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Book SynopsisThe Book of Job in Form presents to the reader a platform for a personal and intensive encounter with a great work of art. Its bilingual centre offers the text in Hebrew and English, and shows the forty poems in their original form, in 412 strophes and 165 stanzas. The commentary points out how these proportions and the remarkable precision of the poet (who counted syllables on all text levels) affect the thematics of the book, so that the portrait of the hero can be redrawn; his stubbornly defended integrity meets vindication and his last words, generally misunderstood, require a positive understanding. The poetry and its slim framework in prose are a unified composition which deserves a synchronic approach.

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Book SynopsisIn 1924, Professor Sperber graduated from Bonn University with a dissertation on "Das Propheten-Targum in seinem Verhältnis zum masoretischen Text". He was then invited to prepare a critical edition of the Targum. Thus Professor Sperber began an immense task. The Bible in Aramaic is the fruit of more than forty years of study, during which he made innumerable trips to various countries in order to visit libraries and examine manuscripts. The first part of the Bible in Aramaic appeared in 1959. Needless to say that this work is indispensable for students of the Old Testament. Let the reviews that have accumulated over the years speak for themselves.Table of ContentsTwo volumes in one part: IVa. The Hagiographa. Transition from translation to Midrash IVb. The Targum and the Hebrew Bible

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Book SynopsisReception history has emerged over the last decades as a rapidly growing domain of research, entertaining a notable methodological diversity. Authoritative Texts and Reception History samples that diversity, offering a collection of essay that discuss various reception-historical issues, from a plurality of perspectives, across several fields: Hebrew Bible/Old Testament, Pseudepigrapha and the Dead Sea Scrolls, New Testament, early and late-antique Christianity. While furthering specific discussions in their specific fields, the contributions included here—authored by both established and emerging scholars—illustrate just how wide the umbrella of ‘reception history’ can be, and the varied range of topics, concerns and approaches it can accommodate.Trade Review"Книга хорошо структурирована и оснащена полезными сопроводительными материалами. (...) [Э]та монография (...) должна быть внимательно прочитано и учтена специалистами по религиозному лидерству поздей Античности." Antonov Nikolai Konstantinovich, Vestnik PSTGU, Seriia I: Bogoslovia, Filosofiia Religiovedenie, no. 99 (2022)Table of ContentsContributors are: Moshe Blidstein, Michael A. Clark, James R. Davila, Rebekah Devine, Mark W. Elliott, Nicholas Ellis, Kevin Haley, Benjamin J.M. Johnson, David J. Larsen, Kerry Lee, Justin A. Mihoc, Frederik Mulder, Albertina Oegema, Beniamin Pascut, Martin G. Ruf, Andrew Talbert, Madalina Toca, Kristin De Troyer, Marijana Vuković, N. T. Wright.

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Book SynopsisThis study examines the history of an Arabic Bible translation of American missionaries in late Ottoman Syria. Comparing the history of this project as recorded by the American missionaries with private correspondence and the manuscripts of the translation, The Contested Origins of the 1865 Arabic Bible provides new evidence for the Bible’s compilation, including the seminal role of Syrian Christians and Muslims. This research also places the project within the wider social-political framework of a transforming Ottoman Empire, where the rise of a literate class in Beirut served as a catalyst for the Arabic literary renaissance (Nahḍa), and within the international field of New Testament textual studies.Table of ContentsForeword List of Illustrations 1 Contested Origins and Contested Contributions American Missions in the Middle East The Arabic Bible Contested Identities within the American Mission Eli Smith Buṭrus al-Bustānī Nāṣīf al-Yāzijī Cornelius Van Alen Van Dyck Yūsuf al-Asīr 2 The American Syrian Mission: Evangelism, Schools and the Press Evangelism through Preaching and Bible Distribution Protestant—Catholic Relations Establishing Schools Challenging Arab Syrian Culture 64 The Transformation of Beirut and the Establishment of Printing Presses 3 Debate over the Origins and American Contributions to the Nahḍa The Nahḍa Educational Renaissance Cultural Societies Literary Renaissance The Debate over the Role of the Americans in the Nahḍa George Antonius (1891–1942) Albert Hourani (1915–1993) Abdul Latif al-Tibawi (1910–1981) Yūsuf Nasrallah (1911–1993) and the Oriental Catholic Churches 4 Contributions to Nineteenth Century Biblical Scholarship The Bible Societies and Publishing Houses The British and Foreign Bible Society (BFBS) and the American Bible Society (ABS) The Search for the Text of the New Testament Eli Smith and Edward Robinson Biblical Scholarship of the 1865 Arabic Bible Translation The textus receptus versus the eclectic text 5 The Text of the 1865 Arabic Bible Translation The Received Tradition (RT) of the Translation Primary and Secondary Sources of the so-called Van Dyck Smith’s Views on Arabic Choosing the Classical Style Smith’s Method of Translation The Death of Smith and the Appointment of Van Dyck Van Dyck’s Method of Translation The Correction of the eclectic text The so-called Van Dyck Manuscripts “Revised” or “Reviewed” 6 Reception of the Translation Publication of the Translation Responses to the so-called Van Dyck A New Translation? The Catholic Response Muslim Responses A Changing Arabic 7 Overstated, Overlooked, and Undervalued Contributions Overstated Overlooked Undervalued The so-called Van Dyck Further Research . . . Appendix Bibliography Index of Subjects and Names 271

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Book SynopsisThe studies collected in this volume were written in honour of Johann Cook, emeritus professor of the Department of Ancient Studies at Stellenbosch University. They cover a variety of subjects including the translation of Hebrew expressions into Greek, the reception of LXX texts in various contexts, topics related to wisdom and the LXX versions of sapiential literature, Ben Sira as a scribe of the Second Temple period, themes in the works of Philo and Josephus and the references to Sumkhos ben Joseph in rabbinic writings. The contributions therefore focus on the Septuagint, early Jewish sages and ancient scriptures. They present the results of original research, identify new lines and topics of inquiry and make novel contributions to existing insights.Table of ContentsContributors are: Hans Ausloos, Kenneth Atkinson, Dirk Büchner, Claude Cox, Evangelia G. Dafni, Annette Evans, Randall X. Gauthier, Jan Joosten, Gideon R. Kotzé, Wolfgang Kraus, Cynthia Miller-Naudé, Jacobus A. Naudé, Jessie Rogers, Martin Rösel, Gert J. Steyn, Arie van der Kooij, Michaël N. van der Meer, Herrie van Rooy, Markus Witte.

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Book SynopsisWhat is Protestant Art? presents an introduction to Protestant visual culture from the Reformation to the present. Examining historical images as evidence of changing practices and attitudes, Andrew T. Coates explores three major themes in the history of Protestant visual culture: 1) the religious work of images, 2) the relationship between word and image, 3) the power of the Bible and its visual representation. The book analyses images such as prints, paintings, maps of the ‘Holy Land,’ and Bible illustrations to demonstrate the broad range of images that could be classified as Protestant ‘art.’ This work argues that the variety of images and visual practices throughout Protestant history might better be described by the term ‘visual culture’ than ‘art.’

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Book SynopsisThe Codex Amiatinus and its “Sister” Bibles examines the full Bibles (Bibles containing every scriptural text that producers deemed canonical) made at the northern English monastery of Wearmouth–Jarrow under Abbot Ceolfrith (d. 716) and the Venerable Bede (d. 735), and the religious, cultural, and intellectual circumstances of their production. The key manuscript witness of this monastery’s Bible-making enterprise is the Codex Amiatinus, a massive illustrated volume sent toward Rome in June 716, as a gift to St. Peter. Amiatinus is the oldest extant, largely intact Latin full Bible. Its survival is the critical reason that Ceolfrith’s Wearmouth–Jarrow has long been recognized as a pivotal center in the evolution of the design, structure, and contents of medieval biblical codices. See inside the book.Trade Review"Celia Chazelle is to be warmly congratulated for offering what can justly be described as the first comprehensive account of this monument of early medieval book production, putting knowledge about Codex Amiatinus, Wearmouth-Jarrow and its biblical culture on a new footing. Potential users--and there ought to be many--should be aware that, notwithstanding the many helpful subdivisions into which the text is organised, this is not a work that can easily be skimmed or sampled. On the contrary, a proper understanding of any individual point presupposes reading the book in its entirety". Richard Gameson, in The Medieval Review, August 2020. "Les publications de Celia Chazelle sur le Christ crucifié ou bien la théologie de la liturgie (en particulier del’eucharistie) sont bien connues des médiévistes et appartiennent sans aucun doute à la catégorie des lectures indispensables. Le livre publié parl’a. en 2019 sur un «monument» majeur de la théologie, de la liturgie et del’histoire del’art duh aut Moyen ge fera lui aussi date et s’imposera rapidement comme un«classique» indispensable au près des médiévistes de tout bord. [...] .L’ouvrage dont il est question ici est un véritable modèle du genre, où toutes les hypothèses proposées par l’a., sur la base d’arguments très solides et parfaitement démontrés,emportent l’adhésion sans réserve aucune. [...] Ce livre n’est en aucun cas une monographie sur le célèbre codex Amiatinus aujourd’hui conservé à Florence (Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, ms. Amiatino 1) réalisé au VIIe-VIIIe s. au monastère anglais de Wearmouth-Jarrrow. Se situant bien au-de là d’une monographie «classique» consacrée à un manuscrit qui se contenterait de passer successivement en revue la codicologie, le texte et les enluminures, C. Chazelle prend appui sur ce manuscrit clé et ce qu’elle appelle avec élégance ses bibles « sœurs » pour offrir au lecteur un panorama d’une rare acuité sur la théologie, la liturgie et la pensée chrétienne dans le monde anglo-saxon dans le haut Moyen ge. [...] Le livre de C.Chazelle est à tous égards une grande réussite où les hypothèses et arguments, servis par une remarquable érudition,emportent l’adhésion". Éric Palazzo, in Cahiers de Civilisation Médiévale, 2020. "In the first comprehensive monograph on the Codex Amiatinus (Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, MS Amiatino 1), Celia Chazelle has richly contextualized and proposed a new chronology for the series of “full Bibles” produced at Wearmouth-Jarrow in the early decades of the eighth century. The author considers not only the Codex Amiatinus, the best-known and only complete surviving Wearmouth-Jarrow Bible, but also the British Library Folios, the surviving remnants of at least two large-scale “sister” Bibles produced at Wearmouth-Jarrow, and five additional “smaller format part-Bibles” from the same context. [...] Chazelle’s volume will most assuredly become essential reading on the Codex Amiatinus". Carol Neuman de Vegvar, in Speculum, 96 (3), July 2021. "What makes Celia’s Chazelle’s book, The Codex Amiatinus and Its “Sister” Bibles: Scripture, Liturgy, and Art in the Milieu of the Venerable Bede, stand out from the many others on Amiatinus—including a slew of works that celebrated 1,300th anniversary of Coelfrith’s departure with it for Rome—is that she has tried to address its significance in the round. She uses it as a gateway into the biblical world of Bede, and then within that world she asks why these Northumbrian monks made such a massive investment in making three of these enormous bibles— [...] this is a study worthy of its object and will be welcomed by historians of the Bible as much as by Anglo-Saxonists and art historians. The work is enhanced by the sixty-five images in color and black-and-white illustrating what is being discussed in the book, and by a very useful summary of what is to be found on each of the 1030 folios of the manuscript (471–81). All in all, we are brought into the “life” of the codex." Thomas O’Loughlin, in Journal of British Studies Vol. 60:4, 2021. "This book clearly aims to stimulate a lot more work on the Codex Amiatinus. The Codex has seen something of a flourishing of scholarship on it since the turn of the century, but Celia Chazelle's volume manages to both summate and challenge that literature in a way sure to guarantee that this star of early English manuscripts will not be out of the limelight soon." Conor O’Brien in Early Medieval Europe, Volume 29, Issue 3, August 2021, 428-430Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgements List of Color Plates List of Figures List of Maps and Tables List of Abbreviations Maps 1 Wearmouth–Jarrow and the Context of the Codex Amiatinus  Part 1. The Wearmouth–Jarrow Bibles  1 Wearmouth, Jarrow, and Ceolfrith’s Last Journey  2 The Codex Amiatinus  3 Other Wearmouth–Jarrow Biblical Manuscripts  4 Full Bibles Made for Wearmouth–Jarrow  5 The Codex Amiatinus as Bible Witness  6 Aims and Approach in this Book  7 A Case of Mistaken Identity  8 Art Historians and Amiatinus  Part 2. Bibles and Their Contexts  1 The Narrative Evidence  2 Wearmouth–Jarrow and its Environs  3 The Easter Controversy  4 Wilfrid, Theodore, Biscop, and Ceolfrith  5 The Archcantor John, Liturgy, and Monotheletism  6 Wearmouth–Jarrow, Kings, and Bishops  7 The Years 710–c.716  8 Wearmouth–Jarrow and its Bibles 2 Bede, Monasticism, and Scripture  Part 1. The Monastic Life and Scripture’s Moral Teachings  1 Introduction  2 Hermits and Coenobites  3 Preaching and Teaching  4 Approaches to Scripture  5 Biblical History  6 Exploring Scripture’s Figurative Senses  7 Moralizing Exegesis  8 Contexts  Part 2. Misinterpreting Scripture  1 Correcting the Errant  2 Eschatology, Easter Reckoning, and Free Will and Grace  3 Easter Reckoning  4 Grace, Free Will, and the Possibility of Innocence  5 Perspectives 3 The Wearmouth–Jarrow Full Bible Manuscripts  Part 1. The Manuscripts  1 Introduction  2 The Codex Amiatinus Biblical Manuscript  3 Amiatinus’ Biblical Prefaces  4 Amiatinus’ Capitula  5 The Biblical Recension  6 Writing and Text Layout in Amiatinus  7 Heterogeneity  8 Biblical Text Subdivisions and Their Articulation  9 Liturgical Texts  10 The Biblical Manuscript and Its Exemplars  11 The Canon Tables  12 The British Library Folios  Part 2. Assessing the Manuscript Evidence  1 Amiatinus, the British Library Folios, and Possible Production Sites  2 Chronology of Production  3 The Implications of the Bankes Leaf  4 The Possible Priority of the Codex Amiatinus  5 Dating Amiatinus’ Biblical Manuscript  6 Dating the British Library Folios  7 The Possible Scope of Wearmouth–Jarrow Bible Production  8 A Bible for York?  9 Pandectes 4 Bibles and Reading at Wearmouth-Jarrow  Part 1. Architecture, Art, and Liturgy at Wearmouth–Jarrow  1 Introduction  2 Settings of Worship  3 Artistic Elements  4 Extra-Liturgical Reading and Meditation  5 Rome and Christology  6 The Liturgy  7 Scriptural Manuscripts at Wearmouth and Jarrow  8 Scripture in Rome’s Liturgy  Part 2. Amiatinus, Liturgy, and the Sister Bibles  1 Jarrow’s Foundation and Biscop’s Death  2 Bibles for Reading  3 Amiatinus and Grandior  4 Writing a Sister Bible  5 Dynamic Processes of Production  6 Oriented Reading: The Roles of the Capitula  7 Amiatinus’ Sister Bibles at Wearmouth and Jarrow  8 A Gift to Rome 5 The Preliminary Gathering and Painting of the Glorified Christ  1 Introduction  2 Grandior and the Christian Topography  3 Amiatinus’ Preliminary Gathering by June  4 Folios 1/I Verso–4/V Recto: The Dedication and Ezra Portrait  5 Folio 3/IV: The Purple Leaf  6 Folios 2/II Verso–7/III Recto: The Wilderness Tabernacle  7 Folios 5/VI Recto, 8/VIII Recto, and 6/VII Recto: The Three Biblical Diagrams  8 Folio 6/VII Verso: The Pentateuch Cross  9 Folio 796 Verso: The Glorified Christ (Maiestas Christi)  10 The Preliminary Gathering, the Glorified Christ, Grandior, and Rome 6 A Gift for St. Peter  1 Introduction  2 Sacred Space, Sacred Unity  3 The Prophet Ezra  4 The Wilderness Tabernacle  5 The Pentateuch Cross  6 The Glorified Christ  7 Amiatinus and the Wider World 7 Connecting Past to Present  1 Introduction  2 The Wearmouth–Jarrow Bible-Making Enterprise  3 The Gift Bible  4 The Manuscripts after  5.   Afterword: Commemorating the Gift to Rome Today Appendix: Codicological Summary of the Codex Amiatinus Biblical Select Bibliography Plates and Figures following page Index

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Book SynopsisThe aim of this collection of essays is to bring together new comparative research studies on the place and role of the Bible in early modern Europe. It focuses on lay readings of the Bible, interrogating established historical, social, and confessional paradigms. It highlights the ongoing process of negotiation between the faithful congregation and ecclesiastical institutions, in both Protestant and Catholic countries. It shows how, even in the latter, where biblical translations were eventually forbidden, the laity drew upon the Bible as a source of ethical, cultural, and spiritual inspiration, contributing to the evolution of central aspects of modernity. Interpreting the Bible could indeed be a means of feeding critical perspectives and independent thought and behavior. Contributors: Erminia Ardissino, Xavier Bisaro, Élise Boillet, Gordon Campbell, Jean-Pierre Cavaillé, Sabrina Corbellini, François Dupuigrenet Desroussilles, Max Engammare, Wim François, Ignacio J. García Pinilla, Stefano Gattei, Margriet Hoogvliet, Tadhg Ó hAnnracháin, and Concetta Pennuto.Trade Review“This fine collection of essays conveys different perspectives on the relationship of the laity to the Bible throughout the early modern period. […] Sprawling throughout this volume are a number of interconnected issues that make this collection especially useful as a guide to the ways the Bible connected people across Europe.” Donald K. McKim, Germantown, Tennessee. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 74, No. 3 (Fall 2021), pp. 1026–1028. "La ricchezza e varietà di esame da casi singoli a riflessioni più generali rendono il volume molto interessante e promettente di altri sviluppi, grazie all’ottima scelta di temi e alla caratura degli studiosi invitati." Michaela Valente, Roma, in Bibliothèque d’Humanisme et Renaissance LXXXIII.2, pp. 367-369 "The richness and variation of the research, from single cases to more general reflections, make this volume very interesting and promising for other developments, due to the excellent choice of themes and the caliber of the invited scholars." Michaela Valente, Roma, in Bibliothèque d’Humanisme et Renaissance LXXXIII.2, pp. 367-369Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Notes on the Editors Notes on the Contributors Lay Readings of the Bible in Early Modern Europe: Introduction  Erminia Ardissino and Élise Boillet PART 1: The Bible in the European History: a Constant Exposition and an Essential Reference 1 Fides ex auditu: Hearing and Reading the Bible  Gordon Campbell 2 Under the Sign of Jonah: the Bible in Early Modern Europe  François Dupuigrenet Desroussilles 3 Some Irreligious Uses of the Bible in the Early Modern Period  Jean-Pierre Cavaillé PART 2: To Read or Not to Read the Bible: Instructions and Prohibitions about Lay Readings of the Bible in Early Modern Europe 4 The Debate Surrounding Lay Bible Reading in Spain in the Sixteenth Century  Ignacio J. García Pinilla 5 Lay Debates about the Sacrality of the Bible in Sixteenth-Century Geneva  Max Engammare 6 The Bible and the Early Modern Catholic Tradition: from Rome to the Margins of Europe  Tadhg Ó hAnnracháin PART 3: Lay Readings of the Bible in Early Modern Europe: a Plurality of Books, Uses, and Interpretations 7 Reading the Gospels in the Life and Passion of Christ in French (ca. 1400–ca. 1550)  Margriet Hoogvliet 8 For Early Modern Printed Biblical Literature in Italian: Lay Authorship and Readership  Élise Boillet 9 Bible Production and Bible Readers in the Age of Confessionalisation: the Case of the Low Countries  Wim François 10 The Other Psalm Singing: Biblical Training in the Catholic Petites Écoles during the Late Renaissance  Xavier Bisaro PART 4: Lay Readings of the Bible in Early Modern Europe: the Formation of Social and Professional Identities 11 Francisco Vallés’ De Sacra Philosophia: a Medical Reading of the Bible  Concetta Pennuto 12 The Finger and the Tongue of God: Johannes Kepler, Reformation Theology, and the New Astronomy  Stefano Gattei 13 Women Interpreting Genesis in Early Modern Italy: Arguments Supporting Gender Equality  Erminia Ardissino PART 5: Afterword 14 Afterword: the Bible and the Laity in Long-Term Perspective  Sabrina Corbellini Index Nominum

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Book SynopsisIn Psalm 91 and Demonic Menace Gerrit Vreugdenhil offers a thorough analysis of the text, structure and genre of Psalm 91. Already in its earliest interpretations, Psalm 91 has been associated with the demonic realm. The use of this psalm on ancient amulets and in magic texts calls for an explanation. Examining the psalms images of threat from a cognitive science perspective, Vreugdenhil shows that many of these terms carry associations with sorcery and magic, incantations and curses, diseases and demonic threat. The psalm takes demonic threat seriously, but also draws attention to the protection offered by JHWH. Finally, the author proposes an outline of the situational context in which Psalm 91 might have functioned.

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Book SynopsisIn Apostles of Revolution? Marxism and Biblical Studies Christina Petterson sheds light on the collaboration between Biblical studies and liberal ideology. Marxist analysis of the bible is spreading, but clarity about what constitutes Marxist readings and Marxist categories of analysis is lacking – a lack of clarity compounded by the different strands within Marxist politics, and its subtle resonances in biblical scholarship. The author examines the interplay between Biblical studies and liberal ideology in two ways. First, by presenting and discussing some of the central Marxist categories of analysis, namely history, ideology and class, and how these categories have been co-opted into biblical studies and in the process lost their radical edge. Second, by discussing the emergence of the discipline of biblical studies during the Enlightenment, and to what extent the containment strategies of biblical studies overlap with those of capitalism.

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Book SynopsisThe purpose of Key Approaches to Biblical Ethics is to address fundamental as well as practical questions of methodology in examining the ethical material of the Bible. Sixteen scholars of international reputation, most of them leaders in the field of biblical ethics, discuss questions of biblical interpretation from the perspectives of the Hebrew Bible and New Testament ethics in close dialogue with one another. In the present volume both established and new approaches to biblical ethics are presented and discussed. The result is a volume of unprecedented scholarly interaction that provides key insights into issues of biblical ethics that play a significant role both for biblical interpretation as well as for methodological questions in Jewish and Christian ethics today.Trade Review"Both established and new approaches to biblical ethics are presented and discussed. The scholarly interaction provides key insights into issues of biblical ethics that play a significant role both for biblical interpretation as well as for methodological questions in Jewish and Christian ethics today." – in: Interpretation: A Journal of Bible and Theology Volume 75(4) (2021) “Throughout the volume, various contemporary issues are considered in the light of the method proposed by the writer, with sexuality, money, violence and the environment recurring with unsurprising frequency. Overall, this is an inspiring volume to read through, for both its comprehensiveness, and its originality. Most of the essays conclude with a call for more thought, more work, more development, and readers cannot fail to see the potential and relevance of the biblical text for contemporary communities of faith.” – Isabelle Hamley, King’s College London, UK, in: Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Volume 46, Issue 5, June 2022. “This work will undoubtedly attract all who are interested in the area of biblical ethics […] This volume does provide a valuable marriage between these disciplines [biblical studies and biblical ethics] and a complex answer to what is involved in developing right skills to approach and practice biblical ethics responsibly.” – Svetlana Khobnya, Nazarene Theological College, in: Journal for the Study of the New Testament Booklist 2022 44.5, August 2022.Table of ContentsPreface List of Illustrations List of Contributors Biblical Ethics: Foundational and Introductory Matters  Jacqueline N. Grey, Mariam Kamell Kovalishyn and Volker Rabens part 1: How to Approach Ethics in the Bible: A Dialogue on the Fundamental Methodological Questions of Biblical Ethics 1 How to Read Biblical Texts Ethically: The New Method of “Implicit Ethics” for Analyzing Biblical Ethics  Ruben Zimmermann 2 Reading Biblical Texts Ethically: A Discussion of Ruben Zimmermann’s Method of “Implicit Ethics” from an Old Testament Perspective  Markus Zehnder 3 Reading Biblical Texts Ethically: A Discussion of Ruben Zimmermann’s Method of “Implicit Ethics” from a New Testament Perspective  Charles H. Cosgrove 4 Inspiring Ethics: A Hermeneutical Model for the Dialogue between Biblical Texts and Contemporary Ethics  Volker Rabens part 2: Old Testament Approaches to Biblical Ethics 5 More than Worthwhile to Consider? Old Testament Ethics between Description and Prescription  Christian Frevel 6 The Moral Vision of the Hebrew Bible: An Examination of Some Methodological Issues  Eryl W. Davies 7 The Two Testaments as an Ethical Resource  John Goldingay 8 Virtue and Torah: The Character of the Instructed Reader  Richard S. Briggs 9 Key Approaches to Old Testament Ethics: A Response from a New Testament Scholar’s Perspective  Mariam Kamell Kovalishyn part 3: New Testament Approaches to Biblical Ethics 10 Is “Biblical Ethics” a “Genre Mistake”? Methodological Reflections on New Testament Ethics in Debate with Gustafson and Hays  Richard A. Burridge 11 The Moral Vision of the Bible: A New Testament Approach  David G. Horrell 12 Reading the New Testament from an Ethical Perspective: A Comprehensive Approach  Jan van der Watt 13 A New Testament Approach to (Biblical) Ethics from the Perspective of Language: Moods of Ethical Speech in NT Texts and Their Hermeneutical Relevance  Oda Wischmeyer 14 Key Approaches to New Testament Ethics: A Response from an Old Testament Scholar’s Perspective  Jacqueline N. Grey part 4: Biblical Ethics beyond Biblical Studies 15 Biblical Ethics beyond Biblical Studies: Scripture as Medicine in Early Christian Social Ethics  Brian J. Matz 16 The Limits of Biblical Ethics for Christian Ethics Today  David P. Gushee Index

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Book SynopsisJames Barr is a widely recognized name in biblical studies, even if he is still best known for his The Semantics of Biblical Language. Barr’s Semantics, although first published in 1961, still generates animated discussion of its claims. However, over his lengthy career Barr published significant scholarship on a wide variety of topics within Old Testament studies and beyond. This volume provides an assessment of Barr’s contribution to biblical studies sixty years after the publication of his first and still memorable volume on biblical semantics. As a result, this volume includes essays on major topics such as the Hebrew language, lexical semantics, lexicography, the Septuagint, and biblical theology.Table of ContentsPreface Abbreviations Notes on Contributors James Barr’s Life and Legacy: An Introduction  Stanley E. Porter part 1: Hebrew Language and Old Testament Linguistics, Philology, and the Text of the Old Testament  Robert D. Holmstedt Comparative Philology and the Hebrew Language: Aspects of James Barr’s Critique  John F. A. Sawyer part 2: Lexical Semantics and Biblical Philology James Barr’s Biblical Words for Time Revisited  John Barton James Barr on the ‘Illegitimate Totality Transfer’: Word-Concept Fallacy  Alan E. Kurschner James Barr and the State of the Biblical Lexicon  David Arthur Lambert Post-Semantics Commentary Writing: Romans 3:21–26 as an Example Text  Benjamin J. Baxter The Semantics of Biblical Language: Reflections from Relevance Theory and Lexical Pragmatics  Gene L. Green part 3: Lexicography James Barr, Semantic Domains, and the Mental Lexicon  Sean A. Adams Building on the Shoulders of Giants: A Data-Driven Approach to Word Sense Differentiation  Randall K. J. Tan and Andi Wu part 4: Septuagint The Semantics of Septuagint Language: Greek Comprehensibility and Its Hebrew Referent  Ryder Wishart The Septuagint as Translation: The Intersection of Barr’s Semantics and Septuagint Studies  Darlene M. Seal part 5: Biblical Theology Was James Barr Wrong? Assessing His Critics on Biblical Theology  Stanley E. Porter James Barr and Erroneous Method in Biblical Theology: Paul and the Gift as a Test Case  David I. Yoon Index of Modern Authors Index of Ancient Sources

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Book SynopsisThis volume puts two biblical miracles - the Sun reversing its course in II Kings 20:8-11/Isaiah 38:8 (Horologium Ahaz) and the Sun standing still in Joshua 10:12 -, in the early modern period centre stage. We pay special attention to the development of related imagery, their role as anti-Copernican arguments (in text and image), their reception, their treatment in the mathematical sciences, and their various cultural layers, with a focus on the history of art and the history of science in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The material discussed spreads from rather prosaic mathematical reflections to highly appealing visual representations of the two miracles.Table of ContentsList of Figures Notes on Contributors Introduction   Julia Ellinghaus and Volker Remmert Part 1 The Horologium Ahaz and Joshua Stopping the Sun in Early Modern Printed Material 1 The Prayer of Joshua and the Dial of Ahaz Paratactic Scriptural Illustration in the Lempereur, Vorsterman, and Van Liesveldt Bibles   Walter S. Melion 2 Mathematical Certainty and Biblical Inerrancy Pedro Nunes and the Retrogradation of Shadows at the Dial of Ahaz   Henrique Leitão 3 Appealing to Ahaz The Jesuits and the Sundial of Ahaz in the Era of Copernican Astronomy   Brent Purkaple Part 2 The Horologium Ahaz and Joshua Stopping the Sun on Early Modern Scientific Instruments 4 Turning Back the Sun Christoph Schissler’s ‘Horologium Ahaz’ as ‘Kunststück’   Andrew Morrall 5 Manipulating the Sun in Depictions on Early Modern Scientific Instruments An Iconographic Study   Julia Ellinghaus and Volker Remmert Part 3 The Horologium Ahaz and Joshua Stopping the Sun in Art and Architecture in Specific Locations 6 Stairway to Heaven The Marvellous Staircases of the Medici Villa at Pratolino   Denis Ribouillault 7 Joshua Stopping the Sun in the Gesù A Hypothesis   Evonne Levy Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis volume celebrates the scholarship of Professor Johan C. Thom by tackling various important topics relevant for the study of the New Testament, such as the intellectual environment of early Christianity, especially Greek, Latin, and early Jewish texts, New Testament apocrypha and other early Christian writings, as well as Greek grammar. The authors offer fresh insights on philosophical texts and traditions, the cultural repertoire of early Christian literature, critical editions, linguistics and interpretation, and comparative analyses of ancient writings.Table of ContentsContents Abbreviations Contributors 1 At the Borders of the New Testament  Introduction to the Volume  Gideon R. Kotzé and Philip R. Bosman 2 Popular or Religious?  An Ongoing Discussion with Johan Thom’s Concept of Philosophy in Early Imperial Times  Rainer Hirsch-Luipold 3 Did Ancient Philosophers Read Philo?  Philo of Alexandria and Plotinus  Gregory E. Sterling 4 Popular Philosophy and the Placita of Aëtius  David T. Runia 5 Cynics in the Crosshairs  The loci classici for the Anonymous Cynics of the Early Roman Empire  Philip R. Bosman 6 The Oracular Theme in Plato’s Apology of Socrates  Clive Chandler 7 Transatlantic Utopias  Plato’s Republic and the Guarani Missions in South America  Gabriele Cornelli 8 La lecture néoplatonicienne de la biographie de Pythagore par Jamblique  Quatre exemples tirés de son traité Sur le mode de vie pythagoricien  Constantinos Macris 9 John Chrysostom on Pythagoreanism  Chris L. de Wet 10 When Horses Weep  Animal Emotions and Human Suffering in the Aeneid  Annemarie de Villiers 11 Taxation in the Early Greek World and the Ethics of Tax Compliance and Evasion in Early Greek Moral Thought  John T. Fitzgerald 12 Did All First-Century Roads Lead to Rome?  The Politics of Biblical (nt) Travels  Jeremy Punt 13 Dionysius of Halicarnassus’s Roman Antiquities as a Comparative Text for Luke–Acts  Carl R. Holladay 14 Writing the Sublime in a Destitute Time  L.L. Welborn 15 Crucifying Desires—Desires Crucified  On the Meaning of Two Crucifixion Metaphors (Seneca De vita beata 19.3; Gal 5:24)  David du Toit 16 Which Seneca, Which Paul?  The Pseudepigraphic Correspondence  Gretchen Reydams-Schils 17 Miracles of the Young Jesus  David Konstan 18 Acts of Timothy  The Latin Tradition  Clare K. Rothschild 19 Imperative Aspect in the Gospel according to Mark  Performative Instruction through Direct Speech  Cilliers Breytenbach 20 Johan Thom’s Contribution to Hellenistic Philosophy and Early Judaism  Gideon R. Kotzé Index of Authors Index of Subjects

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