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Peeters Publishers Le père Roland de Vaux, o.p.: Une biographie
Book SynopsisLe Père Roland de Vaux, dominicain, a été une des figures marquantes contemporaines de l’École biblique et archéologique française de Jérusalem, fondée en 1890 par le P. Marie-Joseph Lagrange. Arrivé à Jérusalem en 1933, Roland de Vaux y a vécu jusqu’à sa mort en 1971, une mort prématurée, celle d’un homme qui s’est donné tout entier à sa mission. Chercheur, professeur, archéologue, directeur de l’École biblique, auteur, directeur de recherches : nombreux ont été les domaines où Roland de Vaux a excellé. Ses domaines préférés ont été l’Histoire ancienne d’Israël et l’archéologie de la Terre sainte. Il est surtout connu pour son rôle dans les fouilles de Qumrân qui ont mis au jour les manuscrits de la mer Morte. Il a aussi joué un rôle décisif dans la réalisation de la Bible de Jérusalem, au lendemain de la Seconde guerre mondiale, un des nombreux conflits politiques qui ont marqué son existence. Roland de Vaux a laissé de nombreux disciples, biblistes et archéologues, qui avaient trouvé en lui un maître. Cette première biographie qui lui est consacrée relate les grands moments d’une vie vécue à vive allure, au cours de laquelle il a croisé et gagné l’estime de la plupart des grands savants de son époque.
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Peeters Publishers Leviticus 11-20
Book SynopsisThis detailed exposition of Leviticus 11-20 focuses especially on the text’s rhetoric of pollution and purity. While engaging a wide variety of contemporary scholarship on Leviticus, it also shows the book’s historical influence on Jewish and Christian beliefs and practices from antiquity to the present day. Leviticus’s rhetoric aimed to persuade ancient listeners and readers to identify themselves as Israel by observing YHWH’s Torah, as exemplified especially by their diets and purification practices. It used prohibitions on illicit sexual intercourse to stigmatize pollution with sexual innuendo. The book makes purification and foregiveness available through personal and priestly rituals. Leviticus also emphasizes the importance of all kinds of divine commandments, including acting out of love for neighbors and immigrants. Leviticus’s rhetoric has therefore echoed in later Jewish and Christian cultures around issues of pollution, atonement, sex, and ethics, especially treatment of women and ethnic others.
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Peeters Publishers The Psalter. Book Five (Ps 107-150)
Book Synopsis Classical commentaries study each psalm on its own. However, there is a growing trend to look at the composition of the Psalter. The present commentary on the fifth and last “book” of psalms (Ps 107–150) carries out a systematic analysis of the composition of this set of forty-four psalms, at all levels of its organization: first each psalm on its own, followed by each subsequence formed of several psalms, then each sequence, each of the five subsections that constitute the fifth book, and finally the whole section, i.e., the book. The last five psalms (146–150) are, so to speak, outside the system, for they constitute the doxology that concludes not only the fifth book but also the entire Psalter. The composition is extremely elaborate. At the centre of the construction, Ps 119 which is a long meditation on the Law. It is preceded by the “Egyptian Hallel” which celebrates the exodus from the land of slavery (Ps 113–118) and followed by the “Psalms of Ascents” which sing and hope for the return from exile in Babylon (Ps 120–134). Finally, at the extremities, two subsections that correspond to each other: in the psalmist’s own words, “From the mouth of deceit to the thanksgiving of the righteous” (Ps 107–112), “From the venom of the serpent to the praise of the righteous” (Ps 135–145). The interpretation of each group of psalms allows us to reach a greater meaning, which clearly exceeds the sum of the interpretations of each of the units that make it up.
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Peeters Publishers The Books of the Maccabees: Literary, Historical,
Book SynopsisThis volume contains the proceedings of the 69th Colloquium Biblicum Lovaniense (February 1-3, 2021), which focused on new perspectives in the research into the books of 1-4 Maccabees. The contributions explore the relevance of literary approaches to the Maccabean books, either comparative readings that connect the Maccabean books with related ancient Greek, Roman, and Near Eastern writings or narratological or intertextual approaches. The historicity of the Maccabean Books and their provenance and historiography form a second focal point. Several contributions re-assessed the contested provenance of 2 Maccabees and the historicity of 1 Maccabees. Two other new perspectives discussed in the volume concern aspects of the rich Jewish and Christian reception of Maccabean passages and the religious views presented in the four books.
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Peeters Publishers L'Un et l'autre Livre d'Esther
Book Synopsis Le dernier des « Cinq Rouleaux » — Cantique des cantiques, Ruth, Lamentations, Qohélet, Esther — est lu à la synagogue durant la fête de Pourim, le carnaval juif. Un livre burlesque, conte oriental invraisemblable qui raconte la légende d’un génocide programmé mais évité. Lu après la Shoah, la légende acquiert un poids de réel qui fait passer du rire à la sidération et aux larmes. Un livre donc à double face. À la synagogue, on le lit en hébreu, dans son texte original. Provocation : on lit à la synagogue un livre dans lequel le nom de Dieu n’est pas prononcé une seule fois, un livre profane, en somme ! C’est pourquoi des juifs, peu de temps après que le livre fut rédigé en hébreu, l’ont traduit en grec, pour leurs frères hellénisés d’Égypte, mais en y greffant de longues additions qui révèlent la présence du Dieu d’Israël, lui qui entend la prière et intervient pour sauver son peuple. Ces additions grecques habillent le texte hébreu comme un vêtement ajusté à un corps dont il met ainsi en valeur la forme et la beauté, comme un déguisement qui en révèle la nature cachée. Le miracle est que ces additions sont greffées aux points stratégiques du tronc hébraïque et, bien loin de le détériorer, en confirment la texture et en soulignent l’harmonie. Ce nouveau livre, qui ne fait que traduire, au sens le plus noble du terme, le premier, est celui qui a été adopté dans le canon des chrétiens, orthodoxes et catholiques. Le présent commentaire de ce qui est pourtant un petit livre est volumineux ; c’est qu’il analyse, interprète et compare les deux formes du même livre, le texte original hébreu d’abord, puis la version grecque de la Septante.
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Peeters Publishers L'ensemble des Cinq Rouleaux: Cinq femmes
Book Synopsis Le Cantique des cantiques est lu à la synagogue à Pâques, Ruth à la fête des Semaines, Lamentations le 9 du mois d’Ab, Qohélet aux Tentes et Esther à Purim. Cet ordre liturgique est extérieur aux textes. Celui de la tradition textuelle de Tibériade obéit à une autre logique, interne celle-ci. Aux extrémités, deux récits, Ruth et Esther, les deux seuls livres de la bible hébraïque qui portent le nom d’une femme : une étrangère qui vient s’intégrer dans le peuple d’Israël, une juive exilée en Perse, intégrée au point d’être devenue l’épouse du roi perse. De chaque côté du livre central, deux poèmes : l’un qui chante l’amour passionné et exclusif entre une femme et son bien-aimé, entre Dieu et son peuple, l’autre pleure l’amour déçu de Dieu pour son épouse infidèle, Jérusalem, qu’il a dû châtier durement en la livrant à la mort et à l’exil. Au centre de l’ensemble, un cinquième livre, très différent des quatre autres. Qohélet est une longue méditation où court un double thème : celui de la vanité, de la vacuité de la vie qui débouche sur la mort, et celui du bonheur, certes limité, mais toutefois réel, de manger et boire, de gouter la satisfaction qu’apporte le travail et, en fin de compte, de voir la vie avec la femme que l’on aime. C’est donc la présence de la femme qui anime, avant tout, les Cinq Rouleaux. C’est la première fois que les Cinq Rouleaux sont analysés dans l’ensemble qu’ils forment, fortement structuré et cohérent. Contrairement à l’image qu’on se fait souvent de la place de la femme dans l’ancien Israël, son rôle y est déterminant. Ce qui ne saurait manquer de donner à réfléchir aux hommes d’aujourd’hui. En particulier dans l’Église, où l’on commence à penser que sa voix devrait être mieux entendue et ses fonctions mieux reconnues.
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Peeters Publishers The Psalter. The Whole of the Book of Praises
Book Synopsis Each of the five books of the Psalter has proved to be composed and well composed. The same is true of the Book of Praises as a whole. The procedures of biblical rhetorical analysis have made possible to show it, despite the shortcomings of a research that could hardly be based on many earlier works. The tradition saw a correspondence between the five books of the Psalter and the five books of the Torah. In the Torah, God speaks to people through the wonders he accomplishes in their favour, and then through the law he enacts; in this way he teaches them, in accordance with the meaning of the word tôrâ. In the Psalter, it is man who speaks to God, who tells him of his misfortunes, who calls on him for help, who also praises him for his salvation. The oppressed psalmist sometimes claims innocence, but God makes him aware of his sin. Then he confesses his faults and asks for forgiveness. Finally, he realises that he is unable to comprehend the law, to see the path that leads to life. And he asks, insistently, to be instructed in it. From the first book, the psalmist pleads: “Make me to know your ways, Yhwh, teach me your paths!” (Ps 25:4). And he repeats it over and over again in the immense psalm of the Law: “Instruct me, O Yhwh, the way of your decrees [...] Give me understanding and I will observe your law” (119:33–34). Thus, the law engraved on stone will be written on his heart of flesh. That is the most visible and closest point of contact between the Torah and the Psalter. Moses said: “Hear, O Israel, the laws and customs that I speak in your hearing today” (Deut 5:1) and God says in the heart of the Psalter: “Listen, O my people, and I admonish you, O Israel, if you would listen to me...” (Ps 81:9). Unable to listen and understand, Israel asks to be taught the Torah. The Psalter is the healing remedy for the deafness that prevents one from hearing the Word of God, for the blindness that prevents one from seeing the path of life. Thus, the new covenant announced by the prophets of the exile begins to take shape, when God gives man a heart of flesh on which he will write his law.
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Peeters Publishers Kindness, Courage, and Integrity in Biblical
Book SynopsisThis volume is intended to honour Reimund Bieringer at the occasion of his retirement from the position of Professor of New Testament Exegesis at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium. Bieringer's contribution to scholarship, but also other manifold ways in which he has served the profession, have been characterised by an exceptional combination of attention to detail, passion for justice, integrity, courage, and kindness. The collection brings together essays in English and German by friends and colleagues exploring, but also problematising, kindness, courage, integrity, and related qualities, from a range of perspectives. In addition to contributions discussing specific exegetical problems, and focusing on how kindness, courage, integrity, or their aspects, are conceptualised, manifested, and valorised in select biblical texts and their reception, the collection also includes articles dealing with broader hermeneutical questions, as well as querying the role of kindness, courage, and integrity in the interpretive process and choices made by individuals and communities as interpreters.
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Peeters Publishers Genesis 1-11
Book SynopsisGenesis 1–11 considers the origins of the world and how it is ordered, the origin of humanity and the origins of civilization. It is an expression of the basic conviction, widespread in antiquity, that everything present and everything future received its essence in the beginning. In this sense, the biblical Primeval History is less an explanation of the origin of the world than primarily an attempt to understand humanity’s experience with itself and its environment in an interpretive way. At the center of this reflection in exemplary narratives, in addition to natural history, genealogy and geography, is humanity in its manifold relationships with its fellow humanity, with non-human Creation, and with God.The commentary offers readers inside and outside the field a clearly understandable synthesis of previous research and places the Primeval History within the context of the literature of the ancient Near East.
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Peeters 'Trinkt Von Dem Wein, Den Ich Mischte!' / 'Drink
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Peeters Publishers The Principles and Practice of New Testament
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Peeters Saint Ephrem. Commentaire de l'Evangile
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Peeters Publishers The Book of Daniel in the Light of New Findings
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Peeters Publishers Syriac Gospel Translations. A Comparison of the
Book SynopsisIn this work the three oldest translations of the Gospels into Syriac are minutely compared in five passages, one from each Gospel and one common to the Synoptics, in order to ascertain their translation methods and linguistic differences. In the conclusion, guidelines are set forth for their use in the Greek textual apparatus and the linguistic data is applied to four questions: 1) what are the sources of the linguistic anomalies in the Old Syriac, 2) when was the Old Syriac translated, 3) who translated it, 4) what is its relation to the Diatessaron.
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Peeters Publishers Mark and Q. a Study of the Overlap Texts: with an
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Peeters Publishers Two Cardinals: John Henry Newman, Desire Joseph
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Peeters Publishers Worterverzeichnis Zu Gawdat Gabras Ausgabe des
Book SynopsisCet ouvrage presente un index detaille et exhaustif du vocabulaire du texte des Psaumes en dialecte copte mesokemique (moyen-egyptien ou oxyrhynchite), tel qu'il a ete edite recemment par Gawdat Gabra. L'index est illustre par de nombreuses citations du texte mesokemique, souvent donne en parallele au texte grec, et aux autres versions coptes des memes passages. Il constitue une information supplementaire, precieuse, nous rapprochant d'une connaissance toujours plus pertinente de ce texte et de ce dialecte recemment decouvert, et analyse de plus precisement grace aux "quatre grands temoins" mesokemiques (IVe-Ve s.); apparus des 1970 et publies successivement par T. Orlandi, H.-M. Schenke et Gawdat Gabra, ils ont contribue de maniere decisive a renouveler les donnees de la dialectologie copte. Tous bibliques, ils permettent enfin d'avoir une connaissance etendue de ce dialecte de la Moyenne-Egypte, dont on n'avait a disposition, precedemment, que des lambeaux publies en 1922, alors consideres comme de simples variantes excentriques du fayoumique. On disposera la d'un outil de travail indispensable non seulement a quiconque analysera le texte des Psaumes, en hebreu et en grec (version des Septante), ou dans ses multiples versions egyptiennes, mais encore au progres des syntheses dialectologiques coptes en cours, dont l'etude de la langue egyptienne pharaonique sera la premiere a profiter.
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Peeters Publishers Studies in the Book of Isaiah. Festschrift Willem
Book SynopsisThis Festschrift is offered to W.A.M. Beuken on the occasion of his sixty-fifth birthday and his retirement as Professor of Old Testament Studies at the Faculty of Theology of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. Wim Beuken has dedicated much of his scholarly career to the study of one Old Testament book, the Book of Isaiah. It seemed natural, therefore, that the present volume and its editors should honour Beuken's scholarly achievements with a collection of essays devoted to the Book of Isaiah and related topics. The 28 contributions are presented under four section headings. The first section contains a series of thematically oriented studies on the Book of Isaiah as a whole. The second section focuses on the so-called Proto-Isaiah and includes contributions dealing with PI as a whole together with contributions which have concentrated on specific portions thereof. The third section includes a number of articles which address issues related to specific themes and pericopes in Deutero- and Trito-Isaiah. The fourth and final section turns its attention to questions regarding inter-textuality and the history of reception.
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Peeters Publishers A Syrian in Greek Dress: The Use of Greek, Hebrew
Book SynopsisThe identification and publication of an ancient Armenian translation of Eusebius of Emesa's Commentary on Genesis (1980) and the edition of fragments of his work in the Greek Catena in Genesim have opened new perspectives for the study of this fourth-century scholar and bishop of Syrian descent. This book now brings together the evidence of the various branches of tradition of this work, the oldest complete Antiochene commentary to survive. The author concentrates on one of the most striking characteristics of Eusebius' commentary: its interest in translation problems and appeal to alternative readings. Apart from the Septuagint, the version commented on, Eusebius quotes "the Syrian" (ho Syros) and "the Hebrew" (ho Hebraios). It has long been unclear what or who answered to these names. The author proposes a new solution to this problem. The first part of this study deals with the content and affiliations of all biblical quotations in the Commentary, and with their place in Eusebius' method of exegesis. The author demonstrates that Eusebius refered to the Hebrew and Syriac texts in their original languages. He had direct access to the Syriac text (and is thus one of the oldest witnesses to the Peshitta version), but used informants for his knowledge of the Hebrew text. His approach in assessing the value of the different versions of the biblical text is contrasted with that of his predecessors Origen and Eusebius of Caesarea, his contemporary Jerome, and later Antiochene exegetes who followed or criticized him. The second part gives the basis of the first: it is a collection of all passages that cite alternative readings. All texts are given in their original languages and in English translation. A commentary deals with the textual tradition of each passage, identifies the questions Eusebius wanted to solve by the use of alternative readings, contrasts his handling of the text with that of others, establishes his sources, and studies the biblical quotations in detail.
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Summum Academic The Holy Spirit in Luke-Acts: The Role of the
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Editorial CLC La Providencia de Dios: Misteriosa Y Profunda
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Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities The Arabic Translation of the Samaritan
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Israel Academy of Sciences & Humanities Five Biblical Scrolls in a 16th Century Jewish
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Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities The Arabic Translation of the Samaritan
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Carta, The Israel Map & Publishing Company Understanding Great People of the Bible: An
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Carta,The Israel Map & Publishing Company Ltd,Israel In the Master's Steps: The Gospels in the Land
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Carta, The Israel Map & Publishing Company Understanding the Holy Temple of the Old
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Urim Publications Meditations at Twilight on Genesis
Book SynopsisMeditations at Twilight on Genesis exposes readers to the striking insights of the great classical commentators on the Five Books of Moses, with acknowledgement of critical scholarship and modern philosophical thought. This book demonstrates the surprising moral and philosophical notions embedded in the plain meaning of the Scriptures, which are vital to Judaism. Readers familiar with the Bible will come away with a fresh perspective, while those less learned in biblical studies will discover a compelling introduction to the topic.Trade Review"It has universal appeal for all Jews. The chapters are short and provide a good supplementary commentary to the parshot in the Chumash (Torah) and ideas for discussion at the Shabbat table . . . . Recommended for any synagogue library." Ellen Share, AJL Reviews
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Archaeology & Art Publications Anatolia and Its Biblical Visionaries
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Edizioni Terra Santa Il Vangelo Di Matteo: Analisi Sintattica
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Edizioni Terra Santa Il Vangelo Di Marco: Analisi Sintattica
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Gregorian & Biblical Press Si Compia La Scrittura: I Rimandi Al Compimento Della Scrittura Pronunciati Da Gesu in Gv 13-17
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Gregorian & Biblical Press La Giustizia Bibbia E Giurisprudenza in Dialogo
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Gregorian & Biblical Press L'Uso Dei Beni: Bibbia Ed Economia in Dialogo
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Gregorian & Biblical Press La Mediazione Di Cristo Per La Salvezza: Modelli Argomentativi in Rm 10,1-13
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Gregorian & Biblical Press La Violenza: Bibbia E Cronaca in Dialogo
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Gregorian & Biblical Press Philip, a Collaborative Forerunner of Peter and Paul: A Study of Philip's Characterization in Acts
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Gregorian & Biblical Press Il Racconto Doppio Nel Libro Di Samuele
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Gregorian & Biblical Press Without Typology - No Gospels: A Suffering Messiah: A Challenge for Matthew, Mark and Luke
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Gregorian & Biblical Press L'Ecole de Jesus Dans l'Evangile de Matthieu
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Gregorian & Biblical Press The Inexperienced Person and the Journey to Wisdom in the Book of Proverbs
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Gregorian & Biblical Press Other Gods Versus the God of Israel: Pragma-Rhetoric and the Dynamics of Persuasion in 1 Kings 11:26-14:20
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Gregorian & Biblical Press Verborum Ordo: A Typological Approach to Word-Order Literalism as an Indication of Saint Jerome's Translation Technique in the Vulgate
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Gregorian & Biblical Press L'Officina del Nuovo Testamento: Retorica E Stilistica
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Gregorian & Biblical Press Le Nouveau Testament: Commentaire Esthetique
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Gregorian & Biblical Press Sintaxe Do Grego Do Novo Testamento: Um Manual de Estudos
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Gregorian & Biblical Press Il Targum Jonathan Di 1 E 2 Samuele: La Natura Della Sua Traduzione E La Sua Teologia
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Gregorian & Biblical Press La Vetus Syra del Vangelo Di Marco: Commento E Traduzione
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