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In this book, Graeme Auld brings together his work relating to
Samuel and the Former Prophets in an invaluable single volume.
Including 'Prophets through the Looking Glass', which has been
described as marking a paradigm shift in our thinking about the
Bible's 'writing prophets', and which led the author to equally
novel proposals about biblical narrative, the first part of this
volume traces the route through the looking glass to his radical
argument in Kings without Privilege (1994). The apparently
straightforward, but actually controversial, claim is defended that
the main source of the biblical books of Samuel-Kings and of
Chronicles was simply the material common to both. The major
portion of this volume of collected papers explores some of the
fresh perspectives opened for reading the present books of Samuel,
the books from Joshua to Kings as a whole, and the Pentateuch.
In this book, Graeme Auld brings together his work relating to
Samuel and the Former Prophets in an invaluable single volume.
Including 'Prophets through the Looking Glass', which has been
described as marking a paradigm shift in our thinking about the
Bible's 'writing prophets', and which led the author to equally
novel proposals about biblical narrative, the first part of this
volume traces the route through the looking glass to his radical
argument in Kings without Privilege (1994). The apparently
straightforward, but actually controversial, claim is defended that
the main source of the biblical books of Samuel-Kings and of
Chronicles was simply the material common to both. The major
portion of this volume of collected papers explores some of the
fresh perspectives opened for reading the present books of Samuel,
the books from Joshua to Kings as a whole, and the Pentateuch.
This title is one of a series which describes the excavation and
finds of a particular site and shows this how evidence can help our
understanding of the world of the Bible. This volume covers
Jerusalem, one of the oldest inhabited cities in the world, and the
centre for many cultures and religions over thousands of years. The
major archaeological discoveries are charted and related to our
interpretation of the Bible. Included is the work on the east
slopes of Ophel, where British excavators have, over the years,
made an important contribution to the archaeology of the city.
Other titles in the series include "Excavation in Palestine",
"Jericho", "Megiddo", "Qumran" and "Ugarit".
A rich collection of essays by twenty-eight of Professor G W
Anderson's students, colleagues and successors in Edinburgh, and
associates at home and abroad in the worl of Hebrew and Biblical
Studies presented in the year of his 80th birthday
A groundbreaking study of this important yet sometimes puzzling
biblical book. Professor Auld considers the varied witnesses to its
ancient text; the meaning of partiular words or names; the
connections between Joshua and other books of the Bible, especially
Judges, Kings and Chronicles; and the history of the interpretation
of Joshua from earliest to most recent times.
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Amos (Paperback)
A.Graeme Auld
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'Amos is a book to which many people turn early in any serious
engagement with Old Testament studies. And it is easy in fact to
understand its contemporary popularity. Its tones of social
protest, religious critique, and universalism are immediately
perceived, and enjoy perennial appeal...'.
What is the significance of the Dead Sea Scrolls, and what do we
know about the community that possessed them? Avoiding both popular
sensationalism and specialist technical language, this book aims to
integrate all the latest findings about the scrolls into existing
knowledge of the period, to advance understanding of the scrolls
and the Qumran community, and to explore their wider significance
in a scholarly and accessible way. The "state of the art" in
international scrolls scholarship. Contributors include E.P.
Sanders, Eugene Ulrich, George Brooke, and John J. Collins.
In this illuminating commentary, A. Graeme Auld helps readers
understand the message--historical and theological--contained in
the story of the Israelite monarchy. The message of the books of
Kings remains relevant to today's world. It concerns power and the
constant need for remaining faithful to an authority that is
superior to earthly rulers.
Carrying forward brilliantly the pattern established by
Barclay's New Testament series, the Daily Study Bible has been
extended to cover the entire Old Testament as well. Invaluable for
individual devotional study, for group discussion, and for
classroom use, the Daily Study Bible provides a useful, reliable,
and eminently readable way to discover what the Scriptures were
saying then and what God is saying today.
This provides a useful, reliable and eminently readable way to
discover what the Old Testament writers were saying then and what
God is saying today.
Each Old Testament volume is divided into small study units that
can be read and understood easily in only a few minutes a day.
In this new addition to the Old Testament Library series, Graeme
Auld writes, "This book is about David." The author demonstrates
how all the other personalities in First and Second
Samuel--including Samuel, for whom the books were named--are
present so that we may see and know David better. These fascinating
stories detail the lives of David, his predecessors, and their
families. Auld explains that though we read these books from
beginning to end, we need to understand that they were composed
from end to beginning. By reconstructing what must have gone
before, the story of David sets up and explains the succeeding
story of monarchy in Israel.
The essays in this volume represent the proceedings of two
international meetings in 2006: the Nijmegen conference on "Story
and History in the Books of Samuel" and the SBL International
Seminar in Edinburgh "For and against David." Half of the
contributions deal with the wider issues of story and history as
well as specific aspects of King David within the books of Samuel
(by J. Fokkelman, S. Bar-Efrat, E. Eynikel, K.-P. Adam, C.
Carmichael, T. Rezetko, S. McKenzie and D. Lamb), and half address
blocks of chapters throughout the text by way of proposal and
response (by C. Schafer-Lichtenberger, J. Klein, B. Halpern, G.
Hentschel, I. Willy-Plein, W. Dietrich, T.-A. Rudnig, S. Kreuzer,
J. Vermeylen, A. Campbell and G. Auld).
Anchored in the core literature on natural resources, energy
production, and environmental analysis, Green-lite is a critical
examination of Canadian environmental policy, governance, and
politics drawing out key policy and governance patterns to show
that the Canadian story is one of complexity and often weak
performance. Making a compelling argument for deeper historical
analysis of environmental policy and situating environmental
concerns within political and fiscal agendas, the authors provide
extended discussions on three relatively new features of
environmental policy: the federal-cities and urban sustainability
regime, the federal-municipal infrastructure regime, and the regime
of agreements with NGOs and businesses that often relegate
governments to observing participants rather than being policy
leaders. They probe the Harper era's muzzling of environmental
science and scientists, Canada's oil sands energy and resource
economy, and the government's core Alberta and Western Canadian
political base. The first book to provide an integrated,
historical, and conceptual examination of Canadian environmental
policy over many decades, Green-lite captures complex notions of
what environmental policy and green agendas seek to achieve in a
business-dominated economy of diverse energy producing
technologies, and their pollution harms and risks.
An exploration of product certification programs and the factors
that explain their varied success in becoming global governors
equipped to tackle environmental and social problems effectively
Consumers now encounter organic or fair-trade labels on a variety
of products, implying such desirable benefits as improved
environmental conditions or more equitable market transactions. But
what do we know about the origins and development of the
organizations behind these labels? Why have some flourished while
others faltered? And why are some sectors rich with labeling
organizations while others have very few? This book compares the
rise and evolution of certification programs in the coffee,
fishery, and forest industries to arrive at a model that reveals
how market and political conditions, as well as the characteristics
of program founders, shape the early character of the governance
rules and certification standards that programs adopt.
In recent years a startling policy innovation has emerged within
global and domestic environmental governance: certification systems
that promote socially responsible business practices by turning to
the market, rather than the state, for rule-making authority. This
book documents five cases in which the Forest Stewardship Council,
a forest certification program backed by leading environmental
groups, has competed with industry and landowner-sponsored
certification systems for legitimacy.
The authors compare the politics behind forest certification in
five countries. They reflect on why there are differences
regionally, discuss the impact the Forest Stewardship Council has
had on other certification programs, and assess the ability of
private forest certification to address global forest
deterioration.
Benjamin Cashore is sssociate Professor, Environmental Governance
and Sustainable Forest Policy & Director, Program on Forest
Certification, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale
University
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