The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and Law - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and Law write by Brent A. Strawn. This book was released on 2015. The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and Law available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and Law (OEBL) provides the most up-to-date and extensive treatment of the Bible and law yet attempted, both updating and expanding the scope of previous scholarship in the field. In comprehensive overviews, scholars at the forefront of biblical studies and law address three foci: biblical law itself; the ancient contexts of biblical law; and the afterlife and influence of biblical law in antiquity and in modern jurisprudence around the world.
The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and Gender Studies
The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and Gender Studies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and Gender Studies write by Julia M. O'Brien. This book was released on 2014. The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and Gender Studies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. As the first major encyclopedia of its kind, The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and Gender Studies (OEBGS) is the go-to source for scholars and students undertaking original research in the field. Extending the work of nineteenth and twentieth century feminist scholarship and more recent queer studies, the Encyclopedia seeks to advance the scholarly conversation by systematically exploring the ways in which gender is constructed in the diverse texts, cultures, and readers that constitute "the world of the Bible." With contributions from leading scholars in gender and biblical studies as well as contemporary gender theorists, classicists, archaeologists, and ancient historians, this comprehensive reference work reflects the diverse and interdisciplinary nature of the field and traces both historical and modern conceptions of gender and sexuality in the Bible. The two-volume Encyclopedia contains more than 160 entries ranging in length from 1,000 to 10,000 words. Each entry includes bibliographic references and suggestions for further reading, as well as a topical outline and index to aid in research. The OEBGS builds upon the pioneering work of biblically focused gender theorists to help guide and encourage further gendered discussions of the Bible.
The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and Theology
The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and Theology - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and Theology write by Samuel Eugene Balentine. This book was released on 2015. The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and Theology available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Exploration of the Bible's theology is ever-changing. While some issues are clearly rooted in the Bible's historical context like theological perspectives on the creation of the world, covenant, sin, sacrifice and atonement, grace and forgiveness, other issues are rooted in the modern world, where both the secular and religious raise questions biblical authors may not have anticipated. This resource situates itself inside this tension, with the objective of providing a resource for constructive theological reflection in the market place of public discourse.
Inventing God's Law
Inventing God's Law - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Inventing God's Law write by David P. Wright. This book was released on 2009-09-03. Inventing God's Law available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Most scholars believe that the numerous similarities between the Covenant Code (Exodus 20:23-23:19) and Mesopotamian law collections, especially the Laws of Hammurabi, which date to around 1750 BCE, are due to oral tradition that extended from the second to the first millennium. This book offers a fundamentally new understanding of the Covenant Code, arguing that it depends directly and primarily upon the Laws of Hammurabi and that the use of this source text occurred during the Neo-Assyrian period, sometime between 740-640 BCE, when Mesopotamia exerted strong and continuous political and cultural influence over the kingdoms of Israel and Judah and a time when the Laws of Hammurabi were actively copied in Mesopotamia as a literary-canonical text. The study offers significant new evidence demonstrating that a model of literary dependence is the only viable explanation for the work. It further examines the compositional logic used in transforming the source text to produce the Covenant Code, thus providing a commentary to the biblical composition from the new theoretical perspective. This analysis shows that the Covenant Code is primarily a creative academic work rather than a repository of laws practiced by Israelites or Judeans over the course of their history. The Covenant Code, too, is an ideological work, which transformed a paradigmatic and prestigious legal text of Israel's and Judah's imperial overlords into a statement symbolically countering foreign hegemony. The study goes further to study the relationship of the Covenant Code to the narrative of the book of Exodus and explores how this may relate to the development of the Pentateuch as a whole.
A Dictionary of the Bible
A Dictionary of the Bible - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Dictionary of the Bible write by John Brown. This book was released on 1866. A Dictionary of the Bible available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
