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Structural Analysis of Biblical and Canaanite Poetry by Willem Van Der Meer 9780567574237
Booksplease Price: £37.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780567574237Author Willem van der MeerFormat PaperbackPage Count 438Imprint Sheffield Academic... -
The Earth Bible: Vol V: The Earth Story in the New Testament by Vicki Balabanski 9780826460608
Booksplease Price: £113.11The "Earth Bible" is an international project, including volumes on ecojustice readings of major sections of the Bible. The basic aims of the Earth Bible project are: to develop ecojustice principles... -
Peter: The Myth, the Man and the Writings by P Lapham 9780567044907
Booksplease Price: £102.21This book critically examines all the early and important Petrine pseudepigrapha to identify a distinctive Petrine theology which, it is believed, was later swamped by the tide of western orthodoxy... -
Gender and Law in the Hebrew Bible and the Ancient Near East by Bernard M Levinson 9780567545008
Booksplease Price: £40.38This 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,... -
Psalms (5) by Day 9780567084545
Booksplease Price: £25.91Originally published as part of the acclaimed Sheffield Guides series, this helpful study-guide is designed to meet the needs of students and general readers in a concise, accessible and affordable... -
A Dictionary of the English Bible and Its Origins by Alec Gilmore 9781841270685
Booksplease Price: £76.50This Dictionary is designed to increase awareness of Bible origins, introduce readers to the variety of versions and manuscripts that lie behind the familiar English translation(s). It also provides,... -
A Feminist Companion to Exodus-Deuteronomy by Athalya Brenner 9781850754633
Booksplease Price: £41.36This volume is part of a series which provides a fundamental resource for feminist biblical scholarship, containing a comprehensive selection of essays, both reprinted and specially written for the... -
Introducing Theology: Discourse on the Goddess by Melissa Raphael 9781850759751
Booksplease Price: £90.57Students and others interested in issues rel ating to religion, theology and gender will find this an inv aluable introduction to the revival of Goddess religion in c ontemporary post-Christian... -
Esdras: 2 by Bruce W. Longenecker 9781850757269
Booksplease Price: £27.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781850757269Author Bruce W. LongeneckerFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Sheffield Academic... -
Daniel by Philip R. Davies 9781850750024
Booksplease Price: £34.84Daniel has engendered a good deal of controversial debate, especially regarding its date and authorship and its 'apocalyptic' character. In this introduction for the student, the scholarly issues are... -
Daniel by Paul L. Redditt 9781841270098
Booksplease Price: £44.76This commentary interprets Daniel 1-6 against the background of a group of Diaspora Judaeans who desire to succeed in the court of a foreign king despite the dangers inherent in the attempt, and... -
4 Maccabees by David A. DeSilva 9781850758969
Booksplease Price: £28.57Hellenistic Greek society offered many advantages to the Jew who was willing to relax Torah for the sake of easier relations with the dominant culture. 4 Maccabees was written to reassure Jewish... -
The Making of the Pentateuch: A Methodological Study by R. N. Whybray 9781850750635
Booksplease Price: £102.21'Whybray's recent book is a masterful review of all the options set out by critical scholarship since Wellhausen, i.e., over the last century. It is an exhaustive and up to date treatment, concise... -
Sex These Days: Essays in Theology, Sexuality and Society by Jon Davies 9781850758044
Booksplease Price: £90.57What has been lost, what has been gained, in replacing sexual orthodoxy with the 'heresies' of postmodern sexualities? In the recent past-even within living memory-sex has usually been a matter of... -
Exodux - Deuteronomy: A Feminist Companion to the Bible (Second Series) by Athalya Brenner 9781841270791
Booksplease Price: £41.36The studies in this collection, reflecting recent developments in feminist exegesis in Europe and the United States, comprise three 'revisits': the first, to Exodus and Moses, includes Susanne Scholz... -
A Feminist Companion to Ruth by Athalya Brenner 9781850754213
Booksplease Price: £41.36This volume is part of a series which provides a fundamental resource for feminist biblical scholarship, containing a comprehensive selection of essays, both reprinted and specially written for the... -
1 Maccabees by John R. Bartlett 9781850757634
Booksplease Price: £34.47This is a book for anyone interested in the political and cultural results of the entry of the small state of Judah and its capital Jerusalem into the wider Hellenistic world in the second century... -
Acts by F. Scott Spencer 9781850756736
Booksplease Price: £113.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781850756736Author F. Scott SpencerFormat HardbackPage Count 244Imprint Sheffield Academic... -
Neolithic Society in Greece by Paul Halstead 9781850758242
Booksplease Price: £112.13Understanding of early farming societies in Greece has been revolutionized by major field projects, by the growing application of specialist 'scientific' studies, and by new approaches to... -
Asian Biblical Hermeneutics and Postcolonialism: Contesting the Interpretations by R. S. Sugirtharajah 9781850759737
Booksplease Price: £90.57The volume contributes a postcolonial perspective to such topics as textual production, commentarial writings and translations in colonial times, and then moves on to inspect Eurocentric notions... -
2 Peter and Jude by Jonathan Knight 9781850757443
Booksplease Price: £29.91These two small texts have often been outshone by other New Testament writings and have sometimes been regarded as of scant importance. Neither of them is easy to understand. Their language is... -
Romans by Robert Morgan 9781850757399
Booksplease Price: £30.87Anyone who tries to read through Paul's epistle to the Romans soon discovers it is a dense and difficult text. Some of the difficulties are concealed by modern translations, yet even those... -
The Syntax of the Verb in Classical Hebrew Prose by Alviero Niccacci 9780567213723
Booksplease Price: £37.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780567213723Author Alviero NiccacciFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Sheffield Academic... -
Wisdom in Revolt: Metaphorical Theology in the Book of Job by Leo G Perdue 9780567465474
Booksplease Price: £37.42Once the 'poor relation' of biblical theology, Wisdom is now assuming a central role in the reconstruction of Israelite religion and the formation of scripture. This clear yet sophisticated study... -
In Conversation with Jonah: Conversation Analysis, Literary Criticism and the Book of Jonah by Jr Person 9780567425935
Booksplease Price: £37.42The author analyses the various conversations that occur between the characters in the Jonah narrative and the 'conversation' that occurs between the text and its readers. The study opens with an... -
Temple Scroll by Johann Maier 9780567384829
Booksplease Price: £37.42The introduction, translation and commentary on the Temple Scroll by Johann Maier has been thoroughly revised and updated by the author for its English edition, taking account of improvements in... -
The 'the Book of the Covenant': A Literary Approach by Joe M Sprinkle 9780567324818
Booksplease Price: £37.42This volume offers a synchronic, literary reading of the final form of the laws of Exodus 20.22-23.19 (commonly, though inaccurately labelled "The Book of the Covenant"), in contrast with primarily... -
Church in Antioch in First Century CE by SLEE 9780567083821
Booksplease Price: £112.13The book explores the problems faced by the church in Antioch in the mid-first century CE once the decision was taken to welcome Gentiles into the church. Slee argues that a particular problem was... -
Wisdom and Psalms by Athalya Brenner 9781850759171
Booksplease Price: £45.30The second volume of the series takes up que stions of voice, exclusion and construction as well as the r einforcement of the world views that have a legacy of contin ued gender asymmetry in Judaism... -
A Feminist Companion to Esther, Judith and Susanna by Athalya Brenner 9781850755272
Booksplease Price: £45.30Do we confront in these three characters feminist heroines or patriarchally idealised stooges? From the worldly Esther to the piously devout Susanna via the militant widow, these female figures... -
Samuel and Kings: A Feminist Companion to the Bible (Second Series) by Athalya Brenner 9781841270821
Booksplease Price: £29.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781841270821Author Athalya BrennerFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Sheffield Academic... -
Jonah and Lamentations by R.B. Salters 9781850757191
Booksplease Price: £27.58While the book of Jonah is, in some ways, unique, it stands firmly in the Old Testament tradition. There have been various suggestions as to genre, the most likely being the (short) didactic story;... -
European Union Own Resources by Iain Begg 9781850758587
Booksplease Price: £103.11As the European Union moves towards full economic and monetary union, the system used to finance the Union will have to change. The current arrangements were designed for a small community at a... -
Ritual and Remembrance: Responses to Death in Human Societies by Jon Davies 9781850754695
Booksplease Price: £61.62Since the end of the last ice Age ten thousand or so years ago, over the period that we know as 'history', about one hundred billions people have dies. Death is, on the one hand, an ordinary,... -
Sign, Text, Scripture: Semiotics and the Bible by George Aichele 9781850756910
Booksplease Price: £41.78This book is an introduction to the field of semiotics specifically directed to students of the Bible as well as to biblical scholars trained in other methodologies. The primary focus is on what... -
Greening of the EU by BURCHELL 9781841272757
Booksplease Price: £102.21This book critically examines the European Union s developing relationship with the green agenda, identifying links between the emerging pattern of green politics and patterns of EU policy-making. It... -
Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi by R.J. Coggins 9781850750253
Booksplease Price: £34.84In the first half of this Guide the preaching of Haggai and Zechariah (chs. 1-8) is placed within its historical setting of Persian rule and within the history of prophetism. The latter part of the... -
The Fundamentals of the Art of Poetry by Oscar Mandel 9781850758372
Booksplease Price: £91.39Fundamentals of the Art of Poetry takes the reader on a journey that sets out with a consideration of the various arts humankind has created, and then focuses on the special art of poetry: what... -
The Postcolonial Bible by R. S. Sugirtharajah 9781850758983
Booksplease Price: £102.21Postcolonial theory is one of the most challenging and, at the same time, contentious critical categories that have emerged in our time. Yet it offers great promise for opening up a whole new way of... -
Joshua by Adrian Curtis 9781850757061
Booksplease Price: £34.47The book of Joshua stands between the Pentateuch and the story of Israel in its land. It recounts the familiar traditions of the conquest of Canaan, and details the portions of territory allotted to...