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Structural Analysis of Biblical and Canaanite Poetry by Willem Van Der Meer 9780567574237
Booksplease Price: €44.89Apologies 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: €134.60The "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: €121.63This 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: €48.05This 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: €30.83Originally 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: €91.04This 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: €49.22This 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: €107.78Students 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: €33.19Apologies 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: €41.46Daniel 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: €53.26This 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: €34.00Hellenistic 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: €121.63'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: €107.78What 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: €49.22The 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: €49.22This 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: €41.02This 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: €134.60Apologies 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: €133.43Understanding 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: €107.78The 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: €35.59These 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... -
Together in the Land by Gordon Mitchell 9780567057426
Booksplease Price: €44.53The book of Joshua is well known for its tales of slaughter and destruction. This reading shows that ambiguity created by means of juxtaposing contrasting ideas is a feature of the compositional... -
Art and Meaning: Rhetoric in Biblical Literature by Alan J Hauser 9780567448637
Booksplease Price: €44.53Biblical authors were artists of language who created their meaning through their verbal artistry, their rhetoric. These twelve essays see meaning as ultimately inseparable from art and seek to... -
The Problem of the Process of Transmission in the Pentateuch by Rolf Rendtorff 9780567187925
Booksplease Price: €48.05Rolf Rendtorff is interested above all in the process by which the Pentateuch reached the form in which it now lies before us. He concludes that the classic Documentary Hypothesis has been tried in... -
Isaiah 1-39 by Barton 9780567084149
Booksplease Price: €30.83Originally 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... -
The Ideology of Ritual: Space, Time and Status in the Priestly Theology by Jr Gorman 9780567512277
Booksplease Price: €44.53For the Priestly writers, ritual was a fundamental form of theological reflection. This study analyses the conceptual categories of space, time and status in an effort to clarify the larger cultural... -
Anti-Covenant: Counter-Reading Women's Lives in the Hebrew Bible by Mieke Bal 9780567463470
Booksplease Price: €44.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorMieke Bal is the author of Reading Rembrandt: Beyond the Word-Image Opposition, Narratology: Introduction... -
Thealogy and Embodiment: Post-Patriarchal Reconstruction of Female Sacrality by Melissa Raphael 9781850757573
Booksplease Price: €90.20'Thealogy and Embodiment' both analyses and contributes to spiritural feminism's postmodern construction of the female body as a metaphor and medium of divine generativity. Addressing religious... -
Courting Darkness: Dynamics of Violence in the Gospel of John by Helen C. Orchard 9781850758846
Booksplease Price: €121.63This study explores the dynamics of violence within John's Gospel, focusing on the portrayal of the character of Jesus. It offers an understanding of the Johannine Jesus that counters the traditional... -
Three Faces of a Queen: Characterization in the Book of Esther by Linda M. Day 9781850755173
Booksplease Price: €122.70This original study offers, for the first time, an analysis of the characterization of Esther as she is portrayed in each of the three primary versions of the book of Esther-the Masoretic text, the... -
Sirach by R.J. Coggins 9781850757658
Booksplease Price: €41.02Sirach is a book that raises a very distinctive set of problems. What should we call it (Sirach, Ecclesiasticus, Ben Sira)? What is the relation between the traditional Greek text and the recently... -
The Life of Adam and Eve and Related Literature by M. De Jonge 9781850757641
Booksplease Price: €41.46The Life of Adam and Eve once belonged to the most popular literature in the Christian world. Retelling the Genesis 3 story, it gives an elaborate description of Adam's death and his assumption to... -
Peace, Violence and the New Testament by Michel Desjardins 9781850757993
Booksplease Price: €91.04Over the centuries, New Testament texts have inspired both peace activism and violence towards others. Most Christians, including New Testament scholars, continue to find peace at the core of these... -
Introducing Asian Feminist Theology by Pui-lan Kwok 9781841270661
Booksplease Price: €78.49Asian women comprise more than a quarter of the world's population, and the forms in which they express feminist theology are many and varied, extending through grassroots movements, theological... -
A Walk in the Garden: Biblical, Iconographical and Literary Images of Eden by Paul Morris 9781850753384
Booksplease Price: €134.96This collection of essays by notable scholars offers a unique, multi-faceted approach to the understanding of the Garden story. Starting with the motifs, context, structure and language of the... -
Ezra and Nehemiah by Regius Professor of Hebrew H G M Williamson 9781850750659
Booksplease Price: €41.46As the only historical source available for the period of the Jewish return from the Babylonian exile and its aftermath, the books of Ezra and Nehemiah are crucial for those who would study not only... -
Revelation by John M. Court 9781850757054
Booksplease Price: €42.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781850757054Author John M. CourtFormat PaperbackPage Count 133Imprint Sheffield Academic... -
The Earth Story in Genesis: The Earth Bible ; 2 by Norman C. Habel 9781841270852
Booksplease Price: €108.75A series of articles by scholars from around the world reading the story of Earth in Genesis in the light of the ecojustice principles enunciated in Volume One, 'Readings from the Perspective of... -
Association: Stepping-stone or Alternative to EU Membership? by David Phinnemore 9781841270005
Booksplease Price: €121.63Association provides the main basis for relations between the EU and those states currently seeking membership. This book explores the potential scope and purpose of association and assesses the role... -
Is There a Future for Feminist Theology? by Deborah F. Sawyer 9781850759799
Booksplease Price: €96.95This collection was conceived at a time of apparent crisis within the academy of feminist theology. During the last two decades feminist theology has provided a critique of religious-and in...