Biblical Studies
Biblical Studies is the collection of sub-fields that investigates the text of the Hebrew Bible and the Greek New Testament. It is also includes broader academic sub-fields that incorporate relevant disciplines such as literary criticism, theology, textual criticism, history, and liturgy. The Gorgias Biblical Studies series publishes monographs on the history, theology, redaction and literary criticism of the biblical texts. Perspectives on Hebrew Scriptures and its Contexts deals with the study of the Hebrew Bible and Biblical Hebrew and cognate languages. Biblical Intersections explores various topics beyond theological or exclusively historical exegetical studies, including the relationship of Hebrew and Christian scripture to philosophy, sociology, anthropology, economics, cultural studies, intertextuality and literary studies.
New Testament Autographs
Series: Analecta Gorgiana 311
ISBN: 978-1-60724-543-8
James Rendel Harris uses known statistics of ancient autographs (that is, the original version of a written document) to posit the general appearance of the epistles in their original form.
$44.00
Conceptual Metaphors in Poetic Texts
Proceedings of the Metaphor Research Group of the European Association of Biblical Studies in Lincoln 2009
Edited by Antje Labahn
ISBN: 978-1-61719-029-2
The Hebrew Bible discusses difficult and often ineffable subjects such as life, God, heaven and earth and frequently relies upon metaphor to do so. This volume of collected essays offers a new methodological approach to understanding metaphors as conceptualizing aspects of life. Articles provide close analysis of metaphors in various biblical books such as Psalms, Job, Judges, Chronicles, Isaiah, and Hosea.
$165.00
Verbs of Leading in the Hebrew Bible
ISBN: 978-1-61143-925-0
Authors of the Hebrew Bible had at least 17 different verbs which they could use to represent “leading” or “guiding” in the Hebrew Bible. What are these “verbs of leading” and how are they related to one another? Why did an author choose the particular “leading” verb he chose in a particular context? Every occurrence of a verb of leading in the Hebrew Bible is examined through the lens of semantic-role theory by assigning roles to each of the phrases typically used with the verbs. This study resolves some problem passages and supplements traditional lexicographical research.
$193.00
The Reception and Remembrance of Abraham
ISBN: 978-1-4632-0054-1
This book explores the role of the biblical patriarch Abraham in the formation and use of authoritative texts in the Persian and Hellenistic periods. It reflects a conference session in 2009 focusing on Abraham as a figure of cultural memory in the literature of these periods. Cultural memory is the shared reproduction and recalling of what has been learned and retained. It also involves transformation and innovation. As a figure of memory, stories of Abraham served as guidelines for identity-formation and authoritative illustration of behaviour for the emerging Jewish communities.
$161.00
On the Western Text of the Acts as Evidenced by Chrysostom
Series: Analecta Gorgiana 354
ISBN: 978-1-60724-608-4
Frederick Coneybeare uses Armenian and Greek texts of Chrysostom's sermons on Acts to question and correct the core text in use by the Western church.
$38.00
Ecclesiastes
By Paul Haupt
Series: Analecta Gorgiana 382
ISBN: 978-1-60724-631-2
Paul Haupt's introduction, translation, and commentary on the controversial book of Ecclesiastes in the Hebrew Bible.
$40.00
19 and Jeremiah 19
ISBN: 978-1-61143-546-7
Ancient Egyptian leaders sought to preserve the status quo by using not only their military might, but also enlisting magical rituals to help control any perceived threats to their way of life. Biblical leaders also sought to control their respective peoples by means of divine authority, brute force, and/or ritual actions. Examples of ritual actions by Moses and Jeremiah mimic those used by the ancient Egyptians in order to preserve or restore order to their given societies.
$145.00
A Redaction History of the Pentateuch Targums
Genesis 1:26–27 in the Exegetical Context of Formative Judaism
Series: Gorgias Biblical Studies 53
ISBN: 978-1-61719-181-7
This volume combines Targum studies with Judaic studies. The author assigns different Targums each to a respective particular “Sitz im Leben”, stressing the close connection between Targum and Midrash literature. She challenges the assumption that all extant Targums were compiled for the Synagogue. Instead, she suggests that Targum Onqelos might have fulfilled a function in the context of the early beth din and demonstrates that Pseudo-Jonathan can be linked with the rhetorical practices which abounded in later amoraic, educational circles.
$160.00
Un recueil de sentences attribué à Isaac le Syrien
Edited with an Introduction by Marius Besson
Series: Analecta Gorgiana 401
ISBN: 978-1-60724-675-6
Marius Besson presents the critical text of two manuscripts containing an apophthegmatic text with sayings attributed to Isaac of Nineveh. The text also includes a separate apparatus with references to parallel texts in various early Christian documents.
$35.00
Le texte grec des récits du moine Anastase sur les saints pères du Sinaï
Edited with an Introduction by François Nau
Series: Analecta Gorgiana 402
ISBN: 978-1-60724-676-3
François Nau collated various manuscripts containing stories about the holy fathers of Sinai and presents here the critical and annotated text. These stories offer otherwise unknown information about St. John Climacus and include useful historical and geographic details.
$37.00
Le texte grec des récits utiles à l'âme d'Anastase (le Sinaïte)
Edited with an Introduction by François Nau
Series: Analecta Gorgiana 407
ISBN: 978-1-60724-682-4
These eighteen stories pertaining to Anastasius of Mount Sinai include unique information and variations of stories preserved elsewhere. Nau presents the edited Greek text along with an introductory discussion of authorship and sources.
$38.00
Der Katholikos Timotheos I und seine Briefe
Translation and Introduction by Oskar Braun
Series: Analecta Gorgiana 412
ISBN: 978-1-60724-689-3
Oskar Braun provides a brief introduction to the life and career of Patriarch Timothy I, including a list of his writings with special attention to his letters and the Syriac text and German translation for five of Timothy’s letters.
$44.00
Die Evangelienexegese der syrischen Monophysiten
Series: Analecta Gorgiana 413
ISBN: 978-1-60724-690-9
Anton Baumstark presents a historical survey of the development of the exegetical methods of the Syriac Orthodox (“Jacobite/Monophysite”) tradition. Baumstark conducts this survey by detailing the influence of various exegetical works through three distinct historical periods.
$41.00
Alfabetische Akrosticha in der syrischen Kirchenpoesie
Translation and Introduction by Bruno Kirschner
Series: Analecta Gorgiana 425
ISBN: 978-1-60724-716-6
Bruno Kirschner publishes here the Syriac text of seven full acrostic Sogiatha hymns and accompanies each with a brief introduction and a German translation. Kirschner also includes a general introduction to acrostic poetry in the Syriac tradition.
$56.00
Ein byzantinischer Buchschmuck des Praxapostolos und seine syro-palästinensische Vorlage
Series: Analecta Gorgiana 427
ISBN: 978-1-60724-733-3
Illustrations were common in manuscripts of the Gospels, but far less common for the Acts and Epistles. Anton Baumstark describes the images found in one manuscript that does include illustrations for these documents and compares them with the Eastern tradition.
$36.00
Une autobiographie syriaque de Denys l'Aréopagite
Translation and Introduction by Marc-Antoine Kugener
Series: Analecta Gorgiana 429
ISBN: 978-1-60724-735-7
The “Autobiography” of Dionysius the (Pseudo-)Aereopagite exists in two separate recensions found in three manuscripts. Marc-Antoine Kugener publishes here the Syriac text of the two recensions along with an introduction and a German translation.
$43.00
Die Panoplia dogmatica des Euthymios Zigabenos
Untersuchung ihrer Anlage und ihrer Quellen, ihres Inhaltes und ihrer Bedeutung
Series: Analecta Gorgiana 433
ISBN: 978-1-60724-739-5
Jacob Wickert offers one of the most thorough discussions of Euthymios Zigabenus ever produced, including an introduction to his life and a detailed discussion of the contents of Euthymios’s compendium of heresies, the Panoplia Dogmatica.
$56.00
Neue griechisch-saïdische Evangelienfragmente
Edited with an Introduction by Joseph Heer
Series: Analecta Gorgiana 435
ISBN: 978-1-60724-772-2
Joseph Michael Heer discusses the philological, text-critical, and liturgical value of five parchment pages containing the resurrection narratives from the Gospels of Mark and Luke in parallel columns of Greek and Sahidic Coptic and provides a transcription of the texts.
$41.00
Der Drachenkampf des heiligen Theodor
Edited with an Introduction by Willy Hengstenberg
Series: Analecta Gorgiana 436
ISBN: 978-1-60724-773-9
The ancient myth of a hero who slays a mythical beast worked its way into the lore of early Christianity. Willy Hengstenberg discusses here the sources for the dragon-slaying legend attributed to two separate fourth-century figures named Theodore.
$46.00
Une lettre de Sévère d'Antioche à la diaconesse Anastasie
Translation and Introduction by Marius Chaîne
Series: Analecta Gorgiana 437
ISBN: 978-1-60724-774-6
Marius Chaîne publishes the Coptic text and French translation of a letter attributed to Severus of Antioch and addressed to the deaconess Anastasia. In the introduction, Chaîne discusses the attribution to Severus and the exegetical method displayed within the letter.
$37.00
Untersuchungen zur syrischen Überlieferung der Siebenschläferlegende und Die älteste Gestalt der Sie
Edited and Translated by Arthur Allgeier
Series: Analecta Gorgiana 440
ISBN: 978-1-60724-777-7
Arthur Allgeier publishes here two articles concerning the “Legend of the Seven Sleepers” in the Syriac tradition. The first article includes a discussion of the text’s transmission history and the second includes the Syriac text, German translation, and apparatus.
$72.00
Un évêque-poète au Ve et au VIe siècles
Jacques de Saroug: sa vie, son temps, ses oeuvres, ses croyances
Series: Syriac Studies Library 20
ISBN: 978-1-60724-819-4
In this important work on Jacob of Sarug, Martin examines what is known of the poet’s life, looks at his lasting influence, offers a number of extracts from Jacob’s homilies and letters in French, and discusses his orthodoxy.
$143.00
The Treatise of Dionysius bar Salibi Against the Jews
Edited by J de Zwaan
Series: Syriac Studies Library 23
ISBN: 978-1-60724-828-6
This volume contains the Syriac text of one of Dionysius bar Salibi’s polemical writings, that against the Jews, based on a manuscript now located at the Harvard Semitic Museum. An English translation was promised by the editor, but never appeared.
$137.00
Eine jakobitische Einleitung in den Psalter
in Verbindung mit zwei Homilien aus dem grossen Psalmenkommentar des Daniel von Salah
Edited and Translated by Gustav Diettrich
Series: Syriac Studies Library 24
ISBN: 978-1-60724-829-3
This volume contains the Syriac text, with German translation, of an (anonymous) introduction to the Psalms, together with two homilies from Daniel of Salah’s (fl. mid-6th century) long Psalms commentary. Diettrich’s detailed introduction adds richly to the work.
$167.00
Eusebius, Bishop of Caesarea, on the Theophania
A Syriac Version, Edited from an Ancient Manuscript Recently Discovered
Edited by Samuel Lee
Series: Syriac Studies Library 5
ISBN: 978-1-60724-842-2
Samuel Lee arranges texts by the fourth century church historian Eusebius of Caesarea as they are known to him in their surviving Syriac versions.
$169.00
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