Ezekiel's Visionary Temple in Babylonian Context (Beihefte Zur Zeitschrift Fur die Alttestamentliche Wissensch)
by Tova Ganzel
The Life of Christ (The Smart Guide to the Bible)
by Robert C. Girard
Discover Jesus: Son of Man, Son of God Get up close and personal with Jesus, His teachings, and what they mean for you today. The Smart Guide to the Bible: The Life of Christ takes you on location so you can absorb the historical and prophetic context into which Jesus was born, lived, died, came alive again, and ascended to His rightful place in Heaven. Learn about:Jesus's Life, Death, and ResurrectionThe Deity of ChristJesus's Teachings & ParablesThe Kingdom of GodRedemptionThe Harmony of the...
Basics of Biblical Hebrew Workbook
by Gary Davis Pratico and Miles V. Van Pelt
The present study is concerned with the textual history of the Books of Samuel and of Kings, about which scholars have still not been able to agree. Various textual forms can be identified in these books, in both the Hebrew (MT, Qumran) and the Greek texts (?Kaige Recension?,?The Antiochian Text?). The text forms and their history are first analysed in more detail using 2 Sam 15:1-19:9. Working from this, the study then takes an overall view of the Books of Samuel and of Kings. Finally, a textua...
Unlock the Bible: Keys to Discovering the People and Places
by Ronald F Youngblood
In this volume, Dennis Tucker provides a foundational analysis of the Hebrew text of Jonah. Distinguished by the detailed yet comprehensive attention paid to the Hebrew text, Jonah is a convenient pedagogical and reference tool that explains the form and syntax of the biblical text, offers guidance for deciding between competing semantic analyses, engages important text-critical debates, and addresses questions relating to the Hebrew text that are frequently overlooked or ignored by standard com...
In this volume Mikeal C. Parsons provides an overview of Luke and Acts, reading Luke and Acts in the context of ancient rhetorical criticism as practiced in the Hellenistic world. Parsons first compares Luke's storytelling with narrative techniques of ancient rhetoric. He next compares Luke's interpretation of Jewish sources within the social conventions of Luke's day. Finally, Parsons profiles Luke's specific evangelistic theological artistry, one in which Luke creatively uses Isaiah to call fo...
John Michael Perry considers how God was experienced in the Old and New Testaments. In the context of the Ancient Near East, Exploring the Evolving View of God chronicles Israel's development to monotheism, as well as the apostles' evolving understanding of Jesus as the fulfillment of Hebrew prophecy. Exploring the Evolving View of God outlines cultural and historical limitations that continue to shape our language and ideas about God. It relates abstract thinking about God to the concrete hist...
Word Pictures in the New Testament
by A T Robertson and James A Swanson
Arthur Allgeier presents a survey of medieval translations of the Psalms in comparison with the translations of Jerome's Psalterium iuxta Hebraeos in order to contrast the use of the underlying Hebrew text in the translation.
The Supposed Hebraisms in the Grammar of the Biblical Aramaic
by Herbert Harry Powell
The Student's Concise Hebrew-English Lexicon of the Bible (Ancient Language Resources)
This comprehensive yet user-friendly primer is useful to those who are just beginning to study the Septuagint. Now in paperback, the book explores the history of the Septuagint, the various versions available, and its importance for biblical studies. "Admirably delivers what it promises: it is a clearly written and organized introduction to the Greek-language Hebrew Scriptures...Highly recommended."--Library Journal
Das Buch Genesis (Beihefte zur Zeitschrift fur die Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft)
by Stefan Schorch
Die mundlich tradierte samaritanische Lesetradition ist neben dem masoretischen Text das wichtigste Zeugnis fur die Vokalisierung der Tora. Unter Hinweis auf parallele Entwicklungen in Qumran wird ihre Entstehung ab dem 2. Jahrhundert v. Chr. als Teil der Bildung spezifischer Gruppenidentitaten innerhalb des Judentums begriffen und ihre UEberlieferung untersucht. Zudem wird eine ausfuhrliche Analyse der uber 400 textkritisch relevanten Vokalisierungsdifferenzen zwischen samaritanischer und masor...
With this book, readers can learn Hebrew on their own and will find themselves reading meaningful verses from the Hebrew Bible after just two hours of study. The book provides the basics of a standard grammar but also includes insights into Hebrew narrative and poetry not usually found in introductory textbooks. Audio files for the book are available through Baker Academic's Textbook eSources. Now in paper.
Introduction to the Gothic Language (Ancient Language Resources)
by Thomas O Lambdin
This book examines the literary genre(s) to which the book of Qoheleth belongs and on which it is modelled. It suggests that Qoheleth is best described as a royal autobiography based on the arguments of specific literary features of style and content, resemblance to various kinds of royal autobiographical narrative from the ancient Near East, and the existence, despite first impressions, of a coherent worldview. The analyses in this book cover various aspects from textual criticism, through aspe...