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Jesus and Temple: Textual and Archaeological Explorations
James H. Charlesworth gathers essays from world-renowned archaeologists and biblical scholars to address the current state of knowledge and to consider anew vital questions about the temple's significance for Jesus, for his followers, and for New Testament readers today.
$39.00
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1 Enoch 2: A Commentary on the Book of 1 Enoch, Chapters 37-82
1 Enoch presents interpreters with a complex knot of interrelated puzzles concerning the history of early Judaism, the trajectories of wisdom and apocalyptic...
$89.00
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Seeing the Lord's Glory: Kyriocentric Visions and the Dilemma of Early Christology
Kaiser examines the phenomenon of "kyriocentric" visions in Second Temple Judaism, asking whether such traditions are sufficient to account for the shape of early claims regarding the divinity of Christ.
$49.00
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Paul and the Politics of Diaspora
It is a commonplace today that Paul was a Jew of the Hellenistic Diaspora, but how does that observation help us to understand his thinking, his self-identification, and his practice? Ronald Charles applies the insights of contemporary diaspora studies to address much-debated questions about Paul's identity as a diaspora Jew.
$29.00
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The Jewish Pseudepigrapha: An Introduction to the Literature of the Second Temple Period
Designed with the beginning student in mind, this volume introduces the reader to the books that did not make it into the Bible or the Apocrypha but that remained popular among Jews and early Christians for centuries.
$49.00
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Threshing Floors In Ancient Israel: Their Ritual and Symbolic Significance
Jaime L. Waters here examines the various personnel active in the construction and operation of threshing floors to draw a more complete picture of ancient Israelite social life.
$44.00
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Repentance at Qumran: The Penitential Framework of Religious Experience in the Dead Sea Scrolls
Mark A. Jason offers a detailed investigation of the place of repentance in the Dead Sea Scrolls, addressing a significant lacuna in Qumran scholarship. Jason establishes the importance of repentance as a fundamental way of structuring and describing religious experience within the Qumran community, lacuna, Pseudepigrapha, daily life in ancient Judea
$59.00
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Hezekiah and the Dialogue of Memory
Examining the different accounts of Hezekiah's reign in 2 Kings, 2 Chronicles, and Isaiah, Song-Mi Suzie Park describes a "Hezekiah complex" in which the king served as a symbol for the vicissitudes of Judah's history.
$59.00
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The Watchers in Jewish and Christian Traditions
At the origin of the Watchers tradition is the single enigmatic reference in Genesis 6 to the “sons of God” who had intercourse with human...
$34.00
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Israel's Poetry of Resistance: Africana Perspectives on Early Hebrew Verse
Hugh R. Page Jr. argues that the careful collection and preservation of Israel's poetic traditions was an act of resistance to the forces of despair.
$32.00
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The Violence of Scripture: Overcoming the Old Testament's Troubling Legacy
No one can read far in the Hebrew Bible without encountering depictions of violence carried out by human beings, sometimes in the name of God, or indeed...
$29.00
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The Gospel on the Margins: The Reception of Mark in the Second Century
Michael J. Kok surveys the second-century reception of Mark, from Papias of Hierapolis to Clement of Alexandria, and finds that the patristic writers were hesitant to embrace Mark because they perceived it to be too easily adapted to rival Christian factions. Kok describes the story of Mark's Petrine origins as a second-century move to assert ownership of the Gospel on the part of the emerging Orthodox Church.
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The Social World of the Sages: An Introduction to Israelite and Jewish Wisdom Literature
The notion of a distinct "wisdom tradition" in ancient Israel has a long history-but does it have a basis in the evidence? Mark R. Sneed argues for a redefinition of the wisdom literature as a loosely cohering collection of books aimed at educating scribal apprentices in moral instruction and the art of living.
$44.00
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Betrayal: German Churches and the Holocaust
Leading scholars in the field of Holocaust studies place the Nazi era in full historical perspective. This book is a broad overview of the Protestant and...
$29.00
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The Social History of Ancient Israel: An Introduction
Histories of ancient Israel have usually focused attention on major figures in powerful positions: kings, prophets, and patriarchs. Kessler asks about the...
$32.00
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The Dawn of Apocalyptic: The Historical & Sociological Roots of Jewish Apocalyptic Eschatology
In challenging both traditional and contemporary notions of the nature and history of the Biblical apocalyptic literature, Professor Hanson begins by saying...
$30.00
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Related Strangers: Jews and Christians 70-170 C.E.
This book examines Jewish-Christian relations during one of the most formative but also most obscure centuries, when many of the features that have...
$26.00
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Galilee in the Late Second Temple and Mishnaic Periods, Volume 1: Life, Culture, and Society
This accessible volume includes modern general studies of Galilee and of Galilean history, as well as specialized studies on taxation, ethnicity, religious practices, road systems, trade and markets, education, health, village life, houses, and the urban-rural divide.
$75.00
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Jewish Life and Thought among Greeks and Romans: Primary Readings
This comprehensive treasury of sources on Judaism in the ancient period will be valued and used by students, scholars, and general readers who are interested...
$39.00
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Jews and Christians Speak of Jesus
This volume of essays is an example of something new and exciting that is going on in North America, especially between Jews and Christians. For the first time...
$20.00
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