A kind of magic : understanding magic in the New Testament and its religious environment

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Jesus and the origins of the Gentile mission by Bird, Michael F.

“…T & T Clark library of biblical studies.…”
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Grammatical and exegetical study of New Testament verbs of transference : a case frame guide to interpretation and translation by Danove, Paul L.

“…T & T Clark library of biblical studies.…”
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A discourse analysis of the letter to the Hebrews : the relationship between form and meaning by Westfall, Cynthia Long

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Commemorative identities : Jewish social memory and the Johannine Feast of Booths by Spaulding, Mary B.

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Archaeology, artifacts and antiquities of the ancient Near East : sites, cultures, and proveniences by Muscarella, Oscar White

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Transforming graduate biblical education : ethos and discipline

Table of Contents: “…Changing the ethos of graduate biblical studies. From "mono"- to "multi"-culture : reflections on a journey / Elaine M. …”
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Contested creations in the Book of Job : the-world-as-it-ought-and-ought-not-to-be by Pelham, Abigail

Table of Contents: “…Prologue The Author, the Reader, and the Professional Not-Knower; Writing and Un-Writing; The Author in Biblical Studies; The Reader in Biblical Studies; It's Complicated; 'Quod Scripsi, Scripsi': The Reader as Writer; Job's Ambiguity; The Will to Be Right and the Value of Being Wrong; Chapter One Creation in the Book of Job: Reading Backwards and Forwards for Questions and Possibilities; Questions and Answers about Creation; Two Problems: Job's Response and the Epilogue; Reading Backwards and Forwards.…”
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The Bible says so! : from simple answers to insightful understanding by Freed, Edwin D.

Table of Contents: “…pt. 1. Overview of Biblical study -- pt. 2. The Old Testament -- pt. 3. The New Testament -- pt. 4. …”
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Foster Biblical Scholarship : Essays in Honor of Kent Harold Richards

Table of Contents: “…New pedagogies and the biblical studies curriculum -- pt. 3. Studies in methods and contexts.…”
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Orthodoxy, liberalism, and adaptation : essays on ways of worldmaking in times of change from biblical, historical and systematic perspectives

Table of Contents: “…Introductory overview -- pt. 2. Biblical studies -- pt. 3. Historical studies -- pt. 4. …”
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Symposia : dialogues concerning the history of biblical interpretation by Boer, Roland, 1961-

Table of Contents: “…A spectre is haunting biblical studies : Norman Gottwald and the social sciences -- 6. …”
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Bede, Part 2 : Fascicles 1-4 2016. by Biggs, Fred

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Table of Contents; Introduction; Bible: Aids to Biblical Study; Bible: Chapter Divisions and Prologues; Bible: Commentaries; Bible: Homilies; Letters; Lost Works; Martyrology; Bibliography; Index.…”
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Tehillah le-Moshe : Biblical and Judaic Studies in Honor of Moshe Greenberg

Table of Contents: “…Postbiblical and rabbinic studies -- Hebrew essays, pt. 1. Biblical studies ; pt. 2. Second temple, rabbinic, and medieval studies.…”
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Ascribe to the Lord : Biblical & other studies in memory of Peter C. Craigie

Table of Contents: “…Preface; Abbreviations; PART A: Ancient Near Eastern Studies; PART B: Ugaritic & Biblical Studies; PART C: Biblical & Theological Studies; PART D: Appendix; Bibliography of peter C. …”
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The human and the divine in history : Herodotus and the book of Daniel by Niskanen, Paul

Table of Contents: “…Abbreviations; Chapter 1 HERODOTUS AND BIBLICAL STUDIES; Chapter 2 DANIEL AND CLASSICAL STUDIES; Chapter 3 THE HUMAN IN HISTORY; Chapter 4 THE DIVINE IN HISTORY; Chapter 5 DANIEL'S THEOLOGY OF HISTORY; Appendix: THE TEXT OF DANIEL 11.2B; Bibliography; Index of References; Index of Authors.…”
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Mesopotamia and the Bible : comparative explorations

Table of Contents: “…Voices from the Dust: The Tablets from Ugarit and the BibleThe Rise of the Aramean States; Recent Study on Sargon II, King of Assyria: Implications for Biblical Studies; What has Nebuchadnezzar to do with David? …”
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A Word in season : essays in honour of William McKane

Table of Contents: “…Preface; Abbreviations; List of Contributors; PART A: Biblical Studies; Israelite Religion in the Pre-Exilic Period A Debate Renewed; Sons of Cain; 'Blessed be My People Egypt' (Isaiah 19.25) The Context and Meaning of a Remarkable Passage; Lamentations 1.3: Light from the History of Exegesis; The Great Tree of Daniel 4; Guilt and Atonement: The Theme of 1 and 2 Chronicles; PART B: Post-Biblical Studies; Ben Sira-A Child of his Time; The Prophetic-Sapiental Origins of Apocalyptic Thought; Food for Thought The Septuagint Translation of Genesis 1.11-12…”
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Feminist theory and the Bible : interrogating the sources by Fuchs, Esther, 1953-

Table of Contents: “…Feminist approaches to the Hebrew Bible -- Biblical feminisms: knowledge, theory, and politics in the study of women in the Hebrew Bible -- The neo-liberal turn in feminist biblical studies -- Jephthah's daughter: a feminist postcolonial approach -- Women as prophets/women in prophets: gender, nation and discourse -- Intermarriage, gender, and nation in the Hebrew Bible.…”
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The fate of King Saul : an interpretation of a Biblical story by Gunn, D. M. (David M.)

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No other gods : emergent monotheism in Israel by Gnuse, Robert Karl, 1947-

Table of Contents: “…New understandings of the Israelite settlement process -- Recent scholarship on the development of monotheism in ancient Israel -- Monotheism in ancient Israel's world -- History of monotheism in Israel -- Worldview of emergent monotheism among the Jews -- Ongoing tradition of emergent monotheism -- Hebrew Bible and process theology -- Punctuated equilibria as an evolutionary model for the social sciences and Biblical studies.…”
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The Copts and the West, 1439-1822 : the European discovery of the Egyptian church by Hamilton, Alastair, 1941-

Table of Contents: “…An ancient church -- Muslim domination -- The Council of Florence -- The first Jesuit mission -- New approaches -- Towards a Coptic Catholic Church -- The first steps -- Confessional clashes I -- Confessional clashes II -- Jansenists and Jesuits -- Protestants and the Enlightenment -- Athanasius Kircher and his shadow -- Grammars, dictionaries, and dialects -- Manuscript collecting -- Biblical studies.…”
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Between Biblical Criticism and Poetic Rewriting : Interpretative Struggles over Genesis 32:22-32. by Tongue, Samuel

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : bound to retell -- Dancing between the disciplines : following the mobile Bible -- Biblical studies and postmodern poetics; or, 'gentlemanly' readers meet 'uncouth hydra readers' -- Poetic paragesis and disciplining the imagination -- Enacting canonicity : parageses in the anatomy of angels -- Scripted bodies : paragesis and the performative poetics of manhood -- Conclusion : the dust settles : some final thoughts on poetic parageses of Jacob and the angel.…”
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A little book for new Bible scholars : why and how to study the Bible by Richards, E. Randolph (Ernest Randolph), Dodson, Joseph R.

Table of Contents: “…-- Don't play marbles with diamonds -- Speak the local language -- Keep the main thing the main thing -- Don't get puffed up -- Biblical studies is an equal opportunity vocation -- Stay the course -- Conclusion : don't miss the forest for the trees.…”
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Last stop before Antarctica : the Bible and postcolonialism in Australia by Boer, Roland, 1961-

Table of Contents: “…Gatecrashing Thanksgiving: Australian biblical studies in the global calculus -- Marx, postcolonialism, and the Bible -- The decree of the watchers, or, other globalizations -- Explorer hermeneutics, or fat damper and sweetened tea -- Home is always elsewhere: exodus, exile, and the howling wilderness waste -- Green ants and gibeonites: B. …”
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The social meanings of sacrifice in the Hebrew Bible : a study of four writings by Janzen, David, 1968-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The rhetorics of ritual -- Ritual and ritualized morality -- Theology, worldview, and ideology -- The study of sacrifice in biblical studies -- Sacrifice in the priestly writing -- Sacrifice and the king in the Deuteronomistic history -- Perfect slaughter : sacrifice as warning and promise in the Deuteronomistic history -- Sacrifice as cultic expression of the law : social and geographic separation in Ezra-Nehemiah -- Rest, peace, and quiet : sacrifice in Chronicles -- Conclusion: Sacrifice, God, and the people.…”
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Honor, shame, and guilt : social-scientific approaches to the Book of Ezekiel by Wu, Daniel Y.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction to the study of honor and shame in the book of Ezekiel : emic A -- Anthropological approaches to Biblical studies : imposed etic -- Shame (and guilt) in recent study : imposed etic -- Honor in Ezekiel : emic B, part 1 -- Shame in Ezekiel : emic B, part 2 -- Guilt in Ezekiel : emic B, part 3 -- Conclusion : derived etic -- Appendix ; Implicatons of this study for models of atonement theology.…”
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Postcolonial Biblical Criticism : Interdisciplinary Intersections. by Segovia, Fernando F.

Table of Contents: “…' VERY LIMITED IDEOLOGICAL OPTIONS': MARXISM AND BIBLICAL STUDIES IN POSTCOLONIAL SCENESIndex of Authors.…”
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The Fabric of history : text, artifact, and Israel's past

Table of Contents: “…Doing history in biblical studies / Diana Edelman -- From history to interpretation / Ernst Axel Knauf -- Text, context and referent in Israelite historiography / Thomas L. …”
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A feminist companion to reading the Bible : approaches, methods and strategies

Table of Contents: “…Feminist criticism and biblical studies on the verge of the twenty-first century / A. …”
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The stranger in ancient and mediaeval Jewish tradition : papers read at the first meeting of the JBSCE, Piliscsaba, 2009

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Writing the history of Israel by Banks, Diane, 1942-

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Postcolonial Reading of Mark's Story of Jesus. by Samuel, Simon

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Editorial Board; Title; CONTENTS; Preface; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; INTRODUCTION; Chapter 1 POSTCOLONIALISM AS A CRITICAL PRACTICE IN BIBLICAL STUDIES; Chapter 2 VIEWING THE DISCURSIVE WORLD OF MARK; Chapter 3 THE CURRENT MODELS OF POSTCOLONIAL READINGS OF MARK; Chapter 4 THE BEGINNING OF MARK: A MIMETIC DESIGN; Chapter 5 THE PORTRAIT OF JESUS IN MARK: A COLONIAL/POSTCOLONIAL CONUNDRUM; Chapter 6 CONCLUSION; Bibliography; Index of References; Index of Authors.…”
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The new Isaac : tradition and intertextuality in the Gospel of Matthew by Huizenga, Leroy A., 1974-

Table of Contents: “…The fate of the figure of Isaac in the Gospel of Matthew -- The Model Reader, the encyclopedia and textual intention -- The Model Reader, intertextuality and biblical studies -- The Akedah prior to the Common Era -- The Akedah in the first century of the Common Era -- The figure of Isaac in the first chapter of the Gospel of Matthew -- The baptism of God's beloved Son -- The Suffering Servant and Matthean Christology -- The dearth of the Servant in the encyclopedia of early Judaism -- The transfiguration of the beloved Son -- Endurance unto death : the paschal Passion of the beloved Son -- Conclusions and reflections on the Gospel of Matthew and the new Isaac.…”
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The story of King David : genre and interpretation by Gunn, D. M. (David M.)

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Chronicling the chronicler : the Book of Chronicles and early second temple historiography

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War in the Bible and terrorism in the twenty-first century

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The Damascus covenant : an interpretation of the "Damascus Document" by Davies, Philip R.

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Anti-Judaism in early Christianity. Volume 2, Separation and polemic

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The Greek text of Jeremiah : a revised hypothesis by Soderlund, Sven

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