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“Invasion has long been a contested term in northern Ghana, with political consequences. In the colonial era, from the perspective of the British, to be an invader was a good thing that had legal ramifications. An ethnic group that had invaded other ethnic groups in precolonial history could claim the land based on the rights of conquest.”

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“Jerusalem is the center of the universe, the hub of the three great monotheistic religions and the heart of major concepts of Western civilization. How did this happen? Geographical conditions were far from ideal. The city was located in the relatively godforsaken and arid southern highlands, which had little tillable land; to its east was desert, which could support mainly an animal economy. No major road to the south, north, east, or west passed through its gates. It was far from the sea and had no economic resources to speak of. The temple was an outcome of many generations of development and hence cannot be seen as the raison d’être of the Jerusalem phenomenon. So how can we explain the city’s rise to centrality and dominance? How is it that in certain periods it expanded to become the largest and most important city in the Levant?”

Becker-booth

“Becker’s creative English translation of Isaac’s Syriac texts is sensitive to the movement of the narrative, literal but flowing, utilizing nuanced and colorful terms and idioms to convey the urgent tone of these mēmrē.” —Robert A. Kitchen, RBL

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“While the past few decades have witnessed a deep interest in rabbinic narratives and the publication of hundreds of books and articles, many stories still lack scholarly studies. The application of methods developed in literary and cultural studies has enriched the study of rabbinic narratives tremendously, and there remain significant opportunities in this area.”

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“We are delighted to present this volume to our readers, hoping it will guide and stimulate ongoing conversations, broaden our horizons, deepen our empathy, and refine our analytical acumen when dealing with various concealed problems related to the Bible.”

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“Smith argues that they differ in the sort of culture they aim to cultivate. She provides not only a fresh engagement with 2 Peter but also an introduction to voices often excluded from the ‘table of critical biblical studies.’”—Zen Hess, The Christian Century

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“The inscriptions carved on what we can now call the Statue of Idrimi are remarkable. They are carefully structured and full of vivid detail. They have also provoked many questions for modern scholars—to name just a few: What is the relationship between the short inscription on the statue’s cheek and the long inscription on its body?”

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“These texts have shaped the life, social condition, and religious practice of women over centuries, as well as the understanding of women’s roles in the family and ecclesial community. Some of them have also contributed to the production of stereotypes that have affected the way women are viewed. Because of this, it is important to consider the rhetoric of and theology about gender that these texts espouse.”

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“This text...asks a series of questions about events that form the embroidered Bible story as it was told in Armenia in a developed form. It enquires about happenings from the fall of Satan and the creation of the angels down to the biblical patriarchs.”

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“The book raises two central questions. The first concerns the concept of literary character in each source. Does it exist, what is it, and why? Second, how do the poetics (the theory of structure, form, and discourse within these texts as literature) of midrash compare to those of the Bible commentaries that aspired to replace it?”

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“The focus of the volume is on how the New Testament writings, no matter their original author attribution/dating in modern scholarship, interact with the Ephesian epigraphic corpus and what light it generates regarding the subsequent development of Christianity in Ephesus and its adjacent villages.”

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“The volume is an impressive work that certainly offers copious examples of the importance of the biblical narrative in medieval lives as well as glimpses of attitudes toward real medieval women.”—Dana Fishkin, RBL

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“When certain contexts, with their sets of assumptions, claim privileged access to truth while disregarding alternative frameworks, hegemony ensues. In a nutshell, this introductory chapter argues that historicism constitutes a hegemonic mode of knowledge production in biblical studies that has resulted in an impoverishment in the vocabularies, theories, and methods available to interpret biblical texts.”

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“The theoretical lens of narrative ethics and socionarratology offers a step back from interpretive assessment by considering Gen 34 as a story encountered rather than a text to be interpreted.”

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“The material evidence relevant to the history and culture of each city—archaeology, iconography, and numismatics—is now more prominently brought into play in the scholarly discussions of the local epigraphy and its relation to the New Testament documents. The aim of the new series is to equip New Testament exegetes in situating more accurately the texts they are analyzing in their historical, political, civic, religious, cultural, and social context, as well as to make its own unique contribution to scholarship on urban antiquity.”

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“Yet how does the history of the Johannine situation relate to investigating the Jesus of history within the Johannine tradition? While source-critical scholars inferred the evangelist’s use of alien sources, such paradigms have not survived the rigors of critical analysis over time.”

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“The generative cause of the letter is found ultimately in this gospel reality and in concerns about how and how well believers understood it and how they should live out the new reality in Christ. Gospel convictions and concerns for the life, faith, and faithfulness of the believers underlie the content of the letter.”

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“Although it is quite common for readers of Titus 1:12 to assume that Paul was participating in bigotry, he seems to have been exposing and rebuking it. This study offers reasons for considering this reading and calls into question key assumptions of other interpretations.”

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“What does the storyteller behind the Gospel of John know and learn about the past in order to create a story that purports to speak about the past? To what degree should readers of the gospel trust that the stories the storyteller tells are more factual than fictional? This second question pivots on the assertions by the gospel that it is telling a story that is true (John 19:35; 21:24).”

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“Para el análisis, procedimos a organizar el texto (2) en cuatro secciones temáticas: una primera, que abarca las líneas 1–18, donde predomina la voz activa de uno de los dos personajes centrales de la narrativa, Kamose, quien utilizando o bien la 3ra persona del singular como narrador o la 1ra del singular, relata las acciones tomadas o por tomar contra los asiáticos y describe su percepción sobre el carácter y personalidad del gobernante hicso Apepi.”

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“From the perspective of the study of cultural texts, including the Bible, Twardowski’s theory of actions and products and his closest student, Władysław Witwicki’s theory of striving for a sense of power (the theory of cratism), are of particular importance.”

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“Brian Kolia’s...insights on the Bible as speaking to diasporic experience, broadly construed, is especially important today in a world of massive forced displacement, as humans, like other species, find their habitats and connections to their lands fundamentally disrupted by the direct and indirect effects of Eurowestern colonialism, late capitalism, and catastrophic global warming.” —David M. Carr, RBL

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“He has served as both the lever and the fulcrum for scholarship that emerged from the periphery to take its rightful place alongside traditional forms in Europe and North America from its inception through the third quarter of the twentieth century.”

Iamblichus-booth

“This distinguished and reliable new translation by the team of Clarke, Dillon, and Hershbell, based on the excellent Budé text of Des Places, is a very careful and idiomatic rendition of the original and will certainly remain the standard and authoritative edition for years to come. Each page of the translation faces the corresponding page of the critical Greek text of Des Places. The book includes an important introduction and many helpful textual annotations. Every student of late antiquity will want to have this significant volume in her or his library.” —David E. Aune, Professor of New Testament, University of Notre Dame

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“Instead of identifying Jesus and his followers as a new or true Israel that redefines the people of God, Matthew presents Israel as a collective made up of ethnic Jews whose identity remains constant regardless of their affiliation with Jesus—and Jesus saves these very people from their sins.”

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“While each essay individually serves as its own contribution to the field, the volume as a whole, or any of its five parts, could fruitfully serve graduate students as an entryway to and analysis of the field in the first quarter of the twenty-first century.”—Jenny R. Labendz, RBL

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