A guide to essential aspects of Old Testament exegesis.
Today's secularists too often have very little accurate knowledge about religion, and even less desire to learn. This is problematic insofar as their sense of self is constructed in opposition to religion. Above all, the secularist is not a Jew, is not a Christian, not a Muslim, and so on. But is it intellectually responsible to define one's identity against something that one does not understa…
Marginal notes based on the Good News Translation (TEV), thatare typical of those include in translations of the Old Testament.
"This volume continues a well-established tradition of presenting the proceedings of the triennial Congress of the International Organization for Septuagint and Cognate Studies (IOSCS) in published form. In method and content, the seventeen papers published here represent the current state of Septuagint studies, ranging in their approach from the conceptual to the specific and in their subject …
In this expanded version of James Barr's classic work, three additional articles by the author are added. They are (1) "Philology and Exegesis: Some General Remarks, with Illustrations from Job," (2) "Ugaritic and Hebrew sbm?" and (3) "Limitations of Etymology as a Lexicographical Instrument in Biblical Hebrew." The text of the original edition (Oxford University Press, 1968) remains unchanged.…
By reliable, of course, Kitchen (emeritus, Egyptology, U. of Liverpool) means the extent to which the Hebrew scripture can be made to correspond to received notions about the past from the disciplines of history and archaeology. He explores such topics as the Hebrew kingdoms, exile and return, Canaa