Biblical Studies, Ancient Near East and Early Christianity E-Books Online, Collection 2010

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• Abraham as Spiritual Ancestor

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  • Author: I. Kamudzandu
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  • Drawing on the ideology of the Augustan era of constructing ancestors, this book is about Paul's creative construction of Abraham as a spiritual ancestor of "all" people who have the faith of Abraham and Sarah. The book breaks new accademic grounds on the value of ancestors in a 21st century global Christian world.

• Advances in Mesopotamian Medicine from Hammurabi to Hippocrates

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  • Editors Markham (Mark) Geller; Markham (Mark) Geller; Gilles Buisson
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  • This volume, which originated with a conference at the Collège de France, comprises articles on Babylonian and Assyrian medicine.

• Alternative Targum Traditions

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  • Authors: A. Houtman; H. Sysling
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  • This study explores the possibility of using variant readings of the Targum of the Prophets to get better insight into the origin and history of Targum Jonathan. The book is useful for the study of the genesis of Targum Jonathan and its later developments.

• Archaeology of the Books of Samuel

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  • Editors Philippe Hugo; Adrian Schenker
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  • Considering the literary dimension of the earliest text history of Samuel, this volume asks the question if the comparative analysis of the textual witnesses permit proving the existence of distinct literary editions and identifying the ideological motives that governed the possible modification of the text.

• Authoritative Scriptures in Ancient Judaism

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  • Editor Mladen Popović
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  • The notion of authoritative Scriptures plays an important part in the new paradigm of canonical process. This volume focuses on specific texts or corpora of texts, and approaches the notion of authoritative Scriptures from sociological, cultural and literary perspectives.

• Basil of Caesarea's Anti-Eunomian Theory of Names

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  • Author: M. Delcogliano
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  • This book offers a revisionist interpretation of the fourth-century debate between the theologians Basil of Caesarea and Eunomius of Cyzicus by situating their rival theories of names in their proper historical, philosophical, and theological context.

• Because You Bear This Name

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  • Author: B.G. Howe
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  • This study uses conceptual metaphor theory and methodology to analyze the cultural logic and symbolic context, moral content and ethical implications of 1 Peter. Conceptual metaphor study helps explain how people generate ethical understandings; it can help us recognize and account for lively moral discourse between the NT and contemporary readers.

• Biblical Argument in Manichaean Missionary Practice

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  • Author: J.A. Van Den Berg
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  • This book offers a reconstruction and analysis in context of the Disputationes, a treatise of Mani’s missionary Adimantus. In it, Adimantus, like Marcion, placed parts of the Old and New Testament opposite each other.

• The Biblical Qumran Scrolls

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  • Editor Eugene Ulrich
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  • This single volume collects all the Hebrew biblical manuscripts from Qumran—a transcription of each fragment in biblical order plus its textual variants. These manuscripts are the most authentic witnesses to the Scriptures at the birth of Christianity and Rabbinic Judaism.

• The Books of Kings

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  • Editors Matthew J. Adams; Matthew J. Adams; André Lemaire
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  • A comprehensive treatment of the history and components of Kings represents a departure from standard single-authored commentaries on it. Focusing on composition, sources, literary techniques, peoples and characters in the text, and on later transmission and reception of it affords students of the Books with a new resource, and sound bibliography.

• The Brill Dictionary of Gregory of Nyssa

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  • Editors Lucas Francisco Mateo-Seco; Giulio Maspero
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  • The Brill Dictionary of Gregory of Nyssa is the fruit of wide-ranging collaboration between more than forty scholars from various disciplines and perspectives, providing in two hundred articles a symphonic vision of the studies on Gregory of Nyssa and his thought.

• The Buried Foundation of the Gilgamesh Epic

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  • Authors: D. E. Fleming; S. J. Milstein
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  • Based on contrasting characterization and narrative logic between the central Huwawa episode and the remaining material for the earliest Akkadian Gilgamesh, this book challenges the accepted notion that the famous epic was composed without recourse to a previous Akkadian narrative.

• Cantos and Strophes in Biblical Hebrew Poetry II

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  • Author: P. Van Der Lugt
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  • Formal and thematic devices demonstrate that Hebrew poetry is composed of a consistent pattern of cantos (stanzas) and strophes. The formal devices include quantitative balance on the level of cantos in terms of the number of verselines, verbal repetitions and transition markers.

• City of Ruins

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  • Author: D. Daschke
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  • This psychoanalytic study reads Jewish apocalypses as texts of mourning for the destruction of Jerusalem, arguing that the seers' experiences of traumatic loss, then visions of healing and recovery, all work to achieve the ‘apocalyptic cure’ for ancient Jewish society.

• Clement of Alexandria on Trial

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  • Author: P. Ashwin-Siejkowski
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  • Drawing on Photios' synopsis of the eight errors contained in Clement of Alexandria's lost work 'Hypotyposeis', this book offers a re-examination of second-century theology . The book stresses the importance understanding Clement's work in its original Alexandrian context.

• The Codex Judas Papers

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  • Editor April D. DeConick
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  • This book contains the proceedings from the Codex Judas Congress held to discuss the newly-restored Tchacos Codex. Since this codex is a newly-conserved ancient book of Christian manuscripts which had yet to be discussed collaboratively by a body of scholars, this book is nothing less than a landmark in Gnostic studies.

• A Comparative Handbook to the Gospel of Mark

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  • Editors Daniel Oden; Daniel Oden; Darrell Bock; Daniel Gurtner; Jacob Neusner; Lawrence Schiffman
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  • This handbook addresses the Judaic context of the Gospel according to Mark. Mark's text is compared to distinct categories of writings, Pseudepigrapha (together with Philo and Josephus), discoveries related to Qumran, Rabbinic Literature (as well as the Targumim), and examples of Aramaic language that reflect first-century usage.

• Congress Volume Ljubljana 2007

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  • Editor André Lemaire
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  • This volume presents all the main lectures of the XIXth Congress of the International Organization for the Study of the Old Testament held in Ljubljana (july 2007). The thirty-one authors represent a very good sample of the main trends and progress of current biblical research.

• Das Ritual der Aštu (CTH 490)

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  • Author: S. Görke
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  • Beyond a philological treatment of the Hurrian-Hittite Ritual of Aštu, this study proposes a reconstruction of fragmentary texts by analysis of text structure. It also discusses the genesis of the text.

• The Dead Sea Scrolls, A Full History

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  • Author: Weston W. Fields