Old Testament

This guide to Ezra and Nehemiah showcases the latest developments and most up-to-date scholarship on these important texts. Ezra and Nehemiah tell the story of the people in Yehud in the 6th and the 5th centuries BCE. This was a time of economic hardship...

While there are many textbooks about the prophetic literature, most have taken either a historical or literary approach to studying the prophets. A Chorus of Prophetic Voices, by contrast, draws on both historical and ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780310275862Author Walter C. KaiserFormat HardbackPage Count 432Imprint ZondervanPublisher ZondervanWeight(grams) 934g

In Slaying the Dragon: Mythmaking in the Biblical Tradition, Bernard Batto argues that biblical authors, like other ancient Near East authors, used mythic traditions in composing their works. Batto joins massive evidence with masterful argument to show...

The gospel story begins in Torah. What culminates at Golgotha starts with the rebellion in the garden. The Torah's story can be framed as a question: How will the word of God overcome the human revolution?Torah Story offers a student-friendly...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802829009Author John BartonFormat PaperbackPage Count 318Imprint William B Eerdmans Publishing CoPublisher William B Eerdmans Publishing CoWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780830852734Author Duane A. GarrettFormat PaperbackPage Count 408Imprint IVP AcademicPublisher IVP AcademicWeight(grams) 562gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 154mm *...

This volume contains 20 articles by leading scholars on the king and Messiah, mostly in the Old Testament, but also in the ancient Near East and post-biblical Judaism and New Testament. This volume is a major contribution to the study of kingship and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781620329993Author Daniel I. BlockFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams)...

Relying on archeological artifacts and anthropological study, George Mendenhall re-tells the story of Israel's history and faith. While careful not to move beyond the evidence, Mendenhall also provides an account of the theological dimensions of Israel's...

Race and ethnicity have become two of the most loaded and contested concepts in the contemporary world. Philosophies of Race and Ethnicity aims to disentangle this complexity and guide the reader to a clearer understanding of the debates.Analysing the...

Sarah, the wife of Abraham and the mother of Isaac in Genesis, is a central biblical character because of her role in the establishment of the people later called Israel. In recent years, the image of Sarah has not fared well in scholarship where she is...

Leslie C. Allen introduces students to the 1 & 2 Chronicles in the Old Testament, incorporating insights from over two decades of previous scholarship while grounding his analysis in earlier key works. "A Message for Yehud" sums up what has been...

This book offers the best current handling of Pentateuchal traditions as they operated in the past and as they help the church now. Hans Walter Wolff sees Israel's faith tradition as a continuous kerygmatic response to a variety of cultural challenges...

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The Cambridge Companion to the Hebrew Bible and Ethics offers an engaging and informative response to a wide range of ethical issues. Drawing connections between ancient and contemporary ethical problems, the essays address a variety of topics, including...

The New English Bible has benefited not only from advances in the understanding of ancient language and discoveries of new manuscripts and methods, but also from the recent growth in knowledge of the social and political history of the biblical period...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781666754780Author Reuven TravisFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams)...

The first comprehensive study of friendship in the Hebrew Bible Friendship, though a topic of considerable humanistic and cross disciplinary interest in contemporary scholarship, has been largely ignored by scholars of the Hebrew Bible, possibly because...

Steven Tuell shows how the books of Chronicles present the revelation of God's plan and purposes through the history of Israel, emphasizing the important role that King David plays within that story. Using up-to-date scholarship, Tuell focuses on the...

In this volume, Norman Habel takes on the humbling task of writing a commentary on such a classic work as the book of Job--a text that is complex and unclear at many points.The Old Testament Library provides fresh and authoritative treatments of...

Chapters 12-50 of the book of Genesis may be considered as enshrining the patriarchal traditions of the Jewish people. Besides the elements of poetry and legend embodied in these traditions, Professor Davidson shows that there can be a historical basis...

Most studies on violence in the Hebrew Bible focus on the question of how modern readers should approach the problem. But they fail to ask how the Hebrew Bible thinks about that problem in the first place. In this work, Matthew J. Lynch examines four key...

These accounts of the Maccabean revolt, by which the sons of Mattathias reclaimed the temple of Jerusalem, tell an important story of the founding of the Jewish people. "The Hammerers" is the meaning of the nickname "Maccabees," given to Mattathias's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802872913Author William GreenwayFormat PaperbackPage Count 178Imprint William B Eerdmans Publishing CoPublisher William B Eerdmans Publishing Co

The first systematic and comprehensive attempt to identify and analyze the role of Isaianic language and imagery in literature, art, and music Using reception history as its basis for study, Isaiah Through the Centuries is an unprecedented exploration of...

The aim of this series is to provide the text of the New English Bible closely linked to a commentary in which the results of scholarship are made available to the general reader. Teachers and young people have been especially kept in mind. The...

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1 and 2 Kings unfolds an epic narrative that concludes the long story of Israel's experience with institutional monarchy, a sequence of events that begins with the accession of Solomon and the establishment of the Jerusalem temple, moves through the...

Looking at the Book of Esther through the lens of intertextuality, this collection considers its connections with each division of the Hebrew Bible, along with texts throughout history. Through its exploration, it provides and invites further study into...

A beginning. An origin. A foundation.Knowing where we came from says much about where we are going. Perhaps that is why the first book of the Bible is a book of beginnings. God wants us to know where we came from. Learning that will teach us much about...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781955890168Author Jeremy DavisFormat PaperbackPage Count 322Imprint Ancient Faith PublishingPublisher Ancient Faith PublishingWeight(grams)...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802819543Author George W. CoatsFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint William B Eerdmans Publishing CoPublisher William B Eerdmans Publishing...

This striking new contribution to gender studies demonstrates the essential role of Israelite and Near East law in the historical analysis of gender. The theme of these studies of Babylonian, Hittite, Assyrian, and Israelite law is this: What is the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956178794Author Trevor DearingFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Crossbridge BooksPublisher Crossbridge BooksWeight(grams) 386g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998455006Author Jim OsmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 214Imprint Kootenai Community Church PublishingPublisher Kootenai Community Church...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780310367512Author Abraham KuyperFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint ZondervanPublisher ZondervanWeight(grams) 118g

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Feed your curiosity of the Bible by exploring the deeper meaning behind familiar Old Testament passages.Below the surface of every seemingly ordinary Bible verse lies a deeper meaning just waiting to be discovered. And these hidden insights aren't just...