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This text is an approach to the Book of Revelation. It illuminates the formative years of Christianity, in the social, religious and political situation of mid-first-century Palestine.

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Demonstrates the ways that social justice attains primacy in Isaiah, the ways that humanity if given a role in pursuing social justice, and the ways that Isaiah 58 impinges upon the idea of social justice. This book explores the nature and sources of the social justice encoded in the world.

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Argues that literary features and ritual dynamics within the book of "Leviticus" enlighten each other. This book examines both the legal sections in Lev 1-7 and 11-15 and the narratives in Lev 8-10 and 16.

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For over one hundred years, the International Critical Commentary series has held a special place among works on the Bible. It has sought to bring together all the relevant aids to exegesis linguistic and textual no less than archaeological, historical, literary and theologicalwith a level of comprehension and quality of scholarship unmatched by any other series.

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For over one hundred years, the International Critical Commentary series has held a special place among works on the Bible. It has sought to bring together all the relevant aids to exegesis linguistic and textual no less than archaeological, historical, literary and theologicalwith a level of comprehension and quality of scholarship unmatched by any other series.

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Using the sacred traditions of Dan in "Judges 17-18", this work examines the nature of the pre-exilic cult at Dan and in the Northern Kingdom in general, with particular reference its Ancient Near Eastern context. It reflects the self-understanding of the priests of Dan in the period immediately prior to its fall.

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Samson's special quality, noted by virtually all interpreters, is defined here as liminality. The liminal situation, which includes a movement away from society, the lack of social restraints, and the status of outsider, is a permanent condition for Samson.

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Schneider contends that Sarah is the mother of all nations in much the same way that traditional biblical scholarship has contended that Abraham is the father of all nations.

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Scholars generally see the aspiration of the Roman Empire and the imperial cult in Asia Minor as the great villain in "Revelation". This book pursues the conviction that the cosmic conflict imagery is the primary and controlling element in the account. It redresses the distortion that results from leaving the larger conflict theme underexposed.

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This study applies linguistic research on discourse markers to sentence conjunctions in Matthew's Gospel, examining in detail Matthew's use of kai, de and similar conjunctions in narrative passages. It also has a verse by verse commentary on the structure of the "miracle chapters", Matthew 8-9.

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This is a study of biblical reading from a woman-centred perspective. Its specific focus is the prologue of John's Gospel and its interpretation in Christian tradition. In this book, Jasper takes the prologue of John's Gospel as a case-study in feminist biblical analysis.

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Are early Irish stories influenced by the Bible or transcriptions of pre-Christian Celtic lore Layzer explores the practical and theoretical difficulties of determining 'influence' in ancient writing, and the relationship between the oral and the written, literacy and literature and the disciplines of Irish Studies and Biblical Studies.

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Fontaine explores the social roles of women as depicted within the book of Proverbs, as well as the character archetypes and patriarchal ideologies that undergird the sages' portrayal.

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Evaluates the relationship between "Samuel" and "Chronicles" in a single synoptic story: David's transfer of Israel's sacred ark to Jerusalem in "2 Samuel 6" and "1 Chronicles 13, 15-16". This work summarises research and perspectives on these books and their stories of David's ark transfer.

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Tricia Gates Brown employs the methodology of socio-scientific biblical criticism to investigate the pneumatology of John and 1 John. She argues that the meaning of spirit in John and 1 John is best understood using the anthropological model of brokerage.

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Provides an approach to the book of "Tobit" from a range of disciplines: literary, feminist, anthropological, imagination, theological, textual and historical. This book considers some Latin manuscripts, encompassing an article introducing a print of the Ceriani Latin text, and includes an overview of the Old Latin textual tradition and context.

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Deviating from the general tendency to seek answers to the issue of women's submission from creation accounts, this research focuses on Philippians 2:6-11 as the primary text and reason for embracing submission as the defining characteristic of a Christian community.

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Investigates the Solomonic narrative through the optics of propaganda and, specifically, subversion. This book explores examples of scribal subversion in "1 Kings" 1-11. It examines texts that undermine the legitimacy or the legacy of Solomon and explores the social context in which scribal subversion was not only possible, but perhaps necessary.