Vulnerability and Valour

Jessica M Keady

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Second Temple Studies | nr. 91
• Jessica M. Keady uses insights from social science and gender theory to shed light on the Dead Sea Scrolls and the community at Qumran. Through her an... Lees meer

Studies in the Book of Tobit

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Second Temple Studies | nr. 55
• The essays collected here approach the book of Tobit from a range of disciplines: literary, feminist, anthropological, imagination, theological, textu... Lees meer

The Temple in Text and Tradition

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Second Temple Studies | nr. 83
• The Second Temple period is an era that marked a virtual explosion in the world of literature, with the creation, redaction, interpretation, and trans... Lees meer

Colonial Education and Class Formation in Early Judaism

Royce M Victor

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Second Temple Studies
• History reveals that colonizers effectively made use of education as a device to propagate their cultural values, ethos and lifestyle among the coloni... Lees meer

A History of the Jews and Judaism in the Second Temple Period, Volume 4

Lester L Grabbe

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Second Temple Studies | nr. 99
• This is the fourth and fi nal volume of Lester L. Grabbe's four-volume history of the Second Temple period, collecting all that is known about the Jew... Lees meer

The Mystical Texts

Philip Alexander

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Second Temple Studies | nr. 61
• Starting from a careful definition of mysticism, this volume argues that there is clear evidence for the practice of mysticism in the Community of the... Lees meer

New Directions in Qumran Studies

William John Lyons, Jonathan G Campbell, Lloyd Keith Pietersen

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Second Temple Studies | nr. 52
• Fifty years after the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls there have been many advances in the field of Qumran Studies. Yet much work remains undone. In... Lees meer

Turbulent Times?

James S McLaren

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Second Temple Studies | nr. 29
• How do you contend with Josephus's interpretation of events when undertaking historical inquiry? Taking as a test case the presentation of Judaea in t... Lees meer

Land or Earth?

Shizuka Uemura

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Second Temple Studies | nr. 84
• This volume discusses the Hebrew term 'eres' which is prominently used in Creation and Land theologies in the Bible. Uemura examines whether the term ... Lees meer

Tendentious Hagiographies

Michael Chyutin

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Second Temple Studies | nr. 77
• Tendentious Historiographies surveys ten Jewish literary works composed in Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek between the 8th and the mid-2nd century BCE, and ... Lees meer

This World and the World to Come

Gurtner Daniel M

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Second Temple Studies | nr. 74
• Did authors of Second Temple texts concern themselves with 'salvation'? If so, on what terms? What does one need 'salvation' from? Are the parameters ... Lees meer

Tendentious Hagiographies

Michael Chyutin

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Second Temple Studies | nr. 77
• Tendentious Historiographies surveys ten Jewish literary works composed in Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek between the 8th and the mid-2nd century BCE, and ... Lees meer

A History of the Jews and Judaism in the Second Temple Period, Volume 2

Lester L Grabbe

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Second Temple Studies | nr. 68
• This is the second volume of the projected four-volume history of the Second Temple period. It is axiomatic that there are large gaps in the history o... Lees meer

Abraham in Jewish and Early Christian Literature

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Second Temple Studies
• This book is open access and available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by Knowledge Unlatched. Jewish and early Christian authors discu... Lees meer

The Scrolls and the Scriptures

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Second Temple Studies | nr. 26
• This collection of papers from the Roehampton conference on the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Bible is the first jubilee volume published to celebrate the ... Lees meer

Abraham in Jewish and Early Christian Literature

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Second Temple Studies | nr. 93
• Jewish and early Christian authors discussed Abraham in numerous and diverse ways, adapting his Old Testament narratives and using Abrahamic imagery i... Lees meer

Classifying the Aramaic Texts from Qumran

John Starr

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Second Temple Studies
• Analysis of the scroll fragments of the Qumran Aramaic scrolls has been plentiful to date. Their shared characteristics of being written in Aramaic, t... Lees meer

Later Versions and Traditions

Craig A Evans

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Second Temple Studies | nr. 51
• Of Scribes and Sages focuses primarily on early interpretation of Scripture, including the emergence of Scripture as Scripture in its various versions... Lees meer

The Concept of the Messiah in the Scriptures of Judaism and Christianity

Shirley Lucass

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Second Temple Studies | nr. 78
• In this title, Shirley Lucass examines the history of the concept of messiah in biblical, and post-biblical traditions. For 2000 years, Judaism and Ch... Lees meer

The Scrolls and the Scriptures

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Second Temple Studies | nr. 26
• This collection of papers from the Roehampton conference on the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Bible is the first jubilee volume published to celebrate the ... Lees meer

Themes and Texts, Exodus and Beyond

Jonathan Numada

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Second Temple Studies
• This volume of essays is focused on the significance of the book of Exodus for studies in the Septuagint, Second Temple Jewish literature, the New Tes... Lees meer

Vulnerability and Valour

Jessica M Keady

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Second Temple Studies
• Jessica M. Keady uses insights from social science and gender theory to shed light on the Dead Sea Scrolls and the community at Qumran. Through her an... Lees meer

4q Pesher Nahum

Gregory Doudna

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Second Temple Studies | nr. 35
• 4Q Pesher Nahum has long been considered one of the most important Qumran texts for understanding the historical context of the Scrolls. Doudna's comp... Lees meer

Visions and Eschatology

Antonios Finitsis

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Second Temple Studies | nr. 79
• Zechariah 1-6 is unlike most of the prophets in the Hebrew Bible. He is pro-establishment and he conveys his message mostly with visions. These observ... Lees meer