Text, theology, and trowel
Subtitle: new investigations in the biblical world
By: edited by Lidia D. Matassa and Jason M. Silverman
Publisher: Pickwick Publications
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Eugene, OR
Language: eng
Number of pages: 213
ISBN-13: 9781608999422
Subjects: Criticism, interpretation; Excavations (Archaeology); Bible
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The designations in biblical texts: towards a hermeneutical model / Maire Byrne; title: Danger at the king's table: insult and family conflict at Saul's new moon feast / Killian McAleese; title: Life-and-death advice from a conservative sage: Qohelet's perspectvie on life after death / Hans Debel; title: Two Jewish-American interpretations of the Book of Job in the aftermath of the holocaust: a short discussion of the relationship between Job's modern reception and its ancient production / David C. Tollerton; title: Where have all the female prophets gone? Women and prophetic communication in Mari / Jonathan Stokl; title: Problems with the identification of a synagogue in the Hasmonaean estate at Jericho: archaeological and historiographical issues / Lida d. Matassa; title: Iranian-Judaean interaction in the Achaemenid period / Jason M. Silverman; title: Ho not to raise children: from Adam to Daivd; title: a contemporary theological perspective / Peter Admirand; title: Ethics as cross-cultural reaction: Deuteronomic ethics as a reaction to Manassean multiculturalism / Carly L. Crouch; title: Illuminating darkeness: mystical strategies for biblical interpretation in Judaism and Christianity / John Robinson.