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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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• 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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• 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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• 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.

• Frontmatter
• Acknowledgments
• Contents
• Abbreviations of Common Reference Works and Editions
• Introduction
• Chapter 1. Rationale and Approach
• Chapter 2. Narratives for Praise and Blame: Tacitus on Agricola, Philo on Flaccus
• Chapter 3. Governors in Historiography: Josephus' Judean War and Judean Antiquities
• Chapter 4. An Agent of Rome in the Gospel of Luke: Pontius Pilate
• Chapter 5. Paul and Rome: The Governors in Acts
• Bibliography
• Index.

Luke-Acts contains a wealth of material that is relevant to politics, and the relationship between Jesus and his followers and the Roman Empire becomes an issue at a number of points. The author's fundamental attitude toward Rome is hard to discern, however. The complexity of Luke's task as both a creative writer and a mediator of received tradition, and perhaps as well the author's own ambivalence, have left conflicting evidence in the narrative. Scholarly treatments of the issue have tended to survey in a relatively short scope a great amount of material with different degrees of relevance to the question and representing different proportions of authorial contribution and traditional material. This book attempts to make a contribution to the discussion by narrowing the focus to Luke's depiction of the Roman provincial governors in his narrative, interpreted in terms of his Greco-Roman literary context. Luke's portraits of Roman governors can be seen to invoke expectations and concerns that were common in the literary context. By these standards Luke's portrait of these Roman authority figures is relatively critical, and demonstrates his preoccupation with Rome's judgment of the Christians more than a desire to commend Roman rule.
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• What is the Old Testament?-- what does it mean?-- did it all happen?-- what does archaeology contribute?-- what kind of society was Israel?-- what is man?-- the Old Testament as liberation?-- what kind of literature?-- what kind of religion?-- is a theology possible?
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Study of the Old Testament has long been dominated by what is sometimes called the 'historical-critical method': careful analysis of individual books in order to discover their component sources, with great emphasis on historical context and concern, especially in the prophetic books, to isolate what was original and (it was therefore assumed) most important. In recent years people have asked whether this approach is the only proper one, and whether there may not be alternative understandings which are equally valid. This book attempts to outline some of those alternatives while retaining the values of the traditional methods. Nine separate chapters set out the importance of sociology and anthropology, of liberation and feminist perspectives, and of literary criticism, as well as the more traditional approaches, in a way that will be comprehensible to those approaching the Old Testament for the first time as well as for those who are not satisfied with existing conventions of study.
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• Contributors include: Bill Arnold, Hans Barstad, John Barton, Mark Boda, Kevin Cathcart, David Clines, Graham Davies, John Day, Iain Duguid, John Emerton, Richard Friedman, Susan Gillingham, Robert Gordon, Judith Hadley, Anselm Hagedorn, Elizabeth Hayes, Sara Japhet, John Jarick, Gary Knoppers, Arie van der Kooij, Reinhard Kratz, Andre Lemaire, Andrew Macintosh, J. Gordon McConville, Jill Middlemas, Alan Millard, Patrick Miller, Nadav Naaman, Iain Provan, David Reimer, Wolter Rose, Alison Salvesen, Kevin Spawn, Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer, Thomas Willi.
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This volume honours Professor H. G. M. Williamson, Regius Professor of Hebrew at Oxford University through a collection of essays by colleagues and former students from across the globe. The various contributions intersect with the previous work of Professor Williamson, with special emphasis on the history of biblical research, study of the Hebrew language and Hebrew textual traditions, post-exilic historiography (Chronicles, Ezra-Nehemiah) and the prophets (especially Isaiah).
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• Tracking the trail of scent: an introduction
• The aroma of daily life: aromatics in Roman and rabbinic culture
• Election and the erotic: biblical portrayals of perfume and incense
• Spicy ideologies: fragrance and rabbinic beliefs
• Soothing odors: death, suffering, and sacrifice
• Ephemerality and fragrance: desire for divine immanence.

"Studies aroma in Jewish life and literature in Palestine in the late Roman and early Byzantine periods. Uses the history and material culture of perfume and incense as a lens to view daily activities"--Provided by publisher.

• Reading as a Jew and as a scholar
• What is the Bible, anyway?
• The art of reading the Bible
• A brief history of Israel
• With scissors and paste : the sources of Genesis
• Creation vs. creationism : Genesis 1-3 as myth
• The ancestors as heroes
• Biblical law : codes and collections
• Incense is offensive to me : the cult in ancient Israel
• "In the fortieth year-- Moses addressed the Israelites : Deuteronomy
• "The walls came tumbling down" : reading Joshua
• "May my lord King David live forever" : royal ideology in Samuel and Judges
• "For Israel tore away from the house of David" : reading Kings
• Revisionist history : reading Chronicles
• Introduction to prophecy
• "Let justice well up like water" : reading Amos
• "They shall beat their swords into plowshares" : reading (first) Isaiah
• "I will make this house like Shiloh" : reading Jeremiah
• "I will be for them a mini-temple" : reading Ezekiel
• "Comfort, oh comfort my people" : the exile and beyond
• "Those that sleep in the dust-- will awake" : Zechariah, apocalyptic literature, and Daniel
• Prayer of many hearts : reading Psalms
• "Acquire wisdom" : reading Proverbs and Ecclesiastes
• "Being but dust and ashes" : reading Job
• "Drink deep of love!" : reading Song of Songs
• "Why are you so kind-- when I am a foreigner?" : reading Ruth vs. Esther
• The creation of the Bible.

Annotation Shedding new light on the Bible by reading it as it was meant in the time and place in which it was writtenIn his new book, master Bible scholar and teacher Marc Brettler argues that today?s contemporary readers can only understand the ancient Hebrew scripture by knowing more about the culture that produced it. And so Brettler unpacks the literary conventions, ideological assumptions, and historical conditions that inform the biblical text and demonstrates how modern critical scholarship and archaeological discoveries shed light on this fascinating and complex literature. Brettler surveys representative biblical texts from different genres to illustrate how modern scholars have taught us to?read? these texts. Using the?historical-critical method? long popular in academia, he guides us in reading the Bible as it was read in the biblical period, independent of later religious norms and interpretive traditions. Understanding the Bible this way lets us appreciate it as an interesting text that speaks in multiple voices on profound issues. This book is the first?Jewishly sensitive? introduction to the historical-critical method. Unlike other such introductory texts, the Bible that this book speaks about is the Jewish one?with the three-part TaNaKH arrangement, the sequence of books found in modern printed Hebrew editions, and the chapter and verse enumerations used in most modern Jewish versions of the Bible. In an afterword, the author discusses how the historical-critical method can help contemporary Jews relate to the Bible as a religious text in a more meaningful way.
Annotation In his new book, master Bible scholar and teacher Marc Brettler argues that today's contemporary readers can only understand the ancient Hebrew Scripture by knowing more about the culture that produced it. And so Brettler unpacks the literary conventions, ideological assumptions, and historical conditions that inform the biblical text and demonstrates how modern critical scholarship and archaeological discoveries shed light on this fascinating and complex literature. Brettler surveys representative biblical texts from different genres to illustrate how modern scholars have taught us to "read" these texts. Using the "historical-critical method" long popular in academia, he guides us in reading the Bible as it was read in the biblical period, independent of later religious norms and interpretive traditions. Understanding the Bible this way lets us appreciate it as an interesting text that speaks in multiple voices on profound issues. This book is the first "Jewishly sensitive" introduction to the historical-critical method. Unlike other introductory texts, the Bible that this book speaks about is the Jewish one-with the three-part TaNaKH arrangement, the sequence of books found in modern printed Hebrew editions, and the chapter and verse enumerations used in most modern Jewish versions of the Bible. In an afterword, the author discusses how the historical-critical method can help contemporary Jews relate to the Bible as a religious text in a more meaningful way.

• Acknowledgments
• 1 A Dissonant Voice of Hope: An Introduction to the Interpretation of Jeremiah 30-31
• 1.1 Introduction
• 1.2 The Art and the Act of Interpretation
• 1.3 The Book of Consolation
• 1.4 The Outline of this Book
• 2 Abbreviation, Expansion or Two Traditions: The Text of Jeremiah 30-31
• 2.1 Introduction
• 2.2 A Textual Comparison
• 2.2.1 Zero Variants
• 2.2.2 Linguistic Exegesis
• 2.2.3 Instance where the MT Has a Corruption
• 2.2.4 Instances where the Old Greek Did Not Understand Its Vorlage
• 2.2.5 Secondary Additions in the LXX
• 2.2.6 Minor Content Variants.

• 2.2.7 Content Variants
• 2.2.8 A Rearranged Unit
• 2.3 Conclusions
• 3 Cola, Canticles and Subcantos: The Macrostructure of Jeremiah 30-31
• 3.1 Introduction
• 3.2 Previous Proposals
• 3.3 Petuha and Setuma in Various Manuscripts
• 3.4 Macro Syntactical Indicators
• 3.5 Conclusions
• 3.6 The Composition of Jeremiah 30-31: A Proposal
• 3.7 Delimitation of Lines
• 3.8 Delimitation of Strophes
• 3.9 Delimitation of Canticles
• 3.10 Remarks on the Macro-Structure of Jeremiah 30-31
• 4 'I Will Break His Yoke From Off Your Neck': An Interpretation of Jeremiah 30:5-11
• 4.1 Introduction.

• 4.2 Text and Translation
• 4.3 Composition
• 4.3.1 Awful Terror Jer. 30:5-7
• 4.3.2 Prophecy of Liberation Jeremiah 30:8-9
• 4.3.3 Oracle of Salvation Jeremiah 30:10-11
• 4.4 Literary and Conceptual Unity of Jeremiah 30:5-11
• 5 Divine Changeability: An Interpretation of Jeremiah 30:12-17
• 5.1 Introduction
• 5.2 Text and Translation
• 5.3 Literary Unity or Complex Composition?
• 5.3.1 Critical Positions: Duhm, Volz and Holladay
• 5.3.2 Arguing for Literary Unity
• 5.4 The Conceptual Coherence of Jer. 30:12-17
• 5.4.1 Motif and Model: Incurable Fracture and Divine Force Majeure.

• 5.4.2 The Linguistics of lākēn
• 5.4.3 Relations between the Actors
• 5.5 Divine Changeability and Shifts in Time
• 6 Between Anger and Harmony: An Interpretation of Jeremiah 31:15-22
• 6.1 Introduction
• 6.2 A Voice Was Heard in Ramah
• 6.2.1 The Quotation in Matthew
• 6.2.2 The Literary Structure of Jeremiah 31:15-17
• 6.2.3 A Conceptual Comparison between Jer. 31:15-17 and Mt. 2:18
• 6.2.4 Conclusion
• 6.3 Human Repentance and Divine Compassion
• 6.3.1 Text and Translation of Jer. 31:18-20
• 6.3.2 Compositional and Stylistic Observations
• 6.3.3 Yhwh Hears Ephraim's Complaint.

• 6.3.4 Ephraim's Complaint and Change
• 6.3.5 Yhwh's Compassionate Reaction
• 6.4 The Woman shall encompass the Man
• 6.4.1 Text and Translation
• 6.4.2 Imperatives to Return
• 6.4.3 Ketîb-Qerê and the Return of the Divine Glory
• 6.4.4 An Enigmatic Motivation
• 6.5 The Conceptual Coherence of Jeremiah 31:15-22
• 7 Sour Fruit and Blunt Teeth: The Metaphorical Meaning of the māšāl in Jeremiah 31:29
• 7.1 Introduction
• 7.2 Tragic Fatalism versus Personal Responsibility
• 7.3 The Context of the Saying
• 7.4 The Interpretation of the New Saying.

Jeremiah's "Little Book of Consolation" is an intruiging text that provokes a series of interpretative difficulties. Is the text originally from Jeremiah? Can it be construed as a literary coherence or is a complex literary process of emergence to be accepted? What is meant by the 'New Covenant'? In this monograph Jer. 30-31 is read applying a variety of methods. The text-critical chapter argues for the reinforcement of the editorial theory according to which MT and LXXJer. are to be construed as two different versions. Much attention is paid to the delimitation criticism of these two chapters leading to the assumption that they are composed of ten Sub-Cantos. Five of these Sub-Cantos are interpreted taking into account Ancient Near Eastern textual material in order to understand the mental framework of the ancient reader. The final chapter pleads for the conceptual coherence of Jer. 30-31 which is seen as based on the idea of divine changeability.
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• The Triune God
• The passion of Christ
• Baptism
• The Mosaic law
• Grace
• The virtue of religion
• Romans 1:20 in the Summa Theologiae
• I Corinthians 13 in the Summa Theologiae
• Philippians 2:5-11 in the Summa Theologiae.

Aquinas's commentaries on St. Paul are well known and have received significant attention in the past few years. It is widely known, too, that Aquinas quotes Paul often in the Summa Theologiae. This aspect of the Summa, however, has not been studied in detail. This book seeks to fill that lacuna in scholarship. The book's brief introduction treats Aquinas as a biblically erudite theologian, and offers some basic statistical data regarding his use of Paul in the Summa Theologiae. The book's nine chapters track in detail Aquinas's use of Pauline quotations in his theological argumentation. The first six chapters examine Paul in particular "treatises:" the triune God, grace, charity, the virtue of religion, the Passion of Christ, and baptism. The last three chapters investigate Pauline texts as they are used throughout the Summa: Romans 1:20, 1 Corinthians 13, and Philippians 2:5-11. Chapters 1-3 are organised by the order of the treatise; chapters 4-6 are organised by order of the Pauline letters. This multifaceted procedure provides a rich, detailed picture of Aquinas's use of Paul in the Summa. The guiding question is whether, and if so how, we can describe Aquinas's theology as Pauline or as deeply influenced by Paul. Aquinas does not seek to understand Paul's theology in its Second Temple context, and Aquinas often uses Pauline texts in a way that takes them out of context or that uses them in response to a theological problem unknown to Paul. Levering argues that Aquinas's theology is indeed deeply Pauline, offering ample evidence that Aquinas captures the central Pauline themes and gives them a central place in his own theology.
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