Maynard Paul Maidman
The 96 Akkadian-language documents presented in this volume in transliteration and translation include contracts for labor, deeds of sale, testamentary wills, slave sales, ration lists, interoffice memoranda, trial records, scholastic texts, and much more. They are divided into five groups dealing with topics of historical interest.
Michael E. Stone, Aryeh Amihay, Vered Hillel
This book offers new insights on the question of the lost “book of Noah,” as well as studies of Noah’s figure in postbiblical literature.
Assnat Bartor
This book is the first to present an interpretive method integrating biblical law, jurisprudence, and literary theory, reflecting the current “law and literature” school within legal studies. It identifies the narrative elements that exist in the laws of the Pentateuch, exposes the narrative techniques employed by the authors, and discovers the poetics of biblical law, thus revealing new or previously unconsidered aspects of the relationship between law and narrative in the Bible.
John Paul Heil
This volume employs a text-centered, literary-rhetorical, and audience-oriented method to demonstrate how the implied audience of Philippians are persuaded and exhorted by the dynamic progression of the letter’s chiastic structures to rejoice along with Paul and other believers in being conformed to Christ.
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Anson F. Rainey
Todd Penner
Robert C. Hill
Ithamar Gruenwald
BROWN JUDAIC STUDIES
Michelle Levine
The biblical commentary of the foremost thirteenth-century Spanish exegete, Rabbi Moses ben Nahman (Nahmanides), on the stories of Genesis, provides a penetrating analysis of the Bible’s diverse literary strategies of characterization. This volume applies modern literary scholarship to investigate his insights into the underlying poetic principles of characterization in the Bible. Modern readers will find that the literary perceptions and stimulating readings of Nahmanides open up the world of biblical narrative in innovative ways.