Product Description: This volume presents the main lectures of the 21st Congress of the International Organization for the Study of the Old Testament (IOSOT) held in Munich, Germany, in August 2013. Seventeen internationally distinguished scholars present their current research on the Hebrew Bible, including the literary history of the Hebrew text, its Greek translation and history of interpretation...read more

Product Description: This is a collection of papers given at SBL International Meetings 2009-2011, which investigate the inherent spatiality of human existence. The contributors discuss ancient Mediterranean texts and societies from a decidedly spatial perspective, debating over such issues as narratological space, critical spatiality, sociological theories on space, space and identity, space and body...read more

Product Description: Der vorliegende Band befasst sich mit dem dritten Kanonteil der Hebraischen Bibel, den sogenannten Schriften, sowie mit zwei weiteren Texten, die thematisch eng mit dem Spruchebuch verbunden sind: Jesus Sirach, die griechische Ubersetzung einer hebraischen Schrift, und das ursprunglich griechisch verfasste Buch der Weisheit...read more

Product Description: In this innovative and important work Christl M. Maier argues that the way Israelites in the exilic and post-exilic periods spoke of Jerusalem as gendered space a female city helps us trace reactions to the crisis of exile and the emergence of a new national-religious identity...read more

Product Description: The deuteronomic law as interpreted and thus authorized by the Book of Jeremiah - a concise survey of its literary and social history.

Product Description: Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--Humboldt-Universiteat zu Berlin, 1994.