Fortress Press

Theology of the Old Testament: Stand-alone CD-ROM

Walter Brueggemann (Author)

Using the Libronix software, with helpful features for the user (searching, bookmarking, highlighting, auto-footnoting, notetaking), the CD-ROM also includes...

Jewish Literature between the Bible and the Mishnah, 2nd Ed.: Stand-alone CD-ROM

George W. E. Nickelsburg (Author)

In this fully revised and expanded edition, Nickelsburg introduces the reader to the broad range of Jewish literature that is not part of either the Bible or...

Introduction to the Hebrew Bible: Stand-alone CD-ROM

John J. Collins (Author)

This accessible introduction to the Hebrew Bible, including the Apocrypha, features a CD-ROM that uses Libronix software and offers the full text of the book...

The Old Testament Story: Stand-alone CD-ROM

Don C. Benjamin (Author)

The Old Testament Story: stand-alone CD-ROM is a solid and exciting guide for lower division courses in religious or public universities, and for adult learners...

Lyrics of Lament: From Tragedy to Transformation

Nancy C. Lee (Author)

In a world torn by division, violence, and deprivation, there are to be found largely forgotten laments, by singers, poets, and musicians across cultural and...

Unfolding the Deuteronomistic History: Origins, Upgrades, Present Text

Antony F. Campbell (Author), Mark A. O'Brien (Author)

The Deuteronomistic History is the label used by scholars for the Old Testament books of Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Samuel, and the First and Second Book...

The Green Psalter: Resources for an Ecological Spirituality

Arthur Walker-Jones (Author)

Concern for the earth and biblical faith have had an uneasy relationship: ecological theologians have often cited biblical themes of dominion or...

The Heart of Biblical Narrative

Karl Allen Kuhn (Author)

Modern biblical scholarship has long been preoccupied with the relationship between history and doctrine. Karl A. Kuhn argues that an overly rational approach...

Daughter Zion, Mother Zion: Gender, Space, and the Sacred in Ancient Israel

Christl M. Maier (Author)

In this innovative and important work Christl M. Maier argues that the way Israelites in the exilic and post-exilic periods spoke of Jerusalem as gendered space...

Covenantal Conversations: Christians in Dialogue with Jews and Judaism

Darrell Jodock (Editor)

This useful volume, edited by noted theologian Darrell Jodock and including leading thinkers both Christian and Jewish...

Meanings: The Bible as Document and as Guide, Second Edition

Krister Stendahl (Author)

These essays reveal the consistency and integrity of a master exegete, New Testament theologian, and churchman. Stendahl brings to the biblical text a constant...

The Messiah: In Early Judaism and Christianity

Magnus Zetterholm (Editor)

The Messiah neatly surveys currents of messianic thought in the formative centuries of Judaism and Christianity, providing precision in thinking about...

The Literature of the Sages, Second Part

Shmuel Safrai (Editor), Zeev Safrai (Editor), Joshua Schwarz (Editor), Peter J. Tomson (Editor)

This long-awaited companion volume to The Literature of the Sages, First Part (Fortress Press, 1987) brings to completion Section II of the renowned...

Los doce profetas menores: The Twelve Minor Prophets

Alejandro F. Botta (Author)

Gnosticism, Judaism, and Egyptian Christianity

Birger A. Pearson (Author)

In this important contribution to the scholarly study of Egyptian Gnosticism, Pearson situates Gnosticism in its historical context and describes its manifold...

Encounters with Biblical Theology

John J. Collins (Author)

This important book for use in Old Testament courses is also a valuable resource for those exploring the role of the Bible in culture today. The articles...

Related Strangers: Jews and Christians 70-170 C.E.

Stephen G. Wilson (Author)

This book examines Jewish-Christian relations during one of the most formative but also most obscure centuries, when many of the features that have...

Ruth: Continental Commentaries

Andre LaCocque (Author), K. C. Hanson (Translator)

This volume provides a readable introduction to the narrative book of Ruth appropriate for the student, pastor, and scholar. LaCocque combines historical,...

Does the Bible Justify Violence?

John J. Collins (Author)

Renowned biblical scholar John J. Collins asks tough questions about the relationship between the portrayals of violence in the Bible and how they have been...

Reading Women's Stories: Female Characters in the Hebrew Bible

John Petersen (Author)

In this literary approach to biblical stories for the modern reader, Petersen's study examines the dynamics of biblical narrative, employing workable methods...