from a thoroughly textual focus. Lookadoo enables readers to engage both with the Shepherd itself and the scholarship that surrounds the text.
UK December 2022 • US December 2022 • 312 pages PB 9780567699947 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9780567697912 ePub 9780567697943 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9780567697929 • £76.50 / $105.78 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 circa 63 BCE until the time of the Bar Kochba Revolt (135/136 CE). Stiebel first examines Roman militaria and provides a study of the types of weapon used and how they were produced and stored, and then looks at how the types of weapon marked identity and carried symbolic meaning. Finally, he outlines how the Romans dealt with the aftermath of conflict, reusing and reshaping the ruins of conquered territories.
UK January 2023 • US January 2023 • 208 pages • 10 bw illus HB 9780567691729 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9780567691750 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9780567691736 • £76.50 / $105.78 T&T Clark Margaret H. Williams, University of Edinburgh, UK Margaret Williams examines how classical writers saw and portrayed Jesus. The volume shows how each of the early classical writers who mentions him (the historian Tacitus; the biographer Suetonius; the epistolographer Pliny and the satirist Lucian) takes a different view of Jesus and presents him in a different way. Williams considers these different depictions and questions why these writers had such differing views of Jesus. To answer this question Williams examines both the different literary conventions by which each of these writers was bound and the social, cultural and religious contexts in which they operated.
UK October 2022 • US October 2022 • 208 pages HB 9780567683151 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9780567683199 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9780567683168 • £76.50 / $105.78 Series: The Reception of Jesus in the First Three Centuries • T&T Clark
The Voice of Judith in 300 Years of Oratorio and Opera
Helen Leneman, Independent Scholar, UK Examines how Judith has been presented by poets and composers over four centuries. Helen Leneman analyzes numerous examples of music, librettos and the librettists’ views of Judith. She demonstrates how these have been strongly influenced by the societal attitudes of their time, and how these librettos can suggest unexpected ways of understanding biblical women and their stories. Beginning with the political influences of several 17th- and 18thcentury operettas based on Judith, Leneman then turns to the radicalism of the 19th-century, the social upheavals in France and Italy, and the period’s influence on both Judith’s defiance and her scheme of seduction.
UK December 2022 • US December 2022 • 280 pages • 6 bw illus PB 9780567699930 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9780567687302 ePdf 9780567687319 • £81.00 / $112.65 T&T Clark
Jewish Law in Gentile Churches
Halakhah and the Beginning of Christian Public Ethics
Markus Bockmuehl, University of Oxford, UK Examining the halakhic (Jewish legal) rationale behind the ethics of Jesus, Paul and the early Christians, Markus Bockmuehl questions why the Gentile church kept Old Testament commandments about sex and idolatry, but disregarded many others, like those about food or ritual purity. He offers fresh and often unexpected answers based on careful biblical and historical study. His arguments have far-reaching implications not only for the study of the New Testament, but more broadly for the relationship between Christianity and Judaism.
UK January 2022 • US January 2022 • 336 pages PB 9780567706799 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9780567087348 T&T Clark
