Criticism and exegesis of sacred texts Books
The Catholic University of America Press The Christian Moses From Philo to the Quran
Book SynopsisAs it developed a distinctive character of its own during the first six centuries of the common era, Christianity was constantly forced to reassess and adapt its relationship with the Jewish tradition. The process involved a number of preoccupations and challenges. The essays in this volume were developed within this broad field of inquiry.
£58.50
MP-CUA Catholic Uni of Amer Ecclesiology
Book SynopsisExplains the antecedent probability both of revelation and of God's institution of a church - ecclesiology in the mode of fundamental theology. The book rounds up what Scripture and Tradition teach about the Church, offers a systematic exploration, in reverse order, to the unity of the Church, and explores the Church as the sacrament of communion.
£23.96
The Catholic University of America Press Bread from Heaven An Introduction to the
Book SynopsisOffers a contemporary theological synthesis on the Eucharist that brings together classical and critical biblical exegesis, debates on the early history of the Christian liturgy, patristic doctrine, the teachings offered by the Councils of Florence, Trent and Vatican II, and the Church's lex orandi.
£23.96
The Catholic University of America Press A Biblical Path to the Triune God Jesus Paul and
Book SynopsisThis short volume, finished just before Denis Farkasfalvy's death in 2020, serves effectively as his last theological testament. In A Biblical Path to the Triune God, the Cistercian abbot identifies the earliest biblical witnesses to the Church's teaching about God, formulated at the Council of Nicaea, as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
£23.96
MP-CUA Catholic Uni of Amer Patristic Exegesis in Context Exploring the
Book SynopsisExamines the biblical exegesis of early Christians beyond the formal genre of biblical commentary. This volume demonstrates the highly sophisticated nature of biblical exegesis in other genres, and the manifold uses to which this exegesis was put.Trade ReviewEach essay is a marvelous case study in its own right. These essays are fresh analyses by authors who are specialists in the early Christian writers and texts on which they are composing their essays…an exceptional quality of scholarship."" - Paul Blowers, Emmanuel Christian Seminary at Milligan University
£56.25
New York University Press Torah Queeries
Book SynopsisIn the Jewish tradition, reading of the Torah follows a calendar cycle, with a specific portion assigned each week. These weekly portions, read aloud in synagogues around the world, have been subject to interpretation and commentary for centuries. Following on this ancient tradition, this title interprets the Torah through a 'bent lens'.Trade ReviewGives engaged, pertinent, GLBT-focused meaning to the Tanach. The analyses offered here work to break boundaries, queer-ing, celebrating, and re-creating our Jewish texts and traditions in meaningful ways. These acts of reading become the radical movement of making a space for GLBT Jews that is clever, humorous, loving, and thought-provoking. -- Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum,Congregation Beth Simchat Torah, New YorkProvides a challenge to readers and preachers who are single-mindedly devoted to the straight and narrow. -- Daniel Boyarin,author of Carnal Israel: Reading Sex in Talmudic CultureThis unique and lively work blends the traditional Jewish format of dividing Torah into weekly portions with specifically queer perspectives on them. Torah Queeries unveils a new queer Jewish way to understand this most sacred and central text that will surely stimulate and challenge the reader. -- Rabbi Rebecca T. Alpert,author of Whose Torah? A Concise Guide to Progressive JudaismRabbi Joshua Lesser . . . believes it is time for LGBT people to move beyond simply defending their identities from biblically based attacks. As one of the three editors of Torah Queeries: Weekly Commentaries on the Hebrew Bible, he hopes to push such discussions to a new, more complex level. * Southern Voice *With Torah Queeries, no longer is the LGBT community an outsider in the Bible...[This volume is] a must for the Jewish bookshelf. * The Jerusalem Post *The point of all these essays is to make us question ourselves and our assumptions and in this purpose, they succeed. . .these authors offer insights into the Torah text that can speak to everyone, regardless of their gender identity. * The Reporter *The tone of the commentaries varies greatly: some are scholarly treatises drawing heavily on rabbinic sources, some are sociological or biological studies, while others are deeply moving personal essays. The book includes bibliographical references and an index. Highly recommended for all libraries. * Association of Jewish Libraries Newsletters *The Rabbinic oft-name for Torah (Learning) is (Reading) which carries the root (call), thus seeding the scriputural charge, (interpret me). Sixty briskly written, argumentative, apologetic, slightly political commentaries successfully do so in the spirit of religious freedom and equalitarian (sic)tolerance. * Choice *The goal of the book is to bring a new set of voices to Torah. * New Jersey Jewish News *While the CJM invites artists to interpret the weeks Torah portions, Torah Queeries invites LGBT individuals and allies to do so. Both should be celebrated and embraced for their creativity, innovation, and depth. * Jewish News Weekly of Northern California *This book, an indispensable resource for all teachers and learners of Torah, in the best way possible makes queers of us all. * Jewish Currents *Torah Queeries attempts to be a broader study of the Five Books of Moses, with discussion of every Torah portion, rather than just those that might be particularly difficult or inspiring to LGBT Jews. * Jewish Exponent *Table of ContentsForeword Judith Plaskow Introduction: Interpreting the Bible through a Bent Lens David ShneerPart I Bereshit, The Book of GenesisPart II Shemot, The Book of ExodusPart III Vayikra, The Book of LeviticusPart IV Bemidbar, The Book of NumbersPart V Devarim, The Book of DeuteronomyPart VI Holiday Portions The New Rabbis: A Postscript Benay LappeContributors Index
£70.30
New York University Press The Hebrew Bible
Book SynopsisFresh understandings concerning the Bible have not filtered down beyond specialists in university settings. This volume seeks to meet this need, with chapters describing how archeology, theology, ancient studies, literary studies, feminist studies, and other disciplines understand the Bible.Trade ReviewThe goal of the present book is to try to introduce lay Jewish audiences to some of the results of modern biblical research. * Journal of Jewish Studies *An excellent supplementary textbook for survey courses on the Hebrew Bible or on biblical scholarship. -- John J. Collins,Yale UniversityThis superb collection written by scholars for non-specialists should be required reading for anyone who wants to understand the most important issues in the contemporary study of the Bible. -- S. David Sperling,author of The Original TorahThis collection admirably bridges the gap between biblical scholarship and lay readership, allowing laypeople to engage in the ‘conversations’ that have been ongoing for decades in academic circles and to ‘reach their own conclusions. * Choice *Table of ContentsAbbreviationsPreface Part I The Bible and History1 Israel Without the Bible Gary A. Rendsburg2 Bible, Archaeology, and the Social Sciences: The Next Generation Elizabeth Bloch-SmithPart II New Approaches to the Bible3 Literary Approaches to Biblical Literature: General Observations and a Case Study of Genesis 34 Adele Berlin4 Feminist Approaches to the Hebrew Bible Esther FuchsPart III Ancient Practice5 The Laws of Biblical Israel Raymond Westbrook6 The Study of Ritual in the Hebrew Bible David P. WrightPart IV Judaism and the Bible7 By the Letter?/Word for Word? Scripture in the Jewish Tradition Leonard Greenspoon8 From Judaism to Biblical Religion and Back Again Ziony Zevit9 Jewish Biblical Theology Marvin A. SweeneyEpilogue: Let a Hundred Flowers Bloom: Some Re?ections on Reading and Studying the Hebrew Bible Peter MachinistAbout the Contributors Index Index of Biblical Passages
£22.79
New York University Press The Original Torah
Book SynopsisIn "The Original Torah", S. David Sperling argues that, while there is no archaeological evidence to support much of the activity chronicled in the Torah, a historical reality exists there if we know how to seek it.Trade Review"An excellent and provocative read . . . challenges the reader to rethink previously held suppositions concerning biblical texts." -- Carl S. Ehrlich,York University"Likely to be the standard work on this subject for years to come, and to contribute to one of the most important debates in the history of the Jewish people, on the very nature of Israel and the Covenant." -- James R. Russell,Harvard University"The modern biblical interpreter . . . faces a daunting task in trying to unravel the intentions of the Torah's authors. S. does not retreat from the challenge." * Theological Studies *
£20.89
Duke University Press Called by Stories
Book SynopsisExamines sagas and tales from the Bible for the light they shed on the practice of law and on the meaning of a life lived in the legal profession. This book shows that the dilemmas and decisions that legal professionals confront are approached through an experience of narrative in which we come to know ourselves and our actions through stories.Trade Review“Milner Ball has written a wonderful book, a sustained and fruitful meditation on the relation between fundamental biblical texts and possible meanings of the practice of law in modern America. He illuminates these crucial texts and the law itself in original, surprising, and highly persuasive ways. A truly impressive achievement.”—James Boyd White, author of Acts of Hope: The Creation of Authority in Literature, Law, and Politics“Simply put, this book is extraordinary. Its author is a wordsmith of the very first order. He says strikingly original things about familiar old texts and acutely probes pressing contemporary issues. Milner Ball is deeply learned across traditional disciplinary lines, but he wears his learning lightly. A wise, clear, and funny conversationalist, he is also extraordinarily deep and inspiring.”—Aviam Soifer, author of Law and the Company We Keep“This artful interweaving of literature and law evokes the power of biblical narrative to inform contemporary life. The result is a rich tapestry of words for sustained reflection and appropriation.”—Phyllis Trible, author of Rhetorical Criticism: Context, Method, and the Book of JonahTable of ContentsPrologue I. Moses 1. Law and the “Mouth” for God 2. Intercession 3. Counsel for the Situation 4. The Word in Moses’ Situation 5. The Risks 6. The Promise of Succession 7. The Promise of Justice 8. Psalm 114 II. The Encompassing Women 9. The Midwives 10. Socratic Midwifery That Isn’t 11. Socratic Midwifery That Is 12. Are You the Lawyers? 13. Miriam 14. Rachel 15. Jeremiah’s Rachel Poem 16. Law and Tears 17. The Womb of God and Tears III. The Gospel According to John 18. The Jerusalem Trial 19. The Gospel Trail: A Divine Lawsuit 20. A Reversal and Appeal 21. The Power of the Word: Two Women 22. The Power of the Word: Moses and the Spirit 23. The Power of the Word: Disbelief 24. John’s Freedom from and for Law 25. Lawyer’s Independence Epilogue Acknowledgments Appendix Notes Index
£25.19
Duke University Press The Labor of Job
Book SynopsisIn the Old Testament book of Job, the pious Job is made to suffer for no apparent reason. The heart of the story is Job's quest to understand why he must bear, and why God would allow, such misery. This book presents a Marxist interpretation of Job's story.Trade Review“Antonio Negri takes the ideas he developed in reading Spinoza, the Jewish heretic, and brings them to bear on one of the most crucial texts of orthodox Christianity to show how much unrealized potential for radical change persists even within those theoretical formations that seem the most monolithic and reactionary. Negri’s approach prefigures efforts by philosophers such as Slavoj Zizek, Alain Badiou, and Giorgio Agamben to re-read the history of Christian thought against the grain. It also connects to and explicates the language of Christian asceticism that informs Empire.”— Timothy S. Murphy, coeditor of The Philosophy of Antonio Negri and editor and translator of Antonio Negri’s Subversive Spinoza“Job regards God, according to Negri, not as judge or father or even as the source of discipline and mediation, but merely as antagonist, the locus of an empty, unjust command. There is no more question of measure—equating sins and punishment or virtues and rewards—that could support a conception of divine justice. But Job is not powerless. . . . According to Negri’s reading he stands before God angry, indignant, unrepentant, and rebellious.”—from the foreword by Michael Hardt, co-author, with Antonio Negri, of Empire and Multitude“The book of Job is the first (and, in many ways, still unsurpassed) exemplary case of the critique of ideology, teaching us how to resist legitimizing our misfortunes with any kind of ‘deeper meaning’––and who is more suitable to actualize this book for our times as Antoni Negri? In his hands, The book of Job turns into a revolutionary text, into a true manual of resistance.”—Slavoj ŽižekTable of ContentsForeword: Creation beyond Measure / Michael Hardt vii Preface to the 2002 Edition xv Introduction 1 1. The Difference of Job 5 2. Of the Absoluteness of the Contingent 18 3. The Adversary and the Avenger 31 4. The Chaos of Being 48 5. The Dispositif of the Messiah 63 6. The Constitution of Power 79 7. Ethics as Creation 95 Commentary: Negri, Job, and the Bible / Roland Boer 109 Bibliographical Appendix 129 Index 133
£17.99
Fordham University Press The Babylon Complex
Book SynopsisLooks at the biblical figure of Babylon as it appears in U.S. culture from 2001-2011 in politics, media, war, and sexual regulation; analyzes allusions to Babylon as part of a larger response to the erosion of national sovereignty within economic globalization.Trade Review"Runions' scholarship is phenomenal. It's stunning that she can sustain her rigor over this variety of cultural and political contexts. That she does is a testament to her breadth as a scholar, and her critical acumen." -- -Jay Twomey University of Cincinnati "The Babylon Complex is unlike anything else in the fields it engages and crosses; its scholarship is unique, top-tier, and challenging, offering much savvier reflections upon biblical heritages and uses than what one often finds in the current theoretical 'turn to religion.' In short, it is both relevant and interdisciplinary, two terms too often used, but seldom as aptly as they are for this truly excellent book." -- -Joseph A. Marchal Ball State University "Erin Runions reveals Babylon to be an ambivalent but perversely indispensable figure for theopolitical discourses girding contemporary biopolitics. Modeling a queerly sublime ethics of reading, The Babylon Complex sets an agenda for a next generation of biblical scholars while demonstrating what cultural studies gains from engagement with biblical studies." -- -Jennifer Glancy Le Moyne College "Theoretically sophisticated and engaging, this remarkable book complicates our understanding of how the Bible affects U.S political ideals and subjectivities." -Reading Religion "With fearless insight and incisive prose, Erin Runions offers a breathtaking tour de force of astute biblical-political-philosophical analysis that persistently reframes the intertwining of biblical interpretation and biopolitics through the figure of Babel/Babylon. As she shows, the pervasive theopolitics of American discourse, right and left, is informed by an eschatological fantasy sanctioned by the twin edifices of bible and law. This engrossing account of biblically inflected defenses of US sovereignty places biblical interpretation at the center of critical theory and critical theory at the center of biblical interpretation. A must read for anyone interested in the current state of theodemocratic exceptionalism, in the unpredictable and shifting meanings of biblical texts, and in the possibility of listening, finally, to an other." -- -Jennifer Knust Boston UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction: Babylon and the Crisis of Sovereignty 1. From Babel to Biopolitics: Josephus, Theodemocracy, and the Regulation of Pleasure 2. Bellicose Dreams: Babylon and Exception to Law 3. Tolerating Babel: Biopolitics, Film, and Family 4. Revenge on Babylon: Literalist Allegory, Scripture, Torture 5. Who Lives in Babylon? The Gay Antichrist as Political Enemy 6. Babelian Scripture: A Queerly Sublime Ethics of Reading Postlude: Roads to Babel Works Cited Index
£63.00
Fordham University Press Revelation 13 in Christian Arabic Commentary
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments vii Editorial Notes and Abbreviations xi Introduction: Two Arabic Commentaries on the Apocalypse of John in Historical and Cultural Context, 1 Stephen J. Davis 1 Būlus al-Būshī on Revelation 1–3: Christology and Christian-Muslim Encounter, 9 Shawqi Talia and Stephen J. Davis 2 Ibn Kātib Qayṣar on Visions, Angels, Prophets, and Dreams, 22 Stephen J. Davis 3 Ibn Kātib Qayṣar on Revelation 1–3: The First Vision and the Letters to the Seven Churches, 41 T. C. Schmidt, with contributions by Stephen J. Davis 4 Būlus al-Būshī, Commentary on the Apocalypse of John, ch. 1–3, 60 Translated by Shawqi Talia; edited by Stephen J. Davis 5 Ibn Kātib Qayṣar, Commentary on the Apocalypse of John, ch. 1–3, 86 Translated by Stephen J. Davis and T. C. Schmidt Works Cited 149 Subject Index 163 Biblical Index 169
£19.79
Fordham University Press Revelation 13 in Christian Arabic Commentary
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments vii Editorial Notes and Abbreviations xi Introduction: Two Arabic Commentaries on the Apocalypse of John in Historical and Cultural Context, 1 Stephen J. Davis 1 Būlus al-Būshī on Revelation 1–3: Christology and Christian-Muslim Encounter, 9 Shawqi Talia and Stephen J. Davis 2 Ibn Kātib Qayṣar on Visions, Angels, Prophets, and Dreams, 22 Stephen J. Davis 3 Ibn Kātib Qayṣar on Revelation 1–3: The First Vision and the Letters to the Seven Churches, 41 T. C. Schmidt, with contributions by Stephen J. Davis 4 Būlus al-Būshī, Commentary on the Apocalypse of John, ch. 1–3, 60 Translated by Shawqi Talia; edited by Stephen J. Davis 5 Ibn Kātib Qayṣar, Commentary on the Apocalypse of John, ch. 1–3, 86 Translated by Stephen J. Davis and T. C. Schmidt Works Cited 149 Subject Index 163 Biblical Index 169
£63.00
Fordham University Press Pauline Ugliness Jacob Taubes and the Turn to
Book SynopsisJacob Taubes radically changed our conceptions of Paul the apostle. Loland shows how we can approach Paul’s letters with the distinctive perspective of this Jewish rabbi steeped in continental philosophy. The book emphasizes Paul’s Jewishness as well as the political explosiveness of the apostle’s revolutionary doctrine of the cross, which the author terms Pauline Ugliness.Table of ContentsIntroduction | 1 1 The Historical and the Philosophical: A Contemporary Scene | 13 2 Jacob Taubes’s Path to Paul: From the Eschatologist to the Paulinist | 22 3 Paul and Philosophy: Taubes’s Contradictory Paul | 52 4 Paul as Predecessor to Psychoanalysis: Taubes’s Introspective Paul | 100 5 Paul against Empire: Taubes’s Political Paul | 140 Conclusion | 177 Acknowledgments | 185 Notes | 187 Bibliography | 219 Index of Biblical References | 229 General Index | 231
£102.60
Kregel Publications,U.S. The Companion Bible
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