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"These diverse narratives and poetic compositions contain an imaginative array of themes and motifs, from observations and speculations about the nature of the world and the human condition to creative portraits of kings, heroes, and ancestors, as well as pious yet inventive characterizations of deities and their intervention in human affairs.”
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"Describing the origins of Phoenicia and Phoenicians is a nebulous venture. The Table of Nations in Gen 10 and subsequent biblical descriptions of Canaanites present a fluctuating people referenced with geographical boundaries that shift over time. Similarly, references to Phoenician cities within ancient Near Eastern texts beyond the Bible do little to remove the ambiguity.”
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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 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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She is remembered for her fateful act of looking back at the destruction of Sodom, but even the report of this act is full of unanswered questions. Why did she look back? Was she aware of the warning (directed only to Lot in Gen 19:17) against doing so? Should her transformation into a salt pillar be understood as a punishment? If so, why was Lot not equally punished for his failure to follow the other warnings in that same verse?
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“Given that the phrase ‘kingdom of God’ is semantically uncertain, we will be more enlightened if we approach it from a linguistic perspective. New Testament scholars generally lack interest in exploring how contemporary linguists deal with lexical units that exhibit semantic ambiguity. Linguists, however, have recognized that polysemy and semantic ambiguity are common in many languages and have conducted extensive research on the topic.”
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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, RBLMore Info
While the figure of Jesus has often been a source of contention between Christians and Muslims, with disputes emerging from their differing theologies of Jesus, he is also a figure around whom members of the two faiths have been able to find common ground and a means for seeking deeper understanding of each other.
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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, RBLMore Info
“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 CenturyMore Info
“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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“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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