Old Testaments Books
Kohlhammer Jeremia 26-52
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£96.75
Kohlhammer Jeremiah 1-25
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£55.20
Kohlhammer Tobit
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£50.15
Kohlhammer Genesis 1-11
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£101.15
Kohlhammer Hermeneutik Der Judischen Bibel Und Des Alten
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£30.60
Kohlhammer Liebe, Laster, Lust Und Leiden: Sexualitat Im
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£17.10
Kohlhammer Die Welt Der Hebraischen Bibel: Umfeld - Inhalte
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£37.40
Kohlhammer Exodus 16-40
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£95.20
Kohlhammer W. Uber Psalmen
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£63.20
Theologischer Verlag Ich Liege Wach Und Bin Wie Ein Vogel: 150
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£21.08
Tvz Theologischer Verlag Zurich AG Das Exodusbuch Heute Lesen
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£17.82
Theologischer Verlag Ag Das Nahumbuch Heute Lesen
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£17.82
Evangelische Verlagsanstalt Daniel: Traumdeuter Und Endzeitprophet
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£17.82
Evangelische Verlagsanstalt Abraham: Ahnvater - Vorbild - Kultstifter
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£20.40
Aschendorff Verlag Die Psalmen Bei Den Kirchenvatern. Psalmen 61-90:
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£44.80
Herder Verlag GmbH Psalmen 101 150
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£120.00
Herder Verlag GmbH Herders theologischer Kommentar zum Alten
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£68.00
Verlag Herder Jesaja 49-54
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£73.95
Verlag Herder Herders Neuer Bibelatlas: Uberarbeitete
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£54.40
Brill Deutschland Der Zerbrochene Spiegel
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£59.25
Brill I Schoeningh The Function of the Reader in the Formation and
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£96.75
Brill I Schoeningh Die Männer des Richterbuchs als Figuren inneren
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£109.65
Brill I Schoeningh Experiencing the Hebrew Bible
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£75.65
Brill I Schoeningh Himmlische Und Irdische Heiligkeit
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£109.65
Brill I Schoeningh Beeinträchtigte Körper
£100.30
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Wahrheit und Bewahrheitung in der
Book SynopsisZum Konzept historischer Wahrheit
£112.00
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Die Dunklen Seiten Gottes: Band 1: Willkur Und
Book SynopsisWo ist Gott - angesichts der Schattenseiten unserer Welt?
£127.68
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG Das Buch Hiob
Book SynopsisSuffering, freedom and justice as well as the mysteriousness of God are among the great themes of human existence. In the Book of Job they are poetically reflected in tremendous density. The circles involved in its creation play with the literary traditions of ancient Israel and early Judaism and bring different theologies of cult, legal and wisdom origins into a polyphonic conversation. The present commentary traces this conversation with a view to its literary origin and its reception in early Judaism and early Christianity. Theodicy poems from the ancient oriental environment are included in the translation and verse-by-verse interpretation of the individual chapters of the Book of Job, as are Egyptian wisdom texts and philosophical discourses from the Greek and Roman environment of the Old Testament. Individual excursions provide information on the anthropological, ethical, mythological and theological backgrounds of the Book of Job.
£103.49
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG Hebraisches Denken: Denkgeschichte und Denkweisen
Book SynopsisWhere do we stand with the Old Testament and our extra-biblical sources in terms of the history of thought and science? The question of how people think and how this thinking can be classified typologically and historically is dealt with in a wide variety of scientific disciplines. Again and again there have been attempts to ascribe different thinking styles to different people, groups, cultures and times. Also for the science of the cultures of the ancient Orient, which has a main source for the history of Western thought in the Old Testament, the question of whether ways of thinking can be typologized in a culture-bound and cross-cultural manner is indispensable. A new interest in the classification of the ancient Near Eastern cultures in terms of the history of thought and science has flourished in recent years, and so the long-neglected question of "Hebrew thinking" in the context of the history of thought and science in the Ancient Near East, including Greece, is new place. In the studies presented here, a form of the history of thought and science of the Old Testament is presented, which asks about the Old Testament ways of thinking in the context of the ancient oriental cultures of knowledge and can be connected to the history of ideas and science in other disciplines. Jan Dietrich's history of thought and science of the Old Testament examines the Old Testament ideas, traditions, concepts, and concepts and the ways of thinking behind them and classifies them in terms of the history of science.
£18.04
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG A Forceful and Fruitful Verse: Genesis 1:28 in
Book SynopsisBe fruitful and multiply is a verse with a storied history. Whether in theology or natural law, this much-debated verses explosive potential had gone largely dormant prior to the Reformation. For Luther, however, in the context of the debate surrounding monastic vows, this verse would once again take on new life. Fueled by the contributions of his fellow reformers especially with regard to the normative nature of mans sexuality a powerful new understanding of this verse emerged. This new understanding, a synthesis of Luthers own scriptural understanding coupled with powerful natural-philosophical insight from Melanchthon, would go on to play a significant role as former celibates abandoned their vows. It would also offer normative shape to the contours of Reformation marriage even as it took its place in such important works as the Augsburg Confession and Melanchthons Apology.
£53.99
Peter Lang AG Osternacht Und Altes Testament: Studien Und
Book SynopsisDie Osternachtvigil, Zenit der alten christlichen Liturgie, ist in der katholischen Kirche im 20. Jahrhundert revitalisiert worden. Doch durch die Reform und bald nach der Reform ist die Feiergestalt in neue Probleme hineingeraten. Eine der untergründigen Schwierigkeiten dürfte in der Entfremdung der Kirche vom Alten Testament liegen, von dem gerade diese Vigil zuinnerst geprägt ist. Im Blick auf eine zu wünschende abermalige Revision legen in diesem Buch zwei Alttestamentler, die auch liturgiegeschichtliche, übersetzungstheoretische und bibelhermeneutische Interessen haben, Analysen und Vorschläge vor. Eine neue, der traditionellen Melodie möglichst nahe Vertonung des deutschen Exsultet durch Erwin Bücken ist beigefügt.
£53.87
Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht Theologie Des Alten Testaments
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£26.99
Koren Publishers Tanakh Lametayel
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£89.99
Koren Publishers Koren Mikraot Hadorot, V15: Bo
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£14.24
Koren Publishers Koren Mikraot Hadorot V23 Vayikra
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£14.24
Koren Publishers Koren Mikraot Hadorot V24 Tzav
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£14.24
Koren Publishers The Koren Tanakh, Magerman Edition
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£18.04
Koren Publishers The Koren Tanakh Maalot, Magerman Edition,
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£33.24
Koren Publishers Koren Tanakh Moriya
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£14.24
The University of Chicago Press Where Shall Wisdom be Found Calvins Exegesis of
Book SynopsisThrough countless retellings, from the Talmud to Archibald MacLeish and since, the story of Job has become a fixture in the cultural imagination of the West. In this study, Susan E. Schreiner analyzes interpretations of the Book of Job by Gregory the Great, Maimonides, Thomas Aquinas, and particularly John Calvin. Reading Calvin's interpretation of Job against the background of his most important medieval predecessors, Schreiner shows how central Job is to Calvin's struggles with issues of creation, the problem of evil, the meaning of history, and the doctrine of providence. For Calvin and his predecessors, Schreiner argues, the concept of intellectual perception is the key to an understanding of Job. The texts she examines constantly raise questions about the human capacity for knowledge: What can the sufferer who stands within history perceive about the self, God, and reality? Can humans truly perceive the workings of providence in their personal lives or in the tumult of history? Are evil and injustice a reality that we must confront before finding wisdom? In her final chapter, Schreiner turns to the wide array of twentieth-century interpretations of Job, including modern biblical commentaries, the work of Carl Jung, and literary transfigurations by Wells, MacLeish, Wiesel, and Kafka. The result is a compelling demonstration of how the history of exegesis can yield vital insights for contemporary culture.
£24.00
Indiana University Press The Invention of Jewish Identity
Book SynopsisTranslation, Jewish philosophy, and social and cultural historyTrade ReviewThe intertwined goals of this ambitious monograph by Hughes (Univ. of Buffalo--SUNY) are expressed in the work's full title: to discern patterns that connect three discrete subjects--Bible, philosophy, and translation--and to explore their contributions to the development of Jewish identity. The author's success results largely from his creativeapproach, first by making his centerpiece the analysis of Bible translation within the context of Jewish philosophy. Second, he selects seven individuals from six distinct periods and cultures, each of whom has been a worthy subject for at least one book-length study; among them are Saadya Gaon, Maimonides, and Franz Rosenzweig. He then allows these individuals to converse, as it were, with each other, jarringly out of chronological order but with surprisingly productive results. Thus, not only can one study Rosenzweig (late 19th-early 20th century) in terms of the influence of Saadya (tenth century).... But one can also see Saadya himself in a new light (or, many new lights) through the lens of Rosenzweig. This is not a book for the beginner or even for the expert who is faint of heart. But for those with the requisite background and fortitude, it offers rich intellectual rewards. Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students and researchers/faculty. --ChoiceL. J. Greenspoon, Creighton University, December 2011"Shows how Bible translation strategies verify claims about the constant need for self-making that are usually associated with existentialism, claims about the constructedness of 'tradition' that are usually associated with postmodernism, and claims about the need to construct 'tradition' that are usually associated with cultural theorists." —Martin Kavka, Florida State University"Translation, as Hughes perceives it, becomes a major cultural monument rather than merely a philological exercise in transferring the semantics and syntax of one language into those of another." —Kalman Bland, Duke University"This is not a book for the beginner or even for the expert who is faint of heart. But for those with the requisite background and fortitude, it offers rich intellectual rewards." —ChoiceTable of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgments 1. Introductory and Interpretive Contexts2. The Forgetting of History and the Memory of Translation3. The Translation of Silence and the Silence of Translation: The Fabric of Metaphor4. The Apologetics of Translation5. Translation and Its Discontents6. Translation and Issues of Identity and TemporalityConclusions: Between SpacesNotesBibliographyIndex
£18.99
University of Notre Dame Press Call of Abraham
Book SynopsisThe topic of the election of Israel is one of the most controversial and difficult subjects in the entire Bible. Modern readers wonder why God would favor one specific people and why Israel in particular was chosen. One of the most important and theologically incisive voices on this topic has been that of Jon D. Levenson. His careful, wide-ranging scholarship on the Hebrew Bible and its theological reuse in later Judaic and Christian sources has influenced a generation of Jewish and Christian thinkers.This focused volume seeks to bring to a wide audience the ongoing rich theological dialogue on the election of Israel. Writing from a variety of disciplines and perspectives, the authorsJews, Catholics, and Protestantscontribute thought-provoking essays spanning fields including the Hebrew Bible, apocryphal and pseudepigraphic literature, New Testament, rabbinics, the history of Christian exegesis, and modern theology. The resulting book not only engages the lifelong work of JonTrade Review"The scholarship in The Call of Abraham is magnificent. The essays are uniformly of a very high quality. Depending on the essay, the fields that benefit from the scholarship of this volume include Hebrew Bible/Old Testament, intertestamental/Second Temple Judaism, Jewish theology, New Testament, and Christian theology. This work is of profound significance for scholars in all these areas." —Matthew Levering, Perry Family Foundation Chair of Theology, Mundelein Seminary“This volume is an excellent contribution to a crucial question of both ancient and contemporary importance. The essayists give a whole range of ways to consider Jewish election both in its historical and conceptual incarnations. The complexity and richness that emerge from this range is a major strength of the collection and one that is without parallel.” —C. Kavin Rowe, Duke Divinity School"The Call of Abraham is an extraordinary collection that will interest several groups: not only scholars of scripture, ancient Judaism and Christianity, and theology, but any Jews or Christians who wonder how their own tradition has viewed the idea of the chosen people, how those views developed, and how they relate to those of the other community that calls the Hebrew Bible its scripture. The book contains essays of real depth and learning, yet they are accessible to readers outside the academy. They are an appropriate tribute to Jon Levenson, whose depth, clarity, and theological honesty they imitate." —Benjamin D. Sommer, The Jewish Theological Seminary"D. Levenson is seen by many to be the premier biblical theologian today: a scholar who has illuminated the theology pervading the Hebrew Scriptures, and who has explicated its deeper meaning for both Jews and Christians. The excellent essays in this volume, dealing with the election of Israel, a persistent theme in biblical theology and a persistent concern of Levenson's, are a fitting tribute to the importance of Levenson's thought for the distinguished authors of this volume. The Call of Abraham deserves the serious attention too of all theologically interested Jews and Christians, especially those who like these authors are in sustained conversation with one another." —David Novak, J. Richard and Dorothy Shiff Professor of Jewish Studies, University of Toronto“. . . the studies in this collection all focus on one theme, namely, the theological meaning of Israel’s election and the implications of this for both the Jewish and the Christian communities. The collection is also unique in that it seeks to further Levenson’s own thinking on the topic rather than offer new insights into unrelated issues.” —Bible Today“A number of the essays are by former students of Levenson, and the eirenic manner in which the debate is conducted as well as the breadth of the topics grouped under the overarching rubric of election are a fine testimony to the significant impact that Levenson himself as well as his research has had.” —Journal of Jewish Studies“Presented to Jon D. Levenson on the occasion of his sixty-fifth birthday, the essays cover issues that interact with Levenson’s interest and scholarship on the theological meaning of Israel’s election and the implications of this for both the Jewish and the Christian communities . . . . A finely researched and argued thematic tome celebrating the Jewish faith and academic scholarship of the honoree.” —The Catholic Biblical Quarterly“This book is an impressive collection of 15 essays, each dealing with the theme of Israel’s election by God, written in honour of Jon Levenson, whose own research on this theme has been so influential within both Jewish and Christian scholarship.” —Journal of Theological Studies“The Call of Abraham is an ambitious volume that sets out to consider this shared affirmation of election theology in light of Levenson’s opus while building upon it across a wide range of fields. By mining the tradition both ancient and new, the authors of this volume have ably carried forward their honoree’s legacy and pointed the way for a new generation to walk in his footsteps.” —Cithara: Essays in the Judeo Christian Tradition“. . . This volume is an excellent and satisfying tribute to its honoree [Professor Jon D. Levenson] and his research. With scholarship, clarity and interreligious sensitivity that equal Levenson’s, co-editor Kaminsky asks, ‘Can Election Be Forfeited?’” —Biblical Interpretation
£47.70
SPCK Publishing Numbers and Deuteronomy for Everyone
Book SynopsisThe third release in a major new series of guides to the books of the Old Testament written in an accessible and anecdotal style. The series is suitable for personal or group use and the format is also appropriate for daily study.
£10.44
SPCK Publishing Joshua Judges and Ruth for Everyone
Book SynopsisThe latest release, covering Joshua, Judges and Ruth, in a major new series of guides to the books of the Old Testament, written in an accessible and anecdotal style. The series is suitable for personal or group use and the format is also appropriate for daily study.
£10.44
SPCK 1 2 Samuel for Everyone For Everyone Series Old
Book SynopsisA new release, covering the Books of Samuel, in this major series of guides to the books of the Old Testament, written in an accessible and anecdotal style. The series is suitable for personal or group use and the format is also appropriate for daily study.
£10.44
SPCK Publishing 1 and 2 Kings for Everyone
Book SynopsisGood kings and bad kings, good faith and bad faith - these are the themes of 1 and 2 Kings, from the wise King Solomon to the consequences of his successors' folly. Using personal anecdote, a lively style, and drawing on his considerable theological knowledge, John Goldingay takes us deep into the unfolding story of the Old Testament.
£10.44
SPCK Publishing Interpreting the Prophets
Book SynopsisHow to read, interpret and preach the timeless wisdom of the Hebrew prophets.Trade ReviewIn the crowded field of textbooks that introduce students to the Old Testament prophets, Aaron Chalmers has written one of the most useful yet, especially for those whose studies have a ministerial dimension. Eschewing systematic coverage of content, he offers a remarkable breadth and depth of material at quite some speed, with many supporting pictures and illustrations. The key focus is on the task of facilitating interpretation. The first chapter is a lucid review of ‘what is a prophet and what is a prophetic book?’ The latter section emphasizes, rightly, that it is the text that is the primary focus of interpretation, which allows us to sit light to the limits of our historical knowledge regarding how such books were formed. The next three chapters round up three angles of approach: the historical, the theological and the rhetorical. This works extremely well. The first is a masterly overview of Israel’s history in dialogue with both the canon and external historical reference points. The second majors on Sinai and Zion traditions as a theological matrix within which to read the prophetic texts. The third is a mini-introduction to prophecy-related hermeneutics, working with the rhetorical grain of the text(s), and covering aspects of form-critical classification as well as literary characteristics. In all three chapters Chalmers offers clear examples, and pointers for further reflection by way of text boxes on specific themes. Chapter 5 explores apocalyptic, with a little more confidence that this is a separable genre than might be warranted, though Chalmers finds helpful ways to characterize apocalyptic texts. Chapter 6 then turns to ‘preaching the prophets’, with homiletical wisdom alongside caution about ‘prophecy and fulfilment’ schemas. Both these final chapters engage with refuting popular and/or conservative approaches that locate prophetic fulfilment today. In the UK I think a more common problem is simply a biblical illiteracy (even in churches) that simply does not know what to do with these texts. For revised editions I would encourage a more spacious page layout, and less text set against dark text-box backgrounds, especially when that text is often small. Pictures could be more clearly printed. Chalmers could also cite fewer specifics from other introductory books, and handle more of the issues in his own, generally elegant, prose. But I am confident that there will be revised editions, since overall this is an unusually successful textbook. The whole is a student-friendly guide that I will gladly adopt forthwith as recommended reading to accompany a course on the prophets. It is the combination of compressed introduction and the emphasis on developing tools for further interpretation that makes it work. Whereas many guides seem to imagine leisurely classes that wend their canonical way through text after text, the reality of theological education today is that Chalmers’s six chapters will probably match up to the full extent of most such courses. The book would also be an admirable refresher for those whose studies were longer ago. -- Richard S. Briggs * Theology journal *This book can be recommended as a short and easily readable introduction to the prophetic books, it does not try and go through the prophets one by one or in chronological order: rather it is divided up into easily comprehensible themes that extend across all the prophetical books of the Bible. It starts by considering what is a prophet and what makes a prophetic book; reflecting on modern ‘prophets’ and prophecy elsewhere. The author then loos at their historical, theological and rhetorical backgrounds. For example, he considers who a phrase ‘cows of Bashan’ is meaningless without its historical context. The use of language by the prophets to proclaim their message and influence the hearers is well covered. The chapter on apocalyptic writings looks at the dangers of trying to apply such sayings to modern times. However, he also brings out the peril of pinning them down such that they no longer speak to us today. The last chapter – a very useful set of guidelines for preaching on the prophets – should be beneficial to all Readers. -- Tim Whittle * The Reader *
£17.09
SPCK Publishing Discovering the Psalms
Book SynopsisComprehensive, up-to-date and student-friendly introduction to the book of Psalms: its structure, content, theological concerns, key interpretative debates and historical reception
£23.40
