Sacred texts books

Using the tools of contemporary semiotic theory to analyze classical rabbinic hermeneutics and medieval mystical...  Read More >>

This book presents evidence that daily, sabbath, and festival prayers found at Qumran represent liturgical traditions...  Read More >>

This study shows that angel traditions from the Hebrew Bible and Jewish literature had a significant impact on the...  Read More >>

Examines the traditional and modern Western interpretations of the Tao-te-ching, and its author, Lao-tzu.  Read More >>

This is a collection of essays drawn from Schwartz's previously published work in which he explores how each successive...  Read More >>

A literary exploration of the Hebrew Bible focussing on three distinct literary elements: narrative text, direct...  Read More >>

This is a collection of essays drawn from Schwartz's previously published work in which he explores how each successive...  Read More >>

Positioned at the boundary of traditional biblical studies, legal history, and literary theory, Deuteronomy and...  Read More >>

In this exploration of Jewish wisdom during the Hellenistic period, internationally renowned scholar John J. Collins...  Read More >>

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"A examination of the man who receives the most attention for a human character in the Old Testament. It explores...  Read More >>

Presenting a comprehensive discussion of three Hebrew poems which are studied as works of art, this text asserts...  Read More >>

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Offering a treatment of visionary experience in some of the main texts of Jewish mysticism, this book reveals the...  Read More >>

Presents an overview of our knowledge on the history of the Bible. This book is divided into three parts, which...  Read More >>

The studies in this volume investigate Isaiah's use of early sacred tradition, the editing and contextualization...  Read More >>

Biblical Hebrew grammar was until recently concentrated on the morpho-syntax within sentence boundries. In the past...  Read More >>

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Jewishness disrupts categories of identity because it is not genealogical, or even religious, but all of these,...  Read More >>

For thirty years Ralph P. Martin's Carmen Christi has been the indispensable work for any serious interpretation...  Read More >>