Four Biblical Heroines and the Case for Female Authorship

Four Biblical Heroines and the Case for Female Authorship

Author: Hillel I. Millgram

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2015-03-21

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 0786483946

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This work examines the lives of four female characters in the Bible: Naomi, Ruth, Tamar and Esther. Their stories differ significantly from those of most female Biblical characters in that each woman is depicted without a dominant male companion and each is featured in the Bible's more secular texts. The author evaluates each character's role as a female protagonist, and demonstrates how each story represents an innovative view of religion and a revisionist evaluation of women's roles. Finally, the author proposes that these narratives may have been authored by women. Appendices provide additional information about Boaz, Judah and Tamar, Greek versions of the Book of Esther, Mordecai's decree, and literacy in ancient Israel. Includes a glossary and timeline.


The Flourishing of Jewish Sects in the Maccabean Era: An Interpretation

The Flourishing of Jewish Sects in the Maccabean Era: An Interpretation

Author: Albert I. Baumgartner

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2021-12-06

Total Pages: 255

ISBN-13: 9004497994

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This volume asks why Jewish groups - Sadducees, Pharisees, Essenes and the Dead Sea Scroll sect - flourished during the Maccabean era. It argues that such a result is uncommon, requiring special explanation. In the introduction, sectarianism is defined and its varieties in Second Temple Judaism assessed. Among the causes of the known results suggested are the encounter with an outside culture that seemed to be weakening the external national perimeter, the impact of expanded literacy, the move to the city from the farm, as well as eschatological hope aroused by Maccabean victory. In proposing these conclusions, full advantage is taken of recently published Qumran sources, such as 4QMMT. The objective is to discover the connection between context and consequence, which will explain why sectarianism was so prominent at that time.


The Literary Lineage of the King James Bible, 1340-1611

The Literary Lineage of the King James Bible, 1340-1611

Author: Charles C. Butterworth

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Published: 2018-01-09

Total Pages: 408

ISBN-13: 1512815039

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This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.


Synopsis: An Annual Index of Greek Studies, 1993, 3

Synopsis: An Annual Index of Greek Studies, 1993, 3

Author: Andrew D. Dimarogonas

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 1998-10-28

Total Pages: 510

ISBN-13: 9789057025624

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Presents 12,860 entries listing scholarly publications on Greek studies. Research and review journals, books, and monographs are indexed in the areas of classical, Hellenistic, Biblical, Byzantine, Medieval, and modern Greek studies., but no annotations are included. After the general listings, entries are also indexed by journal, text, name, geography, and subject. The CD-ROM contains an electronic version of the book. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR


International Review of Biblical Studies, Volume 55 (2008-2009)

International Review of Biblical Studies, Volume 55 (2008-2009)

Author: Bernhard Lang

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2010-03-08

Total Pages: 544

ISBN-13: 9004181504

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Formerly known by its subtitle “Internationale Zeitschriftenschau für Bibelwissenschaft und Grenzgebiete”, the International Review of Biblical Studies has served the scholarly community ever since its inception in the early 1950’s. Each annual volume includes approximately 2,000 abstracts and summaries of articles and books that deal with the Bible and related literature, including the Dead Sea Scrolls, Pseudepigrapha, Non-canonical gospels, and ancient Near Eastern writings. The abstracts – which may be in English, German, or French - are arranged thematically under headings such as e.g. “Genesis”, “Matthew”, “Greek language”, “text and textual criticism”, “exegetical methods and approaches”, “biblical theology”, “social and religious institutions”, “biblical personalities”, “history of Israel and early Judaism”, and so on. The articles and books that are abstracted and reviewed are collected annually by an international team of collaborators from over 300 of the most important periodicals and book series in the fields covered.


Volume 1, Tome I: Kierkegaard and the Bible - The Old Testament

Volume 1, Tome I: Kierkegaard and the Bible - The Old Testament

Author: Jon Stewart

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-12-05

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 1351875507

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Exploring Kierkegaard's complex use of the Bible, the essays in this volume use source-critical research and tools ranging from literary criticism to theology and biblical studies, to situate Kierkegaard's appropriation of the biblical material in his cultural and intellectual context. The contributors seek to identify the possible sources that may have influenced Kierkegaard's understanding and employment of Scripture, and to describe the debates about the Bible that may have shaped, perhaps indirectly, his attitudes toward Scripture. They also pay close attention to Kierkegaard's actual hermeneutic practice, analyzing the implicit interpretive moves that he makes as well as his more explicit statements about the significance of various biblical passages. This close reading of Kierkegaard's texts elucidates the unique and sometimes odd features of his frequent appeals to Scripture. This volume in the series devotes one tome to the Old Testament and a second tome to the New Testament. Tome I considers the canonically disputed literature of the Apocrypha. Although Kierkegaard certainly cited the Old Testament much less frequently than he did the New, passages and themes from the Old Testament do occupy a position of startling importance in his writings. Old Testament characters such as Abraham and Job often play crucial and even decisive roles in his texts. Snatches of Old Testament wisdom figure prominently in his edifying literature. The vocabulary and cadences of the Psalms saturate his expression of the range of human passions from joy to despair. The essays in this first tome seek to elucidate the crucial rhetorical uses to which he put key passages from the Old Testament, the sources that influenced him to do this, and his reasons for doing so.


The Verbal Tense System in Late Biblical Hebrew Prose

The Verbal Tense System in Late Biblical Hebrew Prose

Author: Ohad Cohen

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2018-08-14

Total Pages: 318

ISBN-13: 9004370137

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This study offers a synchronic and diachronic account of the Biblical Hebrew verbal tense system during the Second Temple period, based on the books of Esther, Daniel, and Ezra and Nehemiah, along with the non-synoptic parts of Chronicles.