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• 1. History and inventory
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• 2. Analysis of translated verses.

The Japanese Translations of the Hebrew Bible: History, Inventory and Analysis tells the story of the translation of the Bible into Japanese against the background of the transplanting of Christianity in Japan. It includes a detailed inventory of Old Testament translations, with linguistic and theological analyses of choice verses.

• List of Tables Acknowledgments Introduction: What You Need to Know
• Chapter 1: Take the Test: The Sixty-Second Super Easy Bible Quiz
• Chapter 2: A Tree With Deep Roots: A Brief History of Biblical Illiteracy
• Chapter 3: Bible Basics: It's Not Rocket Science!
• Chapter 4: The Problem of Pain: Why Do We Suffer?
• Chapter 5: Final Destinations: Heaven and Hell
• Chapter 6: Show Me the Money: The Surprising Truth About Wealth and Riches
• Chapter 7: Should We or Shouldn't We?: An Exploration of Sexuality and Gender
• Chapter 8: Fair is Fair: The Essential Aspects of Biblical Laws and Justice
• Chapter 9: Mother Earth: The Bible and the Environment
• Chapter 10: Making the God Connection: Communicating With God Through Prayer and Worship Conclusions Resources Index.
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What the Bible Really Tells Us provides an accessible introduction to reading the Good Book. It provides essential background information, then gives readers tools to interpret and understand passages. The book explores what the Bible really says about key issues today-including heaven & hell, wealth & money, and sexuality-then encourages readers to pursue Bible reading on their own.
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• Acknowledgments Introduction
• Chapter 1: Knowledge and Nakedness: Eve in the Garden of Signs
• Chapter 2: Sarah's Laughter: Matriarchal Incoherence and the Vexed Sign of Woman
• Chapter 3: Passing as a Man: Patriarchal Gender Performances
• Chapter 4: Leah Behind the Veil: Sex with Sisters from the Bible through Woody Allen
• Chapter 5: Coats and Tales: Joseph and Myths of Jewish Masculinity
• Chapter 6: Miriam's Fluid Identity
• Chapter 7: Bedrooms and Battlefields: Command Performances of Femininity
• Chapter 8: Bodies Politic: Violence and Mediated Boundaries
• Chapter 9: Oy! Was that a Close Call: Ruth and the Fundamental Jewish Story.
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Applying psychoanalytic and gender theory to selected Biblical narratives from Genesis to the Book of Ruth, Lefkovitz interprets the Bible's stories as foundation texts in the development of sexual identities. In Scripture is an exploration of the Biblical origins of a series of unstable ideas about the sexes, human sexuality, family roles, and Jewish sexual identities, in particular, and by extension, changing attitudes towards Jewish men and women.
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• Preface Jan Willem van Henten (University of Amsterdam, University of Stellenbosch), Pieter G.R. de Villiers (University of the Free State) Part I INTRODUCTORY ESSAYS Chapter One: Religion, Bible and Violence Jan Willem van Henten (University of Amsterdam, University of Stellenbosch) Chapter Two: Violence in the New Testament and the Roman Empire: Ambivalence, Othering, Agency Jeremy Punt (University of Stellenbosch) Part II CASE STUDIES Chapter Three: Paul's Version of "Turning the Other Cheek". Rethinking Violence and Tolerance Andries van Aarde (University of Pretoria) Chapter Four: Violence in the Letter to the Galatians? Francois Tolmie (University of the Free State) Chapter Five: A Godfighter Becomes a Fighter for God Rob van Houwelingen (Theological University Kampen) Chapter Six: Jesus and Violence: An Ideological-Critical Reading of the Tenants in Mark 12:1-12 Ernest van Eck (University of Pretoria) Chapter Seven: The Use of Violence in Punishing Adultery in Biblical Texts (Deuteronomy 22:13-29 and John 7:53-8:11) Wim Weren (Tilburg University) Chapter Eight: Violence in a Gospel of Love Jan van der Watt (Radboud University of Nijmegen, University of Pretoria) and Jacobus Kok (University of Pretoria) Chapter Nine: Images of War and Creation, of Violence and Non-Violence in the Revelation of John Paul B. Decock (University of KwaZulu-Natal, St. Joseph's Theological Institute) Chapter Ten: Exegetical Perspectives on Violence in Revelation 18 Pieter G.R. de Villiers (University of the Free State) Chapter Eleven: The Eschatological Battle according to the Book of Revelation: Perpectives on Revelation 19:11-21 Tobias Nicklas (University of Regensburg)
• Part III EPILOGUE Chapter Twelve: Hermeneutical Perspectives on Violence in the New Testament Pieter G.R. de Villiers (University of the Free State)
• Bibliography Subject Index.
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Violence is present in the very heart of religion and its sacred traditions - also of Christianity and the Bible. The problem, however, is not only that violence is ingrained in the mere existence of religions with their sacred traditions. It is equally problematic to realise that the icy grip of violence on the sacred has gone unnoticed and unchallenged for a very long time. The present publication aims to contribute to the recent scholarly debate about the interconnections between violence and monotheistic religions by analysing the role of violence in the New Testament as well as by offering some hermeneutical perspectives on violence as it is articulated in the earliest Christian writings. Contributors include: Andries G. van Aarde, Paul Decock, Pieter G.R. de Villiers, Ernest van Eck, Jan Willem van Henten, Rob van Houwelingen, Kobus Kok, Tobias Nicklas, Jeremy Punt, Jan G. van der Watt, and Wim Weren.
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• Introduction
• 1. Multifarious Meaning: Irony in Greco-Roman Literature
• 2. Ambiguity in Ancient Prophecy and Dreams
• 3. Reading Isaiah from Beginning and End: An Intratextual Study
• 4. Matthew and Emotive Effect.
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The Gospel of Matthew is both deliberately deceptive and emotionally compelling.Karl McDaniel explores ways in which the narrative of the Gospel of Matthew elicits and develops the emotions ofsuspense, surprise, and curiosity within its readers. While Matthew 1:21 invites readers to expect Jewish salvation, progressive failure of the plot's main characters to meet Jesus' salvation requirements creates increasing suspense for the reader. How will Jesus save 'his people'? The commission to the Gentiles at the Gospel's conclusion provokes reader surprise, and the resulting curiosity calls readers back to the narrative's beginning.Upon rereading with a retrospective view, readers discover that the Gentile mission was actually foreshadowed throughout the narrative, even from its beginning, and they are invited to partake in Jesus' final commission.
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• I. Folklore, mythology and oral history. The passing of warrior poetry in the era of prosaic heroes ; The fugitive hero narrative pattern in Mesopotamia ; Ending a performance: the tenants in Luke 20:9-19 and Gospel of Thomas 65 ; A story about some stories ; The Gospel of Mark: baptism and Passover initiation ; Orality and writing in the creation of Exilic prophetic literature
• II. Israelite religion and ancient Judaism. Massebot standing for Yhwh: the fall of Yhwistic cult symbol ; "The righteous mind" and Judean moral culture: a conversation between biblical studies and moral psychology ; Ritual inversion in biblical representations of puntitive rites
• III. Warfare and violence. Moral injury and the interdisciplinary study of biblical war texts: the case of King Saul ; Collateral duties: military objectives and civilian protections in Deuteronomy ; The agonistic imagination: the ethics of war in Deuteronomy ; Rahab's valor and the Gibeonites' cowardice
• IV. Gender. The women of the Bible and of ancient Near Eastern myth: the case of the Levite's [pileges] ; Were Israelite women chattel? Shedding new light on an old question ; Crossings, transgressions, and movement in the Jephthah cycle ; Ruth's beginnings: a study in contradictions ; Building power: gender, identity, and conspicuous consumption in Fin de Siècle Tang China ; Rufina refined: a woman archisynagogos from Smyrna, yet again.

• Author's Preface; Abbreviations; Chapter One Introduction; Chapter Two The Targumic Toseftot to Ezekiel 1; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 The Targumic Toseftot to Ezekiel 1:1; 2.2.1 The Targumic Tosefta to Ezekiel 1:1 in Codex Manchester, Gaster 1478; 2.2.1.1 The Text and Translation of the Targumic Tosefta to Ezekiel 1:1 (Ms Gaster 1478); 2.2.1.2 Comments on the Targumic Tosefta to Ezekiel 1:1 (Ms Gaster 1478); 2.2.2 The Targumic Tosefta to Ezekiel 1:1 in Ms. T-S NS 245.98; 2.2.2.1 The Text and Translation of the Targumic Tosefta to Ezekiel 1:1 (Ms. T-S NS 245.98).

• 2.2.3 The Targumic Tosefta to Ezekiel 1:1 in Ms. T-S NS 171.72.2.3.1 The Text and Translation of the Targumic Tosefta to Ezekiel 1:1 (Ms. T-S NS 171.7); 2.2.4 The Targumic Tosefta to Ezekiel 1:1 in Other Manuscripts; Ms. JTSA L260A; Ms. JTSA L265A; Ms. Feldman 143; Ms. Genizah 430; Ms. Halper 64; Ms. Bar-Ilan 737; 2.2.4.1 The Text and Translation of the Targumic Tosefta to Ezekiel 1:1 in Other Manuscripts; 2.2.5 The Relationship between the Manuscripts; 2.3 The Targumic Tosefta to Ezekiel 1:3 in the Arukh ha-Shalem.

• 2.3.1 The Text and Translation of the Targumic Tosefta to Ezekiel 1:3 (Arukh ha-Shalem)2.3.2 Comments on the Targumic Tosefta to Ezekiel 1:3 (Arukh ha-Shalem); 2.4 The Targumic Tosefta to Ezekiel 1:8 in Codex Reuchlinianus; 2.4.1 The Text and Translation of the Targumic Tosefta to Ezekiel 1:8 (Codex Reuchlinianus); 2.4.2 Comments on the Targumic Tosefta to Ezekiel 1:8 (Codex Reuchlinianus); 2.5 The Targumic Tosefta to Ezekiel 1:12 in the Maḥzor Vitry (Ms. London 655); 2.5.1 The Text and Translation of the Targumic Tosefta to Ezekiel 1:12 (Maḥzor Vitry).

• 2.5.2 Comments on the Targumic Tosefta to Ezekiel 1:12 (Maḥzor Vitry)2.6 The Targumic Tosefta to Ezekiel 1:26 in Ms. 7 of the Montefiore Library; 2.6.1 The Text and Translation of the Targumic Tosefta to Ezekiel 1:26 (Ms. 7 Montefiore Library); 2.6.2 Comments on the Targumic Tosefta to Ezekiel 1:26 (Ms. 7 Montefiore Library); Chapter Three The Targumic Tosefta to Ezekiel 28:13; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 The Targumic Tosefta to Ezekiel 28:13 in Codex Reuchlinianus; 3.2.1 The Text and Translation of the Targumic Tosefta to Ezekiel 28:13 (Codex Reuchlinianus).

• 3.2.2 Comments on the Targumic Tosefta to Ezekiel 28:13 (Codex Reuchlinianus)Chapter Four The Targumic Toseftot to Ezekiel 37; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 The Targumic Tosefta to Ezekiel 37:1-14 in the Pentateuch Salonika; 4.2.1 The Text and Translation of the Targumic Tosefta to Ezekiel 37:1-14 (Pentateuch Salonika); 4.2.2 Comments on the Targumic Tosefta to Ezekiel 37:1-14 (Pentateuch Salonika); 4.3 The Targumic Tosefta to Ezekiel 37:1 in the Maḥzor Vitry (Ms. London 655); 4.3.1 The Text and Translation of the Targumic Tosefta to Ezekiel 37:1 (Ms London 655).

This book focuses on the additional liturgical and alternative readings of Targum Ezekiel, the so-called Targumic Toseftot. The critical text, translation, and commentary are presented with special reference to the long segments of unique mystical lore that are preserved in the Targumic Toseftot to Ezekiel 1, the chapter which describes the prophet's vision of the celestial chariot. This unique manuscript material sheds light on a relatively dark chapter in the reception history of early Jewish mystical lore, being closely related to the Hekhalot literature, and to the Shi'ur Qomah tradition in particular. The volume concludes with a systematic treatment of the Targumic Toseftot to Ezekiel in relation to their Aramaic dialect, date and provenance, as well as their historical and social setting.
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• ""Cover""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""Part One: The Theologies in Isaiah""; ""1 Isaiah 1â€?12""; ""Faithfulness in the Exercise of Power""; ""Holiness""; ""Trust""; ""Darkness and Light""; ""Putting Down and Raising Up""; ""Things Move Forward, but What Goes Around Comes Around""; ""A Note on Isaiahâ€?s Role in the New Testament""; ""2 Isaiah 13â€?27""; ""The Nations (Isaiah 13â€?23)""; ""The Day of Yahweh""; ""The Archetypal Superpower""; ""Hope for the Nations""; ""The Whole Cosmos (Isaiah 24â€?27)""

• ""Land, City and Supernatural Powers""""The Celebration of Life""; ""The Appropriate Response(s)""; ""3 Isaiah 28â€?39""; ""Life and Death, Truth and Lies, Insight and Stupidity""; ""Yahwehâ€?s Dilemma""; ""Reversal and Restoration""; ""Trust (Again)""; ""4 Isaiah 40â€?55""; ""Yahweh Alone Is God""; ""Israel Is Yahwehâ€?s Servant and Witness""; ""Cyrus My Shepherd, My Anointed""; ""A Prophet as Yahwehâ€?s Servant""; ""An Offering to Make""; ""The Transformed City and the Covenant People""; ""5 Isaiah 56â€?66""; ""A Prophet as Yahwehâ€?s Anointed""; ""The Nationsâ€? Destiny""

• ""The Position of Foreigners""""Prayer""; ""True Religion""; ""Who Are Yahwehâ€?s Servants?""; ""Part Two: The Theology That Emerges from Isaiah""; ""6 Revelation: Words from Yahweh Mediated Through Human Agents""; ""7 The God of Israel, the Holy One, Yahweh Armies""; ""8 Holy as Upright and Merciful""; ""9 Israel and Judah""; ""10 Jerusalem and Zion Critiqued and Threatened""; ""11 Jerusalem and Zion Chastised and Restored""; ""12 The Remains""; ""13 The Nations""; ""14 The Empires and Their Kings""; ""15 Divine Sovereignty and Human Responsibility""

• ""16 Divine Planning and Human Planning""""17 David""; ""18 Yahwehâ€?s Day""; ""Subject Index""; ""Scripture Index""; ""About the Author""; ""More Titles from InterVarsity Press""

What should we make of the sprawling and puzzling book of Isaiah-so layered and complex in its composition? John Goldingay helps us see, hear and understand the grandeur of this prophetic masterpiece among the Prophets as both separate parts and as a whole, clearly tied together with unifying themes.

• Introduction: Approaching Latino/a biblical criticism : a trajectory of visions and missions / Fernando F. Segovia
• What does it mean to be a Latino/a biblical critic? : a Latino Pentecostal perspective, with reflections on the future / Efrain Agosto
• Rethinking Latino hermeneutics : an atheist perspective / Hector Avalos
• Reexamining ethnicity : Latina/os, race, and the Bible / Eric D. Barreto
• Position reversal and hope for the oppressed / Aída Besançon Spencer
• What does it mean to be a Latino biblical critic? : a brief essay / Alejandro F. Botta
• Forgotten forebears in the history of North American biblical scholarship / Gregory Cuellar
• The challenges of Latino/a biblical criticism / Rubén R. Dupertuis
• Latino/a biblical hermeneutics : problematic, objectives, strategies / Cristina García-Alfonso
• Reading from no place : toward a hybrid and ambivalent study of scriptures / Jacqueline M. Hidalgo
• Toward Latino/a biblical studies : foregrounding identitites and transforming communities / Francisco Lozada Jr.
• Toward a Latino/a vision/optic for biblical hermeneutics / Rubén Muñoz-Larrondo
• A Latina biblical critic and intellectual : at the intersection of ethnicity, gender, hermeneutics, and faith / Ahida Calderón Pilarski
• Interpretive world making : formulating a space for a critical Latino/a cultural and biblical discourse / David Arturo Sánchez
• How did you get to be a Latino biblical scholar? : scholarly identity and biblical scholarship / Timothy J. Sandoval
• El Sur También Existe : a proposal for dialogue between Latin American and Latino/a hermeneutics / Osvaldo D. Vena
• Advancing Latino/a biblical criticism : visions and missions for the future / Fernando F. Segovia
• Latino/a biblical interpretation : a question of being and/or practice? / Francisco Lozada Jr.

• 1. Introduction--
• 2. The Interpretive Framework of Luke-Acts--
• 3. How Luke Transforms the Isaianic Vision--
• 4. Isaiah According to Mark, Matthew and Luke--
• 5. Listen, Learn and Do Lukewise--
• 6. Conclusions.
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An investigative study into where, how and why Luke interacts with Isaiah. References to Isaiah occur at key points in the narrative, typically introducing the mission of main characters and outlining or summarising the overall plot, suggesting that Luke utilises Isaiah as part of his interpretive framework. The overarching theme drawn from Isaiah appears to be the servant's mission to bring salvation to all people (Isa 49:6). Luke's careful selection and radical interpretation of Isaianic texts highlights surprising aspects of this theme. These include the nature and scope of salvation, the necessary suffering role of the Messiah and its connection with the proclamation of salvation, and the unexpected response to the message by Israel and the nations. Mallen's study rehabilitates the importance of the servant motif for Luke, not in terms of atonement or as a christological title but rather in supplying the job description for Jesus' messianic mission and that of his followers.
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• Mastering the tools or retooling the masters? The legacy of historical-critical discourse / Caroline Vander Stichele and Todd Penner
• Historical-critical approaches and the emancipation of women: unfulfilled promises and remaining possibilities / Hanna Stenström
• "Tandoori reindeer" and the limitations of historical criticism / Susanne Scholz
• Breaking the established scaffold: imagination as a resource in the development of Biblical interpretation / Hjamil A. Martiʹnez-Vaʹzquez
• Postcolonialism and the practice of history / John W. Marshall
• Rhetorical full-turn in Biblical interpretation and its relevance for feminist hermeneutics / Vernon K. Robbins
• Full turns and half turns: engaging the dialogue/dance between Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza and Vernon Robbins / Priscilla Geisterfer
• "And they did so": Following orders given by Old Joshua / Kristin De Troyer.

• Sarah and Hagar: what have I to do with them? / Judith E. McKinlay
• Their hermeneutics was strange! Ours is a necessity! Rereading Vashti as African-South African women / Madipoane Masenya (ngwanaʹ Mphahlele)
• Mothers bewailing: reading Lamentations / Archie Chi Chung Lee
• History of women in ancient Israel: theory, method, and the book of Ruth / Esther Fuchs
• No road: on the absence of feminist criticism of Ezra-Nehemiah / Roland Boer
• Scribal blunder or textual plunder? Codex Bezae, textual-rhetorical analysis, and the diminished role of women / Anne Graham Brock
• Military images in Philippians 1-2: a feminist analysis of the rhetorics of scholarship, Philippians, and current contexts / Joseph A. Marchal
• Paul and the rhetoric of gender / Caroline Vander Stichele and Todd Penner
• Why can't the heavenly Miss Jerusalem just shut up? / Jorunn Økland
• Epilogue: babies and bathwater on the road / Athalya Brenner.

• Preface
• Editions of Textual Sources
• Abbreviations
• Chapter 1. Introduction: Some Basic Notions
• A. The aims of the textual criticism of the Hebrew Bible
• B. Collecting variants
• C. The reconstruction of individual elements in the original text of the LXX
• D. The character of the canon of the "LXX"
• E. The categories "literal" and "free"
• F. Understanding the LXX
• G. Editions
• H. Electronic tools
• I. The evaluation of the LXX in biblical research
• Part I
• The Reconstruction of the Hebrew Text Underlying the LXX: Possibilities and Impossibilities
• Chapter 2. When to Reconstruct Variants?
• A. Exegesis
• B. Scribal developments
• Chapter 3. How to Reconstruct the Vorlage of the LXX-Positive and Negative Aspects
• A. Criteria for retroversion
• 1. Greek-Hebrew equivalents
• 2. Intuition
• 3. Textual probability
• 4. Linguistic plausibility
• 5. External support
• B. The nature of retroverted variants
• 1. Some types of reliable retroversions
• 2. Doubtful retroversions
• 3. The existence of retroverted variants
• Excursus 1:The use of concordances in the reconstruction of the Vorlage of the LXX
• Excursus 2:The use of electronic tools in the reconstruction of the Vorlage of the LXX
• Excursus 3:endentious palaeographical exegesis?
• Chapter 4. The Reconstruction of Elements Not Indicated in the Vorlage of the Translators
• A. Vocalization
• 1. Reconstructing "different vocalizations"
• 2. The translators' attitude towards the unvocalized text
• 3. The reconstruction of the vocalization
• 4. The grapheme
• 5. The translators and the reading tradition
• 6. The reliability of the reconstruction
• B. Word Divisions
• C. Sense Divisions
• Chapter 5. Variants, Variants/Non-Variants, and Pseudo-Variants
• A. Variants
• 1. Pluses
• 2. Minuses
• 3. Transpositions
• 4. Differences in words
• Excursus 1:Matres lectionis and final letters
• Excursus 2:Abbreviations?
• Excursus 3:The script of the Vorlage of the LXX
• Excursus 4:Variants retroverted from the revisions of the LXX
• B. Non-Variants
• C. Variants/Non-Variants
• 1. Connective waw/
• 2. Singular/plural forms of nouns and verbs
• 3. Pronouns
• 4. Active/passive forms of verbs
• 5. Prepositions
• 6. The article
• D. Pseudo-Variants
• 1. Interchange of similar letters in "difficult" Hebrew words
• 2. Intrinsically improbable readings
• 3. Deviations from MT in the LXX causing further deviations in the translation
• Excursus:tymological Exegesis
• Part II: The Nature and Evaluation of the Hebrew Text Underlying the LXX
• Chapter 6. The Nature of the Hebrew Text Underlying the LXX
• A. The geographical provenance of the Hebrew text underlying the LXX
• B. The relationship between the Hebrew text underlying the LXX and ancient Hebrew witnesses of the biblical text
• 1. Hebrew scrolls from Qumran
• 2. The Samaritan Pentateuch
• C. Characteristic features of the Hebrew text underlying the LXX
• D. Evaluation of the literary evidence in the LXX
• Chapter 7. The Evaluation of Retroverted Variants in Biblical Research
• A. General
• B. The evaluation of readings
• C. Some rules for evaluation
• Excursus:The evaluation of retroverted variants in the BH series
• Chapter 8. The Contribution of the LXX to the Literary Criticism of the Bible
• Indexes
• Index of authors
• Index of biblical passages.
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This handbook provides a practical guide for the student and scholar alike who wishes to use the Septuagint (LXX) in the text-critical analysis of the Hebrew Bible. It does not serve as another theoretical introduction to the LXX, but it provides all the practical background information needed for the integration of the LXX in biblical studies. The LXX, together with the Masoretic Text and several Qumran scrolls, remains the most significant source of information for the study of ancient Scripture, but it is written in Greek, and many technical details need to be taken into consideration when using this tool. Therefore, a practical handbook such as this is needed for the integration of the Greek translation in the study of the Hebrew Bible. The Text-Critical Use of the Septuagint in Biblical Research is based on much background information, intuition and experience, clear thinking, and a solid description of the procedures followed. The author presents his handbook after half a century of study of the Septuagint, four decades of specialized teaching experience, and involvement in several research projects focusing on the relation between the Hebrew and Greek Bibles. The first two editions of this handbook, published by Simor of Jerusalem (Jerusalem Biblical Studies 3 [1981] and 8 [1997]), received much praise but have been out of print for a considerable period. This, the third, edition presents a completely revised version of the previous editions based on the many developments that took place in the analysis of the Septuagint, the Hebrew Bible and the Qumran Scrolls. Much new information has also been added. Eisenbrauns has been involved in the marketing of the previous two editions and is proud to offer now its own completely novel edition. A must for students of the Hebrew Bible, textual criticism, the Septuagint and the other ancient translations, Dead Sea Scrolls, and Jewish Hellenism.
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• List of Figures; List of Tables; List of Abbreviations;
• 1. The Ancient Religion; Chronology and the Writing; Reconstructing the Primordial Religion;
• 2. Two Styles of Thought; Analogical versus Rational-Instrumental Thinking; From Analogic to Dialogic; Social Basis of the Greek Breakthrough; Greek and Chinese Science; Imperatives in Leviticus;
• 3. Two Styles of Writing; The Language of Feeling; Containing and Covering; Mount Sinai;
• 4. Mountain, Tabernacle, Body in Leviticus 1-7; Logic of the Body; Forbidden Items; Entrails and Legs; The Inmost Being; The Doctrine of Remainders

• 5. The Totally Reformed ReligionDeuteronomy and Leviticus; The Central Sanctuary; No Cult of the Dead; Deuteronomy's Legislation;
• 6. Oracles Support Divine Justice; Divination and Sacrifice; Knowing When to Make a Private Sacrifice; Plausibility of Oracles; Priestly Divination; Inadvertent Sin; Sacrilege; Juridical Uses of the Oath;
• 7. Land Animals, Pure and Impure; Land Animals Under the Covenant; The Two Texts; Interpretations of Uncleanness/Impurity; Sacred Contagion;
• 8. Other Living Beings; God's Care for his Creation; Translating Swarming as Teeming; Leaven and Honey as Teeming Life

• Translating AbominationCreatures that Swarm in the Air; Competition in the Holiness Stakes; Conclusion;
• 9. Atonement for Sick Bodies; Loss of Vital Fluids; Leprosy; Reproductive Disorders;
• 10. The Two Screens; Leviticus a Projection of the Tabernacle; Fire for Fire, Burning for Burning; The Curser Cursed; Scandal of Talion; The Language of Oracles;
• 11. Inside the House/Book of God; Macro markers; The Outer Court; The Sanctuary; Atonement; Pedimental Composition;
• 12. Inside the Holy of Holies; The Great Proclamation of Liberty; Reading Leviticus through Genesis: Covering

• Reading Scapegoat and Scapebird through GenesisReferences; Index of Bible References; General Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

This first full-scale account of Leviticus by a world renowned anthropologist presents the biblical work as a literary masterpiece. Seen in an anthropological perspective Leviticus has a mystical structure which plots the book into three parts corresponding to the three parts of the desert tabernacle, both corresponding to the parts of Mount Sinai. This completely new reading transforms the interpretation of the purity laws. The pig and other forbidden animals are not abhorrent, they command the same respect due to all God's creatures. Boldly challenging several traditions of Bible criticism, Mary Douglas claims that Leviticus is not the narrow doctrine of a crabbed professional priesthood but a powerful intellectual statement about a religion which emphasizes God's justice and compassion.
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• A Note on Texts
• Abbreviations Preface
• * Dante's Idea of the Bible * Biblical Truth in the Paradiso * The Bible in the Inferno: Misprision and Prophetic Appropriation *Una nuova legge: The Beatitudes in the Purgatorio * Dante's Apocalypse Conclusion: Poet of the Biblical World Works Cited.
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Dante Alighieri cited the Bible extensively in his Commedia, but also used his epic poem to meditate on the meaning of the Scriptures as a 'true' text. The Biblical Dante provides close readings of passages from the Commedia to explore how Dante's concept of Biblical truth differs sharply from modern notions. V. Stanley Benfell examines Dante's argument that the truth of the sacred text could only be revealed when engaged with in a transformative manner - and that a lack of such encounters in his time had led to a rise in greed and corruption, notably within the Church. He also illustrates how the poet put forth a vision for the restoration of a just society using Biblical language and imagery, revealing ideas of both earthly and eternal happiness. The Biblical Dante provides an insightful analysis of attitudes towards both the Bible and how it was read in the Medieval period.
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• Acknowledgments Read Me First Whose Bible Is It?
• 1. The Sound of the Biblical Voices
• 2. Historical Voices
• 3. Theological Voices
• 4. Legal Voices
• 5. Prophetic Voices
• 6. Women's Voices
• 7. Voices of the Wise
• 8. Foreign Voices
• 9. Voices of Song and Legend
• 10. Echoes and Reverberations Index.
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The most common English translations of the Bible often sound like a single, somewhat archaic voice. In fact, the Bible is made up of many separate books composed by multiple writers in a wide range of styles and perspectives. It is, as Michael Carasik demonstrates, not a remote text reserved for churches and synagogues but rather a human document full of history, poetry, politics, theology, and spirituality. Using historic, linguistic, anthropological, and theological sources, Carasik helps us distinguish between the Jewish Bible's voices-the mythic, the historical, the prophetic, the theological, and the legal. By articulating the differences among these voices, he shows us not just their messages and meanings but also what mattered to the authors. In these contrasts we encounter the Bible anew as a living work whose many voices tell us about the world out of which the Bible grew-and the world that it created. Listen to the author's podcast.
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• Paul, the Old Testament, and theological reading : recent interpretation and a search for a theological approach
• Placing the exegetical/theological argument of 2 Corinthians 5.14-6.10
• The servant of Yahweh and 2 Corinthians 5.14-21 : Paul's reading of the redemptive drama of Isaiah 40-66
• Paul : a servant of the servant
• The theological implications of Paul's Old Testament reading.

Paul's reading of the Old Testament continues to witness to the significance of reading the Old Testament in a Christian way. This study argues that a theological approach to understanding Paul's appeal to and reading of the Old Testament, especially Isaiah, offers important insights into the ways in which Christians should read the Old Testament and a two-testament canon today. By way of example, this study explores the ways in which Isaiah 40-66's canonical form presents the gospel in miniature with its movement from Israel to Servant to servants. It is subsequently argued that Paul follows this literary movement in his own theological reflection in 2 Corinthians 5:14-6:10. Jesus takes on the unique role and identity of the Servant of Isaiah 40-55, and Paul takes on the role of the servants of the Servant in Isaiah 53-66. From this exegetical exploration conclusions are drawn in the final chapter that seek to apply a term from the history of interpretation to Paul's reading, that is, the plain sense of Scripture. What does an appeal to plain sense broker? And does Paul's reading of the Old Testament look anything like a plain sense reading? Gignilliat concludes that Paul is reading the Old Testament in such a way that the literal sense and its figural potential and capacity are not divorced but are actually organically linked in what can be termed a plain sense reading.
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• Machine generated contents note:
• Ch. 1 method of analysis
• Ch. 2 rhetoric of the characterization of God
• Ch. 3 rhetoric of the characterization of Jesus
• Ch. 4 rhetoric of the characterization of Jesus' disciples
• Ch. 5 Recapitulation : the women at the tomb
• Ch. 6 Applications, implications, and conclusion
• App. A organization of cultivated beliefs about God
• App. B organization of cultivated beliefs about Jesus.

• Deuteronomy in the Judaism of the Second Temple Period / Timothy H. Lim
• Deuteronomy in Mark's Gospel / Steve Moyise
• Deuteronomy in Matthew's Gospel / Maarten J.J. Menken
• Deuteronomy in Luke-Acts / Dietrich Rusam
• Deuteronomy in John's Gospel / Michael Labahn
• Deuteronomy in Galatians and Romans / Roy E. Ciampa
• Deuteronomy in 1 and 2 Corinthians / Brian S. Rosner
• Deuteronomy in the Pastoral Epistles / Gerd Häfner
• Deuteronomy in Hebrews / Gert J. Steyn
• Deuteronomy in Revelation / Michael Tilly.

Deuteronomy in the New Testament brings together a set of specially commissioned studies by authors who are experts in the field. After an introductory chapter on the use of Deuteronomy in the second temple literature, each of the New Testament books that contain quotations from Deuteronomy are discussed: Matthew, Mark, Luke-Acts, John, Romans & Galatians, 1 & 2 Corinthians, Hebrews, the Pastoral Epistles and Revelation. The book provides an overview of the status, role and function of Deuteronomy in the first century. It considers the Greek and Hebrew manuscript traditions and offers insights into the various hermeneutical stances of the New Testament authors and the development of New Testament theology.
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• Intro
• Contents
• Introduction
• 1. Added Detail in the Samaritan Version of Leviticus 17:4 concerning the Sacrifices
• 2. An Expansion to the Passover Law: Leviticus 23:5-8 and Numbers 28:16-25 Compared
• 3. From Glosses to Larger Expansions: The Masoretic Text of Numbers 13-14 Compared with the Septuagint and the Samaritan Pentateuch
• 4. Late Additions or Editorial Shortening? Joshua 20 in the Masoretic Text and the Septuagint
• 5. A Qumran Manuscript as Evidence of an Addition in the Masoretic Text: Judges 6:7-10
• 6. A Secondary Omission in the Masoretic Text of 1 Samuel 10:1
• 7. An Addition in a Qumran Manuscript as Evidence for the Continuous Growth of the Text: 1 Samuel 10:27-11:1
• 8. The Septuagint Provides Evidence of a Late Addition in the Masoretic Text: 1 Kings 6:11-4
• 9. From Small Additions to Rewriting in the Story about the Burning of Jerusalem
• 10. Evidence for the Literary Growth of Gedaliah's Murder in 2 Kings 25:25, Jeremiah 41:1-3 MT, and Jeremiah 48:1-3 LXX
• 11. Techniques of Rewriting Prophecy: Jeremiah 48 Compared with Isaiah 15-16
• 12. Evidence of Psalm Composition: Psalm 108 as a Secondary Compilation of Other Psalm Texts
• 13. Revision of Ezra-Nehemiah in 1 Esdras: Expansions, Omissions, and Rewritings
• 14. Evidence for Large Additions in the Book of Esther
• 15. Evidence for Expansions, Relocations, Omissions, and Rewriting: Joash the King and Jehoiada the Priest in 2 Kings 11-12 and 2 Chronicles 22-24
• Conclusions: Empirical Evidence of Editorial Processes
• Bibliography
• Index of Sources
• Index of Authors.

• "The Jewish Cincinnatus" : Biblical Republicanism in the Age of the American Revolution
• "The United Tribes, or States of Israel" : The Hebrew Republic as a Political Model before the Civil War
• "A Truly American Spirit of Writing" : Pseudobiblicism, the Early Republic, and the Cultural Origins of the Book of Mormon
• Tribes Lost and Found : Israelites in Nineteenth-Century America
• Evangelicalism, Slavery, and the Decline of an Old Testament Nation
• Conclusion: Beyond Old Testamentism : The New Israel after the Civil War.

The Bible has always been an integral part of American political culture. Yet in the years before the Civil War, it was the Old Testament, not the New Testament, that pervaded political rhetoric. From Revolutionary times to about 1830, numerous American politicians, commentators, ministers, and laymen depicted their young nation as a new, God-chosen Israel and relied on the Old Testament for political guidance. In this original book, historian Eran Shalev closely examines how this powerful predilection for Old Testament narratives and rhetoric in early America shaped a wide range of debates and cultural discussions - from republican ideology, constitutional interpretation, southern slavery, and more generally the meaning of American nationalism to speculations on the origins of American Indians and to the emergence of Mormonism. Shalev argues that the effort to shape the United States as a biblical nation reflected conflicting attitudes within the culture - proudly boastful on the one hand, but uncertain about its abilities and ultimate destiny on the other. With great nuance, American Zion explores for the first time the meaning and lasting effects of the idea of the United States as a new Israel, and sheds new light on our understanding of the nation's origins and culture during the founding and antebellum decades.
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