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Agur's Wisdom and the Coherence of Proverbs 30Author: Alexander T. KirkPublisher: SBL PressPublication Date: Apr 12, 2024Number of Pages: NA pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: HardcoverISBN-10:...

Despite the prevalence of animals in the Bible, most scholars have viewed them merely as metaphors, passive objects, or background embellishment to the human experience. This collection seeks to move...

Qoheleth critiques the teachings found in the rest of the Hebrew Bible, but why did he push back against his inherited traditions? Raising the possibility that Qoheleth's dissonant and defiant tone...

This volume presents the work of the international, interdisciplinary research project Changes in Sacred Texts and Traditions (CSTT), whose members focused on cultural, ideological, and material...

In scholarly study of the New Testament and early Christian rhetoric, one key element is often overlooked: the sublime. To address this omission, contributors to this volume explore how the...

This critical edition and annotated translation of metrical homilies attributed to Isaac of Antioch includes twenty texts, the majority of which are examples of the Syriac rebuke genre. The...

Isaac of Antioch : Homilies on Moral and Monastic ReformAuthor: Adam H. BeckerPublisher: SBL PressPublication Date: Sep 13, 2024Number of Pages: NA pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: HardcoverISBN-10:...

Jerusalem is the center of the universe, the hub of the three great monotheistic religions, yet how did a city located on the desert fringe, in the semi-arid southern highlands of Israel with little...

Jerusalem is the center of the universe, the hub of the three great monotheistic religions, yet how did a city located on the desert fringe, in the semi-arid southern highlands of Israel with little...

In her latest volume on John Chrysostom, Pauline Allen translates into English nine homilies on two of Paul's letters. Included in this collection are six homilies on Titus that deal with...

John, Jesus, and History, Volume 4 : Jesus Remembered in the Johannine SituationAuthor: Paul N. Anderson, Felix Just SJ, Tom ThatcherPublisher: SBL PressPublication Date: Sep 20, 2024Number of Pages:...

The flagship journal of the field, JBL is a quarterly periodical that promotes critical and academic biblical scholarship.Author: Susan E. HylenPublisher: SBL PressPublication Date: Jan 08,...

The flagship journal of the field, JBL is a quarterly periodical that promotes critical and academic biblical scholarship.Author: Susan E HylenPublisher: SBL PressPublication Date: Apr 04, 2024Number...

The flagship journal of the field, JBL is a quarterly periodical that promotes critical and academic biblical scholarship.Author: Susan E. HylenPublisher: SBL PressPublication Date: Jun 14,...

The Life of Aesop the Philosopher, an anonymous Greek literary work, presents one version of the novelistic biography of Aesop, which dates to the fourth to fifth century CE. In this volume,...

In his latest book, Carlos Gracia Zamacona presents a corpus-based comprehensive analysis of the ancient Egyptian Coffin Texts (ca. 2000-1600 BCE). Rather than focusing on highly speculative...

This volume of the New Documents Illustrating Early Christianity series introduces scholars and students to the historical, political, civic, religious, cultural, and social context of Ephesian...

Nineteenth-Century Women's Movements and the Bible examines politically motivated women's movements in the nineteenth century, including the legal, cultural, and ecclesiastical contexts of women...

This fourth volume of the Philo of Alexandria Commentary Series, originally published by Brill in hardcover, presents the first readable, modern English translation and commentary on Philo's De...

Philo's Influence on Valentinian TraditionAuthor: Risto AuvinenPublisher: SBL PressPublication Date: Jun 07, 2024Number of Pages: NA pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

In this follow-up to They Were All Together in One Place? (2009) and Reading Biblical Texts Together (2022), biblical scholars from different racial/ethnic minoritized communities move beyond...

Remembering Nicaea presents the first complete English translation of Anonymous Cyzicenus's Ecclesiastical History, the fullest surviving account of the Council of Nicaea (325 CE). The introduction...

Since the 1949 publication of the Late Bronze inscriptions on the Statue of Idrimi, scholars have debated the significance of the carefully structured and vividly detailed cuneiform text that...

Theology of the Hebrew Bible, Volume 2 : Texts, Readers, and Their WorldsAuthor: Soo Kim Sweeney, David Frankel, Marvin A. SweeneyPublisher: SBL PressPublication Date: Sep 20, 2024Number of Pages: NA...