The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies Unity

in the Book of Isaiah

Edited by Benedetta Rossi, Pontifical Biblical Institute, Italy, Dominic S. Irudayaraj, Pontifical Biblical Institute, Italy and Hekima College, Kenya and University of Pretoria, South Africa & Gina Hens-Piazza, Jesuit School of Santa Clara, USA

Building on previous holistic readings of the Book of Isaiah, this collection approaches Isaiah through the concept of unity Contributors outline research that points to new directions in the unity movement and, in the process, bring it under a critical gaze, considering the perennial challenges to unity reading and thus problematizing the very concept of unity Divided into four parts, the book provides methodological reflections, examines historical and redactional readings, literary readings and contextual or readerorientated readings of the Book of Isaiah

UK October 2023 US October 2023 288 pages

HB 9780567705938 £85 00 / $115 00 ePdf 9780567705945 • £76 50 / $103 94

Series: The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies • T&T Clark

Characters and Characterization in the Book of Judges

Ancient Near Eastern Iconography and the Bible

Erwin Panofsky and Othmar Keel in Dialogue

Edited by Hans Ulrich Steymans, University of Fribourg, Switzerland

Examines the dilemma of whether ancient Near Eastern images – while providing unique aspects of the world-views of the cultures from which the Bible arose – can be interpreted in a way that traceably relates them to the biblical text The essays within this volume describe the methods developed by Othmar Keel for bringing imagery into a dialogue with texts from the ancient Orient and their own interpretation, including previously unpublished material from Keel

UK October 2023 • US October 2023 • 288 pages • 15 b&w images

HB 9780567691835 • £85 00 / $115 00 ePdf 9780567691842 • £76 50 / $103 94

Series: The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies • T&T Clark

Jerusalem as Contested Space in Ezekiel

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 November 2023 US November 2023 272 pages

HB 9780567700506 • £85 00 / $115 00 ePdf 9780567700513 • £76 50 / $103 94

Series: The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies • T&T Clark

On Femininities in the Song of Songs and Beyond

“The Most Beautiful Woman”

Vita Daphna Arbel, University of British Columbia, Canada

Introduces new perspectives to gender and feminist studies of the Song of Songs, offering an alternative reading of the multilayered conceptualization of its feminine protagonist, “the most beautiful woman” Vita Daphna Arbel situates this representation within the cultural-discursive contexts in which the Song partly emerged, and considers the manner in which it disrupts rigid, ahistorical notions of femininity Finally, Arbel examines the reception and impact of these ideas on later conceptualizations of the Song of Songs' female protagonist with an heuristic examination of Mark Chagall’s Song of Songs painting cycle, Le Cantique des Cantiques

UK July 2023

• US July 2023

PB 9780567700094

• 5 bw illus

• 192 pages

• £28 99 / $39 95

Previously published in HB 9780567700063 ePdf 9780567700070

• £76 50 / $103 94

Series: The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies

• T&T Clark

Exilic Encounters with Emotions, Space, and Identity Politics

Natalie Mylonas, Macquarie University, Australia

Natalie Mylonas uses Ezekiel 16 as a case study in order to reveal the critical relationship between space, emotion, and identity politics in the Hebrew Bible Drawing on interdisciplinary research that emphasises how space and emotions are inextricably linked in human experience, Mylonas explores the portrayal of Yhwh’s wife, Jerusalem, in Ezekiel 16 as a personified city who feels She shows how the power struggle between Jerusalem and Yhwh in Ezekiel 16 is a struggle over the contested space of Jerusalem’s body and the city space

UK June 2023 • US June 2023 • 192 pages

HB 9780567706423 • £85 00 / $115 00 ePdf 9780567706430 • £76 50 / $103 94

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 September 2023

PB 9780567704597

• US September 2023

• £28 99 / $39 95

Previously published in HB 9780567704566 ePdf 9780567704573 £76 50 / $103 94

• 288 pages

Series: The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies

• T&T Clark

James H. Charlesworth, Princeton Theological Seminary, USA

A Gate to Heaven

Essenes, Qumran: Origins and Heirs

Etienne Nodet, Ecole Biblique, Jerusalem, Israel Nodet proposes that Qumran was a pilgrimage site for the Essenes from the 1st century BC onwards He suggests that the Essenes were scattered in rural communities across Palestine and that they would gather to commemorate the early Israelites’ entrance into the Promised Land Nodet also suggests the Essene dead were buried at Qumran because it was deemed to be a gate to heaven. He shows the ongoing significance of the Essenes after the war in Jerusalem in 70 CE, and their influence on Christianity and later Judaism

UK June 2023 US June 2023 224 pages

HB 9780567709714 £85 00 / $115 00 ePub 9780567709745 £76 50 / $103 94 ePdf 9780567709721 • £76 50 / $103 94

Series: Jewish and Christian Texts • T&T Clark

World English

The Protevangelium of James

Critical Questions of the Text and Full Collations of the Greek Manuscripts: Volume 2

George T. Zervos, University of North Carolina

Wilmington, USA

George T Zervos provides a critical investigation of the Protevangelium of James Whereas Zervos' first volume offers a critical edition of the Greek text together with English translation and critical introduction, he now considers the wide-ranging critical questions in greater depth Zervos has created a data driven textual commentary on the very early complete papyrus copy of the ProtJac, P Bodm V, highlighting the idiosyncrasies of the papyrus text vis-à-vis the remainder of the Greek MS tradition He additionally analyses the perpetuation of doctrinal misrepresentation by a number of later scribes

UK July 2023

• US July 2023

PB 9780567704511

• 864 pages

• £49 99 / $67 95

Previously published in HB 9780567553775 ePub 9780567322746 £135 00 / $183 59 ePdf 9780567023872 • £135 00 / $183 59

Series: Jewish and Christian Texts • T&T Clark

T&T Clark Library of New Testament Greek

The Samaritans

Etienne Nodet, Ecole Biblique, Jerusalem, Israel

Nodet examines the religion of the Samaritans, showing that far from being a degraded form of Judaism, the Samaritans represented the most ancient version of Israelite religion Nodet starts by looking at the time of the New Testament, tracing the sources back ultimately to the Persian period, where he shows how the Samaritans opposed the post-exilic restoration of a Babylonian form of religion, preferring their own more ancient practices

UK September 2023 US September 2023 224 pages

HB 9780567709660 • £85 00 / $115 00 ePub 9780567709691 • £76 50 / $103 94 ePdf 9780567709677 • £76 50 / $103 94

Series: Jewish and Christian Texts • T&T Clark

World English

Gods, Spirits, and Worship in the Greco-Roman World and Early Christianity

Edited by Craig A. Evans, Houston Baptist University, USA & Adam Z. Wright, College of Emmanuel & St. Chad, Canada

The 12 studies within explore Greco-Roman religions and superstitions and early Christianity’s engagement with them The contributors explore the Greco-Roman heroic gods, how they faced death, and how James and John — the sons of Thunder — may well have been viewed in some circles as the equivalent of the “sons of Zeus”, There is also examination of Roman omens, and how they might have been interpreted and utilised in comparison to the omens that accompany the birth and death of Jesus

UK August 2023 • US August 2023 • 280 pages • 7 bw illus

PB 9780567703309 • £28 99 / $39 95

Previously published in HB 9780567703262 ePub 9780567703293 • £76 50 / $103 94 ePdf 9780567703279 • £76 50 / $103 94

Series: Jewish and Christian Texts & Studies in Scripture in Early Judaism and Christianity

T&T Clark

Discourse Analysis and the Greek New Testament TextGenerating Resources

Stanley E. Porter, McMaster Divinity College, Canada & Matthew Brook O'Donnell, University of Liverpool, UK

This volume examines and outlines the Systemic Functional Linguistic (SFL) model of discourse analysis and its relationship to the New Testament since it was introduced to New Testament Greek studies by Porter in the 1980s Structured in two parts, part one introduces basic concepts related to SFL, part two provides a detailed exploration of discourse analysis in terms of the textual metafunction

UK July 2023 US July 2023 368 pages

• £100 00 / $135 00

HB 9780567709851 ePub 9780567709882 ePdf 9780567709868

• £90 00 / $122 84

• £90 00 / $122 84

Series: T&T Clark Library of New Testament Greek

• T&T Clark

Linguistic Descriptions of the Greek New Testament New Studies in Systemic Functional Linguistics

Stanley E. Porter, McMaster Divinity College, Canada

Stanley E Porter provides descriptions of important topics in Greek linguistics such as rhetoric, cognition, orality and textuality, as well as studies on linguistic schools of thought and on traditional grammar, from a Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) perspective This approach has been foundational to Porter’s long and influential career in the field of New Testament Greek. Each chapter provides deep insights into Porter’s understanding of SFL, based upon how he positions it in relation to other linguistic models or how he utilizes it to describe topics within Greek and New Testament studies

UK July 2023

• US July 2023

• 256 pages

HB 9780567710017 £85 00 / $115 00 ePub 9780567710048 £76 50 / $103 94 ePdf 9780567710024 £76 50 / $103 94

Series: T&T Clark Library of New Testament Greek • T&T Clark