Handbook on the Pentateuch

Handbook on the Pentateuch
Author: Victor P. Hamilton
Publisher: Baker Books
Total Pages: 400
Release: 2005-09-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1585583006

In this introduction to the first five books of the Old Testament, Victor Hamilton moves chapter by chapter through the Pentateuch, examining the content, structure, and theology. Hamilton surveys each major thematic unit of the Pentateuch and offers useful commentary on overarching themes and connections between Old Testament texts.

A Plague of Texts?

A Plague of Texts?
Author: Bénédicte Lemmelijn
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 396
Release: 2009-04-07
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9047425820

Prior to any attempt to study a text at the literary level, the textual material itself has to be carefully established. It is for this reason that the present volume is devoted to a detailed text-critical study of the 'physical' text of the ‘Plagues Narrative’ in Exod. 7:14–11:10. In the first chapter, the author formulates a number of prolegomena relating to textual criticism as a discipline, the extant textual material, the terminology employed and the methodological model that serves as the basis of this study. In the second chapter, data provided by the various textual forms of the ‘Plagues Narrative’ in Exod. 7:14–11:10, namely MT, LXX, SamP, 4QpaleoExodm, 4QpaleoGen-Exodɭ, 2QExoda, 4QExodc, 4QGen-Exoda and 4QExodj, are registered and described. The extant textual versions themselves are presented in the form of a synopsis, added as an appendix to this book. The third and final chapter offers the text-critical evaluation of all 'text-relevant' variants.

Liquid Scripture

Liquid Scripture
Author: Jeffrey S. Siker
Publisher: Fortress Press
Total Pages: 317
Release: 2017-09-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1506407870

The electronic Bible is here to stay‒‒packaged in software on personal computers, available as apps on tablets and cell phones. Increasingly, students look at glowing screens to consult the Bible in class, and congregants do the same in Bible study and worship. Jeffrey S. Siker asks, what difference does it make to our experience of Scripture if we no longer hold a book in our hands, if we again “scroll” through Scripture? How does the “flow” of electronic Scripture change our perception of the Bible’s authority and significance? Siker discusses the difference made when early Christians adopted the codex rather than the scroll and Gutenberg began the mass production of printed Bibles. He also reviews the latest research on how the reading brain processes digital texts and how churches use digital Bibles, including American Bible Society research and his own surveys of church leaders. Siker asks, does the proliferation of electronic translations reduce the perceived seriousness of Scripture? Does it promote an individualistic response to the Bible? How does the change from a physical Bible affect liturgical practice? His synthesis of the advantages and risks of the digitized Bible merit serious reflection in classrooms and churches alike.

Before Abraham was

Before Abraham was
Author: Isaac M. Kikawada
Publisher:
Total Pages: 790
Release: 1985
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780687026029

This study focuses on the portraits of Jesus found in the four Gospels. It looks at the way each Gospel writer presents events and teachings and at the picture of Jesus that emerges in each of the Gospels.

Judges 1

Judges 1
Author: Mark S. Smith
Publisher: Fortress Press
Total Pages: 924
Release: 2021-11-23
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1506480497

This groundbreaking volume presents a new translation of the text and detailed interpretation of almost every word or phrase in the book of Judges, drawing from archaeology and iconography, textual versions, biblical parallels, and extrabiblical texts, many never noted before. Archaeology also serves to show how a story of the Iron II period employed visible ruins to narrate supposedly early events from the so-called "period of the Judges." The synchronic analysis for each unit sketches its characters and main themes, as well as other literary dynamics. The diachronic, redactional analysis shows the shifting settings of units as well as their development, commonly due to their inner-textual reception and reinterpretation. The result is a remarkably fresh historical-critical treatment of 1:1-10:5.