Biblical Studies, Ancient Near East and Early Christianity E-Books Online, Collection 2011

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• Figuring Jesus

  • Type: E-Book
  • Author: K. A. Reich
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  • Examining Luke's gospel through audience-oriented rhetorical criticism, this book investigates the speech of Jesus through his use of rhetorical figures. Jesus' speech in Luke's Gospel reveals Luke's message and his means of persuading his audience to accept it.

• Flavius Josephus

  • Type: E-Book
  • Editors Menahem Mor; Pnina Stern; Jack Pastor
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  • Josephus, the Jewish historian who wrote about history, bible, and serves as a source for a wide-range of related disciplines is the subject of twenty four articles which grew out of an international colloquium.

• From Conquest to Coexistence

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  • Author: K. Van Bekkum
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  • This meticulous study of Joshua 9:1—13:7 and archaeology offers a new historical picture of the Late Bronze – Iron Age transition in the Southern Levant and defines the ideology and antiquarian intent of the Israelite historiographers reworking this episode.

• From Judaism to Christianity: Tradition and Transition

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  • Editor Patricia Walters
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  • The striving of Hellenistic Judaism to lay claim to its own epoch and the struggle of early Christianity to ground its pluriform beliefs in that same world represent the governing themes of this volume, dedicated to Thomas H. Tobin, S.J.