Bøger udgivet af Society of Biblical Literature

"Warfare, Ritual, and Symbol in Biblical and Modern Contexts is a collection of fifteen essays about rituals of war and their function. Comparative and interdisciplinary approaches are applied to texts in the Hebrew Bible, which are read in light of ancient Near Eastern literature, artifacts, and iconography and contemporary ritual and social theory. Introductory and concluding essays evaluate each contribution, locate contributions in the history of scholarship, and propose promising directions for further research. A majority of the essays were presented in 2010-12 sessions of the SBL's Warfare in Ancient Israel Section"--

"Warfare, Ritual, and Symbol in Biblical and Modern Contexts is a collection of fifteen essays about rituals of war and their function. Comparative and interdisciplinary approaches are applied to texts in the Hebrew Bible, which are read in light of ancient Near Eastern literature, artifacts, and iconography and contemporary ritual and social theory. Introductory and concluding essays evaluate each contribution, locate contributions in the history of scholarship, and propose promising directions for further research. A majority of the essays were presented in 2010-12 sessions of the SBL's Warfare in Ancient Israel Section"--

Distilling advanced scholarship for classroom use, these essays reflect recent trends. Contributions range from genre and rhetorical considerations to theological and sociological assessments as well as to the reception and use of 1-2 Peter and Jude in the Christian tradition.

The Bible contains multiple moments of disruption, boundary crossing, and category confusion: animals speak, God becomes man, spirits haunt the living, and monsters confound. These essays explore biblical texts from Genesis to Revelation in conversation with critical theories of posthumanism that point beyond various human-centric ideologies.

The Bible contains multiple moments of disruption, boundary crossing, and category confusion: animals speak, God becomes man, spirits haunt the living, and monsters confound. These essays explore biblical texts from Genesis to Revelation in conversation with critical theories of posthumanism that point beyond various human-centric ideologies.

Distilling advanced scholarship for classroom use, these essays reflect recent trends. Contributions range from genre and rhetorical considerations to theological and sociological assessments as well as to the reception and use of 1-2 Peter and Jude in the Christian tradition.

Interdisciplinary essays consider the methodological issue of incorporating the categories of myth and scripture into understanding and interpreting biblical literature as both ancient texts and contemporary scripture in the Hebrew Bible and New Testament and their respective contexts.

International scholars uniquely focus on why the books of Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Samuel, and Kings encapsulated emerging Jewish identity for readers in the Persian and Hellenistic periods, and how those readers used the past to address the present and future.

International scholars uniquely focus on why the books of Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Samuel, and Kings encapsulated emerging Jewish identity for readers in the Persian and Hellenistic periods, and how those readers used the past to address the present and future.