Product Description: This title shows how God communicates with humans and how this is then reinterpreted when humans communicate with each other about what God has said. This communication is often used to juxtapose the Greco-Roman world's inability to assuage human despair, which lead to a turn towards God...read more

Product Description: Job finds himself in a situation similar to one experienced by everyone at some point in his or her life. He wants answers to questions concerning what has happened to him, since he lived his life according to the traditional wisdom and rules of conduct, asking what has gone wrong and why...read more

Product Description: The study of the 'King David Phenomenon' is far from over. When pressed, the careful scholar must admit to how very little we actually know about this statecrafter and venerator of the god YHWH. At present, archaeologists, epigraphers, literary historians, historians of religion, and military historians are engaged in interpretive battles in an attempt to provide a much clearer outline of this person and his life and times than ever heretofore...read more

Product Description: This is the first study to show that the Catholic Church uses Korah's rebellion to sustain its authority against outside resistance. Korah was the leader who went against Moses and lost. Whenever the influence of the Judeo-Christian worldview has been evident, rebellions against its authority have always been explained in light of the actions of Korah...read more

Product Description: This anthology on Eve brings together an international group of scholars to discuss how this biblical character has been interpreted and commented upon by students of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. In an age wherein the history of women is being reassessed, it is quite natural that western women especially turn their thoughts to one of the paradigmatic female figures in our culture...read more

Product Description: This book tackles the problem of how God and humanity communicate truth to people in an indirect manner. The authors place Jesus' parable-telling activity into a broad context and demonstrate that parables were not the exclusive provence of Jesus but were used extensively by his Jewish leadership contemporaries many of who are immortalized in the Talmud and other Jewish classics...read more

Product Description: A collection of essays that examines the role of Jonah within the broader context of Nevi'im as interpreted by scholars of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.

Product Description: This work examines interpretations of Elijah in as an immortal being teaching the Law to the chosen ones. In all three religious traditions, Elijah is a mysterious person. He appears ready to undertake the mission to restore the hearts of the people, to bring them back to the right path...read more

Product Description: Unbinding the Binding of Isaac is an anthology of three faiths' interpretations of the Genesis 22:1-19 story.

Product Description: This collection of letters written by George and James Ewing reveals the Civil War through the eyes of two soldiers from Stockbridge, Michigan. The correspondence, more than 125 letters in all, covers nearly the entire war (1862–1865), while focusing on events in Arkansas, Kentucky, Mississippi, and Tennessee from early 1863 to late 1865...read more