Making Men: The Male Coming-of-Age Theme in the Hebrew Bible

"This book identifies seven narratives of male maturation in the Hebrew Bible, and shows how this theme is employed by biblical redactors and narrators to highlight transitions in the historical prose of the Hebrew Bible. It also considers how these stories provide insight into the varying representations of biblical masculinity"--

The Bible and The Ancient Near East

Presented in this volume is a collection of the shorter writings of one of the more innovative scholars working on the relationship between the writings of the Hebrew Bible and its ancient Near East context. Topics include: ANE environment, literature of the ANE, myth versus history, Nebuchadnezzar I's Elamite crisis, Job and the Israelite religious tradition, motif of the weeping God in Jeremi…

History & Traditions of Early Israel

This Festschrift consists of a dozen articles on the history of Israel before the classical prophets in the 8th century, and on literary traditions referring to this phase of Israelite history.

The Old Testament Introduction Volume 2

V.1 Historical traditions.

The Old Testament Introduction. Vol.3

V.1 Historical traditions.

Old Testament Exegesis A Primer for Students and Pastors

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Old Testament Exegesis - A Guide to the Methodology second edition

Translated from the 12th edition of the German work (date and publisher not noted), this work is intended as a training work for advanced students. Approaches examined include text literary criticism, transmission historical, form critical, traditional historical, and historical setting determination. An illustrative example of interpretation using the analysis of Genesis 28:10-22 concludes the…

From GODS To GOD - How The Bible Debunked, Suppressed or Changed Ancient Myth…

"Published by the University of Nebraska Press as a Jewish Publication Society book."

Patterns of Destiny

"Diane Sharon uses the tools of structuralist literary criticism to uncover social and theological patterns in the literature of the Hebrew Bible. After providing a brief framework for understanding the approach used in her study, she demonstrates that the social activity of eating and drinking, when accompanied by other literary motifs, is part of a pattern portending the establishment or cond…

From Ancient Writings to Sacred Texts

Nigosian explores the diverse literary antecedents of the Old Testament as well as the Apocrypha -- books excluded from the canonical Hebrew text but included in the Septuagint.