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.
Theophany and Chaoskampf
The Interpretation of Theophanic Imagery in the Baal Epic, Isaiah, and the Twelve
Series: Gorgias Ugaritic Studies 5
ISBN: 978-1-61719-160-2
The imagery of thunder and lightning, fire and earthquake which attends YHWH's theophany in Old Testament poetic texts has most often been interpreted as a series of metaphors in biblical scholarship. This work applies insights from recent work in metaphor theory and myth theory to argue that this traditional interpretation of poetic theophanic imagery is mistaken, and that these texts make better exegetical sense when understood against the background of the ANE myth of the defeat of chaos.
$163.00
Die Götterliste des Mar Jakob von Sarug in seiner Homilie über den Fall der Götzenbilder
Series: Analecta Gorgiana 445
ISBN: 978-1-60724-853-8
In the early twentieth-century, P.S. Landersdorfer published a translation of Jacob of Serug’s homily on the fall of the idols accompanied by a commentary. Bernhard Vandenhoff publishes here a critique of Landersdorfer’s conclusions about the gods mentioned in Jacob’s “god-list.”
$37.00
Untersuchungen zur Chronik des Pseudo-Dionysios von Tell-Mahrê
By Felix Haase
Series: Analecta Gorgiana 446
ISBN: 978-1-60724-854-5
Felix Haase presents one of the first in-depth surveys of the text of the Chronicle of Pseudo-Dionysius of Tell-Mahre and focuses on the issue of the texts that were used as sources for the composition of the Chronicle
$43.00
Opuscula Nestoriana
Four East Syriac Treatises
Edited with an Introduction by Georg Hoffmann
Series: Syriac Studies Library 30
ISBN: 978-1-60724-866-8
This volume contains four East Syriac treatises: two dealing with words forms and lexicography, two dealing with the interpretation of difficult words in the Bible. The book will be of interest to students of Syriac grammar and biblical interpretation.
$134.00
Homilies of Isaac of Antioch
Edited with an Introduction by Paul Bedjan
Series: Syriac Studies Library 32
ISBN: 978-1-60724-870-5
Under the name of Isaac of Antioch, also known as the Great, or the Teacher, more than 200 memre exist. Here Bedjan produces the (vocalized) Syriac text of 67 memre, 43 edited for the first time.
$299.00
Das Hexaëmeron des Pseudo-Ephiphanius
Series: Analecta Gorgiana 452
ISBN: 978-1-60724-886-6
August Haffner provides a critique of Ernst Trumpp’s use of the Ethiopic and Arabic sources used in his publication of the Hexamaron of Pseudo-Ephiphanius.
$42.00
Drei Begräbnisgersänge Narsais
Edited and Translated by Maternus Wolff
Series: Analecta Gorgiana 455
ISBN: 978-1-60724-889-7
P. Maternus Wolff publishes here the Syriac text and German translation of three burial hymns by Narsai that were originally included in an unfinished work by Karl Macke. Wolff also includes an introduction and a critical apparatus for the text.
$37.00
Re-Reading the Prophets Through Corporate Globalization
A Cultural-Evolutionary Approach to Economic Injustice in the Hebrew Bible
Series: Biblical Intersections 4
ISBN: 978-1-60724-978-8
Using societal patterns of exploitation that are evidenced in agrarian societies from the Bronze Age to modern-day corporate globalization, Re-Reading the Prophets offers a new approach to understanding the hidden contexts behind prophetic complaints against economic injustice in eighth-century Judah.
$168.00
Moses, David and the High Kingship of Yahweh
A Canonical Study of Book IV of the Psalter
Series: Gorgias Biblical Studies 55
ISBN: 978-1-61143-682-2
Has the Old Testament Psalter been purposefully arranged? Does this arrangement convey an overall message? This book enters into the growing discussion regarding the canonical arrangement of the Psalms by examining Book IV (Pss 90-106) and considering the book's overall theological and thematic message within the literary context of the Psalter. This volume argues that Psalms 90-106 have been purposely arranged as a rejoinder to the previous three books, in response to the rise and fall of Davidic kingship. This hypothesis is tested by examining how Psalms 90-106 may have been purposely organized as a collection.
$177.00
The Syriac Bible According to the Mosul Edition (3-volume set)
ISBN: 978-1-60724-890-3
The edition of the Peshitta published by the Dominicans of Mosul in 1887-91 contains both the Old and New Testaments. It was issued for the use of the Syriac Christians through the efforts of the Syriac Catholic Archbishop of Damascus Clement Joseph David under the supervision of the Chaldean Archbishop of Amid Gregor Abdisho Khayyath. It is thoroughly vocalized its print is very clear owing to the use of beautiful Syriac type.
From $194.00
L'Omelia di Giacomo di Sarûg sul Battesimo di Costantino Imperatore
Edited and Translated by Arthur L. Frothingham
Series: Analecta Gorgiana 458
ISBN: 978-1-60724-896-5
Frothingham here offers the Syriac text, with an annotated Italian translation, of Jacob of Sarug’s homily on the Baptism of Constantine (832 lines), based chiefly two manuscripts, one from the Vatican and the other from the British Museum.
$51.00
Issues in Luke-Acts
Selected Essays
Edited by Sean A. Adams & Michael Pahl
Series: Gorgias Handbooks 26
ISBN: 978-1-60724-160-7
This volume provides an introduction and engagement with the major critical issues in the study of Luke-Acts. As the study of Acts has become, once again, one of the major areas of focus within New Testament scholarship, this collection of essays presents an orientation to the major issues of Luke-Acts study, while providing fresh scholarship by senior scholars. This holistic overture addresses fundamental questions such as authorship, dating, textual concerns, sources, speeches and literary form(s).
$82.00
The Homilies of Aphraates, The Persian Sage
Edited from Syriac Manuscripts of the Fifth and Sixth Centuries in the British Museum
Edited with an Introduction by William Wright
Series: Syriac Studies Library 38
ISBN: 978-1-60724-897-2
Wright’s edition of the homilies of the early Syriac father, Aphrahat, includes the text, critical apparatus, and notes on biblical citations, which are also indexed. The preface surveys Aphrahat’s life and deals with the manuscripts used.
$248.00
History of Martyrs in Palestine, by Eusebius, Bishop of Caesarea
Discovered in a Very Ancient Syriac Manuscript
Edited and Translated by William Cureton
Series: Syriac Studies Library 39
ISBN: 978-1-60724-898-9
This volume contains the Syriac version, with English translation and copious literary and historical notes, of Eusebius’s small book on the martyrs of Palestine, edited from a Syriac manuscript dated to 411.
$163.00
De Vita et Scriptis Sancti Jacobi, Batnarum Sarugi in Mesopotamia Episcopi
The Life and Works of Jacob of Sarug
Series: Syriac Studies Library 43
ISBN: 978-1-60724-902-3
This volume contains the dissertation of the Belgian scholar J. B. Abbeloos. Here he studies the life and works of Jacob of Sarug. The major section of the book deals with Jacob’s thought, as taken from his homilies.
$174.00
Syriac Fragments
Edited and Translated by Eduard Sachau
Series: Syriac Studies Library 48
ISBN: 978-1-60724-911-5
Sachau here publishes, with Latin translation, fragments of Syriac translations of the works of Theodore of Mopsuestia: commentaries on Genesis and the Minor Prophets, On the Incarnation, a Morning Hymn, and various short exegetical and theological fragments.
$134.00
Die evangelischen Fragen und Lösungen des Eusebius in jakobitischer Überlieferung und deren nestoria
Edited and Translated by Gerhard Beyer
Series: Analecta Gorgiana 460
ISBN: 978-1-60724-913-9
Gerhard Beyer surveys the evidence for the transmission of Eusebius’s work including questions and answers on the Gospels (peri diaphonias euangelion) within the Jacobite and the Nestorian Syriac traditions.
$49.00
Eine arabische Versio der zweiten Paraenesis des Johannes Chrysostomos an den Mönch Theodoros
Translation and Introduction by Willi Heffening
Series: Analecta Gorgiana 461
ISBN: 978-1-60724-914-6
In the present study, Willi Heffening presents a German translation of two sermons by Chrysostom on the subject of the monk Theodore preserved in Arabic. The text is also extant in Greek, but the Arabic version contains several unique features.
$37.00
Die Chronik des Eusebius in der syrischen Überlieferung
Series: Analecta Gorgiana 465
ISBN: 978-1-60724-918-4
In the present study, Paul Keseling surveys the use of the Chronicle of Eusebius in later Syriac historical works, such as the “Epitome of Syria” and the chronicles of Pseudo-Dionysius, Elias of Nisibis and Michael the Great.
$46.00
Dating Archaic Biblical Hebrew Poetry
A Critique of the Linguistic Arguments
ISBN: 978-1-61143-921-2
The dating of some Archaic Biblical Hebrew poems to the late second millennium – early first millennium BCE on the basis of a handful of linguistic forms in common with second millennium Ugaritic and Amarna-Canaanite texts is brought into question. This critique highlights the problems with the arguments and hypotheses presented in the literature, and concludes that there is no compelling evidence to support the use of linguistic data for dating purposes.
$158.00
Die mittelalterliche Überlieferung des Psalterium iuxta Hebraeos von Hieronymus und semitische Kennt
Series: Analecta Gorgiana 471
ISBN: 978-1-60724-926-9
Arthur Allgeier presents a survey of medieval translations of the Psalms in comparison with the translations of Jerome’s Psalterium iuxta Hebraeos in order to contrast the use of the underlying Hebrew text in the translation.
$38.00
Homélie de Narsès sur les trois Docteurs Nestoriens
Edited and Translated by Paulin Martin
Series: Analecta Gorgiana 475
ISBN: 978-1-60724-931-3
In this work, Martin offers the Syriac text, with an annotated French translation, of Narsai’s poem on the three doctors of the Church of the East: Diodore of Tarsus, Theodore of Mopsuestia, and Nestorius.
$57.00
Midrash and the Exegetical Mind
Proceedings of the 2008 and 2009 SBL Midrash Sessions
Edited by Lieve M. Teugels & Rivka Ulmer
Series: Judaism in Context 10
ISBN: 978-1-61143-683-9
Contained in this volume are the Proceedings of the Midrash session of the SBL's annual conferences in 2008 and 2009. This volume contains eight essays dealing with various aspects of rabbinic interpretation.
$172.00
Analecta Sacra Patrum Antenicaenorum ex Codicibus Orientalibus
Syriac and Armenian Fragments of Ante-Nicene Writings
Edited and Translated by Jean-Baptiste François Pitra; In Collaboration With Paulin Martin
Series: Syriac Studies Library 49
ISBN: 978-1-60724-932-0
This work contains a large number of Syriac and Armenian fragments from Ante-Nicene writings, with a translation into Latin and four indices: biblical passages, place names, persons, and subjects.
$220.00
Stilmittel bei Afrahat dem persischen Weisen
By Leo Haefeli
Series: Syriac Studies Library 51
ISBN: 978-1-60724-934-4
Drawing on the more progressed fields of Greek and Roman and Arabic rhetoric, Haefeli here presents Aphrahat’s style in terms of numerous stylistic categories. Naturally, the work is brimming with examples (in Syriac and German) from Aphrahat.
$138.00
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