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Books > Religion & Spirituality > Non-Christian sacred works & liturgy > Sacred texts > Criticism & exegesis of sacred texts

The Aramaic and Egyptian Legal Traditions at Elephantine - An Egyptological Approach (Hardcover): Alejandro F Botta The Aramaic and Egyptian Legal Traditions at Elephantine - An Egyptological Approach (Hardcover)
Alejandro F Botta
R5,255 Discovery Miles 52 550 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Alejandro Botta locates the Aramaic legal formulary in context of the Egyptian legal tradition and looks at the influence of foreign legal practices on other formulae which do not have their roots in Egypt.This is a study of the interrelationships between the formulary traditions of the legal documents of the Jewish colony of Elephantine and the legal formulary traditions of their Egyptian counterparts.The legal documents of Elephantine have been approached in three different ways thus far: first, comparing them to the later Aramaic legal tradition; second, as part of a self-contained system, and more recently from the point of view of the Assyriological legal tradition. However, there is still a fourth possible approach, which has long been neglected by scholars in this field, and that is to study the Elephantine legal documents from an Egyptological perspective. In seeking the Egyptian parallels and antecedents to the Aramaic formulary, Botta hopes to balance the current scholarly perspective, based mostly upon Aramaic and Assyriological comparative studies.It was formerly the Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha Supplement.

Qumran in and around the Bible - A new perspective on the Dead Sea Scrolls (Paperback, Reissue): Joan Annandale-Potgieter Qumran in and around the Bible - A new perspective on the Dead Sea Scrolls (Paperback, Reissue)
Joan Annandale-Potgieter
R150 Discovery Miles 1 500 Ships in 7 - 10 working days

In this publication new light is shed on the Qumran community, its organisational structure, its ultra conservative way of life, and how its leaders interpreted the books of the Old Testament by compiling their own commentaries. Emphasis is also placed on facilitating an understanding of references in the Gospels whilst providing an insight into a community that existed parallel to the New Testament community, and to which some of Jesus' followers could have belonged.

Qumran in en om die Bybel - 'n Nuwe blik op die Dooieseerolle (Afrikaans, Paperback, Reissue): Joan Annandale-Potgieter Qumran in en om die Bybel - 'n Nuwe blik op die Dooieseerolle (Afrikaans, Paperback, Reissue)
Joan Annandale-Potgieter
R150 Discovery Miles 1 500 Ships in 7 - 10 working days

In hierdie publikasie word nuwe lig gewerp op die Qumran-gemeenskap, die struktuur waarin hulle georganiseer was en hul ultrakonserwatiewe leefwyse. Die wyse waarop hul leiers die boeke van die Ou Testament geinterpreteer het, blyk uit die kommentare wat hulle geskryf het. Hierdie publikasie help die leser om verwysings in die evangelies beter te begryp en bied insig in 'n gemeenskap wat in dieselfde tyd as die Nuwe-Testamentiese gemeenskap geleef het en waaraan sommige van Jesus se volgelinge moontlik behoort het.

Birthpangs and Blessings - A Commentary on the Book of Genesis (Paperback): Clare Amos Birthpangs and Blessings - A Commentary on the Book of Genesis (Paperback)
Clare Amos
R564 Discovery Miles 5 640 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Wisdom and Law in the Old Testament - The Ordering of Life in Israel and Early Judaism (Hardcover, 2nd Revised edition): Joseph... Wisdom and Law in the Old Testament - The Ordering of Life in Israel and Early Judaism (Hardcover, 2nd Revised edition)
Joseph Blenkinsopp
R1,070 Discovery Miles 10 700 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

A completely new, expanded edition of this classic college text book about two key kinds of writing in the Old Testament: wisdom and law. Completely revised and updated, the book also includes much more on literary interpretation. This book is intended for primarily aimed at college students studying the Old Testament, on religious studies courses.

How the Bible Begins (Hardcover): John R Heapes How the Bible Begins (Hardcover)
John R Heapes
R949 R811 Discovery Miles 8 110 Save R138 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Schleiermacher's Interpretation of the Bible (Hardcover): Ian S Wishart Schleiermacher's Interpretation of the Bible (Hardcover)
Ian S Wishart; Foreword by Sean J McGrath
R929 R795 Discovery Miles 7 950 Save R134 (14%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Religion of the Fathers - Context for the Book of Abraham (Hardcover): Denver C Snuffer Religion of the Fathers - Context for the Book of Abraham (Hardcover)
Denver C Snuffer; Edited by Restoration Archive
R518 Discovery Miles 5 180 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Gospel of the Kingdom - Exploring the Gospel of Mark (Paperback): Patrick Whitworth Gospel of the Kingdom - Exploring the Gospel of Mark (Paperback)
Patrick Whitworth
R369 Discovery Miles 3 690 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Echoes of the Gospel in Harry Potter (Hardcover): Clay Myatt Echoes of the Gospel in Harry Potter (Hardcover)
Clay Myatt
R942 R804 Discovery Miles 8 040 Save R138 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Solomon and the Ant (Hardcover): David Penchansky Solomon and the Ant (Hardcover)
David Penchansky
R1,011 R862 Discovery Miles 8 620 Save R149 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Great Reduction (Hardcover): Jay Trott The Great Reduction (Hardcover)
Jay Trott
R1,050 R890 Discovery Miles 8 900 Save R160 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
At the Foot of the Mountain (Hardcover): Joshua M Lessard, Jennifer M. Rosner At the Foot of the Mountain (Hardcover)
Joshua M Lessard, Jennifer M. Rosner; Foreword by David Rudolph
R829 R717 Discovery Miles 7 170 Save R112 (14%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Homeric Centones and the Acts of the Pilate (Hardcover): J. Rendel Harris The Homeric Centones and the Acts of the Pilate (Hardcover)
J. Rendel Harris
R736 R647 Discovery Miles 6 470 Save R89 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Jesus Taught in Parables Three Bible Stories for Children Children's Jesus Books (Hardcover): One True Faith Jesus Taught in Parables Three Bible Stories for Children Children's Jesus Books (Hardcover)
One True Faith
R724 R640 Discovery Miles 6 400 Save R84 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Once Holy Mountain (Hardcover): Mark H Sweberg Once Holy Mountain (Hardcover)
Mark H Sweberg
R1,012 R857 Discovery Miles 8 570 Save R155 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Inspired By . . . (Hardcover): Suzanne Newman, Michael Grgich Inspired By . . . (Hardcover)
Suzanne Newman, Michael Grgich
R697 R618 Discovery Miles 6 180 Save R79 (11%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Psalms for Everyday Living - A Year of Devotions with Charles Spurgeon's Treasury of David (Hardcover): David J... The Psalms for Everyday Living - A Year of Devotions with Charles Spurgeon's Treasury of David (Hardcover)
David J McKinley; Foreword by Ross Purdy
R1,053 R903 Discovery Miles 9 030 Save R150 (14%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Bodhisattvas of the Forest and the Formation of the Mahayana - A Study and Translation of the Rastrapalapariprccha-sutra... Bodhisattvas of the Forest and the Formation of the Mahayana - A Study and Translation of the Rastrapalapariprccha-sutra (Hardcover, Annotated edition)
Daniel Boucher
R1,663 Discovery Miles 16 630 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This volume delves into the socio religious milieu of the authors, editors, and propagators of the ""Rastrapalapariprccha-sutra"" (Questions of Rastrapala), a Buddhist text circulating in India during the first half of the first millennium C.E. Daniel Boucher first reflects upon the problems that plague historians of Mahayana Buddhism, whose previous efforts to comprehend the tradition have often ignored the social dynamics that motivated some of the innovations of this new literature. Following that is a careful analysis of several motifs found in the Indian text and an examination of the value of the earliest Chinese translation for charting the sutra's evolution.The first part of the study looks at the relationship between the bodily glorification of the Buddha and the ascetic career that produced it within the socioeconomic world of early medieval Buddhist monasticism. Boucher then focuses on a third-century Chinese translation of the sutra and traces the changes in the translation to the late tenth century. He concludes with an annotated translation of the sutra based on a new reading of its earliest extant Sanskrit manuscript.

Jesus v. Evangelicals - A Biblical Critique of a Wayward Movement (Paperback): Constantine R Campbell Jesus v. Evangelicals - A Biblical Critique of a Wayward Movement (Paperback)
Constantine R Campbell
R392 R354 Discovery Miles 3 540 Save R38 (10%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

American evangelicalism is at a crisis point. The naked grasping at political power at the expense of moral credibility has revealed a movement in disarray. Evangelicals are now faced with a quandary: will they double-down and continue along this perilous path, or will they stop, reflect, and change course? And while support of Donald Trump has produced the tipping point of the evangelical crisis, it is not by any means its only problem. Evangelicals claim the Bible as the supreme authority in matters of faith. But in reality, it is particular readings of the Bible that govern evangelical faith. Some evangelical readings of the Bible can be highly selective. They distort the Bible's teaching in crucial ways and often lead evangelicals to misguided attempts to relate to the world around them. Many Christians who once self-professed as "evangelicals" can no longer use the term of themselves because of what it has come to represent--power-mongering, divisiveness, judgementalism, hypocrisy, pride, greed. Some leave not just evangelicalism but Christianity for good. Jesus v. Evangelicals is an insider's critique of the evangelical movement according to its own rules. Since evangelicals regard themselves governed by the Bible, biblical scholar Constantine Campbell engages the Bible to critique evangelicals and to call out the problems within the contemporary evangelical movement. By revealing evangelical distortions of the Bible, this book seeks to restore the dignity of the Christian faith and to renew public interest in Jesus, while calling evangelicals back to his teaching. Constantine Campbell appeals to evangelicals to break free from the grid that has distorted their understanding of the Bible and to restore public respect for Christianity in spite of its misrepresentations by the evangelical church.

Sacred Scriptures of the World Religions - An Introduction (Hardcover): Joan Price Sacred Scriptures of the World Religions - An Introduction (Hardcover)
Joan Price
R5,615 Discovery Miles 56 150 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book examines religions across the world, offering an insight into each tradition's views of the world, through their scriptural texts and spiritual practices. As we increasingly move toward a global world view, it is important that we understand the traditions of other members of the global community. "Sacred Scriptures of the World Religions" examines religions across the world, offering an insight into each tradition's views of the world, through their scriptural texts and spiritual practices. By taking this perspective, the author has produced an indispensable introductory textbook which provides students with an overview of the meaning and guidance that people find in their religion through these sacred wisdoms. Each chapter provides introductory explanations of key issues to provide undergraduate religion students with a unique sense of each faith, followed by illustrative scriptural passages. "Sacred Scriptures of the World Religions" is essential reading for those studying religion, honoring both the richness and universality of religious truths contained in the world's great scriptures.

Woman's Identity and the Qur'an - A New Reading (Hardcover, New): Woman's Identity and the Qur'an - A New Reading (Hardcover, New)
R1,632 Discovery Miles 16 320 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

An original and uncompromising study of the Qur'anic foundations of women's identity and agency, this book is a bold call to Muslim women and men to reread and reinterpret the Qur'an, Islam's most authoritative source, and to discover within its revelations an inherent affirmation of gender equality. Nimat Hafez Barazangi asserts that Muslim women have been generally excluded from equal agency, from full participation in Islamic society, and thus from full and equal Islamic identity, primarily because of patriarchal readings of the Qur'an and the entire range of early Qur'anic literature. Based on her pedagogical study of the sacred text, she argues that Islamic higher learning is a basic human right, that women have equal authority to participate in the interpretation of Islamic primary sources, and that women will realize their just role in society and their potential as human beings only when they are involved in the interpretation of the Qur'an. Consequently, a Muslim woman's relationship with God must not be dependent on her husband's or father's moral agency. Barazangi, an American Muslim of Syrian origin, is a scholar, an activist, and a concerned feminist. Her analysis of the complex interaction of gender, religion, and the power of knowledge for self-identity offers a paradigm shift in Islamic studies. She documents the historical development of Islamic thought and describes how Muslim males have arrived at the prevailing exclusionary positions. She considers the issues of dependent morality and of modesty, especially in attire - a polarizing subject for many Muslim women - and she concludes that the majority of Muslim women today are not educated even for a complementary role in society. The book offers a curricular framework for self-learning that could prepare Muslim women for an active role in citizenship and policy making in a pluralistic society and may serve as a guideline for moving toward a ""gender revolution."" Her main thesis, if carried out in the lives of Muslims in America or elsewhere, would be so radical and liberating that her discourse is more powerful than those of many Muslim feminists. She writes, ""I intend this book to affirm the self-identity of the Muslim woman as an autonomous spiritual and intellectual human being.

Egg Whites or Turnips? (Hardcover): Paul J N Lawrence Egg Whites or Turnips? (Hardcover)
Paul J N Lawrence
R1,075 R904 Discovery Miles 9 040 Save R171 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Leviticus as Literature (Hardcover): Mary Douglas Leviticus as Literature (Hardcover)
Mary Douglas
R3,436 Discovery Miles 34 360 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This first full-scale account of Leviticus by a world renowned anthropologist presents the biblical work as a literary masterpiece. Seen in an anthropological perspective Leviticus has a mystical structure which plots the book into three parts corresponding to the three parts of the desert tabernacle, both corresponding to the parts of Mount Sinai. This completely new reading transforms the interpretation of the purity laws. The pig and other forbidden animals are not abhorrent, they command the same respect due to all God's creatures. Boldly challenging several traditions of Bible criticism, Mary Douglas claims that Leviticus is not the narrow doctrine of a crabbed professional priesthood but a powerful intellectual statement about a modern religion which emphasizes God's justice and compassion.

Essential Papers on the Talmud (Hardcover, New): Michael Chernick Essential Papers on the Talmud (Hardcover, New)
Michael Chernick
R3,460 Discovery Miles 34 600 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

aFor the general reader, and the ever-burgeoning number of students in Jewish studies programs, the "Essential Papers" series brings together a wealth of core secondary material, while the commentaries offered by the editors aim to place this material in critical comparative context.a
--"Jewish Journal of Sociology"

No work has informed Jewish life and history more than the Talmud. This unique and vast collection of teachings and traditions contains within it the intellectual output of hundreds of Jewish sages who considered all aspects of an entire peopleas life from the Hellenistic period in Palestine (c. 315 B.C.E.) until the end of the Sassanian era in Babylonia (615 C.E.). This volume adds the insights of modern talmudic scholarship and criticism to the growing number of more traditionally oriented works that seek to open the talmudic heritage and tradition to contemporary readers. These central essays provide a taste of the myriad ways in which talmudic study can intersect with such diverse disciplines as economics, history, ethics, law, literary criticism, and philosophy.

Contributors: Baruch Micah Bokser, Boaz Cohen, Ari Elon, Meyer S. Feldblum, Louis Ginzberg, Abraham Goldberg, Robert Goldenberg, Heinrich Graetz, Louis Jacobs, David Kraemer, Geoffrey B. Levey, Aaron Levine, Saul Lieberman, Jacob Neusner, Nahum Rakover, and David Weiss-Halivni.

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