This text presents a reference on the gods, angels, demons, spirits and semi-divine heroes whose names occur in the biblical books. This revised edition features 30 new entries, while more than 100 have been updated. The text is arranged in order of the Latin alphabet and the more than 400 names are those found in the books of the Hebrew and Greek ...
The Dictionary of Deities and Demons in the Bible, copublished by Eerdmans and Brill, is the only major reference work describing the gods, angels, demons, spirits, and semidivine heroes whose names occur throughout Scripture. First published in 1995 and named by Choice as an "Outstanding Academic Book of 1996" this volume has been extensively ...
The articles in this volume have been written in memory of the feminist biblical scholar, Fokkelien van Dijk-Hemmes, who died at the age of 50. The authors endeavour to continue and advance the dialogue with her by evaluating and interacting with her scholarly legacy. Their concern is with various aspects of her work on the Hebrew Bible, and they ...
"Psalms" are to be seen as prayers, it is as testimonies of faith and despair. Applying a multi-dimensional matrix of methods, this work features essays that focus on the interpretation of the "Book of Psalms" and comparable texts in the "Hebrew Bible".
Exile and return have caused a crisis in Israelite religion. This crisis gave the impetus for the emergence of Judaism. This volume discusses the relevant aspects of this crisis and the shift from Yahwism to Judaism. The papers present a multidimensional treatment of the problems involved. Biblical texts are read against their historical ...
This book introduces the relevant evidence and assesses its significance for our understanding of Israelite religion and for biblical theology. The view of ancient Israelite religion as monotheistic has long been traditional in Judaism, Christianity and Islam, religions that have elaborated in their own way the biblical image of a single male ...
This book, originally published in French under the title "Que faire du Capital?", offers a new interpretation of Marx's great work. It shows how the novelty and lasting interest of Marx's theory arises from the fact that, as against the project of a 'pure' economics, it is formulated in concepts that have simultaneously an economic and a ...
STAR - Studies in Theology and Religion, 5 Papers Read at the First Meeting of the European Association for Biblical Studies, Utrecht, 6-9 August 2000 The Persian era in Ancient Israel's history is an intriguing period. The time span between Cyrus the Great and Alexander the Great was a theatre of shifts and changes. These changes are observable ...
2 Kings 17 narrates the fall of Samaria. The cuneiform inscriptions dealing with this event are prima facie contradictory: the conquest is ascribed to both Shalmaneser V and Sargon II. This work investigates the surmise of H. Tadmor that Samaria was conquered twice, and interprets events in their socio-historical framework. In the view of Bob ...
At the fiftieth anniversary of the Old Testament Society of South Africa a conference was organized on the theme Exile and Suffering. This volume contains a selection of the papers presented. Focal questions are such themes as: What do we really know about the Exile? To what degree did suffering take place? How did the Ancient Israelites cope with ...
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