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The Book of Genesis: A Biography by Ronald Hendel 9780691196831
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.23An essential biography of one of the Bible's most influential booksDuring its 2,500-year life, the book of Genesis has been the keystone to important claims about God and humanity in Judaism and... -
Genesis 1-11: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary Ronald Hendel 9780300149739
RRP: £70.00Booksplease Price: £62.78The first volume of a groundbreaking two-part commentary on the book of Genesis by leading biblical scholar Ronald Hendel The first eleven chapters of Genesis narrate the origin of the universe;... -
Reading Genesis: Ten Methods Ronald Hendel (University of California, Berkeley) 9780521518611
Booksplease Price: £52.20Reading Genesis presents a panoramic view of the most vital ways that Genesis is approached in modern scholarship. Essays by ten eminent scholars cover the perspectives of literature, gender, memory,... -
How Old Is the Hebrew Bible?: A Linguistic, Textual, and Historical Study by Ronald Hendel
Booksplease Price: £33.08From two expert scholars comes a comprehensive study of the dating of the Hebrew Bible The age of the Hebrew Bible is a topic that has sparked controversy and debate in recent years. The scarcity of... -
Steps to a New Edition of the Hebrew Bible by Ronald S Hendel 9780884141952
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £45.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780884141952Author Ronald HendelFormat HardbackPage Count 408Imprint -
Remembering Abraham: Culture, Memory, and History in the Hebrew Bible by Ronald S. Hendel 9780195177961
Booksplease Price: £80.91According to an old tradition preserved in the Palestinian Targums, the Hebrew Bible is 'the Book of Memories.' The sacred past recalled in the Bible serves as a model and wellspring for the present... -
Five Views on the Exodus: Historicity, Chronology, and Theological Implications by Scott Stripling 9780310108740
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £15.47Five Views on the Exodus looks at competing views on the historicity, chronology, and theological implications of the exodus. The biblical account of the Israelite exodus from Egypt is one of the... -
Becoming Diaspora Jews: Behind the Story of Elephantine by Karel van der Toorn
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £46.99Based on a previously unexplored source, this book transforms the way we think about the formation of Jewish identity This book tells the story of the earliest Jewish diaspora in Egypt in a way it... -
Freud and Monotheism: Moses and the Violent Origins of Religion by Gilad Sharvit 9780823280025
RRP: £76.00Booksplease Price: £67.40Over the last few decades, vibrant debates regarding post-secularism have found inspiration and provocation in the works of Sigmund Freud. A new interest in the interconnection of psychoanalysis,... -
Religio Duplex: How the Enlightenment Reinvented Egyptian Religion by Jan Assmann 9780745668420
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £49.05In this important new book, the distinguished Egyptologist Jan Assmann provides a masterful overview of a crucial theme in the religious history of the West - that of 'religio duplex', or dual... -
Religio Duplex: How the Enlightenment Reinvented Egyptian Religion Jan Assmann 9780745668437
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £17.03In this important new book, the distinguished Egyptologist Jan Assmann provides a masterful overview of a crucial theme in the religious history of the West - that of 'religio duplex', or dual... -
The Archaeology of Ancient Israelite Knowledge by Robert S. Kawashima
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £25.04The Archaeology of Ancient Israelite Knowledge reconstructs in carefully researched detail the worldview of the ancient Israelites writers responsible for the Hebrew Bible. What was the role of God... -
A Prophet Like Moses: Prophecy, Law, and Israelite Religion by Jeffrey Stackert 9780199336456
Booksplease Price: £117.42Jeffrey Stackert addresses two of the oldest and most persistent problems in biblical studies: the relationship between prophecy and law in the Hebrew Bible and the utility of the Documentary... -
Sinning in the Hebrew Bible: How the Worst Stories Speak for Its Truth by Alan F. Segal 9780231159265
RRP: £117.00Booksplease Price: £91.46Stories of rape, murder, adultery, and conquest raise crucial issues in the Hebrew Bible, and their interpretation helps societies form their religious and moral beliefs. From the sacrifice of Isaac... -
Women and the Religion of Ancient Israel by Susan Ackerman
Booksplease Price: £39.17A synthetic reconstruction of women's religious engagement and experiences in preexilic Israel "This monumental book examines a wealth of data from the Bible, archaeology, and ancient Near Eastern... -
Beyond Orality: Biblical Poetry on its Own Terms Jacqueline Vayntrub 9780367731571
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.08Central to understanding the prophecy and prayer of the Hebrew Bible are the unspoken assumptions that shaped them-their genres. Modern scholars describe these works as "poetry," but there was no... -
Jewish Bible Translations: Personalities, Passions, Politics, Progress by Leonard Greenspoon 9780827613126
Booksplease Price: £36.08Jewish Bible Translations is the first book to examine Jewish Bible translations from the third century BCE to our day. It is an overdue corrective of an important story that has been regularly... -
The Ladder of Jacob: Ancient Interpretations of the Biblical Story of Jacob and His Children by James L. Kugel 9780691141237
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.69Rife with incest, adultery, rape, and murder, the biblical story of Jacob and his children must have troubled ancient readers. By any standard, this was a family with problems. Jacob's oldest son... -
Moses the Egyptian: The Memory of Egypt in Western Monotheism by Jan Assmann
RRP: £34.95Booksplease Price: £29.48Standing at the very foundation of monotheism, and so of Western culture, Moses is a figure not of history, but of memory. As such, he is the quintessential subject for the innovative historiography...