Whizz! Bang! Sizzle! During their preparations for Bonfire Night, the Topz Gang learn about how God can make good from any situation, even when things go wrong. A Tester for Esther: The story of the courageous Queen Esther. Outcasts: How Jesus befriended people no one else wanted to know. Meanings in Dreamings: Looking at occasions in the Bible when God speaks to people through dreams. Saved from the Flood: How God saved Noah in order to start a whole new world. You Must Be Crackers: How w...
Biblical Heroes and Classical Culture in Christian Late Antiquity
by Carson Bay
In this volume, Carson Bay focuses on an important but neglected work of Late Antiquity: Pseudo-Hegesippus' On the Destruction of Jerusalem (De Excidio Hierosolymitano), a Latin history of later Second Temple Judaism written during the fourth century CE. Bay explores the presence of so many Old Testament figures in a work that recounts the Roman-Jewish War (66–73 CE) and the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 CE. By applying the lens of Roman exemplarity to Pseudo-Hegesippus, he elucidates new facet...
Psalm 18 in Words and Pictures (Biblical Interpretation, #127)
by Alison Ruth Gray
In Psalm 18 in Words and Pictures: A Reading Through Metaphor, Alison Gray engages in an in-depth study of the figurative language of Psalm 18, demonstrating the necessity of a dynamic approach to metaphor interpretation within a given textual unit. As one of the longest and most elaborate in the Hebrew Bible, Psalm 18 provides fertile soil for studying the interplay between words and images. While previous studies of the Psalm have focused on questions of form, structure, or unity - as well the...
Cómo Trabajar Con Jóvenes Apáticos (Especialidades Juveniles)
by Les Christie
This volume publishes a selection of texts prepared to highlight recent work on the "Oxyrhynchus Collection" in Part I, papyri of the Old and New Testaments. Part II offers "Comedy Old and New: Aristophanes", a sizeable chunk of Menander's Epitrepontes and another from his Georgos. Part III presents previously unknown Greek literature, including a new papyrus of Empedocles; a work by Thrasyllus (Tiberius' court astrologer and philosopher in residence) on the classification of Plato's dialogues -...
