Author(s): Michael Cooperson, Shawkat M. Toorawa
This award-winning multi-volume series is dedicated to making literature and its creators better understood and more accessible to students and interested readers, while satisfying the standards of librarians, teachers and scholars. Dictionary of Literary Biography provides reliable information in...
Author(s): Gregory Sterling
"Armenian Paradigms" provides a systematic presentation of the morphology of classical Armenian. Developed in the context of a course in Armenian at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, it serves as a pedagogical aid for any who are learning or reviewing classical Armenian. The booklet is invaluable...
In this series of reflections on the mystery of Jesus and the questions that surround him, noted New Testament scholar Wayne Meeks redirects the course of the Jesus debates. Insisting that we cease focusing on who the historical Jesus was and ask instead, who is Christ? Meeks demonstrates with...
Author(s): Kathryn Tanner
Are there any fair and viable alternatives to global capitalism? University of Chicago theologian Kathryn Tanner offers here a serious and creative proposal for evaluating economic theory and behavior through a theological lens.
Author(s): John J. Collins
This important book for use in Old Testament courses is also a valuable resource for those exploring the role of the Bible in culture today. The articles include: Theoretical Issues "Is a Critical Biblical Theology Possible?" "Biblical Theology and the History of Israelite Religion" "The...
Author(s): Gregory Sterling
For centuries scholars have recognized the apologetic character of the Hellenistic Jewish historians, Josephus, and Luke-Acts; they have not, however, addressed their possible relationships to each other and to their wider cultures. In this systematic effort to set these authors within the...
Author(s): Shawkat Toorawa
Toorawa re-evaluates the literary history and landscape of third to ninth century Baghdad by demonstrating and emphasizing the significance of the important transition from a predominantly oral-aural culture to an increasingly literate one. This transformation had a profound influence on the...
David Kelsey offers a groundbreaking discussion of Christian redemption by exploring the story of a series of horrendous events that befell a young boy and his family. Sam, eight years old, was stricken with a puzzling virus that left him physically and psychologically damaged. His family suffered...
Author(s): John J. Collins
This is a collection of 12 essays, written since 1997, on themes related to Hellenistic (Greek-speaking) Judaism. They include a review essay on recent scholarship on Hellenistic Judaism, a discussion of the question of anti-Semitism in antiquity, a study of the Hellenistic reform in Jerusalem,...
Author(s): Harry S. Stout (Editor), Kenneth P. Minkema (Editor), Caleb J. D. Maskell (Editor)
The year 2003 marked the tercentenary of the birth of Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758), the man perpetually hailed as "America's most original religious thinker." Edwards's impact, both on colonial religious life and on the Anglo-American world of his day, was internationally acknowledged, and his...
