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The volume brings together eight new essays on Amos, which focus on
a range of issues within the book. They represent a number of
different approaches to the text from the text-critical to teh
psychoanalytical, and from composition to reception. Arising out of
a symposium to honour John Barton for his 60th birthday, the essays
all respond, either directly or indirectly, to his Amos's Oracles
Against the Nations, and to his lifelong concern with both ethics
and method in biblical study.
How was it possible that Greeks often wrote their laws on the walls
of their temples, but - in contrast to other ancient societies -
never transformed these written civic laws into a religious law?
Did it matter whether laws were inscribed in stone, clay, or on a
scroll? And above all, how did written law shape a society in which
the majority population was illiterate? This volume addresses the
similarities and differences in the role played by law and religion
in various societies across the Eastern Mediterranean. Bringing
together a collection of 14 essays from scholars of the Hebrew
Bible, Ancient Greece, the Ancient Near East, Qumran, Elephantine,
the Nabateans, and the early Arab world, it also approaches these
subjects in an all-encompassing manner, looking in detail at the
notion of law and religion in the Eastern Mediterranean as a whole
in both the geographical as well as the historical space.
Based on a detailed literary critical analysis of the books of the
prophets Nahum, Zephaniah, Obadiah and Joel, this study
investigates the relations of Israel to the peoples. The classical
analysis of the biblical books is supplemented with reflections on
the theory of ethnicity in antiquity.
The essays compiled in this festschrift deal with different aspects
of the literary genesis and the biblical and non-biblical reception
of the patriarchal narratives (Gen 12-50). Besides classic
literary-critical approaches, cultural anthropological and
religious-historical perspectives are also discussed. Current
proposals concerning the origins of the Pentateuch are subjected to
critical examination and developed further. This collection of
essays pays tribute to Matthias Kockert, long-standing editor of
the book review in the Zeitschrift fur Alttestamentliche
Wissenschaft (ZAW) and commentator of the Abraham narrative."
The volume brings together eight new essays on Amos, which focus on
a range of issues within the book. They represent a number of
different approaches to the text from the text-critical to teh
psychoanalytical, and from composition to reception. Arising out of
a symposium to honour John Barton for his 60th birthday, the essays
all respond, either directly or indirectly, to his "Amos's Oracles
Against the Nations," and to his lifelong concern with both ethics
and method in biblical study.
Jerome H. Neyrey, Professor of New Testament at the University of
Notre Dame since 1992, is widely recognized for his groundbreaking
contributions to social-scientific criticism of the Gospels and the
Epistles. In this Festschrift the contributors notably advance the
cause of social-scientific New Testament study. David Aune writes
on Christian beginnings and cognitive dissonance theory, Zeba Crook
on constructing a model of ancient prayer, Craig deVos on good news
to the poor in Luke, John H. Elliott on envy and the evil eye,
Philip Esler on the development of a non-ethnic group identity in
John, Bruce Malina and John Pilch on the wrath of God, Halvor
Moxnes on masculinity and place in Luke, Douglas Oakman on coinage
in the Judean temple system, Carolyn Osiek on motivation for the
conversion of women in early Christianity, Eric Stewart on the city
in Mark, and Gerd Theissen on early Christian communities and
ancient organizations.
The collection of essays contains nineteen contributions that aim
at locating the Song of Songs in its ancient context as well as
addressing problems of interpretation and the reception of this
biblical book in later literature. In contrast to previous studies
this work devotes considerable attention to parallels from the
Greek world without neglecting the Ancient Near East or Egypt.
Several contributions deal with the use of the Song in Byzantine,
Medieval, German Romantic and modern Greek Literature. Due to the
interdisciplinary nature of the collection new perspectives and
avenues of approach are opened.
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