Biblical Studies, Ancient Near East and Early Christianity E-Books Online, Collection 2007

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• A People Tall and Smooth-Skinned

  • Type: E-Book
  • Author: M. Høyland Lavik
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  • This volume sheds new light on an old and somehow puzzling text, Isaiah 18. Even though the majority of scholars over the years has regarded this chapter difficult to fully understand, the author of this volume demonstrates how Isa 18 can be seen as a coherent whole by showing itself to be an example of Hebrew rhetoric.

• Philo's Scriptures: Citations from the Prophets and Writings

  • Type: E-Book
  • Author: N.G. Cohen
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  • Philo’s rare citations from the Prophets and Writings shed light on the nature of his sources, and the specific quotations from the Prophets provide evidence for the existence, already in the 1st century CE, of an important traditional Haftarah Cycle.

• Poetry and Exegesis in Premodern Latin Christianity

  • Type: E-Book
  • Authors: W. Otten; K. Pollmann
  • Editors Willemien Otten; Karla Pollmann
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  • This volume presents a broad variety of specifically Christian approaches to poetry and analyses modes of interpreting the Bible that are new in poetry compared with prose exegesis. Both theoretical statements on poetry by Christians and concrete poetic works from roughly 300 to 1250 AD are taken into account.

• Prayer in Josephus

  • Type: E-Book
  • Author: T.M. Jonquière
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  • This book is an analysis of prayer in the works of Flavius Josephus, comprising a study of Josephus’own views and an analysis of 32 prayer texts within his narrative. New light is thus shed on his historiographic method and his theology.

• Psalms and Prayers

  • Type: E-Book
  • Authors: H.G.L. Peels; B.E.J.H. Prof. Dr. Becking
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  • Psalms are to be seen as prayers, it is as testimonies of faith and despair. By applying a multi-dimensional matrix of methods the authors of these essays open perspectives on new insights in these ancient hymns.