Criticism & exegesis of sacred texts books

A study in comparative literature, provides some fascinating parallels between the birth stories of Jesus and of...  Read More >>

This book describes the transformation of a relatively egalitarian society into a class society in ancient Judah,...  Read More >>

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Explores the question of the kind of canon, privileged status, or Logos, the Torah actually has for the post-modern...  Read More >>

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Most of the women described in this study were atypical biblical women. Israelite women, like women in most cultures...  Read More >>

The main focus of this study is on the intricate debates, statements and principles that were forged by the Talmudic...  Read More >>

Tracing the development, current state, and future of Old Testament literary criticism, this volume gathers seminal...  Read More >>

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This study presents material from the Talmud and Midrash which have one characteristic in common: they reflect an...  Read More >>

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The essays in this collection fall into three groups. The first group deals with philosophical accounts of interpretation....  Read More >>

"A 9th-century collection of rabbinical commentary on the Book of Proverbs. Visotzky provides a translation of the...  Read More >>

A comprehensive study of the perspectives on angels of Qumran sectarian authors and of the authors of those sections...  Read More >>

A collection of detailed studies of some Aramaic texts from Qumran (Book of Noah, Books of Enoch, Book of Giants,...  Read More >>

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Given its vast literature and its practice of teaching what is appropriate for a particular disciple, the Buddhist...  Read More >>

"A reinterpretation of ""Brahmasutras"", a commentary on the central teachings of the Upanisads. The main argument...  Read More >>

This first volume in the series Christian Origins and the Question of God provides a historical, theological, and...  Read More >>

Part of a series exploring the Jewish ancestry of Christianity. It shows how Chrustian authors turned Josephus'...  Read More >>

This book concerns the use of the Hebrew Bible for historical research, containing a general introduction, a reappraisal...  Read More >>

"Through a careful analysis of the original commentaries - the """"Vedas"""" - the author of this work attempts...  Read More >>

This work represents the first independent study of the Jewish Christian Gospel fragments and of the use of the...  Read More >>

A collection of papers from the NEH Summer Seminar for College Teachers which aim to compare biblical and Mesopotamian...  Read More >>

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