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This guide introduces the complex new edition of the Nestle-Aland Novum Testamentum Graece, 28 Edition, explaining its structure, the text-critical apparatus and appendices, and the innovations of the new edition.

One of six titles in The Bible in American Culture series published to celebrate the Society of Biblical Literature's centennial, this volume focuses on the Bible in poetry, novels, plays, architecture, art, and music. A final essay focuses on the differing ways people have seen the Bible as part of America's foundational myth.

From a long-standing nationalistic tradition that was tolerated under a pagan ruler, over time Judaism became a threat to be repressed and confined against a now-Christian empire. This work examines the forces that shaped and defined Judaism as we have come to know it.

This essential classroom resource includes primary texts and documents in translation, illustrating Greek religious beliefs and practices from Homer to Alexander the Great. Introductory notes provide historical context. The volume includes a glossary of technical terms, a general index, and an index of ancient sources cited.

In this important study, features of late second-millennium B.C.E. culture are critically examined in order to define the complex social boundaries of the early Iron Age and reconstruct the diverse material world of Canaanites, Egyptians, Philistines, and early Israel.