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

Tractates Kilaim and Seviit (Hardcover): Heinrich W. Guggenheimer Tractates Kilaim and Seviit (Hardcover)
Heinrich W. Guggenheimer
R8,317 Discovery Miles 83 170 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

First Order: Zeraim / Tractates Kilaim and eviit ist der dritte Band in der Edition des Jerusalemer Talmuds und ein grundlegendes Werk der Judischen Patristik. Der Band prasentiert grundlegende judische Texte aus dem Bereich der Landwirtschaft: verbotene Mischungen von Saaten, Tieren und Geweben (Kilaim) sowie das Verbot landwirtschaftlicher Tatigkeit im Sabbatjahr, in dem auch alle Schulden zu erlassen sind ( eviit). Dieser Teil des Jerusalemer Talmuds hat so gut wie keine Entsprechung im Babylonischen Talmud. Ohne seine Kenntnis bleiben die diesbezuglichen Regeln der judischen Tradition unverstandlich."

Living World of the Old Testament (Paperback, 4th edition): B Anderson Living World of the Old Testament (Paperback, 4th edition)
B Anderson
R2,561 Discovery Miles 25 610 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This is a study of the Old Testament as the story of a people. The author describes the growth of Israel from its beginnings through to Moses, the reigns of David and Solomon and into the Hellenistic era. Aided by maps, charts and photographs the book analyzes and interprets the familiar biblical narrative in the context of our modern knowledge of the ancient world. New features of this edition include a series of definitions of key terms, new illustrations and it also takes into account more recent archaeological discoveries.

Theology in Conflict - Reactions to the Exile in the Book of Jeremiah (Hardcover, Reprint 2014): Christopher R Seitz Theology in Conflict - Reactions to the Exile in the Book of Jeremiah (Hardcover, Reprint 2014)
Christopher R Seitz
R5,119 Discovery Miles 51 190 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The series Beihefte zur Zeitschrift fur die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft (BZAW) covers all areas of research into the Old Testament, focusing on the Hebrew Bible, its early and later forms in Ancient Judaism, as well as its branching into many neighboring cultures of the Ancient Near East and the Greco-Roman world.

On Scrolls, Artefacts and Intellectual Property (Hardcover): Timothy Lim On Scrolls, Artefacts and Intellectual Property (Hardcover)
Timothy Lim; Translated by Calum Carmichael; Edited by Hector MacQueen
R6,281 Discovery Miles 62 810 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

What are the legal rights to ancient documents of editors, archaeologists, curators, or modern states? In the light of recent controversies, this collection emphasizes the status of the Dead Sea Scrolls. The Dead Sea Scrolls were found in Palestine, recovered in Jordan, and largely edited by an international Christian team who prevented public access to unpublished manuscripts. Subsquently, the state of Israel, which had already purchased many of the Scrolls, has assumed responsibility for all of them. Most recently, one scroll editor has claimed copyright on his reconstruction, instigating a lawsuit and introducing serious implications for future Scrolls scholarship. This volume looks at international copyright and property rights as they affect archaeologists, editors and curators, but focuses on the issue of 'authorship' of the Scrolls, both published and unpublished, and the contributors include legal experts as well as many of the major figures in recent controversies, such as Hershel Shanks, John Strugnell, Geza Vermes and Emanuel Tov.

The Inner Kalacakratantra - A Buddhist Tantric View of the Individual (Hardcover): Vesna A Wallace The Inner Kalacakratantra - A Buddhist Tantric View of the Individual (Hardcover)
Vesna A Wallace
R3,827 Discovery Miles 38 270 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The Kalacakratantra is the latest and most comprehensive Buddhist Tantra that is available in its original Sanskrit. This will be the first thorough academic work to be published on this Tantra. The Kalacakratantra's five chapters are classified into three categories: Outer, Inner, and Other Kalacakratantra. The present work concentrates on the Inner Kalacakratantra, which deals with the nature of a human being.

Pivot Patterns in the Former Prophets (Hardcover): Nathan Klaus Pivot Patterns in the Former Prophets (Hardcover)
Nathan Klaus
R6,625 Discovery Miles 66 250 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The 'pivot pattern' is a unique type of chiasmus, a linguistic pattern characterized by an inversion of the internal order of a phrase or passage. The main idea is found primarily at its pivot, while its elements, normally of an uneven number, are distributed on both sides of the pivot in a mirrored symmetry. Klaus undertakes here to compile a 'grammar' of the pattern, and to characterize, exemplify and differentiate its various forms.>

Auguries - The Jubilee Volume of the Sheffield Department of Biblical Studies (Hardcover): David J.A. Clines, Stephen D Moore Auguries - The Jubilee Volume of the Sheffield Department of Biblical Studies (Hardcover)
David J.A. Clines, Stephen D Moore
R6,623 Discovery Miles 66 230 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

For this volume, sequel to The Bible in Three Dimensions, the seven full-time members of the research and teaching faculty in Biblical Studies at Sheffield-Loveday Alexander, David Clines, Meg Davies, Philip Davies, Cheryl Exum, Barry Matlock and Stephen Moore-set themselves a common task: to reflect on what they hope or imagine, as century gives way to century, will be the key areas of research in biblical studies, and to paint themselves, however modestly, into the picture. The volume contains, as well as those seven principal essays, a 75-page 'intellectual biography' of the Department and a revealing sketch of the 'material conditions' of its research and teaching, together with a list of its graduates and the titles of their theses.

Kingdom Come - Essential theology for the twenty-first century (Paperback): Mark Philps Kingdom Come - Essential theology for the twenty-first century (Paperback)
Mark Philps
R371 Discovery Miles 3 710 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Christ in Islam and Christianity - The Representation of Jesus in the Qur'an and the Classical Muslim Commentaries... Christ in Islam and Christianity - The Representation of Jesus in the Qur'an and the Classical Muslim Commentaries (Hardcover)
Neal Robinson
R4,350 Discovery Miles 43 500 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The way in which Jesus is portrayed in the Qur'an is at times ambiguous and has given rise to a bewildering variety of conflicting interpretations. Neal Robinson first outlines the various Christian approaches to the subject and then explains the principles of Muslim exegesis before looking in detail at what five classical Sunni commentaries say about Jesus' return, the crucifixion, the miracles and the virginal conception. Further chapters examine the same key topics from the viewpoint of Shi'ite and Sufi exegesis.

Leading Captivity Captive - 'The Exile' as History and Ideology (Hardcover, New): Lester L Grabbe Leading Captivity Captive - 'The Exile' as History and Ideology (Hardcover, New)
Lester L Grabbe
R6,289 Discovery Miles 62 890 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In a methodological discussion of this issue, the contributors cover a range of topics, from ancient poltics to modern ideology. The entity known as 'the Exile' has had an extremely forceful influence in Old Testament scholarship, both as an event and as a symbol. But was there an 'Exile'? And if so, how did it fit into the pattern of population deportations that characterized the imperial strategies of the ancient Near East? In a major methodological discussion of this issue, the contributors to this symposium of the European Seminar in Historical Methodology cover a range of topics, from ancient politics to modern ideology. In probing the meaning and implication of 'Exile' they also reflect a spectrum of opinions and conclusions. As with Volume 1 of this series, the editor has provided an introduction and concluding reflections.

Readings in the Canon of Scripture - Written for our Learning (Hardcover): D Jasper Readings in the Canon of Scripture - Written for our Learning (Hardcover)
D Jasper
R2,860 Discovery Miles 28 600 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Beginning with the insights of the "canonical criticism" of Brevard Childs and James Sanders, this book explores the canon of the Bible through readings in literature, art and cinema. It places the Bible within the concerns of contemporary feminist thought, postmodern anxiety and modern apocalyptic thought. It returns the reader to a sense of the centrality of the biblical canon, expanding the notion of "reading" to picture and film.

Studies in Medievalism XXVI - Ecomedievalism (Hardcover): Karl Fugelso Studies in Medievalism XXVI - Ecomedievalism (Hardcover)
Karl Fugelso; Contributions by Angela Jane Weisl, Ann Ann Howey, Ann M. Martinez, Carol Jamison, …
R2,362 Discovery Miles 23 620 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Essays on the post-modern reception and interpretation of the Middle Ages, with a particular concentration on environmental matters. Ecoconcerns and ecocriticism are a rising trend in medievalism studies, and form a major focus of this collection. Topics under discussion in the first part of the volume include figurations in nineteenth- and twentieth-century medievalism; environmental medievalism in Sidney Lanier's Southern chivalry; nostalgia and loss in T.H. White's "forest sauvage"; and green medievalism in J.R.R. Tolkien's elven realms. The eleven subsequent articles continue to take in such themes more tangentially, testing and buillding on the methods and conclusions of the first part. Their subjects include John Aubrey's Middle Ages; medieval charter-horns in early modern England; nineteenth-centuryreimaginings of Chaucer's Griselda; Dante's influence on Harlan Ellison's "I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream"; multi-layered medievalisms in George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire; (coopted) feminism via medievalism inDisney's Maleficent; (neo)medievalism in Babylon 5 and Crusade; cosmopolitan anxieties and national identity in Netflix's Marco Polo; mapping Everealm in The Quest; undergraduate perceptions ofthe "medieval" and the "Middle Ages"; and medievalism in the prosopopeia and corpsepaint of Mayhem's De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas. Karl Fugelso is Professor of Art History at Towson University in Baltimore, Maryland. Contributors: Dustin M. Frazier Wood, Daniel Helbert, Ann F. Howey, Carol Jamison, Ann M. Martinez, Kara L. McShane, Lisa Myers, Elan Justice Pavlinich, Katie Peebles, Scott Riley, Paul B. Sturtevant, Dean Swinford, Renee Ward, Angela Jane Weisl, Jeremy Withers.

Pillars of Cloud and Fire - The Politics of Exodus in African American Biblical Interpretation (Hardcover): Herbert Robinson... Pillars of Cloud and Fire - The Politics of Exodus in African American Biblical Interpretation (Hardcover)
Herbert Robinson Marbury
R3,114 Discovery Miles 31 140 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

At the birth of the United States, African Americans were excluded from the newly-formed Republic and its churches, which saw them as savage rather than citizen and as heathen rather than Christian. Denied civil access to the basic rights granted to others, African Americans have developed their own sacred traditions and their own civil discourses. As part of this effort, African American intellectuals offered interpretations of the Bible which were radically different and often fundamentally oppositional to those of many of their white counterparts. By imagining a freedom unconstrained, their work charted a broader and, perhaps, a more genuinely American identity. In Pillars of Cloud and Fire, Herbert Robinson Marbury offers a comprehensive survey of African American biblical interpretation. Each chapter in this compelling volume moves chronologically, from the antebellum period and the Civil War through to the Harlem Renaissance, the civil rights movement, the black power movement, and the Obama era, to offer a historical context for the interpretative activity of that time and to analyze its effect in transforming black social reality. For African American thinkers such as Absalom Jones, David Walker, Zora Neale Hurston, Frances E. W. Harper, Adam Clayton Powell, and Martin Luther King, Jr., the exodus story became the language-world through which freedom both in its sacred resonance and its civil formation found expression. This tradition, Marbury argues, has much to teach us in a world where fundamentalisms have become synonymous with "authentic" religious expression and American identity. For African American biblical interpreters, to be American and to be Christian was always to be open and oriented toward freedom.

Sacred Enigmas - Literary Religion in the Hebrew Bible (Paperback): Stephen Geller Sacred Enigmas - Literary Religion in the Hebrew Bible (Paperback)
Stephen Geller
R1,762 Discovery Miles 17 620 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Sacred Enigmas assesses the religious and intellectual significance of the Hebrew Bible both as a document of its time and as an important step in the development of thought. It presents the major aspects of biblical religion through detailed literary analyses of key texts, presented in English translation to make them accessible to the general reader as well as scholars.

Chinese Buddhist Canons in the Age of Printing (Paperback): Darui Long, Jinhua Chen Chinese Buddhist Canons in the Age of Printing (Paperback)
Darui Long, Jinhua Chen
R1,365 Discovery Miles 13 650 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The study of the Chinese Buddhist Canon-the basic literature of Buddhism-does not have an eminent place in study either in China or in the Western World. For the contributors to this volume, their chapters are the result of decades of dedication to academic research, and they reveal many facets of the Buddhist Canon that were previously unstudied. This book originated in the first and second International Conferences on Chinese Buddhist Canon, and focuses on the communication of the Chinese Buddhist Canon through the medium of print. It enhances our knowledge of how the canon was collated, proofread and printed. This book was originally published as a special issue of Studies in Chinese Religions.

The Covenant Formula - An Exegetical and Theological Investigation (Hardcover): Rolf Rendtorff The Covenant Formula - An Exegetical and Theological Investigation (Hardcover)
Rolf Rendtorff
R4,564 Discovery Miles 45 640 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

God's covenant with Israel is one of the most important themes of Old Testament scholarship: 'I will be your God, you shall be my people'. Yet this has only rarely been the focus of a comprehensive study.Professor Rendtorff explores the different ways the covenant formula is used in the Bible, its structural and theological functions, the connections between covenant and election.An important contribution to a canonical interpretation of the Hebrew Bible.

Dead Sea Scrolls Bible (Hardcover): Dead Sea Scrolls Bible (Hardcover)
R9,597 Discovery Miles 95 970 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

All 220 biblical scrolls are presented and translated into English with a full commentary. The work reveals important differences between the scrolls and the Old Testament, restores lost psalms, reveals previously unknown details about the lives of biblical figures and provides new information on how the Hebrew Bible was created.

The Qur'an between the Ottoman Empire and the Turkish Republic - An Exegetical Tradition (Paperback): Susan Gunasti The Qur'an between the Ottoman Empire and the Turkish Republic - An Exegetical Tradition (Paperback)
Susan Gunasti
R1,434 Discovery Miles 14 340 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The Qur'an between the Ottoman Empire and the Turkish Republic is one of the few book-length studies on an Ottoman Qur'an commentary. Its premise is that "the Ottoman Empire" did not come to an end until 1950 so far as Islam was concerned in Turkey. The work explores the relationship between Elmalili's Qur'an commentary and the intellectual trends of the period, including the impact of materialism, the sciences, notions of civilizational progress, and philosophy. In doing so, this study emphasizes the "local" aspect of the Qur'an commentary, through a sustained focus on the Istanbul context in which it was written. This work demonstrates that Elmalili's Qur'an commentary is a product of and reaction to the religious, intellectual, political, and social trends of the period. This work, in considering all the factors that led to the commissioning of Elmalili's Qur'an commentary, also contributes to our understanding of the history of Islam in early to mid-twentieth-century Turkey. This intellectual history of modern Islamic thought contributes to our understanding of the genre of Qur'an commentary in the early twentieth century. It is a key text for students and scholars interested in Islam in the Ottoman Empire and Turkey, modern Islamic thought, and the Middle East.

Scripture and Violence (Hardcover): Julia Snyder, Daniel H. Weiss Scripture and Violence (Hardcover)
Julia Snyder, Daniel H. Weiss
R4,462 Discovery Miles 44 620 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In the public sphere, it is often assumed that acts of violence carried out by Muslims are inspired by their religious commitment and encouraged by the Qur'an. Some people express similar concerns about the scriptures and actions of Christians and Jews. Might they be right? What role do scriptural texts play in motivating and justifying violence in these three traditions? Scripture and Violence explores the complex relationship between scriptural texts and real-world acts of violence. A variety of issues are addressed, including the prevalent modern tendency to express more concern about other people's texts and violence than one's own, to treat interpretation and application of scriptural passages as self-evident, and to assume that the actions of religious people are directly motivated by what they read in scriptures. Contributions come from a diverse group of scholars of Islam, Judaism, and Christianity with varying perspectives on the issues. Highlighting the complex relationship between texts and human actions, this is an essential read for students and academics studying religion and violence, Abrahamic religions, or scriptural interpretation. Scripture and Violence will also be of interest to researchers working on religion and politics, sociology and anthropology of religion, socio-political approaches to scriptural texts, and issues surrounding religion, secularity, and the public sphere. This volume could also form a basis for discussions in churches, synagogues, mosques, interfaith settings, and government agencies. The editors of Scripture and Violence have also set up a website including lesson plans/discussion guides for the different chapters in the book, available here: https://www.scriptureandviolence.org/scripture-and-violence-book-and-chapter-discussion-guides

The Pauline Metaphors of the Holy Spirit - The Intangible Spirit's Tangible Presence in the Life of the Christian... The Pauline Metaphors of the Holy Spirit - The Intangible Spirit's Tangible Presence in the Life of the Christian (Hardcover, New edition)
Erik Konsmo
R2,208 Discovery Miles 22 080 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In the Pauline literature of the New Testament, the characteristics of the Spirit and Christian life are described through the use of metaphor. An interpreter of Paul must understand his metaphors in order to arrive at a complete understanding of the Pauline pneumatological perspective. Thus, The Pauline Metaphors of the Holy Spirit examines how the Pauline Spirit metaphors express the intangible Spirit's tangible presence in the life of the Christian. Rhetoricians prior to and contemporary with Paul discussed the appropriate usage of metaphor. Aristotle's thoughts provided the foundation from which these rhetoricians framed their arguments. In this context, The Pauline Metaphors surveys the use of metaphor in the Greco-Roman world during the NT period and also studies modern approaches to metaphor. The modern linguistic theories of substitution, comparison, and verbal opposition are offered as representative examples, as well as the conceptual theories of interaction, cognitive-linguistic, and the approach of Zoltan Koevecses. In examining these metaphors, it is important to understand their systematic and coherent attributes. These can be divided into structural, orientational, and ontological characteristics, which are rooted in the conceptual approach of metaphor asserted by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson. This book evaluates these characteristics against each of the Pauline Spirit-metaphors.

The Breaking of Bread and the Breaking of Boundaries - A Study of the Metaphor of Bread in the Gospel of Matthew (Hardcover,... The Breaking of Bread and the Breaking of Boundaries - A Study of the Metaphor of Bread in the Gospel of Matthew (Hardcover, New edition)
Minkyu Lee
R2,100 Discovery Miles 21 000 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book investigates the Matthean use of bread and the breaking of bread in light of cognitive conceptual metaphor, which are not only intertwined within Matthew's narrative plots but also function to represent Matthew's communal identity and ideological vision. The metaphor of bread and its cognitive concept implicitly connect to Israel's indigenous sense of identity and religious imagination, while integrating the socio-religious context and the identity of Matthean community through the metaphoric action: breaking of bread. While using this metaphor as a narrative strategy, Matthew not only keeps the Jewish indigenous socio-religious heritage but also breaks down multiple boundaries of religion, ethnicity, gender, class, and the false prejudice in order to establish an alternative identity and ideological vision. From this perspective, this book presents how the Matthean bread functions to reveal the identity of Matthew's community in-between formative Judaism and the Roman Empire. In particular, the book investigates the metaphor of bread as a source of Matthew's rhetorical claim that represents its ideological vision for an alternative community beyond the socio-religious boundaries. The book also reviews Matthean contexts by postcolonial theories - hybridity and third space - subverting and deconstructing the hegemony of the dominant groups of formative Judaism and the imperial ideology of Rome.

Habakkuk, Jonah, Nahum, and Obadiah in Talmud and Midrash - A Source Book (Paperback): Jacob Neusner Habakkuk, Jonah, Nahum, and Obadiah in Talmud and Midrash - A Source Book (Paperback)
Jacob Neusner
R1,202 Discovery Miles 12 020 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The Rabbis of classical Judaism, in the first six centuries of the Common Era, commented on the teachings of ancient Israel's prophets and shaped, as much as they were shaped by, prophecy. They commented on much of the Scriptural heritage and they made it their own. This collection of the Rabbinic comments on biblical books makes easily accessible the Rabbinic reading of the prophetic heritage and opens the way to the study of how normative Judaism responded to the challenge of the prophetic writings.

Isaiah in Talmud and Midrash - A Source Book, Part B (Paperback): Jacob Neusner Isaiah in Talmud and Midrash - A Source Book, Part B (Paperback)
Jacob Neusner
R1,840 Discovery Miles 18 400 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The Rabbis of classical Judaism, in the first six centuries of the Common Era, commented on the teachings of ancient Israel's prophets and shaped, as much as they were shaped by, prophecy. They commented on much of the Scriptural heritage and they made it their own. This collection of the Rabbinic comments on biblical books makes easily accessible the Rabbinic reading of the prophetic heritage and opens the way to the study of how normative Judaism responded to the challenge of the prophetic writings.

The Trilogy of Parables in Mt 21:28-22:14 - From a Matthean Perspective (Hardcover, New edition): Rowland Onyenali The Trilogy of Parables in Mt 21:28-22:14 - From a Matthean Perspective (Hardcover, New edition)
Rowland Onyenali
R1,878 Discovery Miles 18 780 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The parables of Jesus have undergone different transmutations in the long history of their transmission. The events surrounding his death and resurrection as well as the new situations his followers were confronted with after these events led to the parables of Jesus being given new accentuations according to the needs of the reflecting community. This is evident in Matthew's treatment of the parable trilogy of Mt 21:28-22:14. This work shows how Matthew has used the dominical parables and sayings found in his tradition to serve the needs of his community, especially in its struggles with the official Jewish leaders of his time. Through these parables, which he presented as a three-pronged attack against the Jewish leaders, Matthew shows his community as the true Israel, called to produce the fruits of righteousness. In this regard, the Jewish leaders stand for the members of Matthew's community lacking in the actions that define belongingness to the chosen people. This group has no part in the eschatological banquet.

Ezekiel in Talmud and Midrash (Paperback): Jacob Neusner Ezekiel in Talmud and Midrash (Paperback)
Jacob Neusner
R1,843 Discovery Miles 18 430 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The Rabbis of classical Judaism, in the first six centuries of the Common Era, commented on the teachings of ancient Israel's prophets and shaped, as much as they were shaped by, prophecy. They commented on much of the Scriptural heritage and they made it their own. This collection of the Rabbinic comments on biblical books makes easily accessible the Rabbinic reading of the prophetic heritage and opens the way to the study of how normative Judaism responded to the challenge of the prophetic writings.

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