Autore: James L. Crenshaw

The biblical story of Ruth celebrates the power to begin life anew, to gather what has been scattered, to glean what one needs. In this original approach to understanding an ancient love story, Jenni …

An insightful untangling of divergent voices and viewpoints found in the story of the last Hebrew judge and first major prophet. Samuel and His God explores the relationship among a prophet, his deit …

Rarely does a biblical book evoke admiration from a Nobel laureate in literature, a newspaper columnist, a prize-winning poet, and a popular songwriter. Ecclesiastes has done that, and for good reaso …

In Jeremiah and God’s Plans of Well-being, Barbara Green explores the prophet Jeremiah as a literary persona of the biblical book through seven periods of his prophetic ministry, focusing on the conc …

An in-depth examination that separates the historical Ezra from the biblical legend The historical Ezra was sent to Jerusalem as an emissary of the Persian monarch. What was his task? According to th …

An in-depth examination and analysis of the chapters focused on the patient biblical character The question that launches Job’s story is posed by God at the outset of the story: ‘Have you considered …

A portrait of a biblical woman seen through the centuries as everything from adviser to temptress to victim Bathsheba is a mysterious and enigmatic figure who appears in only seventy-six verses of th …

In the ancient Near East, when the gods detected gross impropriety in their ranks, they subjected their own to trial. When mortals suspect their gods of wrongdoing, do they have the right to put them …

In the ancient Near East, when the gods detected gross impropriety in their ranks, they subjected their own to trial. When mortals suspect their gods of wrongdoing, do they have the right to put them …

No detailed description available for ‘Prophetic Conflict’. Das E-Book Prophetic Conflict wird angeboten von De Gruyter und wurde mit folgenden Begriffen kategorisiert: Altes Testament, Prophetie, Li …

This volume, a part of the Old Testament Library series, explores the book of Ecclesiastes. The Old Testament Library provides fresh and authoritative treatments of important aspects of Old Testament …

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