2009 Brill Biblical Studies

Biblical Studies
2009
catalog
Dear Scholar,
Welcome to Brill’s latest Biblical Studies catalog. This year, we are especially pleased to
inform you of the exciting new developments with our online platform, Brill Online at
brillonline.nl. The online version of the renowned encyclopedia Religion Past and Present
will become available in Fall 2009, and additional volumes of this encyclopedia will be
added to the online version upon publication. Another major development in our online
reference works is the release of the Brill E-books Collections, a complete reference source
covering Humanities and Social Sciences. It includes the collection Biblical Studies,
Ancient Near East and Early Christianity E-Books Online covering Biblical Studies, Ancient
Judaism, Ancient Near East, Egyptology, Dead Sea Scrolls, Gnosticism & Manichaeism,
and the Early Church & Patristics.
We are also proud to announce the publication of the Handbook of the Historical Jesus.
Drawing on first-class scholarship from around the world, the four large volumes of
the Handbook offer a unique assembly of leading experts presenting their approaches
to the historical Jesus, as well as a thorough and wide-ranging compilation of original
studies on a broad variety of topics pertaining to Jesus research and adjacent areas.
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Contents
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See page 62 See page 38 See page 19 See page 11 See page 64
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2 Major Reference Works
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13 Old Testament
17 Ancient Near East & Egypt
22 Dead Sea Scrolls
27 Gnosticism & Manichaeism
30 Ancient Judaism
39 Religion in Late Antiquity
44 Biblical Studies
56 New Testament
63 Early Christianity
68 History of Christianity
70 Journals
76 Authors Index
81 Order Form and Ordering Information

Major Reference Works
Religion Past and Present

Encyclopedia of Theology and Religion
Edited by Hans Dieter Betz, Don S. Browning, Bernd Janowski and Eberhard Jüngel
Religion Past and Present (RPP) is a complete, updated English translation of the 4th edition of the
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(RGG). Including the latest developments in research, Religion Past and Present encompasses a vast
range of subjects connected with religion. This great resource, now at last available in English,
continues the tradition of deep knowledge and authority relied upon by generations of scholars
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Key Features
• Standard reference work since the publication of the first German edition in 1908
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• Interdisciplinary articles cover a wide range of topics from history, archaeology, liturgy, law,
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• Over 15,000 entries and 8 million words
• 11 volumes and an index
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Volume 1 (A-Bhu) Volume 5 (Fem-Hum)

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• October 2007 • December 2008

• ISBN 978 90 04 13980 0 • ISBN 978 90 04 14689 1
• Hardback (civ, 720 pp) • Cloth
• Religion Past and Present, 1 • Religion Past and Present, 5
Volume 2 (Bia-Chr) Volume 6 (Hea-Jog)

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Volume 3 (Chu-Deu) Volume 7 (Joh-Mah)

• November 2007 • December 2009
• ISBN 978 90 04 13979 4 • ISBN 978 90 04 14691 4
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Volume 4 (Dev-Fel)
• June 2008
• ISBN 978 90 04 14688 4
• Cloth
• Religion Past and Present, 4
Forthcoming in 2009: Religion Past and Present Online

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of indispensable online reference works in the field of biblical and religious studies, the first five volumes of which is constantly
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- Title lists available in diff erent formats copyright year. The 2007 and 2008 collections will become 3
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- COUNTER-compliant usage statistics completed by 1 December 2009.
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Collections 2007 2008 2009 Total
Humanities and Social Sciences E-Books Online 402 336 304 1042
Asian Studies E-Books Online 60 47 21 128

Biblical Studies, Ancient Near East and Early Christianity E-Books Online 81 61 59 201
Classical Studies E-Books Online 41 28 33 102
European History and Culture E-Books Online 117 122 100 339
Middle East & Islamic Studies E-Books Online 40 24 32 96
Religious Studies, Theology and Philosophy E-Books Online 26 31 31 88
Social Sciences E-Books Online 37 23 28 88
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Coverage: Biblical Studies, Ancient Judaism, Ancient Near East, Egyptology, Dead Sea Scrolls,
Gnosticism & Manichaeism, Early Church & Patristics
The Encyclopedia of Christianity

Edited by Erwin Fahlbusch, Jan Milič Lochman, John Mbiti, Jaroslav Pelikan, and Lukas Vischer
Translator and English-language Editor: Geoffrey W. Bromiley
Statistical Editor: David B. Barrett
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that addresses the current, broad interest in Christianity and religion. The Encyclopedia of Christianity describes the Christian faith
and community as it exists today in its myriad forms and in its relation to the core apostolic tradition throughout the 2000 years
of Christian history. Based on the third, revised edition of the critically acclaimed German work Evangelisches Kirchenlexikon,
this volume is sure to become a standard reference work for the study of Christianity past and present. Comprehensive, up-to-date,
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and the current situation of the Christian faith in all its rich spiritual and theological diversity around the world.
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Volume 5 (Si-Z) Volume 4 (P-Sh) Volume 3 (J-O)

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Volume 5 contains 295 articles Volume 4 of the EC contains more than 300 The third volume of the EC contains more
constituting the alphabetical entries articles covering the alphabetical entries than 350 articles for alphabetical entries
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Si–Z, articles on significant topics ranging P–Sh — articles on significant topics J - O. Written by leading scholars from
from sin, spiritual direction, Sufism, and ranging from Paul, political theology, and around the world, the articles in volume
terrorism to Vatican I and II, Vineyard the Qur’an to religious liberty, salvation 3 range from discussions of Jesus, the
Christian Fellowship, World Alliance of history, and scholasticism. kingdom of God, and Martin Luther to
Reformed Churches, and Zionism. marriage and divorce, North American
theology, and the Orthodox Church.
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The second volume of the EC contains Volume 1 (A-D) contains 465 articles featuring - articles on all but the smallest
more than 300 articles for alphabetical countries of the world, including the former communist nations that have gained
entries E–I. Written by leading scholars independence since 1989;
from around the world, the articles in - the latest statistical information from David B. Barrett on the religious affiliation and
Volume 2 range from discussions of early ecclesiastical breakdown of each country and continent;
church history, ethics, and evil to entries - articles on doctrines, denominations, and social and ethical issues in relation to the
on Holy Week, icons, and Christianity in churches;
Ireland. - biographical articles on prominent figures through church history.
Lexicon Gregorianum
Volume 7 Band VII (παγγενής-πῶμα)
Bearbeitet von Friedhelm Mann. Herausgegeben von der Forschungsstelle

Gregor von Nyssa an der Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität unter Leitung
von Wolf-Dieter Hauschild
The result of more than three decades of dedicated scholarly research by the Forschungsstelle
Gregor von Nyssa (Münster), the Lexicon Gregorianum constitutes the most comprehensive
• October 2008 Greek-German dictionary ever of the language used by Gregory of Nyssa. It is, and will be for
• ISBN 978 90 04 16700 1 the foreseeable future, the only dictionary available specifically addressing the vocabulary of
• Cloth (x, 878 pp.) late Classical Greek. Far from being a simple word list this seminal reference work documents
• List price EUR 299.- / US$ 478.- Gregory’s complete vocabulary, taking account of the syntax, meaning and connotations of
• Lexicon Gregorianum, 7 every occurrence of a key word in his writings. The complete Lexicon will comprise 9 volumes,
totaling more than 13,000 entries. Each volume consists of ca. 600 three-column pages.
A Companion to Second-Century Christian ‘Heretics’

Edited by Antti Marjanen and Petri Luomanen
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The book illuminates “the other side” of early Christianity by examining thinkers and
movements that were embraced by many second-century religious seekers as legitimate forms
of Christianity, but which are now largely forgotten, or are known only from the characteristics
attributed to them in the writings of their main adversaries. The collection deals with the
following teachers and movements: Basilides, Sethianism, Valentinus’ school, Marcion, Tatian,
Bardaisan, Montanists, Cerinthus, Ebionites, Nazarenes, Jewish-Christianity of the Pseudo-
Clementines, and Elchasites. Where appropriate, the authors have included an overview of the
6 • July 2008 life and significant publications of the “heretics,” along with a description of their theologies
• ISBN 978 90 04 17038 4 and movements. Therefore, this volume can serve as a handbook of the second-century
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• Paperback (xiv, 386 pp) “heretics” and their “heresies.” Since all the chapters have been written by specialists who
• List price EUR 49.- / US$ 73.- wrestle daily with their research themes, the contributions also offer new perspectives and
insights stimulating further discussion on this fascinating—but often neglected—side of early
Christianity.
Judean War 1-4, Volume 1B - Judean War 2

Translation and Commentary
Translated and commented by Steve Mason
Volume 1b in Brill’s Josephus Project contains Book 2 of Josephus’ Judean War (translation and
commentary). This book deals with a period of enormous consequence: from King Herod’s death
(4 BCE) to the first phase of the war against Rome (66 CE). It covers: the succession struggle,
the governments of Herod’s sons, Judea’s incorporation as a Roman province, some notable
• September 2008 governors (including Pilate), Kings Agrippa I and II, the Judean philosophical schools (featuring
• ISBN 978 90 04 16934 0 the Essenes), various rebel movements and the Sicarii, tensions between Judeans and their
• Hardback (xx, 522 pp, neighbors, events leading up to the revolt, the failed intervention of the Syrian legate Cestius
including 3 maps) Gallus, and preparations for war in Judea and Galilee. The commentary aims at a balance
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• Flavius Josephus: Translation
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Judean War 1-4, 1
The New Testament Gospels in their Judaic Contexts

Bruce Chilton, general editor; Darrell L. Bock, associate editor
For more information about this book series visit brill.nl/ntgjc
• October 2009 A Comparative Handbook to the Gospel of Mark

• ISBN 978 90 04 17973 8
• Hardback
Comparisons with Pseudepigrapha, the Qumran Schrolls, and Rabbinic
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• The New Testament Gospels in
their Judaic Contexts, 1
Bruce Chilton, General Editor; Darrell Bock, Associate Editor; Daniel M. Gurtner,
Editor for the Pseudepigrapha, Josephus, and Philo; Jacob Neusner, Editor
for Rabbinic Literature; Lawrence H. Schiffman, Editor for the Literature of
Qumran, Daniel Oden
This comparative handbook is intended to provide scholars of the New Testament with detailed,
systematic and accurate resources concerning the Judaic context of the gospel of Mark. It
aims to serve as a powerful tool to assist the reader - and commentator - in understanding and
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commenting on the gospel of Mark. Introductions are provided to help with issues of dating and
the development of the literatures concerned. Possible interpretations are also presented, where
suitable.
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Handbook for the Study of the Historical Jesus 7
Tom Holmén and Stanley E. Porter
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A hundred years after A. Schweitzer’s Von Reimarus zu Wrede, the study of the historical Jesus
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• October 2009 throughout the world, the four large volumes of the Handbook offer a unique assembly of
• ISBN 978 90 04 16372 0 leading experts presenting their approaches to the historical Jesus, as well as a thought-out
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Antiquity Classical Tradition Supplements
Volume 14 (Sym-Tub) Volume IV (Oly-Rul) A History of the
• April 2009 • April 2009
• ISBN 978 90 04 14219 0 • ISBN 978 90 04 14224 4 Ancient Greek and
Volume 13 (Sas-Syl) Volume III (Jap-Ode)
Latin Texts
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Etymological Dictionary of Greek

Robert Beekes
A must-have research tool that should be on every classicist’s desk.

Greek is among the most intensely and widely studied languages known. Since the publication of
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This dictionary is a treasure trove covering 2000 years of Ancient Greek: from Mycenaean via
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Etymological Dictionary of Latin

and the other Italic Languages
Michiel de Vaan
Latin is one of the major ancient Indo-European languages and one of the cornerstones of Indo-
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• June 2008 about 8000 Latin lemmata. All words attested before Cicero are included, together with their
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Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited

Lexicon
Hrach K. Martirosyan
As an Indo-European language, Armenian has been the subject of etymological research for
over a hundred years. There are many valuable systematic handbooks, studies and surveys on
comparative Armenian linguistics. Almost all of these works, with a few exceptions, mostly
concentrate on Classical Armenian and touch the dialects only sporadically. Non-literary data
taken from Armenian dialects have largely remained outside of the scope of Indo-European
• December 2009 etymological considerations. This book provides an up-to-date description of the Indo-European
• ISBN 978 90 04 17337 8 lexical stock of Armenian with systematic inclusion of dialectal data. It incorporates the lexical,
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• ISBN 978 90 04 17949 3 Revised Lists of the Texts from the Judaean Desert
Emanuel Tov, J. L. Magnes Professor of Bible, Hebrew University, Jerusalem
Many details in the inventory list of the texts found in the Judaean Desert have altered since
their initial publication by E. Tov in DJD XXXIX (2002) 27–114. Such changes were inserted in
some twenty-five percent of the lines of the database, and this information is now presented
to the public at the end of the publication procedure of the DJD series. The updating reflects
corrections made to imprecisely recorded details, the data published in the last DJD volumes,
inscribed archeological evidence not recorded previously, new fragments, changed names, new
identifications and arrangements of fragments, updated bibliography, etc. The volume also
contains an updated version of the categorized list of biblical texts from the various sites in the
Judean Desert.
The Dead Sea Scrolls Concordance

This keyword-in-context concordance contains a new and consistent linguistic analysis of all the words found in the Dead Sea
Scrolls. All keywords have an English translation and they will be listed in alphabetical order rather than by verbal root, which
makes the concordance easy to consult for the non-specialist.
biblical studies
The concordance is being published in three volumes, which started with the concordance to the non-biblical texts from Qumran.
Future volumes will consist of concordances to the biblical texts from Qumran and to the texts from other sites in the Judean Desert.
• March 2009 Volume 3: The Biblical Texts from Qumran and Other Sites
• ISBN 978 90 04 14994 6
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Septuagint and Reception

Johann Cook, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa
A new association for the study of the Septuagint was formed in South Africa recently.
The present collection is a compilation of papers delivered at the first conference of this
association, as well as other contributions. The volume addresses issues touching on the
Septuagint in the broad sense of the word. This includes the Old Greek text (Daniel, Proverbs,
Psalms and Lamentations) as well as the reception of the LXX (NT, Augustine and Jerome, etc.).
A few contributions that may be regarded as miscellanea are nevertheless related to matters
Septuagintal (Aristeas, Peshitta, Eunochos).
• May 2009
• ISBN 978 90 04 17725 3
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Finding Meaning in the Text

Translation Technique and Theology in the Septuagint of Amos
W. Edward Glenny, Northwestern College, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA

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This book offers a thorough analysis of the translation technique and theology of LXX-Amos,
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which will be valuable for those studying LXX-Amos and for those doing textual criticism in
the Hebrew text of Amos. It analyzes the literalness of the translation, the rendering of difficult
and unknown words, and the rendering of visually ambiguous phenomena, like homonyms,
homographs, and word divisions. The evidence suggests the translator worked from a text very
• June 2009 similar to the MT. He reveals his biases as he struggles with the difficult and obscure sections
• ISBN 978 90 04 17638 6 of his source text. He exhibits an anti-Syrian and anti-Samaritan bias as well as interest in
• Cloth with dustjacket (xvi, 306 pp) Gentiles, eschatology, and messianism.
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The Invasion of Sennacherib in the Book of Kings

A Source-Critical and Rhetorical Study of 2 Kings 18-19
Paul S. Evans, Assistant Professor of Old Testament at McMaster Divinity College,

Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
The invasion of Sennacherib in 701 BCE is a classic issue for both biblical scholars and historians
alike. Extant Assyrian, Biblical and even Greek texts all refer to Sennacherib and many different
theories have been put forward in attempts to understand the relationship between these
various accounts. Despite the rise of new literary-rhetorical criticism in biblical studies, studies
• June 2009 tackling the problem of Sennacherib’s invasion have been dominated by historical-critical work
• ISBN 978 90 04 17596 9 on the issue and have virtually ignored rhetorical methodology. Against this trend, this book
• Cloth with dustjacket (xiv, 230 pp.) employs both traditional historical-critical methods and newer rhetorical methods in an effort
• List price EUR 93.- / US$ 138.- to utilize the biblical texts in a historical reconstruction of this famous Assyrian assault on
• Vetus Testamentum, ancient Judah.
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Old Testament
The Land of Israel in Bible, History, and Theology:

Studies in Honour of Ed Noort
Edited by Jacques van Ruiten and J. Cornelis de Vos
This book deals with many aspects of the land of Israel. In the first part, the emphasis is on
descriptions of the land in Joshua and other books of the Hebrew anf Greek Bible. In the second
part, the focus shifts to the land in history and theology: reception-history of biblical texts
dealing with the land, archaeology of Palestine, and theological-hermeneutical implications of
taking the land traditions of the Bible seriously. The result is a rich collection of articles on one
• June 2008 of the main themes of the Old Testament; a theme that has a fascinating, although not always
• ISBN 978 90 04 17515 0 unproblematic reception history.
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La représentation du divin dans les récits du Pentateuque

Médiations syntaxiques et narratives
biblical studies
Françoise Mirguet
Though several studies have already been devoted to biblical representations of God, the present
research considers the position towards the divine they imply, on the basis of syntactic and
narrative analysis. The book examines, in the stories of the Pentateuch, different appearances
of the divine character: his speeches, as well as their modes of reporting; his actions, their
mediations, and the points of view from which they are told; his perceptions and emotions, 15
• December 2008 as well as the so-called omniscient narration; and some interpretations and distortions of
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• ISBN 978 90 04 17051 3 his words. It appears that the Pentateuch presents the divine in an essentially mimetic way,
• Cloth with dustjacket (xviii, mainly from the perspectives of other characters, portraying different human experiences and
526 pp. in French) interpretations of divinity.
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Israel’s Restoration
A Textual-Comparative Exploration of Ezekiel 36-39
Ashley S. Crane
Commentators traditionally use a textual-critical methodology in examining Hebrew and Greek

manuscripts to establish an ‘original’ reading, frequently attributing other variants to scribal
error. This book proposes a complementary-textual comparative methodology that treats
each Hebrew and/or Greek manuscript with equal value, listening to each voice as a possible
interpretive trajectory. This methodology is applied to the restoration of Israel in Ezekiel 36-39,
• September 2008 initially on a micro level examining each verse for intra-linguistic and trans-linguistic variants,
• ISBN 978 90 04 16962 3 frequently finding exegetical reasons for variants. The macro application compares Papyrus 967
• Cloth with dustjacket (xviii, 306) with extant manuscripts, finding the different chapter order and pericope minus (36:23c-38) due
• List price EUR 99.- / US$ 147.- to theological reasons. This comparative methodology can be used with any study dealing with
• Vetus Testamentum, different manuscripts and versions.
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Old Testament
The ‘Uncertainty of a Hearing’

A Study of the Sudden Change of Mood in the Psalms of Lament
Federico G. Villanueva
An interesting feature in the lament psalms is the sudden change of mood. Unfortunately, as the
term that has come to be associated with the subject indicates – ‘Certainty of a Hearing’ – the
change of mood is understood only in terms of a movement from lament to praise. This has led
to a redefinition of lament in terms of petition and an overemphasis on praise. The present book
seeks to redress this one-sided emphasis by drawing attention to the other movements in the
• August 2008 Psalter – the reverse movement from praise to lament, return to lament after praise and the
• ISBN 978 90 04 16847 3 alternation between the two. We do not only have a ‘Certainty of a Hearing’; we also have an
• Cloth with dustjacket (xx, 292) ‘Uncertainty of a Hearing’.
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Promises to Keep
The Oath in Biblical Narrative
biblical studies
Yael Ziegler
While many studies explore the literary role of the oath in general literature, none have
contended with the role of the oath in the biblical narratives. This study seeks to fill that
vacuum. The first section of this study examines the literary significance of the various
oath formulae that appear in biblical narratives, focusing on anomalous formulations of the
16 respective oath formulae. The second section of this study explores the narratives surrounding
• June 2008 two characters, Saul and David, both of whom frequently engage in oath-making. The oaths
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• ISBN 978 90 04 16843 5 taken by, to and about these characters mirror the narrative itself, and function as a prism
• Cloth with dustjacket (xvi, 312 pp.) through which the character’s career is refracted. This study demonstrates that by perceiving
• List price EUR 89.- / US$ 132.- the oath as a literary device for plot and character development, additional or more precise
• Vetus Testamentum, meanings may be revealed in the biblical stories.
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L’énigme du bonheur
Étude sur le sujet du bien dans le livre de Qohélet
Bertrand Pinçon
This study deals with the question of happiness in the book of Qoheleth, starting with the
contemporary debate among modern writers concerning the status of various encouraging
statements that emerge out of a general context in which “all is vanity”. The first part of this
study describes the current position of research, examining the debated questions. The second
part proposes an exegetical and contextual inquiry of the words for happiness, drawn up by
• July 2008 these authors. The third part suggests a way of resolving the enigma of happiness, based upon
• ISBN 978 90 04 16717 9 an additional formula of happiness, located at the beginning of the second half of the book.
• Cloth with dustjacket (xiv, 314 pp. Gradually, a conviction takes shape: happiness does not have the same status in the two parts of
in French) the book. If, at first, happiness is presented as the only alternative given by God to help man to
• List price EUR 99.- / US$ 158.- hold on when faced with the fleetingness of things in life, it later becomes an art of living, apt to
• Vetus Testamentum, be taught to future generations.
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Old Testament
Animal Imagery in the Book of Proverbs

Tova L.Forti
Any treatment of the figurative and symbolic function of animal imagery in biblical literature
requires special attention to its contextual meaning and cultural evaluation. The present study
aims to demonstrate how this is particularly true of the Book of Proverbs, in which faunal
imageries serve as a didactic means for delving into the more obvious truths of human behavior.
This book makes a methodological contribution toward understanding the didactic function
of Proverb’s animal imageries by offering an ongoing three-pronged analysis: a. Zoological
identification and literary perception of the animal in the Bible; b. Hermeneutic dynamics
• February 2008 between the specific animal simile and its literary adaptation; c. Rhetorical function of the
• ISBN 978 90 04 16287 7 animal imagery within the conceptual framework of the Book of Proverbs.
• Cloth with dustjacket (xvi, 196 pp.)
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The Ugaritic Baal Cycle

volume II. Introduction with Text, Translation and Commentary
biblical studies
of KTU/CAT 1.3-1.4
Mark S. Smith and Wayne T. Pitard
This second volume of the commentary on the Baal Cycle, the most important Canaanite
religious text from Ugarit, in Syria, analyzes KTU/CAT 1.3 and 1.4, the tablets that contain the
long episode about how Baal secured permission from El to build his royal palace and how the 17
• December 2008 palace was built. It includes a new edition of the tablets, supplemented by a DVD-ROM with
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• ISBN 978 90 04 15348 6 92 images and superimposible drawings, a comprehensive introduction, new translation and
• Cloth with dustjacket (xl, 864 pp.) vocalized text, and detailed commentary. The authors develop an interpretation of the episode
• List price EUR 199.- / US$ 319.- which places it into the larger context of the Baal Cycle as a whole.
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Ancient Near East & Egypt
Ancient Mosaic Pavements

Themes, Issues, and Trends
Rachel Hachlili, University of Haifa
This publication is engaged in issues, trends, and themes depicted on mosaic pavements
discovered in Israel, the Gaza Strip and Petra (the provinces of ancient Palaestina Prima,
Secunda and Tertia) with comparable floors in Jordan (Arabia). The majority of the mosaic
pavements discussed in this study are dated to the 4th-8th centuries CE. Mosaic pavements
• December 2008 were the normal medium for decorating the floors of synagogues, churches, monasteries,
• ISBN 978 90 04 16754 4 and chapels, as well as public and private buildings. Inscriptions found on many of the
• Hardback (xxviii, 320 pp., pavements commemorate the donors, refer to the artists, and sometimes date the mosaics. The
100 illustraties) ornamentation of the mosaics in this region is remarkable, rich, and varied in its themes and
• List price EUR 300.- / US$ 437.- provides many insights into the contemporary artistic and social cultures.
Culture and History of the Ancient Near East

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biblical studies
The City Besieged

Siege and Its Manifestations in the Ancient Near East
Israel Ephʿal, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
18 Exploring the military, legal, social and literary aspects of ancient warfare, this study examines
the multifaceted nature of the siege phenomenon in the ancient Near East. The book is based
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on Akkadian and biblical (and, to lesser degree, Greek, Aramaic, Egyptian, Hittite and Ugaritic)
sources as well as on the depictions on reliefs from Assyrian palaces and Egyptian temples.
The analysis incorporates lexical study and military thinking and focuses on the technology of
warfare and human behavior in a state of emergency.
• January 2009
• ISBN 978 90 04 17410 8 This volume is a co-publication between Brill and The Hebrew University Magnes Press.
• Hardback (xviii, 211 pp.)
• Culture and History of the
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The World’s Oldest Literature

Studies in Sumerian Belles-Lettres
William W. Hallo
Literature begins at Sumer, we may say. Given that this ancient crossroads of tin and copper
produced not only bronze and the entire Bronze Age, but also by neccesity, the first system
of record-keeping and the technique of writing. Scribal schools served to propogate the
new technique and their curriculum grew to create, preserve and transmit all manner of
creative poetry. In a lifetime of research, the author has studied multiple aspects of this most
• August 2009 ancient literary oeuvre, including such questions as chronology and bilingualism, as well as
• ISBN 978 90 04 17381 1 contributing fundamental insights into specific genres such as proverbs, letter-prayers and
• Hardback (vi, 736 pp.) lamentations. In addition, he has drawn conclusions for the comparative or contextual approach
• List price EUR 195.- / US$ 287.- to biblical literature. His studies, widely scattered in diverse publications for nearly fifty years,
• Culture and History of the are here assembled in convenient one-volume format, made more user-friendly by extensive
Ancient Near East, 35 cross-references and indices.
• August 2009 On Art in the Ancient Near East

• ISBN 978 90 04 17500 6
• Hardback (2 volume set)
2 Volume Set
• Culture and History of the Irene J. Winter, Harvard University
Volume 1 Of the First Millennium BCE

This volume of collected essays brings together for the first time the range of Winter’s
pioneering studies related to Neo-Assyrian relief sculpture and seals, Phoenician and Syrian
ivory and bronze production, and inter-polity connections across the various cultures of first
millennium B.C.E. from the Aegean to Iran. Consistent threads are an emphasis on the potential
for art historical analysis to yield ‘history’ in the broadest sense; the importance of making the
theoretical frame of interpretation explicit; and the necessity of textual evidence being brought
to bear on upon elements of formal analysis and archaeological context.
• August 2009
• ISBN 978 90 04 17237 1
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• Hardback
Volume 2 From the Third Millennium BCE

This second volume of collected essays, complement to volume one, focuses upon the art and
culture of the third millennium B.C.E. in ancient Mesopotamia. Stress is upon the ability of
free-standing sculpture and public monuments not only to reflect cultural attitudes, but to 19
affect a viewing audience. Using Sumerian and Akkadian texts as well as works, the power of
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visual experience is pursued toward an understanding not only of the monuments but of their
times and our own.
• August 2009
• ISBN 978 90 04 17499 3
• Hardback
Bene Israel
Studies in the Archaeology of Israel and the Levant during the Bronze
and Iron Ages in Honour of Israel Finkelstein
Edited by Alexander Fantalkin, Tel Aviv University
and Assaf Yasur-Landau, University of California, Santa Cruz
This collection of twelve papers, dedicated to Professor Israel Finkelstein, deals with various
aspects concerning the archaeology of Israel and the Levant during the Bronze and Iron Ages.
Although the area under discussion runs from southeastern Turkey (Alalakh) down to the arid
• September 2008 zones of the Negev Desert, the main emphasis is on the Land of Israel. This collection provides
• ISBN 978 90 04 15282 3 the most recent evaluation of a number of thorny issues in Israeli archaeology during the
• Hardback (xx, 247 pp., 60 ill., Bronze and Iron Ages and specifically addresses chronology, state formation, identity, and
58 illustrations) agency. It offers, inter alia, a fresh look at the burial practices and iconography of the periods
• List price EUR 90.- / US$ 144.- disscussed, as well as a re-evaluation of the subsistence economy and settlement patterns. This
• Culture and History of the book is finely illustrated with more than sixty original drawings.
Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics

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• October 2009 The Verbal System in Late Enlightenment Hebrew

• ISBN 978 90 04 17733 8
• Hardback (c. 300) Lily Kahn, Fellow in the Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Univeristy College
• List price EUR 104.- / US$ 154.- London
• Studies in Semitic Languages
and Linguistics, 55 This book constitutes the first detailed corpus-based analysis of the verbal morphology and
syntax employed in the Eastern European Maskilic (Jewish Enlightenment) Hebrew prose fiction
written between 1857 and 1881. This verbal system exhibits biblical, rabbinic and medieval
elements as well as unprecedented features and similarities to Israeli Hebrew and Yiddish. The
first section of the work offers a selective examination of maskilic verbal morphology, while the
second section constitutes a thorough examination of the functions of the verbal conjugations
and the third section surveys selected features of verbal syntax. The work fills a serious gap
in the Hebrew philological literature and will therefore be of great relevance to students and
scholars of diachronic Hebrew language and linguistics.
The Jewish Neo-Aramaic Dialect of Challa

biblical studies
Steven E. Fassberg, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Aramaic has been spoken uninterruptedly for more than 3000 years, yet a generation from
now most Aramaic dialects will be extinct. The study of the Northeastern Neo-Aramaic (NENA)
dialects has increased dramatically in the past decade as linguists seek to record these dialects
before the disappearance of their last speakers. This work is a unique documentation of the
20 now extinct Jewish Neo-Aramaic dialect of Challa (modern-day Çukurca, Turkey). It is based
on recordings of the last native speaker of the dialect, who passed away in 2007. In addition
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to a grammatical description, it contains sample texts and a glossary of the dialect. Jewish
• September 2009 Challa belongs to the cluster of NENA dialects known as ‘lishana deni’ and reference is made
• ISBN 978 90 04 17682 9 throughout to other dialects within this group.
• Hardback (c. 250)
• Studies in Semitic Languages
and Linguistics, 54
The Neo-Aramaic Dialect of Barwar

Geoffrey Khan, University of Cambridge
The Aramaic language has continued to be spoken in various dialects down to modern times.
Many of these dialects, however, are now endangered due to political events in the Middle East
over the last hundred years. This work, in three volumes, presents a description of one such
endangered neo-Aramaic dialect, that of the Assyrian Christian community of the Barwar
region in northern Iraq. It is a unique record of the dialect based on interviews with the
surviving older generation of the community. The work consists of three volumes. Volume one
contains a detailed grammatical description of the dialect, including sections on phonology,
morphology and syntax. Volume two contains an extensive glossary of the lexicon of the
• September 2008 dialect with illustrations of various aspects of the material culture. Volume three contains
• ISBN 978 90 04 16765 0 transcriptions of numerous recorded texts, including folktales, ethnographic texts, songs, and
• Hardback (3 vols.) proverbs.
• Handbook of Oriental Studies.
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Linguistic Biblical Studies

This series, Linguistic Biblical Studies, is dedicated to the development and promotion of linguistically informed study of the Bible
in its original languages. Biblical studies has greatly benefited from modern theoretical and applied linguistics, but stands poised
to benefit from further integration of the two fields of study. Most linguistics has studied contemporary languages, and attempts
to apply linguistic methods to study of ancient languages requires systematic re-assessment of their approaches. This series is
designed to address such challenges, by providing a venue for linguistically based analysis of the languages of the Bible. As a
result, monograph-length studies and collections of essays in the major areas of linguistics, such as syntax, semantics, pragmatics,
discourse analysis and text linguistics, corpus linguistics, cognitive linguistics, comparative linguistics, and the like, will be
encouraged, and any theoretical linguistic approach will be considered, both formal and functional. Primary consideration is given
to the Greek of the New and Old Testaments and of other relevant ancient authors, but studies in Hebrew, Coptic, and other related
languages will be entertained as appropriate.
For more information about this book series visit brill.nl/lbs
• November 2009 Paul’s Gospel in Romans

• ISBN 978 90 04 17963 9
• Hardback
A Discourse Analysis of Rom 1:16-8:39
• Linguistic Biblical Studies, 3 Jae Hyun Lee
biblical studies
This book offers a fresh approach to Paul’s gospel. Applying linguistic discourse analysis
to Romans 1:16-8:39, it helps the reader to gain a comprehensive understanding of the
argumentative structure and contents of the gospel of Paul. As well as revealing the two
underlying descriptive frameworks that Paul uses to explain his gospel about God’s salvation -
the interactive framework between God and humans, and the ‘two-realm’ framework - this book
demonstrates that Paul’s gospel consists of one ‘peak point’ that shows the central role of Jesus,
and two ‘sub-peaks’ elucidating salvation.
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Mark’s Memory Resources and the Controversy Stories
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• November 2009
• ISBN 978 90 04 17962 2
• List price EUR 114.- / US$ 169.- (Mark 2:1-3:6)
• Linguistic Biblical Studies, 2 An Application of the Frame Theory of Cognitive Science
to the Markan Oral-Aural Narrative
Yoon-Man Park
This book is to study the New Testament from the insights of modern linguistics. Its principal
concern, above all, is to examine how the Gospel of Mark procuded in oral-aural cultures
may be illuminated by frame theory from cognitive linguistics, a linguistic theory which the
meaning of a word, phrase, clause, sentence, paragraph and a thematic unit can only be properly
understood against the background of a particular body of knowledge and assmptions. The
reason this theory is particulary useful for understanding Mark’s ancient text is because as
an oral-aural narrative it heavily relies on human memory(cognitive) resources; and so the
cogntive theory leads us into a better understanding of ways in which the text is communicated
in terms of cognitive processing.
Biblical Translation in Chinese and Greek

Verbal Aspect in Theory and Practice
Toshikazu Foley
This study integrates three independent subjects—translation theory, Mandarin aspect, and
Greek aspect—for the purpose of formulating a working theory applicable to translating the
Bible. The primary objectives are defined in terms of grammatical translation of Greek aspect
into Mandarin aspect at the discourse level. A historical overview of the Chinese Bible is
provided as a way of introducing major translation issues related to linguistic, conceptual, and
logistical challenges. The proposed theory provides the translator with a powerful tool, which is
• September 2009 tested in two sample passages from John 18–19 and 1 Corinthians 15. Provided, also, are critical
• ISBN 978 90 04 17865 6 reviews of over sixty Chinese Bible versions, Nestorian, Manichaean, Catholic documents, and a
• Hardback (xxiv, 448 pp.) translation written according to the proposed theory.
• Linguistic Biblical Studies, 1
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Dead Sea Scrolls
Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah

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Text, Thought, and Practice in Qumran

and Early Christianity
Proceedings of the Ninth International Symposium of the Orion Center
for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Associated Literature,
Jointly Sponsored by the Hebrew University Center for the Study
of Christianity, 11-13 January, 2004
• April 2009 Edited by Ruth A. Clements and Daniel R. Schwartz, The Orion Center for the Study
• ISBN 978 90 04 17524 2 of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Associated Literature, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem,
• Cloth with dustjacket (336 pp.) Israel, Department of Jewish History, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
• Studies on the Texts of the The 13 papers comprising this volume represent the fruits of the first Orion Center Symposium
biblical studies
Desert of Judah, 84 devoted to the comparison of the Dead Sea and early Christian texts. The authors reject
the older paradigm which configured the similarities between Qumran and early Christian
literature as evidence of “influence” from one upon the other. They raise fresh methodological
possibilities by asking how insights from each of these two corpora illuminate the other, and
by considering them as parallel evidence for broader currents of Second Temple Judaism.
Topics addressed include specific exegetical and legal comparisons; prophecy, demonology, and
messianism; the development of canon and the rise of commentary; and possible connections
between the Gospel of John and the Dead Sea Scrolls.
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Expectations of the End
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A Comparative Traditio-Historical Study of Eschatological, Apocalyptic and
Messianic Ideas in the Dead Sea Scrolls and the New Testament
Albert L.A. Hogeterp
Since a fuller range of Qumran sectarian and not clearly sectarian texts and recensions has
recently become available to us, its implications for the comparative study of eschatological,
apocalyptic and messianic ideas in the Dead Sea Scrolls and in the New Testament need to be
explored anew. This book situates eschatological ideas in Qumran literature between biblical
• May 2009 tradition and developments in late Second Temple Judaism and examines how the Qumran
• ISBN 978 90 04 17177 0 evidence on eschatology, resurrection, apocalypticism, and messianism illuminates Palestinian
• Cloth with dustjacket (544 pp.) Jewish settings of emerging Christianity. The present study challenges previous dichotomies
• List price EUR 156.- / US$ 231.- between realized and futuristic eschatology, wisdom and apocalypticism and provides many
• Studies on the Texts of the new insights into intra-Jewish dimensions to eschatological ideas in Palestinian Judaism and in
Desert of Judah, 83 the early Jesus-movement.
Dead Sea Scrolls
4QMMT: Reevaluating the Text, the Function

and the Meaning of the Epilogue
Hanne von Weissenberg
This book focuses on the third section of one of the most important documents from the
Qumran library, the epilogue of 4QMMT. It re-evaluates the textual basis for this section, and
analyses how the epilogue functions as a part of the larger document. In addition to addressing
the structure and genre of 4QMMT, this volume analyzes the use of Scripture in the epilogue
in order to illuminate the theological agenda of the document’s author/redactor. Although this
• December 2008 book’s primary focus is on the epilogue, the results of this investigation shed light on 4QMMT as
• ISBN 978 90 04 17379 8 a whole.
• Cloth with dustjacket
(xii, 268 pp.+ foldout)
• Studies on the Texts of the
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4QInstruction : sagesse et eschatologie

biblical studies
Jean-Sébastien Rey
This volume consists of an edition, a translation and a commentary of the most important
fragments of 4QInstruction. Initially it deals with the linguistic characteristics of the scroll
highlighting the links between 4QInstruction and Ben Sira, and also with the Community Rule
and the Hodayot. It then investigates the Sapiential fragments dealing with poverty, husband-
wife and parent-child relationships. Finally it examines the eschatological fragments.
24 The work seeks to improve the edition and understanding of this fundamental text enhancing
our knowledge of the history and development of thinking at Qumran. Moreover, it examines
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• October 2008 links which 4QInstruction establishes between purely Sapiential discourse and descriptions
• ISBN 978 90 04 17268 5 of eschatological judgement. This study substantially illuminates our understanding of the
• Cloth with dustjacket Wisdom movement in the early intertestamental period.
(xxii, 398 pp. + 13 plates)
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Northern Lights on the Dead Sea Scrolls

Proceedings of the Nordic Qumran Network 2003-2006
Edited by Anders Klostergaard Petersen, Torleif Elgvin, Cecilia Wassen, Hanne

von Weissenberg, Mikael Winninge, and Assistant Editor Martin Ehrensvärd
Structured by four important themes, the book discusses various aspects pertaining to the
interpretation of the Dead Sea Scrolls. The first theme is comprised by a number of essays that
deal with different aspects of textual interpretation of particular Qumran writings. The second
theme centers on the question of historical referentiality. How can the purported referentiality
• May 2008 of particular Qumran writings be used in order to reconstruct an underlying historical
• ISBN 978 90 04 17163 3 reality? The third theme includes essays that pertain to different dimensions concerning the
• Cloth with dustjacket (xiv, 314 pp.) methodology of interpretation. The fourth theme focuses on problems relating to the textual
• List price EUR 104.- / US$ 154.- reconstruction of specific Qumran texts. In the final section of the book, the perspective is
• Studies on the Texts of the widened to other writings outside the more specific Qumran context.
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Dead Sea Scrolls
• August 2009 The Dead Sea Genesis Apocryphon

• ISBN 978 90 04 16814 5
• Cloth with dustjacket (360 pp.
A New Text and Translation with Introduction and Special Treatment
large size, 21,5 x 28 g.) of Columns 13-17
Desert of Judah, 79 Daniel A. Machiela
The so-called Genesis Apocryphon (1Q20) from Qumran Cave 1 has suffered from decades of
neglect, due in large part to its poor state of preservation. As part of a resurgent scholarly
interest in the Apocryphon, and its prominent position among the Aramaic Dead Sea Scrolls,
this volume presents a fresh transcription, translation, and exstenive textual notes drawing on
close study of the original manuscript, all available photographs, and previous publications. In
addition, a detailed analysis of columns 13-15 and their relation to the oft-cited parallel in the
Book of Jubilees reveals a number of ways in which the two works differ, thereby highlighting
several distinctive features of the Genesis Apocryphon. The result is a reliable text edition and
a fuller understanding of the message conveyed by this fragmentary but fascinating retelling of
Genesis.
Head of All Years

Astronomy and Calendars at Qumran in their Ancient Context
biblical studies
Jonathan Ben-Dov
Rather than being an isolated, primitive body of knowledge the Jewish calendar tradition of
364 days constituted an integral part of the astronomical science of the ancient world. This
tradition—attested in the Dead Sea Scrolls and in the Pseudepigrapha—stands out as a coherent,
novel synthesis, representing the Jewish authors’ apocalyptic worldview. The calendar is studied
here both “from within”—analyzing its textual manifestations —and “from without”—via a 25
• July 2008 comparison with ancient Mesopotamian astronomy. This analysis reveals that the calendrical
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• ISBN 978 90 04 17088 9 realm constituted a significant case of inter-cultural borrowing, pertinent to similar such cases
• Cloth with dustjacket (xx, 332 pp.) in ancient literature. Special attention is given to the “Book of Astronomy” (1 Enoch 72-82) and a
• List price EUR 99.- / US$ 147.- variety of calendrical and liturgical texts from Qumran.
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From Qumran to the Yaḥad

A New Paradigm of Textual Development for The Community Rule
Alison Schofield
Since the discovery of the Cave 4 versions of The Community Rule (Serekh ha-Yaḥad
or S), scholars have been perplexed about its complex textual history. This important
charter material for the Dead Sea Scrolls’ authors appears in alternate versions—ones with
contradictory legal prescriptions and opposing self-references—but exhibits no clear order of
chronological development. Benefitting from the entire Qumran library now available to us,
• October 2008 this book offers a new, broader model for reading S that better accounts for the long and diverse
• ISBN 978 90 04 17007 0 history behind the text. The resulting paradigm challenges the Qumrancentric lens through
• Cloth with dustjacket (xviii, 366 pp.) which many read the “sectarian texts” and offers a fresh way of thinking about sectarian
• List price EUR 119.- / US$ 189.- community formation among the authors of the Scrolls.
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Dead Sea Scrolls
Conquering the World

The War Scroll (1QM) Reconsidered
Brian Schultz
Unique in its genre and content, the War Scroll (1QM) presents a vision of an impending
eschatological war. Although originally interpreted as being the product of a single author
from the Qumran Sect, the composition’s inconsistencies quickly led to the view that it is in
fact an eclectic document with an elaborate compositional history. Yet all such theories were
formulated prior to the publication of War Scroll-like texts from Caves 4 and 11. A careful re-
• February 2009 examination of the War Scroll suggests instead that what began as a primitive and cohesive
• ISBN 978 90 04 16820 6 composition from the Hellenistic period about a two-stage conquest of the world was eventually
• Cloth with dustjacket (iv, 458 pp.) updated in order to fit the new historical realities faced by the sectarians under Roman rule.
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The Courtyards of the House of the Lord

Studies on the Temple Scroll
biblical studies
Lawrence H. Schiffman
Edited by Florentino García Martínez
Already before its publication, it was clear that the Temple Scroll represented a major
contribution to the history of Jewish law in Late Antiquity. The present volume brings together
the author’s studies on this important scroll. He has sought to uncover the hermeneutics of the
26 Zadokite/Sadducean legal system and to compare and contrast it with other texts of its own
• June 2008 type as well as with those in rabbinic literature preserving the Pharisaic-rabbinic approach.
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• ISBN 978 90 04 12255 0

• Cloth with dustjacket (xxxvi, 612 pp.)
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Los Rollos del Mar Muerto

Una Historia Breve
Weston Fields
Who discovered the Dead Sea Scrolls? When and where were they discovered? How were they
saved? Who has them now? Will more be discovered? Have all the scrolls been published? Are
some still hidden away? Were there conspiracies to suppress some scrolls? How do the scrolls
• February 2008 affect Christianity and Judaism? How similar are the biblical scrolls to our Bible today? These
• ISBN 978 90 04 16175 7 and other questions are answered in The Dead Sea Scrolls. A Short History, which offers information
• Paperback (128 pp. in Spanish) from exclusive interviews and unpublished archives.
• List price EUR 17.- / US$ 26.- This is a Spanish translation of The Dead Sea Scrolls. A Short History.
Dead Sea Scrolls
• September 2009 Revised Lists of the Texts from the Judaean Desert
• ISBN 978 90 04 17949 3
• Hardback (144 pp.) J. L. Magnes, Professor of Bible, Hebrew University, Jerusalem
Many details in the inventory list of the texts found in the Judaean Desert have altered since
their initial publication by E. Tov in DJD XXXIX (2002) 27–114. Such changes were inserted in
some twenty-five percent of the lines of the database, and this information is now presented
to the public at the end of the publication procedure of the DJD series. The updating reflects
corrections made to imprecisely recorded details, the data published in the last DJD volumes,
inscribed archeological evidence not recorded previously, new fragments, changed names, new
identifications and arrangements of fragments, updated bibliography, etc. The volume also
contains an updated version of the categorized list of biblical texts from the various sites in the
Judean Desert.
The Dead Sea Scrolls

A Full History
Weston Fields
biblical studies
Volume 1 of The Dead Sea Scrolls, A Full History, details the history of the Dead Sea Scrolls from
their discovery in 1947 until 1960. It is based mainly on two new sources of information: first,
a large number of interviews with the men who discovered and excavated the scrolls and who
were the first scholars to decipher and edit them and second, several archives and personal
letters and papers, most of which have never been published. The forthcoming second volume
will bring the history of the scrolls up to the present.
• September 2009
• ISBN 978 90 04 17581 5
• Hardback (608 pp.) 27
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Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism

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• June 2009 The Alexandrian Riots of 38 C.E. and the Persecution

• ISBN 978 90 04 13846 9
• Cloth with dustjacket (336) of the Jews. A Historical Reconstruction
• Supplements to the Journal for Sandra Gambetti
the Study of Judaism, 135
Scholars have read the Alexandrian riots of 38 CE according to intertwined dichotomies. The
Alexandrian Jews fought to keep their citizenship - or to acquire it; they evaded the payment
of the poll-tax - or prevented any attempts to impose it on them; they safeguarded their
identity against the Greeks - or against the Egyptians. Avoiding that pattern and building on
the historical reconstruction of the experience of the Alexandrian Jewish community under
the Ptolemies, this work submits that the riots were the legal and political consequence of an
imperial adjudication against the Jews. Most of the Jews lost their residence never to recover
it again. The Roman emperor, the Roman prefect of Egypt and the Alexandrian citizenry - all
shared responsibilities according to their respective and expected roles.
biblical studies
• June 2009 Manières de penser dans l’Antiquité méditerranéenne

• ISBN 978 90 04 17518 1
• Cloth with dustjacket (vi, 294 pp.) et orientale
• List price EUR 104.- / US$ 154.- Mélanges offerts à Francis Schmidt par ses élèves, ses collègues et ses amis
• Supplements to the Journal for
Christophe Batsch, Université Lille 3, France, Centre International d’Histoire Religieuse
28 & INALCO, Paris, France, and Mǎdǎlina Vârtejanu-Joubert, History of Ancient Israel
(INALCO, Paris) and History of Mentalities, Bucharest University
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Francis Schmidt’s works in various fields of religious studies (mainly ancient Judaism), can be
characterized by three words: historiography, anthropological history, and comparatism. In
that respect he placed himself in the continuation of previous French scholars, such as Maurice
Halbwachs or Pierre Vidal-Naquet. Francis Schmidt also played an essential role in transmitting
to a new generation of scholars the complex issues and debates concerning the Dead Sea scrolls
and Qumranic research. The papers offered in this volume share all the same interest in ancient
religions and the methodological devices previously mentioned. They offer a rare example of a
large comparatism between Assyrian, Greek, Roman, Jewish, and Christian approaches of some
essential social or intellectual issues, by some of the most competent specialists in each field.
Sustain Me With Raisin-Cakes

Pesikta deRav Kahana and the Popularization of Rabbinic Judaism
Rachel A. Anisfeld
History and literature come together in a new way in this study of the midrashic collection
Pesikta deRav Kahana. The book combines the findings of rabbinic historians and early
Christianity scholars with a close reading of this midrashic text on its own and in relation to
the tannaitic midrashim which preceded it. The rich picture that emerges suggests that PRK,
in its new homiletical and aggadic stance, develops a religious language more appealing and
• April 2009 accessible to the masses, an outreach language meant to win rabbinic popularity. Exploring
• ISBN 978 90 04 15322 6 issues of power and rhetoric, the book also places PRK’s outreach language into the cultural
• Cloth with dustjacket (240 pp.) context of the imperialism of Roman Christian homily.
Ancient Judaism
• April 2008 A Wandering Galilean: Essays in Honour of Seán Freyne

• ISBN 978 90 04 17355 2
• Cloth with dustjacket (624) Edited by Zuleika Rodgers
• List price EUR 173.- / US$ 256.- With Margaret Daly-Denton and Anne Fitzpatrick McKinley
the Study of Judaism, 132 Starting his career as a scholar of the New Testament, Seán Freyne’s work became synonymous
with the study of Galilee in the Greek and Roman periods. His search for a deeper and more
nuanced understanding of Judaism in the Greek and Roman periods and the development of the
early Christian movement has led him to interface with scholars in many related disciplines. In
order to do justice to the breadth of Seán Freyne’s interests, this volume includes contributions
from scholars in the fields of Archaeology, Ancient History, Classics, Hebrew Bible, Early
Judaism, Rabbinic Judaism, Early Christianity, New Testament, and Medieval Judaism. The
resulting volume demonstrates not only the honoree’s interdiciplinary interests, but also the
interconnectedness of these disciplines.
Praise Israel for Wisdom and Instruction

Essays on Ben Sira and Wisdom, the Letter of Aristeas and the Septuagint
Benjamin G. Wright III
biblical studies
This book brings together fifteen articles representing the major thrusts of Prof. Wright’s work
over the last decade. They focus on three interrelated themes in the study of Early Judaism.
(1) Translation. Several essays treat Jewish translation strategies as well as some of the social
frameworks within which translation took place. (2) Social Location. The effort to locate texts
in their social landscapes has helped to break down many traditional scholarly categories.
• November 2008 Especially pertinent are the ways that wisdom and apocalyptic relate to each other, and he
• ISBN 978 90 04 16908 1 explores how specific wisdom and apocalyptic texts relate. (3) Transmission of Tradition.
• Cloth with dustjacket (xvi, 364 pp.) Several articles focus on how traditional material was shaped and framed in order to ensure its 29
• List price EUR 119.- / US$ 189.- successful transmission to subsequent generations.
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Theologies in Conflict in 4 Ezra

Wisdom Debate and Apocalyptic Solution
Karina Martin Hogan
Recent scholarship on 4 Ezra has taken two divergent approaches, the first reading the dialogues
between Ezra and Uriel as a reflection of theological debates in the author’s time, and the second
focusing on the psychological development of the protagonist. Combining the two approaches,
this book offers a new interpretation of the dialogues as a literary representation of a debate
between covenantal and eschatological wisdom, two branches of Jewish wisdom that emerged in
• November 2008 the late Second Temple period. The inconclusive quality of the dialogues indicates the author’s
• ISBN 978 90 04 12969 6 dissatisfaction with Uriel’s attempt at a rational theodicy. Ezra’s subsequent transformation
• Cloth with dustjacket (xvi, 272 pp.) points to the symbolic visions as the locus of the author’s apocalyptic solution to the intractable
• List price EUR 95.- / US$ 149.- theological problems raised in the dialogues.
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The Other Lands of Israel

Imaginations of the Land in 2 Baruch
Liv Ingeborg Lied
According to the current scholarly consensus, the apocalypse of 2 Baruch, written after the Fall
of Jerusalem, either rejected the concept of the Land of Israel as a place of salvation or regarded
it as of minor importance. Inspired by the perspective of Critical Spatial Theory, this book
discusses the presuppositions behind this consensus with regard to the spatial epistemology it
assumes, and explores the conception of the Land as a broad redemptive category. The result is
• November 2008 a fresh portrait of the vitality of the Land-theme in the first centuries of the common era and a
• ISBN 978 90 04 16556 4 new perspective on the spatial imagination of 2 Baruch.
• Cloth with dustjacket (xx, 376 pp.)
Continuity and Innovation in the Aramaic Legal Tradition

biblical studies
Andrew Gross, University of Pittsburgh
Ever since the Elephantine papyri were first published over a century ago, scholars have
speculated on the origins of the well-developed legal formularies used in these documents.
Since then, many more Aramaic deeds of conveyance both from Elephantine and from elsewhere
have been published, especially within the last decade or so. With this expanded text base
now available, the time is ripe for a comprehensive re-assessment of these legal formularies.
This book endeavors to show that these disparate Aramaic documents, whose chronological
30 scope spans several centuries, form a discrete and coherent tradition. It isolates and identifies
• July 2008 the distinctive elements that form the core of this tradition and traces the histories of these
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• ISBN 978 90 04 15284 7 elements back through the cuneiform record.

• Cloth with dustjacket (xii, 236 pp.)
Studies in the Book of Ben Sira

Papers of the Third International Conference on the Deuterocanonical Books,
Shime’on Centre, Pápa, Hungary, 18-20 May, 2006
Edited by Géza G. Xeravits and József Zsengellér
This volume contains the proceedings of the third international conference on the
deuterocanonical literature organised by the Shime‘on Centre in Pápa, Hungary. Renowned
international scholars of the field treat questions of text in the Book of Ben Sira, the underlying
• May 2008 traditions and theological questions. In the first part, the authors deal with introductory
• ISBN 978 90 04 16906 7 problems of the complex oeuvre of Ben Sira; the second main part of the volume focuses
• Cloth with dustjacket (xiv, 274 pp.) primarily on the wisdom part of book; finally, the reader will find papers dealing with
• List price EUR 99.- / US$ 147.- particular pericopae of the Praise of the Fathers section of Ben Sira.
Ancient Judaism
Scripture in Transition
Essays on Septuagint, Hebrew Bible, and Dead Sea Scrolls
in Honour of Raija Sollamo
Edited by Anssi Voitila and Jutta Jokiranta
Altogether 46 essays in honour of Professor Raija Sollamo contribute to explore various aspects
of the rich textual material around the turn of the era. At that time Scripture was not yet fixed;
various writings and collections of writings were considered authoritative but their form was
more or less in transition. The appearance of the first biblical translations are part of this
• April 2008 transitional process. The Septuagint in particular provides us evidence and concrete examples
• ISBN 978 90 04 16582 3 of those textual traditions and interpretations that were in use in various communities.
• Cloth with dustjacket (xxxviii, Furthermore, several biblical concepts, themes and writings were reinterpreted and actualised
758 pp.) in the Dead Sea Scrolls, illuminating the transitions that took place in one faction of Judaism.
• List price EUR 169.- / US$ 251.- The topics of the contributions are divided into five parts: Translation and Interpretation;
• Supplements to the Journal for Textual History; Hebrew and Greek Linguistics; Dead Sea Scrolls; Present-Day.
Wisdom in Transition
biblical studies
Act and Consequence in Second Temple Instructions
Samuel L. Adams
This volume considers a major shift among Jewish sages during the Second Temple period, as
certain authors moved from an earthly focus to a belief in individual immortality. Egyptian
instructions and the book of Proverbs are examined for necessary background. The colorful
responses of Qoheleth and Ben Sira to an emergent belief in the afterlife are also discussed. 31
4QInstruction, the largest Wisdom text from the Dead Sea Scrolls corpus, demonstrates this
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• February 2008 shift to an eschatological understanding. This book considers the diverse reasons for the
• ISBN 978 90 04 16566 3 changes that one finds in 4QInstruction, especially the issue of social context. It will prove
• Cloth with dustjacket (xiv, 314 pp.) useful to those interested in Wisdom literature, the Dead Sea Scrolls, apocalypticism, and the
• List price EUR 119.- / US$ 177.- development of beliefs in the afterlife.
Ancient Judaism
Studies in the Aramaic Interpretation of Scripture

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The Targum of Zephaniah

Manuscripts and Commentary
Ahuva Ho
This seminal and comprehensive study of Targum Jonathan to Zephaniah focuses on two major
facets of exegesis: The twenty-one manuscripts from five different provenances, reflecting a
variety of textual traditions and scribal erudition, thus revealing distinct stemmas; and the
history of transmission of Targum Jonathan. Divergences from the literality of the MT unveil
the emotions – fear, dismay, and hope – and the prayers of the meturgeman, as he reacts to
historical events in the near past and in his own time.
• January 2009
• ISBN 978 90 04 17180 0
• Hardback (xii, 460 pp.)
biblical studies
• Studies in the Aramaic

Interpretation of Scripture, 7
A Glossary of Targum Onkelos

According to Alexander Sperber’s Edition
32 Edward M. Cook
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Targum Onkelos is the oldest complete Jewish Aramaic translation of the Pentateuch, and it
has played a major role in Jewish exegesis throughout the centuries. Although the vocabulary
of Onkelos has been included in the major rabbinic dictionaries, there has never been a
volume devoted solely to the vocabulary of Onkelos. This glossary, based on the standard
critical edition, includes all of the vocabulary of the targum, plus geographical names, with
• May 2008 bibliographical references to cognates in other Aramaic dialects. It will be a major help both
• ISBN 978 90 04 14978 6 to students first encountering the language of the Targum, as well as to specialists seeking a
• Hardback (xxii, 314 pp.) thorough treatment of its lexical features.
• Studies in the Aramaic
Interpretation of Scripture, 6
Ancient Judaism
SBL - Early Judaism and Its Literature

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Noah Traditions in the Dead Sea Scrolls

Conversations and Controversies of Antiquity
Dorothy M. Peters
As father of all humanity and not exclusively of Israel, Noah was a problematic ancestor for
some Jews in the Second Temple period. His archetypical portrayals in the Dead Sea Scrolls,
differently nuanced in Hebrew and Aramaic, embodied the tensions for groups that were
struggling to understand both their distinctive self-identities within Judaism and their
relationship to the nations among whom they lived. Dually located within a trajectory of early
• December 2008 Christian and rabbinic interpretation of Noah and within the Jewish Hellenistic milieu of the
• ISBN 978 90 04 16915 9 Second Temple period, this study of the Noah traditions in the Dead Sea Scrolls illuminates
• Cloth (xxiv, 248 pp.) living conversations and controversies among the people who transmitted them and promises
• List price EUR 104.- / US$ 154.- to have implications for ancient questions and debates that extended considerably beyond the
• SBL - Early Judaism and Its Dead Sea Scrolls.
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Literature, 26
They Shall Purify Themselves

Essays on Purity in Early Judaism
Edited by Adele Reinhartz

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Recent decades have witnessed numerous studies of the role of purity in early Judaism, from
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ancient Israel to the rabbinic period, covering a variety of topics and approaches. The essays
in this volume address three less-studied areas of this broader field: the connection, if any,
between purity and the synagogue; Jesus’ observance of purity laws; and women’s relationships
with purity in the first century. By providing a new perspective on the role of purity in first-
century Judaism, this stimulating and refreshing collection illuminates ancient practice and
• November 2008 informs our understanding of the role of purity in the contemporary world.
• ISBN 978 90 04 14682 2 Paperback edition is available from the Society of Biblical Literature (www.sbl-site.org)
• Cloth (x, 242 pp.)
• SBL - Early Judaism and Its
Literature, 24
Seeking the Favor of God

Volume 3: The Impact of Penitential Prayer beyond Second Temple Judaism
Edited by Mark J. Boda Daniel, K. Falk and Rodney A. Werline
This book represents the third in a series tracing the development of a tradition of prayer that
arose in the Jewish Second Temple period. Its critical essays trace the impact of the Second
Temple penitential prayer traditions on the development of prayers and thought in rabbinic
Judaism and Christianity during late antiquity and the early medieval periods.
• December 2008
• ISBN 978 90 04 16914 2
• Cloth (xiv, 306 pp.)
• SBL - Early Judaism and Its
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Ancient Judaism
Seeking the Favor of God

Volume 2: The Development of Penitential Prayer in Second Temple Judaism
Edited by Mark J. Boda, Daniel K. Falk and Rodney A. Werline
The essays collected in this volume investigate the development of prayers of penitence within
Jewish literature of the Hellenistic and Roman periods. The book provides a critical overview
of the present state of research on these prayers, and leading experts in the field use a variety
of methodologies to investigate afresh various texts from the Hebrew Bible, apocryphal
(deuterocanonical) and pseudepigraphical works, and the Qumran corpus in order to provide
new insights into this prayer tradition. Contributors include Russell C. D. Arnold, Esther G.
• February 2008 Chazon, Daniel K. Falk, LeAnn Snow Flesher, Michael H. Floyd, Judith H. Newman, Bilhah Nitzan,
• ISBN 978 90 04 15739 2 Eileen Schuller, Pieter M. Venter, and Rodney A. Werline.
• Cloth (xvi, 284 pp.)
• List price EUR 99.- / US$ 147.- Seeking the Favor of God includes three volumes covering the origins, development and impact of
• SBL - Early Judaism and Its penitential prayer in Second Temple Judaism.
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Septuagint Commentary Series

biblical studies
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• July 2009 Ezekiel

• ISBN 978 90 04 17713 0
A Commentary based on Iezekiēl in Codex Vaticanus
34 • List price EUR 163.- / US$ 241.-
• Septuagint Commentary Series John W. Olley
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This work is the first major commentary to focus on the text of LXX Ezekiel in any modern
language. Rather than seeing LXX mainly as a text-critical resource with variants to be
explained, this commentary, as part of the Septuagint Commentary Series, examines a specific
manuscript in its own right as a document used by Greek readers unfamiliar with Hebrew.
Included are transcription and English translation of Codex Vaticanus, the oldest extant
manuscript of the whole book, and a detailed commentary that also compares the earlier P967
and the Masoretic Text where they differ. Another major new contribution is the utilisation of
the sense-delimitation (paragraphs) of Codex Vaticanus itself, exploring how this influences
reading of the text.
Tobit
The Book of Tobit in Codex Sinaiticus
Robert J. Littman
Tobit is one of the Apocrypha, a collection of books rejected from their canon by the Jews but
accepted by some of the Christian church fathers. Ever since the 4th century CE, commentaries
have been written on Tobit. The original Hebrew and Aramaic versions of Tobit were lost, until
fragments were discovered as part of the Dead Sea Scrolls in 1947. The present work is the first
Greek text and commentary of Tobit to be published since the publication of the Hebrew and
• October 2008 Aramaic fragments. This edition contains the text from two fourth century CE manuscripts, the
• ISBN 978 90 04 17107 7 Codex Sinaiticus (long version) and Codex Vaticanus (short version) as well as a translation into
• Cloth (xlviii, 216 pp.) English and a commentary.
• Septuagint Commentary Series
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Studia in Veteris Testamenti Pseudepigrapha

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Essays on the Book of Enoch and Other Early Jewish

Texts and Traditions
Michael A. Knibb
This volume brings together twenty-one essays by Michael Knibb on the Book of Enoch and
on other Early Jewish texts and traditions, which were originally published in a wide range
of journals, Festschriften, conference proceedings and thematic collections. A number of the
essays are concerned with the issues raised by the complex textual history and literary genesis
of 1 Enoch, but the majority are concerned with the interpretation of specific texts or with
• October 2008 themes such as messianism. The essays illustrate some of the dominant concerns of Michael
• ISBN 978 90 04 16725 4 Knibb’s work, particularly the importance of the idea of exile; the way in which older texts
• Hardback (xviii, 450 p.p.) regarded as authoritative were reinterpreted in later writings; and the connections between the
• List price EUR 129.- / US$ 199.- apocalyptic writings and the sapiential literature.
• Studia in Veteris Testamenti
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Monographs of the Peshitta Institute Leiden

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The Character of the Syriac Version of Psalms
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A Study of Psalms 90-150 in the Peshitta
Ignacio Carbajosa
This book investigates the character of the Peshitta in Psalms 90-150 in order to facilitate the
proper use of this version in textual criticism. It identifies the Peshitta’s translation techniques
and it discusses the version’s interpretation of difficult passages in the Hebrew text. The
question of the Hebrew Vorlage behind the Peshitta Psalter is raised. Also investigated here is
the relationship between the Peshitta Psalms and the LXX and Targum, and an assessment of
• September 2008 the supposed influence of these versions on the Peshitta Psalter is offered. Inquiry is made into
• ISBN 978 90 04 17056 8 the theology of the translation, the identity of the translators, and the relationships among
• Cloth (xviii, 438 pp.) the manuscripts of the Peshitta Psalter. This text is designed as a tool for scholars who, when
• List price EUR 139.- / US$ 219.- confronted by critical questions in the Psalter, seek to understand the readings preserved in the
• Monographs of the Peshitta Peshitta.
Institute Leiden, 17
Ancient Judaism
Oudtestamentische Studiën, Old Testament Studies

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A Plague of Texts?
A Text-Critical Study of the So-Called ‘Plagues Narrative’
in Exodus 7:14–11:10
Bénédicte Lemmelijn, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Prior to any attempt to study a text at the literary level, the textual material itself has to be
carefully established. It is for this reason that the present volume is devoted to a detailed
text-critical study of the ‘physical’ text of the ‘Plagues Narrative’ in Exod. 7:14–11:10. In the
• March 2009 first chapter, the author formulates a number of prolegomena relating to textual criticism as
• ISBN 978 90 04 17235 7 a discipline, the extant textual material, the terminology employed and the methodological
• Cloth with dustjacket (400 pp.) model that serves as the basis of this study. In the second chapter, data provided by the
• List price EUR 125.- / US$ 185.- various textual forms of the ‘Plagues Narrative’ in Exod. 7:14–11:10, namely MT, LXX, SamP,
• Oudtestamentische Studiën, 4QpaleoExod m, 4QpaleoGen-Exod l, 2QExoda, 4QExodc, 4QGen-Exoda and 4QExodj, are registered
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Old Testament Studies, 56 and described. The extant textual versions themselves are presented in the form of a synopsis,
added as an appendix to this book. The third and final chapter offers the text-critical evaluation
of all ‘text-relevant’ variants.
Exile and Suffering

A Selection of Papers Read at the 50th Anniversary Meeting
36 of the Old Testament Society of South Africa OTWSA/OTSSA,
Pretoria August 2007
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Edited by Bob Becking & Dirk Human
At the fiftieth anniversary of the Old Testament Society of South Africa a conference was
organized on the theme Exile and Suffering. This volume contains a selection of the papers
• December 2008 presented. Focal questions are such themes as: What do we really know about the Exile? To what
• ISBN 978 90 04 17104 6 degree did suffering take place? How did the Ancient Israelites cope with the disaster? Where
• Cloth with dustjacket (xviii, 286 pp.) the ancinet traditions sufficient to deal with the Exile? Or did this period produce new forms of
• List price EUR 99.- / US$ 159.- ‘theology’? The significance of the Exile as a matrix for understanding suffering until this day is
• Oudtestamentische Studiën, also dealt with.
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Religion in Late Antiquity
Religions in the Graeco-Roman World

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Roman Gods
A Conceptual Approach
Michael Lipka, University of Patras, Greece
The book is concerned with the question of how the concept of &#34god&#34 in urban Rome
can be analyzed along the lines of six constituent concepts, i.e. space, time, personnel, function,
iconography and ritual. While older publications tended to focus on the conceptual nature of
Roman gods only in those (comparatively rare) instances in which different concepts patently
overlapped (as in the case of the deified emperor or hero-worship), this book develops general
• April 2009 criteria for an analysis of pagan, Jewish and Christian concepts of gods in ancient Rome (and by
• ISBN 978 90 04 17503 7 extension elsewhere). While the argument of the book is exclusively based on the evidence from
• Hardback (216) the capital up to the age of Constantine, in the concluding section the results are compared to
• List price EUR 89.- / US$ 132.- other religious belief systems, thus demonstrating the general applicability of this conceptual
• Religions in the Graeco-Roman approach.
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Votives, Places and Rituals in Etruscan Religion

Studies in Honor of Jean MacIntosh Turfa
Edited by Margarita Gleba and Hilary Becker

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Etruscans were deemed “the most religious of men” by their Roman successors and it is hardly
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surprising that the topic of Etruscan religion has been explored for some time now. This volume
offers a contribution to the continued study of Etruscan religion and daily life, by focusing on
the less explored issue of ritual. Ritual is approached through fourteen case studies, considering
mortuary customs, votive rituals and other religious and daily life practices. The book gathers
• November 2008 new material, interpretations and approaches to the less emphasized areas of Etruscan religion,
• ISBN 978 90 04 17045 2 especially its votive aspects, based on archaeological and epigraphic sources.
• Hardback (xliv, 292)
• Religions in the Graeco-Roman
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Romanising Oriental Gods

Myth, Salvation and Ethics in the Cults of Cybele, Isis and Mithras
Author: Jaime Alvar; Translator and Editor: Richard Gordon
The traditional grand narrative correlating the decline of Graeco-Roman religion with the
rise of Christianity has been under pressure for three decades. This book argues that the
alternative accounts now emerging significantly underestimate the role of three major cults,
of Cybele and Attis, Isis and Serapis, and Mithras. Although their differences are plain, these
cults present sufficient common features to justify their being taken typologically as a group.
All were selective adaptations of much older cults of the Fertile Crescent. It was their relative
• July 2008 sophistication, their combination of the imaginative power of unfamiliar myth with distinctive
• ISBN 978 90 04 13293 1 ritual performance and ethical seriousness, that enabled them both to focus and to articulate a
• Hardback (xx, 486 pp. sense of the autonomy of religion from the socio-political order, a sense they shared with Early
with Greek texts) Christianity. The notion of ‘mystery’ was central to their ability to navigate the Weberian shift
• List price EUR 152.- / US$ 225.- from ritualist to ethical salvation.
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Instructions for the Netherworld

The Orphic Gold Tablets
Alberto Bernabé & Ana Isabel Jiménez San Cristóbal,

with an Iconographical Appendix by Ricardo Olmos,
and illustrations by Sara Olmos
Translated by Michael Chase
Orphic gold tables are key documents for the knowledge of rites and beliefs of Orphics, an
atypical group that configured a highly original creed and that influenced powerfully over
• January 2008 other Greek writers and thinkers. The recent discovery of some tablets has forced a noteworthy
• ISBN 978 90 04 16371 3 modification of some points of view and a review ofthe different hypothesis proposed
• Hardback (xii, 380 pp.) about them. The book presents a complete edition of the texts, their translation and some
• List price EUR 129.- / US$ 191.- fundamental keys for their interpretation, in an attempt at updating our current knowledge on
• Religions in the Graeco-Roman Orphic ideas about the soul and the Afterlife stated in those texts. The work is improved with
World, 162 an appendix of iconographic annotations in which some plastic representations in drawings are
reproduced related to the universe of tablets, selected and commented on by Ricardo Olmos.
Greek Sacred Law (2nd Edition with a Postscript)

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A Collection of New Documents (NGSL)
Eran Lupu
This work contains two parts. Part I constitutes a guide to the corpus of Greek sacred law and its
contents. A discussion of the history of the corpus and the principles governing its composition
is followed by a detailed review of its contents, in which the evidence is classified according to
38 subject matter. Part II contains inscriptions published since the late 1960s from all around the
Greek world excluding Cos and Asia Minor (checklists for these are appended). The text of each
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inscription is presented alongside restorations, epigraphical commentary, translation, and

• January 2009 a comprehensive running commentary. Most of the inscriptions are illustrated. The volume
• ISBN 978 90 04 17317 0 should prove useful to scholars of Greek religion, historians, and epigraphists.
• Hardback (524 pp.)
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John Rufus
The Lives of Peter the Iberian, Theodosius of Jerusalem,
and the Monk Romanus
Cornelia B. Horn and Robert R. Phenix Jr.
This book makes available for the first time in English important works by the anti-
Chalcedonian historian and biographer John Rufus on Peter the Iberian, Theodosius of
Jerusalem, and Abba Romanus, three key figures of the Christian history of Palestine in the
fifth and early sixth centuries C.E. The work offers a new critical edition of the Syriac text; the
first-ever published English translation; a substantial introduction to Palestinian monasticism,
• September 2008 the christological controversies of the time, and the life and writings of John Rufus; and ample
• ISBN 978 90 04 14686 0 annotations to a Syriac text whose Greek original is no longer available. By providing access to
• Cloth (xcii, 372 pp.) the Christian landscape (literally and metaphorically) in late antique and early Byzantine times,
• List price EUR 139.- / US$ 219.- this volume offers a valuable counterbalance from a minority perspective to the biographical
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The Reception and Interpretation of the Bible
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in Late Antiquity
Proceedings of the Montréal Colloquium in Honour of Charles Kannengiesser,
11-13 October 2006
Edited by Lorenzo DiTommaso & Lucian Turcescu
The volume is a Festschrift offered to Charles Kannengiesser on the occasion of his 80th birthday
and honours him for his numerous scholarly accomplishments. Its twenty-five contributions
• July 2008 discuss some of the major issues pertaining to the reception and interpretation of the Bible
• ISBN 978 90 04 16715 5 in late antique Christianity and Judaism. They focus on the ways in which communities and
• Hardback (xxviii, 612 pp) individuals understood the Bible and interpreted its traditions to address their historical, social,
• List price EUR 169.- / US$ 251.- and theological requirements. Since the Bible was by far the most important book during these
• The Bible in Ancient centuries, a discussion of its influence in such contexts will illuminate significant aspects of the
Christianity, 6 formation of western civilisation.
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Greek Religion and Culture, the Bible

and the Ancient Near East
Jan N. Bremmer, University of Groningen, the Netherlands
In the last decades there has been an increasing interest in the relationship between Greek
religion & culture and the Ancient Near East. This challenging book contributes greatly to this
interest by studying the Near Eastern background of important Greek myths, such as those
of the creation of the world and the first woman, the Flood, the Golden Fleece, the Titans and
travelling seers, but also of the births of Attis and Asclepius as well as the origins of the terms
• April 2008 ‘paradise’ and ‘magic’. It also shows that, in turn, Greek literature influenced Jewish stories of
• ISBN 978 90 04 16473 4 divine epiphanies and that the Greek scapegoat myths and rituals contributed to the central
• Hardback (xviii, 430 pp.) Christian notion of atonement.
• Jerusalem Studies in Religion
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IJS Studies in Judaica

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40 Herod and Augustus

Papers Presented at the IJS Conference, 21st-23rd June 2005
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Edited by David M. Jacobson, Buckinghamshire New University and Nikos Kokkinos,

University College London
This volume brings together nineteen studies by foremost experts in the period of Herod and
Augustus, and highlights recent progress in elucidating the phenomenon of Herod the Great
in the context of the Roman imperial order inaugurated by Augustus. They illuminate Herod’s
• September 2008 pre-eminent role in the Augustan client network and his remarkable energies, expressed in
• ISBN 978 90 04 16546 5 an extensive building programme which has left substantial remains. The literary records of
• Hardback (xiv, 418 pp., 84 ill.) Herod’s life and times, primarily by Josephus, are critically examined here in relation to the
• List price EUR 195.- / US$ 304.- documentary and archaeological evidence.
• IJS Studies in Judaica, 6
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• August 2009 The Exegetical Encounter between Jews and Christians

• ISBN 978 90 04 17727 7
• Hardback in Late Antiquity
• Jewish and Christian Emmanouela Grypeou, Centre for Advanced Religious and Theological Studies,
Perspectives Series, 18 Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge
Helen Spurling, The Centre for the Study of Jewish-Christian Relations, Cambridge UK
The ‘Exegetical Encounter between Jews and Christians in Late Antiquity’ is a collection of
essays examining the relationship between Jewish and Christian biblical commentators. The
contributions focus on analysis of interpretations of the book of Genesis, a text which has
considerable importance in both Christian and Jewish tradition. The essays cover a wide range
of Jewish and Christian literature, including primarily rabbinic and patristic sources, but also
apocrypha, pseudepigrapha, Philo, Josephus and Gnostic texts. In bringing together the studies
of a variety of eminent scholars on the topic of ‘Exegetical Encounter’, the book presents the
latest research on the topic and illuminates a variety of original approaches to analysis of
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exegetical contacts between the two sets of religious groups. The volume is significant for the
light it sheds on the history of relations between Jews and Christians in Late Antiquity.
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International Review of Biblical Studies

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Volume 54 (2007-2008)
Internationale Zeitschriftenschau für Bibelwissenschaft und Grenzgebiete
Edited by Bernhard Lang
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
• January 2009 Eastern writings. The abstracts – which may be in English, German, or French - are arranged
• ISBN 978 90 04 17254 8 thematically under headings such as e.g. “Genesis”, “Matthew”, “Greek language”, “text and
• Paperback (xii, 556 pp.) textual criticism”, “exegetical methods and approaches”, “biblical theology”, “social and
• List price EUR 139.- / US$ 206.- religious institutions”, “biblical personalities”, “history of Israel and early Judaism”, and so
• International Review of Biblical on. The articles and books that are abstracted and reviewed are collected annually by an
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Studies, 54 international team of collaborators from over 300 of the most important periodicals and book
series in the fields covered.
Volume 53 (2006-2007)
Internationale Zeitschriftenschau für Bibelwissenschaft und Grenzgebiete
42 Edited by Bernhard Lang

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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
• February 2008 Eastern writings. The abstracts – which may be in English, German, or French - are arranged
• ISBN 978 90 04 16551 9 thematically under headings such as e.g. “Genesis”, “Matthew”, “Greek language”, “text and
• Paperback (xii, 540 pp.) textual criticism”, “exegetical methods and approaches”, “biblical theology”, “social and
• List price EUR 133.- / US$ 198.- religious institutions”, “biblical personalities”, “history of Israel and early Judaism”, and so
• International Review of Biblical on. The articles and books that are abstracted and reviewed are collected annually by an
Studies, 53 international team of collaborators from over 300 of the most important periodicals and book
series in the fields covered.
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Themes in Biblical Narrative

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The Significance of Sinai

Traditions about Sinai and Divine Revelation in Judaism and Christianity
Edited by George J. Brooke, Hindy Najman, Loren T. Stuckenbruck

Editorial Assistance: Eva Mroczek, Brauna Doidge and Nathalie Lacoste
This volume of essays is concerned with ancient and modern Jewish and Christian views of
the revelation at Sinai. The theme is highlighted in studies on the Dead Sea Scrolls, Paul,
Josephus, rabbinic literature, art and philosophy. The contributions demonstrate that Sinai, as
the location of the revelation, soon became less significant than the narratives that developed
• September 2008 about what happened there. Those narratives were themselves transformed, not least to explain
• ISBN 978 90 04 17018 6 problems regarding the text’s plain sense. Miraculous theophany, anthropomorphisms, the role
• Hardback (xiv, 386 pp.) of Moses, and the response of Israel were all handled with exegetical skills mustered by
• List price EUR 119.- / US$ 189.- each new generation of readers. Furthermore, the content of the revelation, especially the
• Themes in Biblical Narrative, 12 covenant, was rethought in philosophical, political, and theological ways. This collection of
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studies is especially useful in showing something of the complexity of how scriptural traditions
remain authoritative and lively for those who appeal to them from very different contexts.
The Prestige of the Pagan Prophet Balaam in Judaism,

Early Christianity and Islam
Edited by George H. van Kooten & Jacques van Ruiten 43
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This volume deals with the pagan prophet Balaam who figures in the book of Numbers. By
the very nature of his stature as a non-Israelite, pagan prophet, the figure of Balaam raises
important questions with regard to the nature of prophecy and the relation between the
Israelite God and the pagan nations. The conflicting stories and potent oracles of Balaam in
Numbers 22-24 and other parts of the Jewish Scriptures prompted extensive reflection on
• March 2008 this ambiguous figure. Thus the leading perspective developed in this volume is the often
• ISBN 978 90 04 16564 9 simultaneous praise and criticism of Balaam as a prestigious pagan prophet throughout ancient
• Hardback (xx, 332 pp.) Judaism, early Christianity and the early Koranic commentaries.
• List price EUR 119.- / US$ 177.- The papers are clustered in four sections which deal with (1) Balaam in the Old Testament and
• Themes in Biblical Narrative, 11 the Ancient Near East, and comparable figures in Ancient Greece; (2) Balaam in Ancient Judaism;
(3) Balaam in the New Testament & Early Christianity; and (4) Balaam in the Koran and early
Koranic commentaries. The reception of this enigmatic figure can be characterized as the
simultaneous praise and criticism of a pagan prophet.
The book is particularly useful as it also contains Émile Puech’s newly reconstructed text,
translation and commentary of the first combination of the Deir ‘Alla inscriptions which contain
an excerpt of the book of the historical Balaam. Combined with the other papers, the volume
pictures a fascinating continuum between paganism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
Biblical Studies
Israel in the Wilderness

Interpretations of the Biblical Narratives in Jewish and Christian Traditions
Edited by Kenneth Pomykala
This collection of essays examines how stories from the biblical narrative of Israel in the
Wilderness (Exodus 16-Deuteronomy 34) were interpreted by later Jewish and Christian writers
(ca. 400 BCE-500 CE). Stories such as those about manna and water from a rock, the Golden Calf
incident, Korah’s rebellion, and the death of Moses provided later Jewish and Christian writers
with a treasure trove of material for reflection and interpretation. Whereas individual essays
investigate how particular literary works, such as Ben Sira, Qumran documents, New Testament
• March 2008 writings, the Apostolic Fathers, and Targums, appropriated the biblical text, taken together
• ISBN 978 90 04 16424 6 the essays form an exercise in uncovering the hermeneutical imagination of interpreters
• Hardback (260 pp) during formative periods of Jewish and Christian thought. This volume will be valuable to those
• List price EUR 99.- / US$ 147.- interested in ancient Judaism and early Christianity, the history of interpretation of the Hebrew
• Themes in Biblical Narrative, 10 Bible, and the hermeneutical appropriation of sacred texts.
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The Chronicler’s Genealogies

Towards an Understanding of 1 Chronicles 1–9
James T. Sparks
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The genealogies of 1 Chronicles 1–9 have typically been seen to have no internal consistency
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or purpose and little relation to the narrative portions of Chronicles. In contrast, this study
shows that the genealogical section of the Chronicler’s work is an ordered, well-structured,
unified whole. The Chronicler presents his genealogies chiastically, with the aim of the chiasm
to uphold the cult and cultic officials as the center of the nation’s life. The genealogies indicate
that society is sent into exile because of the unfaithfulness of the people and their leaders. Only
• August 2008 through the proper attention to the cult and its elements can atonement be made and the people
• ISBN 978 90 04 15751 4 possess their land.
• Cloth (xviii, 386 pp.)
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Up the Steep and Stony Road

The Book of Zechariah in Social Location Trajectory Analysis
Byron G. Curtis
How do we account for the strange fourteen-chaptered form of the book of Zechariah? What
is the social and historical matrix from which this book derives? Marshaling data about the
social typology of religious movements led by such twentieth-century African prophets as Alice
Lenshina, Isaiah Shembe, and Simon Kimbangu, Curtis constructs a new method of reading
prophetic books, a method he calls “social location trajectory analysis,” and applies this method
to interpret the book of Zechariah in a new light. The author suggests that Zechariah was a
• January 2008 product of a single generation in the early Persian period and reopens the possibility that it
• ISBN 978 90 04 15112 3 might, after all, have but one principal author, the eponymous prophet whose name is borne by
• Cloth (xiv, 330 pp.) all fourteen chapters.
• SBL - Academia Biblica, 25 Paperback edition is available from the Society of Biblical Literature (sbl-site.org)
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Last Stop before Antarctica

The Bible and Postcolonialism in Australia. Second Edition
Roland Boer
While biblical scholars increasingly use insights from postcolonial theory to interpret the Bible,
the Bible itself is often neglected by postcolonial criticism, with the result that there is little
influence in the other direction: from the Bible to postcolonial criticism. This second edition
of Last Stop before Antarctica begins to repair the imbalance by pointing to the vital role that the
Bible played in colonization, using Australia—one of the first centers of postcolonial criticism—
• July 2008 as a specific example. Drawing upon colonial literature, including explorer journals, poetry,
• ISBN 978 90 04 13080 7 novels, and translations, it creates a mutually enlightening dialogue between postcolonial
• Cloth (xiv, 202 pp.) literature and biblical texts on themes such as exodus and exile, translation, identity, and home.
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Bakhtin and Genre Theory in Biblical Studies
Edited by Roland Boer
This volume offers a meeting between genre theory in biblical studies and the work of Mikhail
Bakhtin, who continues to be immensely influential in literary criticism. Here Bakhtin comes
face to face with a central area of biblical studies: the question of genre. The essays range from 45
general discussions of genre through the reading of specific biblical texts to an engagement with
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Toni Morrison and the Bible. The contributors are John Anderson, Roland Boer, Martin J. Buss,
Judy Fentress-Williams, Christopher Fuller, Barbara Green, Bula Maddison, Carleen Mandolfo,
Christine Mitchell, Carol A. Newsom, David M. Valeta, and Michael Vines.
• November 2008
• ISBN 978 90 04 15737 8
• Cloth (viii, 238 pp.)
Images of the word

Hollywood’s Bible and Beyond
Edited by David Shepherd
Images of the Word: Hollywood’s Bible and Beyond is a collection of essays by leading
international scholars in the field of Bible and film. Recognizing the increasingly global nature
of both media and religion, the volume focuses on the ways in which the Bible is interpreted
and visualized not only within Hollywood but also far beyond it. Cutting-edge analysis of films
from France, Canada, Sweden, India, and elsewhere reveals that the Bible’s visualization is
culturally rooted and contributes to the shaping of a particular culture, including its perception
• November 2008 of the Bible itself. Essays range across the canon from Exodus to Ecclesiastes to Revelation,
• ISBN 978 90 04 15736 1 interacting with films of various national traditions and periods from Blackton’s Life of Moses
• Cloth (x, 230 pp.) (1909) to Karunamayudu (1978) to Cronenberg’s eXistenZ (1999). The volume engages the breadth
• List price EUR 89.- / US$ 139.- of current scholarly interest in this interdisciplinary field, including the critical reading of
• SBL - Semeia Studies, 54 “Bible films,” the exploration of biblical motifs and themes within contemporary cinema, and
concluding responses to the essays from both a biblical scholar and a film scholar.Paperback
edition is available from the Society of Biblical Literature (sbl-site.org)
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Approaching Yehud
New Approaches to the Study of the Persian Period
Edited by Jon L. Berquist
The long-held view that the Persian period in Israel (known as Yehud) was a historically
derivative era that engendered little theological or literary innovation has been replaced in
recent decades by an appreciation for the importance of the Persian period for understanding
Israel’s literature, religion, and sense of identity. A new image of Yehud is emerging that has
shifted the focus from viewing the postexilic period as a staging ground for early Judaism
or Christianity to dealing with Yehud on its own terms, as a Persian colony with a diverse
• January 2008 population. Taken together, the thirteen chapters in this volume represent a range of studies
• ISBN 978 90 04 13078 4 that touch on a variety of textual and historical problems to advance the conversation
• Cloth (x, 250 pp.) about the significance of the Persian period and especially its formative influence on biblical
• List price EUR 89.- / US$ 132.- literature.
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As It Is Written
Studying Paul’s Use of Scripture
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All scholars recognize that Scripture plays a vital role in the theology and rhetoric of the apostle
Paul. They disagree, however, about how best to make sense of the many marked and unmarked
references to Scripture that permeate his letters. This book aims to move the discussion forward
by examining the reasons behind these scholarly differences. The essays are united by a concern
to show how scholarly opinions concerning Paul’s use of Scripture have been influenced by
• December 2008 the application of divergent methods and conflicting presuppositions regarding Paul, his
• ISBN 978 90 04 15749 1 audiences, and the role of biblical references in his letters. The book also seeks to extend the
• Cloth (xii, 376 pp.) boundaries of the discussion by applying the insights of deconstruction, postcolonial theory,
• List price EUR 125.- / US$ 185.- and feminist criticism to the study of Paul’s use of Scripture. Together these essays show what
• SBL - Symposium, 50 can be accomplished when scholars take the time to discuss their differences and try out new
approaches to old problems.
Exploring Ecological Hermeneutics

Edited by Norman C. Habel and Peter Trudinger
What has hermeneutics to do with ecology? What texts, if any, come to mind when you consider
what the scriptures might say about environmental ethics? To help readers think critically
and clearly about the Bible’s relation to modern environmental issues, this volume expands
the horizons of biblical interpretation to introduce ecological hermeneutics, moving beyond
a simple discussion about Earth and its constituents as topics to a reading of the text from the
perspective of Earth. In these groundbreaking essays, sixteen scholars seek ways to identify
with Earth as they read and retrieve the role or voice of Earth, a voice previously unnoticed or
• August 2008 suppressed within the biblical text and its interpretation. This study enriches eco-theology with
• ISBN 978 90 04 15745 3 eco-exegesis, a radical and timely dialogue between ecology and hermeneutics.
• Cloth (xiv, 184 pp.)
• SBL - Symposium, 46
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Matthew, James, and Didache

Three Related Documents in Their Jewish and Christian Settings
Edited by Huub van de Sandt and Jürgen Zangenberg
Sharing many traditions and characteristics, the Gospel of Matthew, the letter of James, and the
Didache invite comparative study. In this volume, internationally renowned scholars consider
the three writings and the complex interrelationship between first-century Judaism and
nascent Christianity. These texts likely reflect different aspects and emphases of a network of
connected communities sharing basic theological assumptions and expressions. Of particular
• December 2008 importance for the reconstruction of the religious and social milieu of these communities are
• ISBN 978 90 04 15748 4 issues such as the role of Jewish law, the development of community structures, the reception
• Cloth (xii, 476 pp) of the Jesus tradition, and conflict management. In addition to the Pauline and Johannine
• List price EUR 152.- / US$ 225.- “schools,” Matthew, James, and the Didache may represent a third religious milieu within
• SBL - Symposium, 45 earliest Christianity that is especially characterized through its distinct connections to a
particular ethical stream of contemporary Jewish tradition.Paperback edition is available from
the Society of Biblical Literature (sbl-site.org)
Lamentations in Ancient and Contemporary Cultural
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Contexts
Edited by Nancy C. Lee and Carleen Mandolfo
Personal tragedy and communal catastrophe up to the present day are universal human
experiences that call forth lament. Lament singers—from the most ancient civilizations to
traditional oral poets to the biblical psalmists and poets of Lamentations to popular singers
across the globe—have always raised the cry of human suffering, giving voice to the voiceless, 47
illuminating injustice, or pleading for divine help. This volume gathers an international
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• November 2008 collection of essays on biblical lament and Lamentations, illuminating their genres, artistry,
• ISBN 978 90 04 15747 7 purposes, and significant place in the history and theologies of ancient Israel. It also explores
• Cloth (xii, 274) lament across cultures, both those influenced by biblical traditions and those not, as the
• List price EUR 99.- / US$ 159.- practices of composition, performance, and interpretation of life’s suffering continue to shed
• SBL - Symposium, 43 light on our knowledge of biblical lament.
Writing and Reading War

Rhetoric, Gender, and Ethics in Biblical and Modern Contexts
Edited by Brad E. Kelle and Frank Ritchel Ames Foreword by Susan Niditch
War is not only waged on the battlefield, but is written and read in contexts that influence
meaning and reception. The essays in this collection examine how ancient Israelites wrote
about war and how war-related texts in the Hebrew Bible have been read in ancient and modern
contexts. They explore writing and reading war in contexts ranging from ancient Israel to
early Judaism to contemporary Christianity. The contributors—both established and newer
• December 2008 voices—apply a variety of historical, literary, and comparative methods to biblical texts and
• ISBN 978 90 04 13759 2 present new perspectives on the rhetoric, gender, and ethics of war. A foreword by Susan Niditch
• Cloth (280 pp.) and introduction by Victor H. Matthews offer a literature review of recent major works in this
• List price EUR 99.- / US$ 147.- field and orient readers to past research and future directions for the study of the discourse and
• SBL - Symposium, 42 realities of war.
Biblical Studies
The Social Sciences and Biblical Translation

Edited by Dietmar Neufeld
The Bible is an ancient book, written in a language other than English, describing social
and cultural situations incongruent with modern sensibilities. To help readers bridge these
gaps, this work examines the translation and interpretation of a set of biblical texts from the
perspectives of cultural anthropology and the social sciences. The introduction deals with
methodological issues, enabling readers to recognize the differences in translation when words,
sentences, and ideas are part of ancient social and cultural systems that shape meaning. The
following essays demonstrate how Bible translations can be culturally sensitive, take into
• September 2008 account the challenge of social distance, and avoid the dangers of ethnocentric and theological
• ISBN 978 90 04 15746 0 myopia. As a whole, this work shows the importance of making use of the insights of cultural
• Cloth (x, 190 pp.) anthropology in an age of ever-increasing manipulation of the biblical text.
Experientia, Volume 1
Inquiry into Religious Experience in Early Judaism and Christianity
biblical studies
Edited by Frances Flannery, Colleen Shantz and Rodney A. Werline
This collection investigates the phenomenon of religious experience in early Judaism and early
Christianity. The essays consider such diverse phenomena as scribal inspiration, possession,
illness, ascent, theurgy, and spiritual transformation wrought by reading, and recognize
that the texts are reflective of the lived experiences of ancient religious peoples, which they
understood to be encounters with the divine. Contributors use a variety of methodologies,
48 • November 2008 including medical anthropology, neurobiology, and ritual and performance studies, to move
• ISBN 978 90 04 16911 1 the investigation beyond traditional historical and literary methodologies and conclusions to
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• Cloth (x, 262 pp.) illuminate the importance of experience in constructions of ancient religion.
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Anatomies of Narrative Criticism

The Past, Present, and Futures of the Fourth Gospel as Literature
Edited by Tom Thatcher and Stephen D. Moore
Reflecting on the twenty-fifth anniversary of Alan Culpepper’s milestone Anatomy of the

Fourth Gospel (1983), Anatomies of Narrative Criticism explores current trends in the study
of the Gospel of John as literature. The contributors to the volume represent a wide range of
methodological approaches that all explore ways that contemporary readers generate meaning
from John’s story of Jesus. The book includes an introduction to narrative-critical studies of
• November 2008 John; essays on specific themes and passages that focus on interpretation of the text, history of
• ISBN 978 90 04 16912 8 research, hermeneutical approaches, and future trends in research; and a reflective response
• Cloth (x, 304) from Alan Culpepper. Overall, the book seeks to trace the history and project the future of
• List price EUR 99.- / US$ 159.- the study of the Bible as narrative. Paperback edition is available from the Society of Biblical
• SBL - Resources for Biblical Literature (sbl-site.org)
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Biblical Studies
Teaching the Bible through Popular Culture and the Arts

Edited by Mark Roncace and Patrick Gray
This resource enables biblical studies instructors to facilitate engaging classroom experiences
by drawing on the arts and popular culture. It offers brief overviews of hundreds of easily
accessible examples of art, film, literature, music, and other media and outlines strategies for
incorporating them effectively and concisely in the classroom. Although designed primarily
for college and seminary courses on the Bible, the ideas can easily be adapted for classes such
as “Theology and Literature” or “Religion and Art” as well as for nonacademic settings. This
compilation is an invaluable resource for anyone who teaches the Bible.
• August 2008
• ISBN 978 90 04 15116 1
• Cloth (vii, 393 pp.)
• SBL - Resources for Biblical
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Études sur le Judaïsme Médiéval
biblical studies
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Three Approaches to Biblical Metaphor

From Abraham Ibn Ezra and Maimonides to David Kimhi. 2nd revised ed.
Mordechai Z. Cohen, Yeshiva University 49
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This volume explores how the poetic technique of biblical metaphor was analyzed within the
Jewish exegetical tradition that developed in Muslim Spain during the Golden Age of Hebrew
poetry and was then transplanted to a Christian milieu. Abraham Ibn Ezra and Maimonides
applied concepts from Arabic poetics, hermeneutics and logic to define metaphor and interpret
it within their philological-literary readings of Scripture. David Kimhi integrated their
• March 2008 methodologies with the midrashic creativity and sensitivity to nuance typical of his native
• ISBN 978 90 04 12971 9 Provence to create a new literary interpretive system that highlights the expressiveness of
• Hardback (xviii, 380 pp.) metaphor.
• List price EUR 130.- / US$ 193.- This study is important for readers interested in metaphor, the Bible as literature, the history of
• Études sur le Judaïsme biblical interpretation and the inter-relation between Arabic and Hebrew learning.
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Monographs of the Peshitta Institute Leiden

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Jacob of Edessa and the Syriac Culture of His Day

Edited by Bas Ter Haar Romeny
Jacob of Edessa (c.640-708) is considered the most learned Christian of the early days of Islam.
In all fifteen contributions to this volume, written by prominent specialists, the interaction
between Christianity, Judaism, and the new religion is an important issue. The articles discuss
Jacob’s biography as well as his position in early Islamic Edessa, and give a full picture of the
various aspects of Jacob of Edessa’s life and work as a scholar and clergyman. Attention is paid
to his efforts in the fields of historiography, correspondence, canon law, text and interpretation
of the Bible, language and translation, theology, philosophy, and science. The book, which marks
• December 2008 the 1300th anniversary of Jacob’s death, also contains a bibliographical clavis.
• ISBN 978 90 04 17347 7
• Monographs of the Peshitta
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Collective and Individual Responsibility
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A Description of Corporate Personality in Ezekiel 18 and 20
Jurrien Mol
A long discussed theme concerning Ezekiel 18 and 20 is the relationship between collective and
individual responsibility. In the first half of the twentieth century the discussion appeared to
end as a result of the introduction of the corporate personality by Henry Wheeler Robinson
(1872-1945). This concept became heavily discussed and was dismissed on the grounds of its
superseded theoretical basis. The continuing use of the concept requires a redefinition and a
• August 2009 new theoretical basis which is provided by the multimodal framework by Geoffrey Samuel from
• ISBN 978 90 04 17043 8 the field of cultural anthropology. Before applying the concept, Ezekiel 18 and 20 are studied
• Hardback (c. 300 pp.) extensively relative to textual criticism, philology, grammar, and structural analysis.
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Biblical Studies
Tradition and Transformation in the Book of Chronicles

Pancratius C. Beentjes
This monograph contributes to a better understanding of the Book of Chronicles. The past forty
years have seen a complete transformation in the study of the Book of Chronicles. The former
domination of Chronicles by parallel texts in the Books of Samuel and Kings made way for
studying the historical, sociological, literary, theological, and ideological aspects of Chronicles
in their own right. This book/document is now increasingly recognized as being of major
interest to the Second Temple Period.
Reading the book of Chronicles, it appears that the Chronicler is constantly transforming Israel’s
• November 2008 tradition(s) into a new theological and ideological system. In this study, attention is, therefore,
• ISBN 978 90 04 17044 5 paid both to specific texts, such as 1 Chronicles 17; 21; 2 Chronicles 20; 26, and to particular
• Hardback (xiv, 214 pp.) central themes, such as the special function of Jerusalem, and the peculiar way of how the
• List price EUR 99.- / US$ 154.- Chronicler presents prophets, war narratives, and genealogies.
Protest or Propaganda
War in the Old Testament Book of Kings and in Contemporaneous
biblical studies
Ancient Near Eastern Texts
Aarnoud van der Deijl
In this study, the war stories from the Old Testament book of Kings are compared to ten
extrabiblical texts. Narratological analysis is applied to deconstruct the ideology of the
respective literary compositions. The Old Testament ideology of war seems to be neither
typically Israelite, as Gerhardt von Rad put it, nor commonly Ancient Near Eastern, as Manfred
• August 2008 Weippert thought it to be. This poses the question whether the reading experience of biblical 51
• ISBN 978 90 04 16855 8 war stories is so very different from, for instance, Assyrian royal inscriptions, both in terms of
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• Hardback (xii, 720 pp.) its literary value and its ideological bias. Narratological analysis turns out to be a strong tool for
• List price EUR 139.- / US$ 199.- explaining the similarities and distinctive features of the respective texts.
Bible and Canon

A Modern Historical Inquiry
Luc Zaman
Several decades ago canonical criticism came to dominate the study of the canon and even
indeed all of biblical studies by its emphasis on the biblical canon’s dogmatic content. An
investigation of this canonical criticism brings its weak points to light: most notably the
insufficient attention that is given to the canon’s historical development.
This new historical study begins with the earliest stages of the process of forming the
• April 2008 canon rather than its final stages as most studies do. It shows how the canon, in essence,
• ISBN 978 90 04 16743 8 was already formed in the early stages of its historical development. It is essentially,
• Hardback (xvi, 720 pp.) synchronically, an authoritative unification of a range of traditions within the faith community,
• List price EUR 139.- / US$ 199.- and diachronically, the guide that draws the dynamics of these traditions beyond their
• Studia Semitica Neerlandica, 50 discontinuities to produce a continuity.
Biblical Studies
Pericope
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The Impact of Unit Delimitation on Exegesis

Edited by Raymond de Hoop, Marjo C.A. Korpel and Stanley E. Porter
This volume contains papers dealing with the impact of unit delimitation on exegesis. Pargraph
markers play an important role in literature, this is illustrated by means of the examples of
Mark 12:13-27 and Romans 1:21-25. The setumah after Isaiah 8:16 is significant for understanding
the making of the Hebrew Bible. Furthermore, it is demonstrated that the text divisions in the
Book of Daniel guide the reading of the text. The demarcation of hymns and prayers in the
prophets is illustrated by the examples of Hosea 6:1-3 and Isaiah 42:10-12. Unit delimitation is
taken up for the theory of an acrostichon in Nahum 1. Also discussed is the delimitation of units
• November 2008 in Genesis, Isaiah 56:1-9, and Jeremiah and Habakkuk.
• ISBN 978 90 04 17162 6
• Hardback (viii, 288 pp.)
• Pericope, 7
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52 Roots of Theological Anti-Semitism

German Biblical Interpretation and the Jews, from Herder and Semler to
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Kittel and Bultmann

Anders Gerdmar, Uppsala University
As Adolf Hitler strategised his way to power, he knew that it was necessary to gain the support
of theology and the Church. This study begins two hundred years earlier, however, looking at
roots of theological anti-Semitism and how Jews and Judaism were constructed, positively and
negatively, in the biblical interpretation of German Protestant theology. Following the two
• November 2008 main streams of German theology, the salvation-historical and the Enlightenment-oriented
• ISBN 978 90 04 16851 0 traditions, it examines leading exegetes from the 1750s to the 1950s and explores how theology
• Hardback (xviii, 678 pp.) legitimises or delegitimises oppression of Jews, in part through still-prevailing paradigms.
• List price EUR 150.- / US$ 240.- This is the first comprehensive analysis of its kind, and the result of the analysis of the
• Studies in Jewish History and interplay between biblical exegesis and attitudes to Jews and Judaism is a fascinating and often
Culture, 20 frightening portrait of theology as a servant of power.
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Studies in Theology and Religion

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The Boundaries of Monotheism

Interdisciplinary Explorations into the Foundations of Western Monotheism
Edited by Anne-Marie Korte & Maaike de Haardt
What is the significance of monotheism in modern western culture, taking into account both
its problematic and promising aspects? Biblical texts and the biblical faith traditions bear a
continuous, polemical tension between exclusive and inclusive perceptions and interpretations
of monotheism. Western monotheism proves itself to be multi-significant and heterogeneous,
producing boundary-setting as well as boundary-crossing tendencies, is the common thesis of
• December 2008 the authors of this book, who have been collectively debating this theme for two years in an
• ISBN 978 90 04 17316 3 interdisciplinary scholarly setting. Their contributions range from the fields of biblical and
• Hardback (vi, 250 pp.) religious studies, history and philosophy of religion, systematic theology, to gender studies
• List price EUR 89.- / US$ 139.- in theology and religion.The authors also explain the particular contribution of their own
• Studies in Theology and theological discipline to these debates.
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New Testament Studies
Novum Testamentum, Supplements

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• November 2009 The Legacy of John

• ISBN 978 90 04 17633 1
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Second-Century Reception of the Fourth Gospel
• Novum Testamentum, Edited by Tuomas Rasimus
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This volume investigates the early, second-century reception of the Fourth Gospel. This is an era
when its fortunes are surrounded by silence and mystery. It was assumed, until quite recently,
that Gnostic and other so-called heterodox groups were the first ones to appreciate this gospel,
and hence the mainstream Christians avoided using it until Irenaeus rescued it for the church.
Lately, this view has been challenged by several scholars for several reasons. The contributions
in this volume, written by leading specialists in their respective fields, offer an approachable,
fresh, comprehensive and up-to-date view of the second-century reception of John’s Gospel,
in a situation where new understandings about various forms of early Christianity and its
multiformity have started to emerge.
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• September 2009 The New Isaac

• ISBN 978 90 04 17569 3
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Tradition and Intertextuality in the Gospel of Matthew
• Novum Testamentum, Leroy A. Huizenga
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Gospel scholarship has long recognized that Matthean Christology is a rich, multifaceted
54 tapestry weaving multifold Old Testment figures together in the person of Jesus. It is somewhat
strange, therefore, that scholarship has found little role for the figure of Isaac in the Gospel of
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Matthew. Employing Umberto Eco’s theory of the Model Reader as a theoretical basis to ground
the phenomenon of Matthean intertextuality, this work contends that when read rightly as a
coherent narrative in its first-century setting, with proper attention to both biblical texts and
extrabiblical traditions about Isaac, the Gospel of Matthew evinces a significant Isaac typology
in service of presenting Jesus as new temple and decisive sacrifice.
Jesus, Paul, and Early Christianity

Studies in Honour of Henk Jan de Jonge
Edited by Rieuwerd Buitenwerf, Harm W. Hollander and Johannes Tromp
This collection of essays by leading experts in New Testament scholarship addresses core themes
in the study of early Christianity. The topics addressed include text-critical issues relating to
the New Testament, the historical situation in which the earliest Christian documents were
composed, early Christian rituals, historical questions concerning Jesus and Paul, and the origin
and development of important theological ideas in the early Church.
This volume is dedicated to Henk Jan de Jonge (Emeritus Professor in the New Testament, Leiden
• September 2008 University) in honour of his important contributions to the field of New Testament Studies.
• ISBN 978 90 04 17033 9
• Hardback (x, 470 pp)
• Novum Testamentum,
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Scripture and Traditions

Essays on Early Judaism and Christianity in Honor of Carl R. Holladay
Edited by Patrick Gray and Gail R. O’Day
This volume contains twenty-two essays in honor of Carl R. Holladay, whose work on the
interaction between early Christianity and Hellenistic Judaism has had a considerable impact on
the study of the New Testament. The essays are grouped into three sections: Hellenistic Judaism;
the New Testament in Context; and the History of Interpretation. Among the contributions are
essays dealing with conversion in Greek-speaking Judaism and Christianity; 3 Maccabees as a
• September 2008 narrative satire; retribution theology in Luke-Acts; church discipline in Matthew; the Exodus
• ISBN 978 90 04 16747 6 and comparative chronology in Jewish and patristic writings; corporal punishment in ancient
• Hardback (xvi, 504 pp) Israel and early Christianity; and Die Judenfrage and the construction of ancient Judaism.
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The Ethics of Obscene Speech in Early Christianity

and Its Environment
biblical studies
Jeremy F. Hultin
This book aims to contextualize early Christian rhetoric about foul language by asking such
questions as: Where was foul language encountered? What were the conventional arguments
for avoiding (or for using) obscene words? How would the avoidance of such speech have been
interpreted by others? A careful examination of the ancient uses of and discourse about foul
language illuminates the moral logic implicit in various Jewish and Christian texts (e.g. Sirach, 55
Colossians, Ephesians, the Didache, and the writings of Clement of Alexandria). Although the
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• June 2008 Christians of the first two centuries were consistently opposed to foul language, they had a
• ISBN 978 90 04 16803 9 variety of reasons for their moral stance, and they held different views about what role speech
• Hardback (xxii, 282 pp.) should play in forming their identity as a “holy people.”
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Brot, Licht und Weinstock

Intertextuelle Analysen johanneischer Ich-bin-Worte
Silke Petersen, Privatdozentin am Fachbereich Evangelische Theologie, Fakultät für

Geisteswissenschaften, Universität Hamburg
This study considers the “I am” sayings in the Gospel of John, interpreted in the context of
their reception in late antiquity. It takes an intertextual approach, considering both inner-
biblical parallels and extra-biblical texts, which have been much neglected in recent Johannine
scholarship. A comparative analysis of the “I am” formula is complemented by the consideration
• April 2008 of the metaphors of the predicative “I am” words, focussing particularly on the use of „bread“,
• ISBN 978 90 04 16599 1 „light“ and „vine“ and the context of these metaphors in the Gospel of John and elsewhere. This
• Hardback (xiv, 398 pp.) discussion demonstrates that Johannine Christology is profoundly incarnational.
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Compendia Rerum Iudaicarum ad Novum Testamentum NEW
New at Brill from 2009 onwards, this series was previously published by van Gorcum.
The journal was originally published in three sections:
Section 1 - The Jewish people in the First Century: historical geography, political history, social,
cultural and religious life and institutions
Section 2 - The Literature of the Jewish People in the Period of the Second Temple and the Talmud
Section 3 - Jewish Traditions in Early Christian Literature
For reasons of simplicity and in order to provide greater scope for multidisciplinary works, the division into different sections
will be discontinued from volume 12 onwards. Publication of the combined series will continue under the name Compendia Rerum
Iudaicarum ad Novum Testamentum.
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The Mystery of God

Early Jewish Mysticism and the New Testament
biblical studies
Christopher Rowland and Christopher Morray-Jones
This book brings together the perspectives of apocalypticism and early Jewish mysticism to
illuminate aspects of New Testament theology. The first part begins with a consideration
of the mystical character of apocalypticism and then uses the Book of Revelation and the
development of views about the heavenly mediator figure of Enoch to explore the importance
of apocalypticism in the Gospels and Acts, the Pauline Letters and finally the key theological
• June 2009 themes in the later books of the New Testament. The second and third parts explore the
56 • ISBN 978 90 04 17532 7 character of early Jewish mysticism by taking important themes in the early Jewish mystical
• Hardback (640 pp.) texts such as the Temple and the Divine Body to demonstrate the relevance of this material to
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Empsychoi Logoi — Religious Innovations in Antiquity

Studies in Honour of Pieter Willem van der Horst
Edited by Alberdina Houtman, Albert de Jong, Magda Misset-van de Weg
The fact that religions show internal variation and develop over time is not only a problem
for believers, but has also long engaged scholars. This is especially true for the religions of
the ancient world, where the mere idea of innovation in religious matters evoked notions
of revolution and destruction. With the emergence of new religious identities from the first
century onwards, we begin to find traces of an entirely new vision of religion. The question
was not whether a particular belief was new, but whether it was true and the two were no
• June 2008 longer felt to be mutually exclusive. The present volume brings together articles that study this
• ISBN 978 90 04 16597 7 transformation, ranging from broad overviews to detailed case-studies.
• Hardback (xxiv, 648 pp)
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The Pericope Adulterae, the Gospel of John,

and the Literacy of Jesus
Chris Keith
Although consistently overlooked or dismissed, John 8.6, 8 in the Pericope Adulterae is the only
place in canonical or non-canonical Jesus tradition that portrays Jesus as writing. After
establishing that John 8.6, 8 is indeed a claim that Jesus could write, this book offers a new
interpretation and transmission history of the Pericope Adulterae. Not only did the pericope’s
interpolator place the story in John’s Gospel in order to highlight the claim that Jesus could
• May 2009 write, but he did so at John 7.53–8.11 as a result of carefully reading the Johannine narrative.
• ISBN 978 90 04 17394 1 The final chapter of the book proposes a plausible socio-historical context for the insertion of
• Hardback (320 pp.) the story.
• New Testament Tools,
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Faith and Freedom in Galatia and Senegal
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The Apostle Paul, Colonists and Sending Gods
Aliou Cisse Niang
Faith and Freedom in Galatia and Senegal reads Galatians 2:11-15 and 3:26-29 through the lens
of the 19th-20th century experiences of French colonialism by the Diola people in Senegal,
West Africa, and portrays the Apostle Paul as a “’sociopostcolonial hermeneut who acted on
his self-understanding as God’s messenger to create, through faith in the cross of Christ, free
communities’ -- a self-definition that is critical of acient Graeco-Roman and modern colonial
• April 2009 lore that justify colonization as a divine mandate.” Aliou C. Niang ingeniously compares the
• ISBN 978 90 04 17522 8 colonial objectifiction of his own people by French colonists to the Graeco-Roman colonial
• Hardback (192 pp.) objectifications of the ancient Celts/Gauls/Galatians, and Paul’s role in bringing about a different
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Echoes of Scripture in the Letter of Paul to the Colossians

Christopher A. Beetham
While the use of the Old Testament in the New Testament has captured the attention of biblical
scholars over the years, no study has been devoted to the presence of Scripture in Colossians,
largely because there are no explicit quotations in Colossians. With the introduction of literary
intertextuality into the discipline, however, scholars have begun to devote more attention to
the NT authors’ less explicit references to Scripture, often labelled as ‘allusions’ and/or ‘echoes.’
Scholars, however, continue to debate what constitutes an allusion or echo, or how one validates
a given proposal as such. This study proposes new definitions of these terms and offers a
• November 2008 methodology on how to detect and validate them, using Colossians as a test case.
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Mark at the Threshold

Applying Bakhtinian Categories to Markan Characterisation
biblical studies
Geoff R. Webb
The discussion concerning Markan characterisation (and Markan genre) can be helpfully
informed by Bakhtinian categories. This book uses the twin foci of chronotope and carnival to
examine specific characters in terms of different levels of dialogue. Various passages in Mark
are examined, and thresholds are noted between interindividual character-zones, and between
the hearing-reader and text-voices. Several generic contacts are shown to have shaped the
58 • June 2008 text’s ‘genre-memory’ – in particular, the Graeco-Roman popular literature of the ancient world.
• ISBN 978 90 04 16774 2 The resultant picture is of an earthy, populist Gospel whose “voices” resonate with the “vulgar”
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• Hardback (xii, 276 pp.) classes, and whose spirituality is refreshingly relevant to everyday concerns.
Sight and Blindness in Luke-Acts

The Use of Physical Features in Characterization
Chad Hartsock
The ancient world often thought in terms of physiognomics—the idea that character can be
discerned by studying outward, physical features. That physical descriptions carry moral
freight in characterization has been largely missed in modern biblical scholarship, and this
study brings that to the forefront. Specifically, this is a study of one particular physical
marker—blindness. When we look at Greco-Roman literature, a kind of literary topos begins to
• May 2008 emerge, a set of assumptions that ancient audiences would typically make when encountering
• ISBN 978 90 04 16535 9 blind characters. Luke-Acts makes use of such a topos in a way that becomes programmatic,
• Cloth (vi, 226 pp.) serving as a kind of interpretive key to Luke-Acts that is generally unnoticed in modern
• List price EUR 99.- / US$ 147.- scholarship.
Recognizing the Stranger

Recognition Scenes in the Gospel of John
Kasper Bro Larsen
Recognizing the Stranger is the first monographic study of recognition scenes and motifs in the
Gospel of John. The recognition type-scene (anagnōrisis) was a common feature in ancient
drama and narrative, highly valued by Aristotle as a touching moment of truth, e.g., in Oedipus’
tragic self-discovery and Odysseus’ happy homecoming. The book offers a reconstruction of the
conventions of the genre and argues that it is one of the most recurrent and significant literary
forms in the Gospel. When portraying Jesus as the divine stranger from heaven, the Gospel
• April 2008 employs and transforms the formal and ideological structures of the type-scene in order to
• ISBN 978 90 04 16690 5 show how Jesus’ true identity can be recognized behind the half-mask of his human appearance.
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The Temporal Mechanics of the Fourth Gospel

A Theory of Hermeneutical Relativity in the Gospel of John
biblical studies
Douglas C. Estes
Spiritual but broken, theological but flawed—these are the words critics use to describe the
Gospel of John. Compared to the Synoptics, John’s version of the life of Jesus seems scrambled,
especially in the area of time and chronology. But what if John’s textual and temporal flaws
have more to do with our implicit assumptions about time than a text that is truly flawed? This
book responds to that question by reinventing narrative temporality in light of modern physics
• April 2008 and applying this alternative temporal lens to the Fourth Gospel. From the singularity in the 59
• ISBN 978 90 04 16598 4 epic prologue to the narrative warping of event-like objects, this work explodes the elemental
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• Hardback (xviii, 326 pp.) temporalities simmering below the surface of a spiritual yet superior Gospel text.
Pauline Studies
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Paul: Jew, Greek, and Roman

Edited by Stanley E. Porter
What does it mean to study Paul the Apostle as Jew, Greek, and Roman? The framing of the
question exposes the fact that the distinctions themselves involve a complex of ethnic, social,
and cultural designations. Paul is both a complicated individual of the ancient world, because
he combines in his one personage features of life in each of these cultural-ethnic (and even
religious) areas of the ancient world, and one of many people of that world who evidenced such
complexity. This volume, Paul: Jew, Greek, and Roman, explores a number of the important and
diverse cultural, ethnic, and religious dimensions of the multi-faceted background of Paul the
• January 2009 Apostle. Some of the treatments are focused and specific, while others range over the broad
• ISBN 978 90 04 17159 6 issues that go to making up the world of the Apostle.
• Hardback (xiv, 370 pp.)
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Paul’s World
Edited by Stanley E. Porter
This volume is concerned with Paul’s world. The major question to ask is—what is that world
of Paul? In determinable ways, Paul’s world is everything in the world in which Paul lived and
acted, and hence virtually everything that Paul did. In other words, Paul’s world can be defined
macrocosmically and microcosmically. As the term is defined in the various essays in this
volume, Paul’s world includes the surrounding environment in which Paul functioned, including
its various religious, social, cultural, literary, rhetorical, linguistic and related phenomena. This
volume treats some of the most important and germane factors that went into making up the
• March 2008 world in which Paul lived, and that consequently defined who he was and became.
• ISBN 978 90 04 16272 3
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SBL - The New Testament in the Greek Fathers

biblical studies
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The text of the Gospels in Clement of Alexandria

Carl P. Cosaert
This volume applies the latest methodological advances in patristic textual analysis to
60 explore the nature of the Gospel text used by Clement, an early Alexandrian father who wrote
extensively on the Christian faith and filled his writings with thousands of biblical citations.
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After examining Clement’s life and use of the New Testament writings, the book lists all of his
quotations of the Four Gospels and compares them to those of other Alexandrian Christians and
to the most significant ancient Greek and Latin manuscripts. The book demonstrates that the
form of the Gospels in Alexandria was in transition at the end of the second century and argues
• December 2008 that Clement’s Gospel text reveals an Alexandrian influence in John and Matthew and a stronger
• ISBN 978 90 04 16913 5 Western influence in Luke and his citations of Mark 10. Paperback edition is available from the
• Cloth (xiv, 370) Society of Biblical Literature (sbl-site.org)
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Early Christianity
Vigiliae Christianae, Supplements

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• ISBN 978 90 04 16904 3 Quinti Septimi Florentis Tertulliani De Anima

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• Vigiliae Christianae, Edited with Introduction and Commentary by J.H. Waszink
Supplements, 100 Edited by E.P Meijering, J. den Boeft and J.C.M. van Winden
The ‘Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae’ series was launched in 1987 with the publication
of Tertullianus, De Idololatria, a critical text with translation and commentary by J.H.
Waszink and J.C.M. van Winden (partly based on a manuscript left behind by P.G. van der
Nat). It seems appropriate, therefore, that the 100th volume to appear in the ‘Supplements to
Vigiliae Christianae’ series should be an updated reprint of J.H. Waszink’s monumental and
authoritative edition of Tertullian’s De Anima. This volume contains the complete contents of
the first edition to which we have added a brief overview of J.H. Waszink’s scholarly career, an
English translation of the greater part of the introduction to his German translation of De Anima
of 1980 and a list of corrections authorized by him.
Martha from the Margins
biblical studies
The Authority of Martha in Early Christian Tradition
Allie M. Ernst, Course Co-ordinator, Institute of Faith Education, Brisbane, Australia
In the popular imagination Martha has become synonymous with the harried housewife,
fretting over excessive preparations. The Martha known to early Christians is far removed from
this stereotype. Martha was better known for her role in the story of the raising of Lazarus and 61
as apostle and witness of the resurrection. This book gathers and assesses the early traditions
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about Martha in text, liturgy and iconography. It shows that the significance of Martha has
• July 2009 been seriously underestimated and recovers an important and widespread tradition of Martha
• ISBN 978 90 04 17490 0 as apostle and authority figure for early Christians. The analysis of Martha traditions with
• Hardback (xx, 369 pp.) attention to issues of gender and authority render this book an important contribution to
• List price EUR 121.- / US$ 179.- studies on women in early Christianity.
• Vigiliae Christianae,
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Esoteric Teaching in the Stromateis

of Clement of Alexandria
Andrew C. Itter
The Stromateis of Clement of Alexandria (c.150-215 CE) has received much scholarly debate over
whether it can be accorded the role of the third and highest phase of his pedagogy. This was
a treatise that promised an account of the true philosophy of Christ set down for Christians
seeking higher knowledge of doctrine. This book takes a new approach to deciphering the
nature and purpose of these enigmatic books concentrating on the close relationship between
• May 2009 method and doctrine, and the number and sequence of the texts as they have come down to
• ISBN 978 90 04 17482 5 us. The outcome is a concise summary of current scholarship on Clement’s method and a fresh
• Hardback (xx, 256 pp.) picture of how he applies it to the transmission of esoteric doctrines.
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Early Christianity
The Dyophysite Christology of Cyril of Alexandria

Hans van Loon
The formula ‘one incarnate nature of the Word of God’ has often been depicted as a summary
of Cyril of Alexandria’s (ca 378-444) christology. But no systematic study into his christological
works has been published. Besides, there is no consensus regarding the meaning of the key
terms and expressions in these works. This book addresses this deficiency by an integral
investigation of the archbishop’s christological writings during the first two years of the
Nestorian controversy, and comes to the conclusion that his christology is basically dyophysite.
This re-appraisal of his christology bears on the understanding of the Council of Chalcedon and
• May 2009 on contemporary ecumenical relations, especially those between the Eastern Orthodox and the
• ISBN 978 90 04 17322 4 Oriental Orthodox.
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Angelomorphic Pneumatology
Clement of Alexandria and Other Early Christian Witnesses
biblical studies
Bogdan Gabriel Bucur, Duquesne University, Department of Theology
This book pursues the occurrence of angelomorphic pneumatology in early Christian

literature—that is, the use of angelic imagery in early Christian discourse about the Holy
Spirit—by taking as its entry-point Clement of Alexandria’s less explored writings, Excerpta ex
Theodoto, Eclogae propheticae, and Adumbrationes. Clement’s angelomorphic pneumatology
62 occurs in tandem with spirit christology, within a theological framework still characterized
by a binitarian orientation. This complex theological articulation, supported by the exegesis
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• May 2009 of specific biblical passages (Zech 4:10; Isa 11:2-3; Matt 18:10), reworks Jewish and Christian
• ISBN 978 90 04 17414 6 traditions about the seven first-created angels, and constitutes a relatively widespread
• Hardback (260 pp.) phenomenon in early Christianity. Evidence to support this claim is presented in the course of
• List price EUR 99.- / US$ 147.- separate studies of Revelation, the Shepherd of Hermas, Justin Martyr, and Aphrahat.
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• June 2009 God in Early Christian Thought

• ISBN 978 90 04 17412 2
Essays in Memory of Lloyd G. Patterson.
• Vigiliae Christianae, Edited by Andrew B. McGowan, Brian E. Daley, S.J. and Timothy J. Gaden
Supplements, 94
While the diversity of early Christian thought and practice is now generally assumed, and the
experiences and beliefs of Christians beyond the works of great theologians increasingly valued,
the question of God is perennial and fundamental. These essays, individually modest in scope,
seek to address that largest of questions using particular issues and problems, or single thinkers
and distinct texts. They include studies of doctrine and theology as traditionally conceived, but
also of understandings of God among the early Christians that emerge from study of liturgy, art,
and asceticism, and in relation to the social order and to nature itself.
Early Christianity
Leo the Great and the Spiritual Rebuilding

of a Universal Rome
Susan Wessel, Assistant Professor of Church History and Historical Theology,
Catholic University of America
Leo the Great was a major figure of the late Roman world whose life and work were profoundly
intertwined with the political crisis of his day. As the western empire gradually succumbed
to the advancing barbarian kingdoms, Leo understood that the papacy needed to expand its
authority in order for the church to survive the demise of the political system. This book
• October 2008 argues that his achievement was to transform the church not only in the practical level of
• ISBN 978 90 04 17052 0 administrative organization, but in the more fluid realm of thought and idea. The secular Rome
• Hardback (xii, 424 pp.) that was crumbling was replaced with a Christian, universal Rome that he fashioned by infusing
• List price EUR 129.- / US$ 191.- his theology with humanitarian ideals.
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The Despoliation of Egypt

in Pre-Rabbinic, Rabbinic and Patristic Traditions
biblical studies
Joel Stevens Allen
This work examines the role played by the biblical motif of the despoliation of Egypt in the
understanding Gentiles had of Jews, and how Jews defended themselves, their heroes and
their God in the face of anti-Jewish slander. It also examines the manner in which Christians
learned from their rabbinic counterparts how to defend Moses and his God against the gnostic
challenge. Beginning with Philo and based on haggadic additions, the embarrassment of the 63
episode was ‘healed’ through allegory and became a critically important biblical justification
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• June 2008 for the Christian appropriation of the ‘Egyptian treasures’ of their Greco-Roman cultural
• ISBN 978 90 04 16745 2 heritage. This work describes how Christians borrowed exegetical traditions from rabbis not
• Hardback (viii, 308 pp.) only to defend their sacred texts against gnostic attacks but to justify their interest in and
• List price EUR 107.- / US$ 159.- appropriation of non-Christian philosophy in their theological understandings.
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Irenaeus on Creation
The Cosmic Christ and the Saga of Redemption
Matthew C. Steenberg, Leeds Trinity and All Saints
Scholarship on Irenaeus has long acknowledged the centrality of creation to his theology, yet
without fitting this theme securely into the Christological vision of Christ the ‘Recapitulator’.
Studies have considered elements of Irenaeus’ cosmology and anthropology in extraction;
but without seeing creation as an intrinsic part of his Christocentric vision, these have only
partially been able to capture the intricacy and significance of his embrace of the creation saga.
• May 2008 Drawing on the most recent Irenaean scholarship, the present volume explores in detail the
• ISBN 978 90 04 16682 0 Christocentric cosmology of one of the second century’s greatest writers, setting him in the
• Hardback (xiv, 246 pp) context of the theological currents of his day. The result is a volume that offers new insights into
• List price EUR 93.- / US$ 138.- the trinitarian articulation of early Christianity, the full significance of humanity as bearing
• Vigiliae Christianae, God’s ‘image’, and a fuller reading of the details behind the title, ‘Irenaeus the creationist’.
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Early Christianity
Gregorii Nysseni Opera

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Opera exegetica In Genesim

Volume 1 Gregorii Nysseni In Hexaemeron
Hubertus Drobner
This is the first critical edition of Gregory of Nyssa’s In Hexaemeron based on all known
manuscripts, introduced by a complete discussion of the textual transmission and accompanied
by extensive annotations on the biblical, classical and patristic sources, and indices.
• August 2009
• ISBN 978 90 04 13315 0
• Cloth (ong 224 pp in Greek)
• Gregorii Nysseni Opera,
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Opera dogmatica minora

Volume 5 Epistula canonica
Ekkehardus Mühlenberg
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This book provides the Greek text of the Epistula canonica by Gregory of Nyssa. It is a critical
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edition based on the examination of ca. 150 manuscripts. The preface analyzes the transmission
of the text in great detail. Gregory’s canonical letter has been part of the canonical letters of
the Fathers from the beginning of such collections. The example of a single letter within these
collections gives an important insight into the nomocanon-tradition.
• October 2008 Gregory’s letter is of great interest. It is the only canonical writing presenting a theoretical basis
• ISBN 978 90 04 13314 3 for the canonical penalties determining the times of exclusion from the congregation’s worship
• Hardback (cliv, 14 pp. in Greek) and the gradual return of the penitens to full communion.
• Gregorii Nysseni Opera,
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• November 2009 Brill Dictionary of Gregory of Nyssa

• ISBN 978 90 04 16965 4
• Cloth Edited by Lucas Francisco Mateo-Seco & Giulio Maspero
• List price EUR 173.- / US$ 256.- Translated by Seth Cherney
The Brill Dictionary of Gregory of Nyssa is the fruit of wide-ranging collaboration between
experts in Philology, Philosophy, History and Theology. These scholars shared the desire to
develop a comprehensive reference work that would help attract more people to the tudy of
the ‘Father of Fathers’ and assist them in their work. Gregory of Nyssa’s thought is at once
quintessentially classic and modern, as it speaks directly to the contemporary reader. As
interest in Gregory has increased along with the number of works devoted to him, the need for
a comprehensive introduction and bibliographical reference work has arisen. In order to meet
this need, more than forty scholars from various disciplines and perspectives have contributed
to this work. In two hundred articles, the Brill Dictionary of Gregory of Nyssa provides a
symphonic vision of the studies on Gregory of Nyssa and his thought.
Gnosticism & Manichaeism
Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies

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• September 2009 Manichaean and Its Legacy

• ISBN 978 90 04 17574 7
• Hardback J. Kevin Coyle
• Nag Hammadi and Manichaean This volume reproduces nineteen chapters and articles published between 1991 through
Studies, 69 2008, on Manichaeism, and its contacts with Augustine of Hippo, its most famous convert
and also best-known adversary. The contents are divided into four parts: perceptions of Mani
within the Roman Empire, select aspects of Manichaean thought, women in Manichaeism, and
Manichaeism and Augustine. Though these chapters and articles reproduce their originals,
adjustments have been made to include cross-referencing, newer editions, and the like, all with
the aim of rendering them more accessible to a new readership among those who follow the
fortunes of Mani’s religion in the Roman Empire and/or the “Manichaean” aspects of Augustine
of Hippo.
• August 2009 Paradise Reconsidered in Gnostic Mythmaking
biblical studies
• ISBN 978 90 04 17323 1
• Hardback
Rethinking Sethianism in Light of of the Ophite Evidence
• Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Tuomas Rasimus
Studies, 68
This book offers a new understanding of Sethianism and the origins of Gnosticism by examining
the mythology in and social reality behind a group of texts to which certain leaders of the early
church occasionally attached the label ‘Ophite.’ In the unique Ophite mythology, which rewrites
the Genesis paradise story and is attested, for example, in Irenaeus’ Adversus haereses 1.30, 65
The Apocryphon of John and On the Origin of the World, the snake’s advice to eat of the tree of
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knowledge is considered positive, the creator and his angels are turned into demonic beasts and
the true Godhead is presented as an androgynous heavenly projection of Adam and Eve. It is
argued that Hans-Martin Schenke’s influential model of the ‘Sethian system’ only reveals part of
a larger whole to which the Ophite material belongs as an important and organic component.
• July 2009 Valentinian Ethics and Paraenetic Discourse

• ISBN 978 90 04 17507 5
Determining the Social Function of Moral Exhortation
• List price EUR 121.- / US$ 179.- in Valentinian Christianity
• Nag Hammadi and Manichaean
Studies, 67 Philip L. Tite, Department of Religious Studies, Willamette University, Salem, OR
Offering a fresh assessment of the presence and function of paraenesis within Valentinianism,
this book places Valentinian moral exhortation within the context of early Christian moral
discourse. Like other early Christians, Valentinians were not only interested in ethics, but used
moral exhortation to discursively shape social identity. Building on the increasing recognition
of ethical and communal concerns reflected in the Nag Hammadi sources, this book advances
the discussion by elucidating the social rhetoric within, especially, the Gospel of Truth and the
Interpretation of Knowledge. The social function of paraenesis is to persuade an audience through
social re-presentation. The authors of these texts discursively position their readers, and
themselves, within engaging moments of narrativity. It is hoped that this study will encourage
greater integration of research between those working on the Nag Hammadi material and those
studying early Christian paraenetic discourse.
Pentadic Redaction in the Manichaean Kephalaia

Timothy Pettipiece
Discovered in 1929, the Manichaean Kephalaia have opened up an important window on the early
development of Manichaean doctrine. This study identifies a significant redactional tendency
whereby the compilers of the text sought to clarify ambiguities in “canonical” Manichaean
tradition by means of five-part numerical series. This discovery challenges the conventional
wisdom of Manichaean scholarship, which has long maintained that, since Mani recorded his
own teachings in a series of what later became canonical writings, Manichaean doctrines were
transmitted relatively unchanged from the master to successive generations of disciples. Since
• May 2009 this assumption is now called into question, it now becomes necessary to re-evaluate received
• ISBN 978 90 04 17436 8 notions about the shape of both the Manichaean “canon” and “tradition.”
Studies, 66
Nag Hammadi Bibliography

1995-2006
biblical studies
David M. Scholer
This is the third volume of the immensely useful Nag Hammadi Bibliography, the first volume
of which covered 1948–1969 and was the first publication in the Nag Hammadi Studies series.
The second volume covered 1970–1994. This third volume provides a complete integration
of Supplements II/1–II/8 to the Bibliography as published in Novum Testamentum 1998–2008,
66 with additions and corrections. This latest update contains 3,063 entries, with the set of three
• October 2008 volumes containing 11,580 entries. Nag Hammadi and Gnostic studies continue to be of critical
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• ISBN 978 90 04 17240 1 importance for the study of ancient religions in the Graeco-Roman world and for the study
• Hardback (xviii, 278 pp.) of the world of early Christianity, and the present bibliography provides an indispensable
• List price EUR 99.- / US$ 158.- reference tool for work in these fields.
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New Light on Manichaeism

Papers from the Sixth International Congress on Manichaeism
Edited by Jason David BeDuhn
New Light on Manichaeism provides the latest discoveries and insights into the Manichaean
religion throughout its more than one thousand year history, ranging from glimpses into the
life and thought of Mani himself, to developments in doctrine and practice in the religion’s
North African, Iranian, Central Asian, and Chinese settings. The volume includes contributions
from the leading scholars in the field, offering new reconstructions of Manichaean literary and
• March 2009 artistic productions, and innovative analyses of the religious, social, and political dynamics that
• ISBN 978 90 04 17285 2 shaped the rise and fall of this world religion.
• Hardback (xviii, 304 pp.)
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The Panarion of Epiphanius of Salamis: Book I

(Sects 1-46) Second Edition, Revised and Expanded
Translated by Frank Williams
Epiphanius, monastic founder and bishop of Salamis on Cyprus for almost 40 years of the fourth
century, threw heart and soul into the controversies of the time and produced the “Panarion” or
“Medicine Chest”, an historical encyclopedia of sects and heresies and their refutations. Book
I, concerned chiefly with Gnostic and Jewish Christian groups, deals with material which is also
found in Nag Hammadi and other Gnostic writings and in such patristic authors as Irenaeus,
• October 2008 Hippolytus et al, and reproduces documents not available elsewhere. Its translation has been
• ISBN 978 90 04 17017 9 found useful by students of Nag Hammadi and Gnosticism, patrologists, historians of religion,
• Hardback (xlii, 406 pp.) church historians, students of Judaism, and the theologically minded public.
Studies, 63
The Gospel of Judas in Context

Proceedings of the First International Conference on the Gospel of Judas
biblical studies
Paris, Sorbonne, October 27th-28th, 2006
Edited by Madeleine Scopello, Directeur de recherche au CNRS (HDR),
Sorbonne University, Paris
The papers gathered in this book were presented at the First International Conference (held in
Paris, University of Sorbonne, October 27th-28th 2006), devoted to the newly discovered Gospel
of Judas, preserved in the 4th century Coptic Codex Tchacos. These essays explore several crucial 67
• July 2008 literary, historical and doctrinal issues related to this gospel, composed in the second half of
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• ISBN 978 90 04 16721 6 the 2nd century. This unexpected discovery sheds a new light on the role attributed to Judas
• Hardback (xvi, 404 pp.) by some Gnostic Christian movements. A hotly debated question is precisely the significance
• List price EUR 99.- / US$ 147.- of Judas in this gospel: hero or villain? Special attention is given to the sources - Greek, Jewish,
• Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Christian and even Iranian - used by the unknown author. This book will be of special interest
Studies, 62 for historians of late Antiquity religions and scholars in New Testament studies, Gnosticism and
Coptic literature.
The Spiritual Seed — The Church of the ‘Valentinians’

(paperback)
Einar Thomassen
This book is a comprehensive study of “Valentinianism,” the most important Gnostic Christian
movement in Antiquity. It is the first attempt to make full use of the Valentinian documents
from Nag Hammadi as well as the reports of the Church Fathers.
The book discusses the difference between the Eastern and the Western branches of
Valentinianism, and argues that individual sources must always be understood in the context
• February 2008 of the historical development of Valentinian doctrines. It also analyses the ideas about the
• ISBN 978 90 04 16733 9 incarnation, protological theories, and initiation practice, as well as the dynamic relationship
• Paperback (xvi, 552 pp) between these building-blocks of Valentinian doctrine. A final chapter studies anew the
• List price EUR 59.- / US$ 87.- doctrine of Valentinus himself and outlines the history of the movement.
The book’s usefulness lies in its attempt to bring together for the first time all the sources so as
to construct a coherent picture of Valentinian Christianity.
History of Christianity
The History of Christian-Muslim Relations

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• October 2009 Islamic Reformism and Christianity

• ISBN 978 90 04 17911 0
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A Critical Reading of the Works of Muḥammad Rashīd Riḍā
• List price EUR 125.- / US$ 185.- and His Associates (1898-1935)
• The History of Christian-Muslim
Relations, 12 Umar Ryad
No previous full-scale study has been undertaken so far to study the polemical writings of the
Muslim reformist Muḥammad Rashīd Riḍā (1865-1935) and his associates in his well-known
journal al-Manār (The Lighthouse). The book focuses on the dynamics of Muslim understanding
of Christianity during the late 19th and the early 20th century in the light of al-Manār’s sources
of knowledge, and its answers to the social, political and theological aspects of missionary
movements in the Muslim World of Riḍā’s age. The basis of the analysis encompasses the
voluminous publications by Riḍā and other Manārists in his journal. Besides, it makes use of
newly-discovered materials, including Riḍā’s private papers, and some other remaining personal
archives of some of his associates.
biblical studies
The History of Christian-Muslim Relations;

Christian-Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History
Edited by David Thomas & Barbara Roggema
68 Christian Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History is published as a sub-series

of the History of Christian-Muslim Relations bookseries.
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Christian-Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History.

Volume 1 (600-900)
Edited by David Thomas & Barbara Roggema.
With Juan Pedro Monferrer Sala, Johannes Pahlitzsch,
Mark Swanson, Herman Teule, John Tolan
Christian-Muslim Relations, a Bibliographical History 1 (CMR1) is the first part of a general history
of relations between the faiths from the seventh century to the present. It covers the period
from 600 to 1500, when encounters took place through the extended Mediterranean basin and
• August 2009 are recorded in Syriac, Arabic, Greek, Latin and other languages. It comprises introductory
• ISBN 978 90 04 16975 3 essays on the treatment of Christians in the Qur’an, Qur’an commentaries, biographies of the
• Hardback (944 pp.) Prophet, Hadith and Sunni law, and of Muslims in canon law, and the main body of more than
• List price EUR 219.- / US$ 324.- two hundred detailed entries on all the works recorded, whether surviving or lost. These
• The History of Christian-Muslim entries provide biographical details of the authors where known, descriptions and assessments
Relations, 11 of the works themselves, and complete accounts of manuscripts, editions, translations and
studies. The result of collaboration between leading scholars, CMR1 is intended as a basic tool
for research in Christian-Muslim relations.
Coming Online in late 2009! Christian-Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical

History Online
Edited by David Thomas and Barbara Roggema,
with Juan Pedro Monferrer Sala, Johannes Pahlitzsch, Mark Swanson, Herman Teule, John Tolan
Christian-Muslim Relations, a Bibliographical History Online (CMR Online) will be a general online history of relations between the faiths
from the seventh century to the present. It covers the period from 600 to 1500, when encounters took place through the extended
Mediterranean basin and are recorded in Syriac, Arabic, Greek, Latin and other languages. It comprises introductory essays on
the treatment of Christians in the Qur’an, Qur’an commentaries, biographies of the Prophet, Hadith and Sunni law, and of Muslims
in canon law, and the main body of more than two hundred detailed entries on all the works recorded, whether surviving or lost.
These entries provide biographical details of the authors where known, descriptions and assessments of the works themselves, and
complete accounts of manuscripts, editions, translations and studies. The result of collaboration between leading scholars, CMR
Online is intended as a basic tool for research in Christian-Muslim relations. The online publication will cover all volumes of the
print edition and will be updated regularly with new material as it becomes available.
The benefits of brillonline.nl include:

• Christian Muslim Relations Online is offered on a single online platform together with other Brill reference titles
• Ability to cross-search multiple titles
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Christian Doctrines in Islamic Theology

David Thomas, University of Birmingham
By the tenth century Islamic theology had become an integrated system by which theologians 69
constructed sophisticated accounts of the nature of the world and God’s relationship with it.
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They also used it to establish proofs that Islam was the only rationally tenable form of belief,
building these in part on proofs of the illogicalities in other faiths, including Christianity.
Through excerpts from key works of the theologians al-Nashi’ al-Akbar, al-Maturidi, al-
Baqillani and ʿAbd al-Jabbar, this book shows how Muslim theologians in this period made use of
Christian doctrines as examples of misguided thinking to help confirm the correctness of their
• August 2008 own theology, and how among Muslim theologians Christianity had ceased to attract serious
• ISBN 978 90 04 16935 7 attention as a rival to Islam.
• Hardback (viii, 392 pp.)
• The History of Christian-Muslim
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Sinica Leidensia
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Early Christian Remains of Inner Mongolia

Discovery, Reconstruction and Appropriation
Tjalling H.F. Halbertsma
The early Christian presence in Inner Mongolia forms the subject of this book. These Nestorian
remains must primarily be attributed to the Öngüt, a Turkic people closely allied to the Mongols.
Writing in Syriac, Uighur and Chinese scripts and languages, the Nestorian Öngüt drew upon
a variety of religions and cultures to decorate their gravestones with crosses rising from lotus
flowers, dragons and Taoist imagery. This heritage also portrays designs found in the Islamic
world. Taking a closer look at the discovery of this material and its significance for the study of
• August 2008 the early Church of the East under the Mongols, the author reconstructs the Nestorian culture
• ISBN 978 90 04 16708 7 of the Öngüt. The reader will find many newly discovered objects not published before. At the
• Hardback (xxxii, 356 pp., 64 pp.) same time this study demonstrates how many remaining objects were appopriated and, in many
• List price EUR 120.- / US$ 178.- cases, vanished after their discovery.
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Authors Index
63 Allen, J.S., The Despoliation of Egypt, in Pre-Rabbinic, 32 Cook, E.M., A Glossary of Targum Onkelos,
Rabbinic and Patristic Traditions According to Alexander Sperber’s Edition
37 Alvar, J., Translator and Editor: R.Gordon, Romanising 14 Cook, J., Septuagint and Reception
Oriental God, Myth, Salvation and Ethics in the Cults of Cybele, 60 Cosaert, C.P., The Text of the Gospels in Clement of Alexandria
Isis and Mithras 65 Coyle, J.K., Manichaeism and Its Legacy
31 Adams, S.L., Wisdom in Transition, Act and Consequence in 15 Crane, Ashley S., Israel’s Restoration,
Second Temple Instructions A Textual-Comparative Exploration of Ezekiel 36-39
28 Anisfeld, R.A., Sustain Me with Raisin-Cakes, Pesikta deRav 44 Curtis, B.G., Up the Steep and Stony Road, The Book
Kahana and the Popularization of Rabbinic Judaism of Zechariah in Social Location Trajectory Analysis
28 Batsch, Ch. and Vârtejanu-Joubert, M. (eds); 51 Deijl van der, A., Protest or Propaganda, War in the Old
Manières de penser dans l’Antiquité méditerranéenne et orientale, Testament Book of Kings and in Contemporaneous Ancient
Mélanges offerts à Francis Schmidt par ses élèves, ses Near Eastern Texts.
collègues et ses amis 39 DiTommaso, L. and Turcescu, L., The Reception and
36 Becking, B. & Human, D. (eds), Exile and Suffering Interpretation of the Bible in Late Antiquity, Proceedings of the
A Selection of Papers Read at the 50th Anniversary Meeting Montréal Colloquium in Honour of Charles Kannengiesser,
of the Old Testament Society of South Africa OTWSA/OTSSA, 2006
Pretoria 64 Drobner, H., Opera exegetica In Genesim, Volume 1,
11 Beekes, R., Etymological Dictionary of Greek Gregorii Nysseni in Hexaemeron
51 Beentjes, P.C., Tradition and Transformation in the Book of 18 Eph’al, I., The City Besieged, Siege and its Manifestations
Chronicles in the Ancient Near East
58 Beetham, C.A., Echoes of Scripture in the Letter of Paul to the 61 Ernst, A.M., Martha from the Margins, The Authority
biblical studies
Colossians of Martha in Early Christian Tradition
66 BeDuhn, J.D., New Light on Manichaeism, Papers from the 59 Estes, D.C., The Temporal Mechanics of the Fourth Gospel,
Sixth International Congress on Manichaeism A Theory of Hermeneutical Relativity in the Gospel of John
25 Ben-Dov, J., Head of All Years, Astronomy and Calendars at 14 Evans, P. S., The Invasion of Sennacherib in the Book of Kings,
Qumran in their Ancient Context A Source-Critical and Rhetorical Study of 2 Kings 18-19
38 Bernabé, A. and Jiménez San Cristóbal, A.I., 4 Fahlbusch, E.; Lochman, J.M.; Mbiti, J.; Pelikan, J.
Instructions for the Netherworld, The Orphic Gold Tablets and Vischer, L., The Encyclopedia of Christianity,
46 Berquist, J. L., Approaching Yehud, New Approaches to the Volume 5 (Si-Z)
Study of the Persian Period 19 Fantalkin, A. and Yasur-Landau, A., Bene Israel, 77
33 Boda, M.J., Falk, D.K. and Werline, R.A., Seeking the Studies in the Archaeology of Israel and the Levant during
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Favor of God, The Impact of Penitential Prayer beyond Second the Bronze and Iron Ages in Honour of Israel Finkelstein
Temple Judaism 27 Fields, W.W., The Dead Sea Scrolls - The full history
45 Boer, R., Last Stop before Antarctica, 26 Fields, W.W., Los Rollos del Mar Muerto, Una Historia Breve
The Bible and Postcolonialism in Australia. Second Edition 48 Flannery, F., Shantz, C. and Werline, R.A., Experientia,
45 Boer, R., Bakhtin and Genre Theory in Biblical Studies Volume 1 , Inquiry into Religious Experience in Early Judaism
40 Bremmer, J.N., Greek Religion and Culture, the Bible and and Christianity
the Ancient Near East 22 Foley, T.S., Biblical Translation in Chinese and Greek,
43 Brooke, G.J., Hindy Najman, H., Stuckenbruck, Verbal Aspect in Theory and Practice
L.T.(eds), The Significance of Sinai, Traditions about Sinai 17 Forti, Tova. L., Animal Imagery in the Book of Proverbs
and Divine Revelation in Judaism and Christianity 28 Gambetti, S., The Alexandrian Riots of 38 C.E. and the
62 Bucur, B.G., Angelomorphic Pneumatology, Clement Persecution of the Jews. A Historical Reconstruction
of Alexandria and Other Early Christian Witnesses 52 Gerdmar, A., Roots of Theological Anti-Semitism
54 Buitenwerf, R., Hollander, H.W. and Tromp, J., 37 Gleba, M. and Becker, H. (eds), Votives, Places and Rituals
Jesus Paul and Early Christianity, Studies in honour in Etruscan Religion, Studies in Honor of Jean MacIntosh Turfa
of Henk Jan de Jonge 14 Glenny, W. E., Finding Meaning in the Text- Translation
35 Carbojosa, I., The Character of the Syriac Version of Psalms, Technique and Theology in the Septuagint of Amos
A Study of Psalms 90-150 in the Peshitta 55 Gray, P. and O’Day, G.R., Scripture and Traditions, Essays on
7 Chilton, B.D., Gurtner, D.M. and Schiffman, Early Judaism and Christianity in Honor of Carl R. Holladay
L.H. (eds), A Comparative Handbook to the Gospel of Mark, 30 Gross, A., Continuity and Innovation in the Aramaic Legal
Comparisons with Pseudepigrapha, the Qumran Schrolls Tradition
and Rabbinic Literature 41 Grypeou, E. and Spurling, H., The Exegetical Encounter
23 Clements, R. A. and Schwartz, D.R. (eds), Text, Thought, between Jews and Christians in Late Antiquity
and Practice in Qumran and Early Christianity, Proceedings of 46 Habel, N.C. and Trudinger, P. (eds),
the Ninth International Symposium of the Orion Center for Exploring Ecological Hermeneutics
the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Associated Literature 18 Hachlili, R., Ancient Mosaic Pavements, Themes, Issues
49 Cohen, M.Z., Three Approaches to Biblical Metaphor, and Trends
From Abraham Ibn Ezra and Maimonides to David Kimhi, 70 Halbertsma, T.H.F., Early Christian Remains of Inner Mongolia
2nd revised edition.
Authors Index
18 Hallo, W. W., The World’s Oldest Literature, 30 Lied L. I., The Other Lands of Israel, Imaginations of the Land
Studies in Sumerian Belles-Lettres in 2 Baruch
58 Hartsock, C., Sight and Blindness in Luke-Acts, 37 Lipka, M., Roman Gods, A Conceptual Approach
The Use of Physical Features in Characterization 34 Littman, R.J., Tobit, The Book of Tobit in Codex Sinaiticus
32 Ho, A., The Targum of Zephaniah, Manuscripts 62 Loon van, H., The Dyophysite Christology of Cyril of Alexandria
and Commentary 12 Lubotsky, S., Indo-European Dictionaries Online
29 Hogan, K.M., Theologies in Conflict in 4 Ezra, 25 Machiela, D. A., The Dead Sea Genesis Apocryphon,
Wisdom Debate and Apocalyptic Solution A New Text and Translation with Introduction and Special
23 Hogeterp, A.L.A., Expectations of the End Treatment of Columns 13-17
A Comparative Traditio-Historical Study of Eschatological, 27 Magnes, J.L., Revised Lists of the Texts from the Judaean Desert
Apocalyptic and Messianic Ideas in the Dead Sea Scrolls 6 Mann, F., Lexicon Gregorianum
and the New Testament 6 Marjanen, A and Luomanen, P., A Companion to Second-
7 Holmén, T. and Porter, S. E., Handbook for the Study Century Christian “Heretics”
of the Historical Jesus 6 Mason, S., Judean War 1-4, volume 1B, Judean War 2
52 Hoop de, R., Korpel, M.C.A. and Porter, S.E., 64 Mateo-Seco, L.F. and Maspero, G. (eds),
The Impact of Unit Delimitation on Exegesis Brill Dictionary of Gregory of Nyssa
39 Horn, C.B. and Phenix, R.R., John Rufus, The Lives 12 Matirosyan, H. K., Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian
of Peter the Iberian, Theodosius of Jerusalem, and the Inherited Lexicon
Monk Romanus 62 McGowan, A.B., Daly, B.E. and Gaden, T.J.,
56 Houtman, A., de Jong, A. and Misset-van de Weg, God in Early Christian Thought, Essays in Memory
M., Empsychoi Logoi,- Religious Innovations in Antiquity, 15 Mirguet, F., Le representation du divin dans les récits
biblical studies
Studies in Honour of Pieter Willem van der Horst du Pentateuque, Médiations syntaxiques et narratives
54 Huizenga, L.A., The New Isaac, Tradition and 50 Mol, J., Collective and Individual Responsibility,
Intertextuality in the Gospel of Matthew A Description of Corporate Personality in Ezekiel 18 and 20
55 Hultin, J.F., The Ethics of Obscene Speech in Early Christianity 64 Muhlenberg, E., Opera dogmatic minora, Volume 5,
and Its Environment Epistula canonica
61 Itter, A.C., Esoteric Teaching in the Stromateis of Clement of 48 Neufeld, D., The Social Sciences and Biblical Translation
Alexandria 57 Niang, A.C., Faith and Freedom in Galatia and Senegal,
40 Jacobson, D.M. and Kokkinos, N., Herod and Augustus, The Apostle Paul, Colonists and Sending Gods
78 Papers from the IJS Conference, 2005 34 Olley, J. W., Septuagint Commentary Series, Volume Ezekiel,
20 Kahn, L.O., The Verbal System in Late Enlightenment Hebrew A Commentary based on Iezekiēl in Codex Vaticanus
Korte, A-M. and Haardt de, M., The Boundaries 21 Park, Y.M., Mark’s Memory Resources and the Controversy
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of Monotheism, Interdisciplinary Explorations into the Stories (Mark 2:1-3:6), An Application of the Frame Theory
Foundations of Western Monotheism. of Cognitive Science to the Markan Oral-Aural Narrative
47 Kelle B.E. and Ritchel Ames, F., Writing and Reading War, 33 Peters, D.M., Noah Traditions in the Dead Sea Scrolls,
Rhetoric, Gender and Ethics in Biblical and Modern Contexts Conversations and Controversies of Antiquity
57 Keith, C., The Pericope Adulterae, the Gospel of John, 55 Petersen, S., Brot, Licht und Weinstock, Intertextuelle
and the Literacy of Jesus Analysen johanneischer Ich-bin-Worte
20 Khan, G., The Neo-Aramaic Dialect of Barwar 66 Pettipiece, T., Pentadic Redaction in the Manichaean
24 Klostergaard Petersen, A., Elgvin, T., Wassen, C., Kephalaia
von Weissenberg, H. and Winninge, M., 16 Pinçon, B., L’énigme du bonheur, Étude sur le sujet du bien
Northern Lights on the Dead Sea Scrolls, Proceedings dans le livre de Qohélet
of the Nordic Qumran Network 2003-2006 44 Pomykala, K., Israel in the Wilderness, Interpretations
35 Knibb, M.A., Essays on the Book of Enoch and Other of the Biblical Narratives in Jewish and Christian Tradition
Early Jewish Texts and Traditions 46 Porter, S.E. and Stanley, C.D. (eds), As It Is Written,
43 Kooten van, G.H. and Ruiten van, J., The Prestige of the Studying Paul’s Use of Scripture
Pagan Prophet Balaam in Judaism, Early Christianity and Islam 59 Porter, S.E., Paul: Jew, Greek and Roman
43 Lang, B., International Review of Biblical Studies, 60 Porter, S.E., Paul’s World
volumes 53 and 54 54 Rasimus, T. (ed.), The Legacy of John, Second-Century
59 Larsen, K.B., Recognizing the Stranger, Recognition Scenes Reception of the Fourth Gospel
in the Gospel of John 65 Rasimus, T., Paradise Reconsidered in Gnostic Mythmaking,
38 Lupu, E., Greek Sacred Law (2nd edition), Rethinking Sethianism in Light of the Ophite Evidence
A Collection of New Documents 33 Reinhartz, A., They Shall Purify Themselves, Essays on Purity
21 Lee, J.H., Paul’s Gospel in Romans, A Discourse Analysis in Early Judaism
of Rom 1:16-8:39 24 Rey, J.-S., 4QInstruction : sagesse et eschatologie
47 Lee, N.C. and Mandolfo, C., Lamentations in Ancient 29 Rodgers, Z. with Daly-Denton, M. and Fitzpatrick
and Contemporary Cultural Contexts McKinley, A., A Wandering Galilean:
36 Lemmelijn, B., A Plague of Texts? A Text-Critical Study Essays in Honour of Seán Freyne
of the So-Called ‘Plagues Narrative’ in Exodus 7:14–11:10
Authors Index
56 Rowland, C. and Morray-Jones, C., The Mystery of God, 68 Thomas, D.R. and Roggema, B., Christian-Muslim
Early Jewish Mysticism and the New Testament Relations. A Bibliographical History, Volume 1 (600-900)
50 Ter Haar Romeny, B., Jacob of Edessa and the Syriac Culture 69 Thomas, D.R. and Roggema, B., Christian-Muslim
of His Day Relations. A Bibliographical History Online
49 Roncace, M. and Gray, P., Teaching the Bible through 69 Thomas, D.R., Christian Doctrines in Islamic Theology
Popular Culture and the Arts. 67 Thomassen, E., The Spiritual Seed — The Church
15 Ruiten van, J.T.A.G.M. and Vos de, J.C. (eds), of the ‘Valentinians’
The Land of Israel in Bible, History, and Theology: 65 Tite, P.L., Valentinian Ethics and Paraenetic Discourse,
Studies in Honour of Ed Noort Determining the Social Function of Moral Exhortation
68 Ryad, U., Islamic Reformism and Christianity, in Valentinian Christianity
A Critical Reading of the Works of Muḥammad 10 Tol, S and Olbertz, H., Linguistic Bibliography
Rashīd Riḍā and His Associates (1898-1935) 13 Tov, E., Revised Lists of the Texts from the Judaean Desert
47 Sandt van de, H. and Zangenberg, J., 11 Vaan de, M., Etymological Dictionary of Latin
Matthew, James, and Didache, Three Related Documents 16 Villanueva, F. G., The ‘Uncertainty of a Hearing’, A Study
in Their Jewish and Christian Settings of the Sudden Change of Mood in the Psalms of Lament
26 Schiffman, L. H., Edited by F. García Martínez, The 31 Voitila, A., and Jokiranta, J. (eds), Scripture in Transition,
Courtyards of the House of the Lord, Studies on the Temple Scroll Essays on Septuagint, Hebrew Bible, and Dead Sea Scrolls
25 Schofield, A., From Qumran to the Yaḥad, A New Paradigm in Honour of Raija Sollamo
of Textual Development for The Community Rule 58 Webb, G.R., Mark at the Threshold, Applying Bakhtinian
66 Scholer, D.M., Nag Hammadi Bibliography, 1995-2006 Categories to Markan Characterisation
26 Schultz, B., Conquering the World, The War Scroll (1QM) 24 Weissenberg, H. von, 4QMMT: Reevaluating the Text,
biblical studies
Reconsidered the Function and the Meaning of the Epilogue
17 Smith, M. S. and Pitard, W.T., The Ugaritic Baal Cycle. 63 Wessel, S., Leo the Great and the Spiritual Rebuilding
Volume II. Introduction, Text, Translation and Commentary of a Universal Rome
of KTU/CAT 1.3-1.4 67 Williams, F., The Panarion of Epiphanius of Salamis:
67 Scopello, M., The Gospel of Judas in Context, Proceedings of Book I, (Sects 1-46) Second Edition, Revised and Expanded
the First International Conference on the Gospel of Judas, Paris, 19 Winter, I. J., On Art in the Ancient Near East
Sorbonne 29 Wright III, B. G., Praise Israel for Wisdom and Instruction,
45 Shepherd, D., Images of the Word, Hollywood’s Bible Essays on Ben Sira and Wisdom, the Letter of Aristeas and
and Beyond the Septuagint 79
44 Sparks, J.T., The Chronicler’s Genealogies, Towards 30 Xeravits, G.G and Zsengellér, J. (eds), Studies in the
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an Understanding of 1 Chronicles 1–9 Book of Ben Sira, Papers of the Third International Conference on
63 Steenberg, M.C., Irenaeus on Creation, The Cosmic Christ the Deuterocanonical Books, Shime’on Centre, Pápa, Hungary, 2006
and the Saga of Redemption 51 Zaman, L., Bible and Canon, A Modern Historical Inquiry
48 Thatcher, T. and Moore, S.D., Anatomies of Narrative 16 Ziegler, Y., Promises to Keep, The Oath in Biblical Narrative
Criticism, The Past Present and Futures of the Fourth Gospel
as Literature
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