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Provides an examination of the Hebrew word BMH in biblical and post-biblical passages where it supposedly carries its primary topographical sense. This book focuses on its likely Semitic and unlikely Greek cognates, pertinent literary, compositional, and text-critical matters, and the ideological and iconographical ambiance of each occurrence.

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This collection brings consideration of the human body onto the grid of theological studies.

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A collection that brings consideration of the human body onto the grid of theological studies. It explores three primary clusters of questions: To what extent did the biblical authors portray God as having a body or body parts How does the medium of divine embodiment help ancient authors to express God beliefs

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Explores the ways in how the male and female body is constructed in Leviticus 12 and 15 and how its reception history unfolds.

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Women throughout the centuries have sought to break out of the constraints that their societies deemed appropriate for them. For interpreters in the Christian tradition, this often meant examining biblical texts that had been understood in ways that demeaned women and using their interpretations to encourage women to break out of their spheres.

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Women over the centuries have sought to break out of the constraints that their societies deemed appropriate for them. This book offers essays that are drawn from the Recovering Female Interpreters of the Bible Consultation at the SBL Annual Meeting and from sessions on female interpreters of Scripture at the Canadian Society of Biblical Studies.

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This work offers a social-scientific analysis of Yehud and uses that analysis to construct a model through which to analyze later monotheistic religious developments.

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This work offers a social-scientific analysis of Yehud and uses that analysis to construct a model through which to analyze later monotheistic religious developments.

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This volume publishes the seminal 1973 dissertation of Rex Mason on inner-biblical allusion in Zechariah 9-14, accompanied by interactions with this significant work by key figures in the scholarly study of Deutero-Zechariah.

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The first publication of Rex Mason's work on Zechariah 9-14 together with reflections from leading biblical scholars who have published on this text. The volume is rounded off with a response by Mason.

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Offers a canonical reading of the Esau and Edom traditions, examining the portrayal of Esau and Edom in Genesis, Deuteronomy, and the prophetic material.

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A study that offers a canonical reading of the Esau and Edom traditions, examining the portrayal of Esau and Edom in "Genesis", "Deuteronomy", and the prophetic material. It argues that the depiction of Esau and his descendants in "Genesis" and "Deuteronomy" is, on the whole, positive.

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Assembles some of the finest scholars who have contributed to study and examination of the impact of the exile in biblical literature.

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Explores the ethnicity of the Cushites in the Hebrew Bible. This book uses historical critical methodologies in the exegesis of biblical passages containing references to Cush-related terms, often producing fresh interpretations of these texts.

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By examining explicit biblical references to Cush and Cushites, a nation and people most modern scholars would deem racially "black," this book explores the manner by which the authors of the Hebrew Bible represented the Cushite, and determines whether differences in human phenotypes facilitated legitimating ideologies that justified subjugation.

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Previous attempts to critique Brevard Childs's canonical approach have remained largely theoretical in nature. Reviewing the hermeneutics and the praxis of the approach, this book turns to the Sodom narrative (Genesis 18-19) as a test of a practical exegesis according to Childs' principles.