Old Testaments Books

Book SynopsisDana M. Harris is Professor of New Testament and Department Chair at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Bannockburn, Illinois.J. David Stark is Professor of Biblical Studies and the Winnie and Cecil May Jr. Biblical Research Fellow at Faulkner University and a Senior Research Fellow at the Kirby Laing Centre for Public Theology in Cambridge.

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Book SynopsisJ. David Stark is professor of Biblical Studies and the Winnie and Cecil May Jr. Biblical Research Fellow at Faulkner University and a Senior Research Fellow at the Kirby Laing Centre for Public Theology in Cambridge.Daniel B. Oden is professor of Hebrew Bible in the College of Bible and Ministry at Harding University.

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Book SynopsisThis inaugural volume in the series,Themes and Issues in Biblical Studies, includes 19 articles that, collectively, provide readers with informed presentations of a range of current debates concerning Deuteronomy as well as key themes and their implications.

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Book SynopsisThis selection of articles - never published in English before - reflects the author''s position that the basic realization of minimalism has always been evident: that the Old Testament is not - exclusively - a book about history but is dominated by interests in theology both as literature and as an expression of the community in which biblical writings originated. It is a companion volume to his 2022 book Back to Reason: Minimalism in Biblical Studies and both gives an impression of the progress of biblical studies over the last generation or two but also presents a series of new ideas about subjects such as cultural memory, the redaction of Psalms, the importance of prophetic literature also for Christian theology and much more.

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Book SynopsisThis volume is part of a series which provides a fundamental resource for feminist biblical scholarship, containing a comprehensive selection of essays, both reprinted and specially written for the series, by leading feminist scholars. 'An enterprising series of collections of important and pioneering studies.... Those teaching feminist courses will find the books invaluable as a resource for students.' C.S. Rodd, Expository Times.Table of Contents Acknowledgements/ Abbreviations/ Athalya Brenner/ Introduction/ Part I/ Gendered Reading Perspectives/ Elizabeth Caddy Stanton/ The Book of Ruth/ Ilona Rashkow/ Ruth: The Discourse of Power and the Power of Discourse/ Mieke Bal/ Heroism and Proper Names, Or the Fruits of Analogy/ Athalya Brenner/ Naomi and Ruth/ Carol Meyers/ Returning Home: Ruth 1.8 and the Gendering of the Book of Ruth/ Part II/ Gendered Authorship?/ Adrien J. Bledstein/ Female Companionship: If the Book of Ruth were Written by a Woman/ Fokkelien Van Dijk-Hemmes/ Ruth: A Product of Women's Culture?/ Athalya Brenner/ Naomi and Ruth: Further Reflections/ Part III/ On Some Ancient Comments/ Leila Leah Bronner/ A The Thematic Approach to Ruth in Rabbinic Literature/ Jane Richardson Jenson/ Ruth According to Ephrem the Syrian/ Part IV/ Comments in Art/ Zefira Gitay/ Ruth and the Women of Bethlehem/ Cynthia Ozick/ Ruth/ Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThe Watchers were a group of Angels tasked with recording the deeds and progress of humankind. These Angels left their heavenly post and came to earth to experience the fleshly realm. One of the first actions of the Fallen Angels was to breed with human women. The offspring of these fallen, rebellious spirits and human females were hybrids, referred to as the Giants, the Nephilim (meaning The Fallen Ones), and the Men of Renown. Among the first seven scrolls discovered in the caves of Qumran at the Dead Sea is a scroll given the name, The Book of Giants. It records this history and is thought to have been based on the Book of Enoch, a pseudepigraphical Jewish work from the 3rd century BCE. The Book of Giants, like the Book of Enoch, concerns itself with the Watchers and their evil offspring. Two main versions of the text exist. The Dead Sea version is written in Aramaic. Another version has been found written in middle Persian, adapted from the Aramaic to fit into the Manichean religion. Both versions will be examined. Following theories speculating that the Book of Giants was once part of the Book of Enoch, we will attempt to place the two texts back together to render the complete story of the Watchers and the Nephilim. We will discover the history and contributions of these ancient scrolls and look carefully at their content and meaning. Throughout the combined texts we will examine all the biblical and apocryphal references and parallels within the text. The result is an in-depth and panoramic view of the Angels, the Watchers, and the Nephilim, and how one of the giants of the Nephilim race may have survived the flood intended to cleanse the Earth of their horror.

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