The Song of Deborah and Barak in the Narrative of Judges
by Michelle Knight
Price: $64.99
ISBN: 9781481321594
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: November 2024
Format: Hardcover
Within the chaotic world narrated in the book of Judges, the prophet Deborah spoke under the authority of Israel’s God, interpreting an important battle and calling fellow Israelites to faithfulness....
In the majority of canonical lists, the Psalms and the book of Job sit next to one another, perhaps due to their size. They share a theme, lament, or complaint, though in the case of Job the intensity...
In Proverbs, wisdom is personified as a woman who is with God at the creation of the world, delighting in what God has made. In Job, God appears in theophany and describes the wonders of the earth and...
The Elder Testament serves as a theological introduction to the canonical unity of the Scriptures of Israel. Christopher Seitz demonstrates that, while an emphasis on theology and canonical form often...
From the eighth to second centuries BCE, ancient Israel and Judah were threatened and dominated by a series of foreign empires. This traumatic history prompted serious theological reflection and recalibration,...
When the Old Testament refers to silence, either the silence of persons or of God, that silence conveys a diversity of meanings. It may indicate a breakdown in the divine-human relationship, or the...
The Septuagint, the Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible created by Jews seeking a place of legitimacy for diaspora Jewishness and faith among the traditions of Hellenistic culture, was a monumental...
Psalms 146–150 in the Masoretic Text, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and the Septuagint
by Alma Brodersen
Price: $44.99
ISBN: 9781481308991
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: August 2018
Format: Paperback
Psalms 146-150--sometimes called the "Final Hallel"--are often thought to comprise an end to the Psalter. Frequently seen as connected to other psalms through catchwords that act as both literary and...
Edited by W. Dennis Tucker, Jr. and W. H. Bellinger, Jr.
Price: $54.99
ISBN: 9781481305563
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: March 2017
Format: Hardcover
The Psalter as Witness considers the complexity of the Psalms as well as their role in bearing witness to the theological claims that comprise Israel’s traditions. While no single volume can readily...
Biblical Israel and the Politics of Identity Formation
by Amanda Beckenstein Mbuvi
Price: $54.99
ISBN: 9781602587472
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: March 2016
Format: Paperback
Genesis calls its readers into a vision of human community unconstrained by the categories that dominate modern thinking about identity. Genesis situates humanity within a network of nurture that encompasses...
Endlessly cunning, elusive, and playful--the Bible consistently unsettles even as it assures. Walter Brueggemann reveals exactly how Scripture exposes the inadequacy of the assumptions and habits that...
Old Testament Theology provides a foundational tool for a theological reading of the Old Testament. In the book's central chapters, John Kessler delineates six differing representations of the divine-human...
The value and significance of the targums--translations of the Hebrew Bible into Aramaic, the language of Palestinian Jews for centuries following the Babylonian Exile--lie in their approach to translation:...
Rather than devote space to the type of theological and exegetical comments found in most commentaries, this series focuses on the Hebrew text and its related issues, syntactic and otherwise. The volumes...
Pain disintegrates a person, fracturing self and relationships. In Living Through Pain Kristin M. Swenson charts the multifaceted personal and social problems caused by chronic pain and surveys professional...
