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.
The Book of Acts According to the Syriac Peshitta Version with English Translation
English Translation by Robert A. Kitchen; Text Prepared by George Anton Kiraz
Series: Surath Kthob 31
ISBN: 978-1-61143-932-8
This volume is part of a series of English translations of the Syriac Peshitta along with the Syriac text carried out by an international team of scholars.
$150.00
Romans and Corinthians 1/2 According to the Syriac Peshitta Version with English Translation
English Translation by Daniel King; Text Prepared by George Anton Kiraz
Series: Surath Kthob 33
ISBN: 978-1-61143-963-2
This volume is part of a series of English translations of the Syriac Peshitta along with the Syriac text carried out by an international team of scholars.
$150.00
Galatians to Philemon According to the Syriac Peshitta Version with English Translation
English Translation by J. Edward Walters; Text Prepared by George Anton Kiraz
Series: Surath Kthob 34
ISBN: 978-1-61143-893-2
This volume is part of a series of English translations of the Syriac Peshitta along with the Syriac text carried out by an international team of scholars.
$150.00
Hebrews & General Epistles According to the Syriac Peshitta Version with English Translation
Series: Surath Kthob 32
ISBN: 978-1-4632-0556-0
This volume is part of a series of English translations of the Syriac Peshi?ta along with the Syriac text carried out by an international team of scholars.
$150.00
Revelation According to the Syriac Version with English Translation
English Translation by Jerome Alan Lund; Text Prepared by George Anton Kiraz
Series: Surath Kthob 35
ISBN: 978-1-4632-0413-6
This volume is part of a series of English translations of the Syriac Peshitta along with the Syriac text carried out by an international team of scholars. Although the book of Revelation is not part of the Peshitta, it was translated into Syriac at a later date and added to the Harqlean version.
$150.00
Portraits of a King Favored by God
David the King: God's Poet, Warrior, and Statesman
Edited by Mishael M. Caspi & John T. Greene
Series: Biblical Intersections 8
ISBN: 978-1-61143-405-7
David the king, when studied against the backdrop of existing material cultural remains from the ancient Middle East, scarcely seems to have been there. Excavations in Jerusalem have turned up nothing concrete about his existence. The literature concerning him is fraught with problems and generally takes on a legendary-mythological character. Even the meaning of his name is unclear. If he is mentioned at all by his contemporary monarchs against whom he would have fought it is only obliquely or only intimated by omissions or partial spellings in context. This volume attempts to advance scholarship addressing these concerns.
$150.00
Job of Uz
Suffering of the Righteous and the Justice of God
Edited by Mishael M. Caspi & John T. Greene
Series: Biblical Intersections 7
ISBN: 978-1-61143-420-0
Job finds himself in a situation similar to one experienced by everyone at some point in his or her life. He wants answers to questions concerning what has happened to him, since he lived his life according to the traditional wisdom and rules of conduct, asking what has gone wrong and why. The Book of Job raises fundamental questions of both the actions and expectations of humans and deities, and asks whether a clear understanding can be reached between them. The contributing essays to this anthology help advance and sharpen both the questions and the responses to that question.
$140.00
Job According to the Syriac Peshitta Version with English Translation
Series: Surath Kthob 16
ISBN: 978-1-4632-0554-6
This volume is part of a series of English translations of the Syriac Peshitta along with the Syriac text carried out by an international team of scholars. Loopstra has translated the text, while Kiraz has prepared the Syriac text in the west Syriac script, fully vocalized and pointed. The translation and the Syriac text are presented on facing pages so that both can be studied together. All readers are catered for: those wanting to read the text in English, those wanting to improve their grasp of Syriac by reading the original language along with a translation, and those wanting to focus on a fully vocalized Syriac text.
$150.00
Bardaisan of Edessa
Introduction by Jan Willem Drijvers; By H.J.W. Drijvers
Series: Gorgias Eastern Christian Studies 36
ISBN: 978-1-4632-0188-3
In this volume, a reprint of his 1966 monograph, H. J. W. Drijvers investigates the life and teachings of Bardaisan of Edessa, determining his place in the religious and cultural life of Edessa in the second half of the second century of the common era.
$163.00
The Martyrdom of St Phokas of Sinope
The Syriac Version
Introduction, translation and edition by Sebastian P. Brock
Series: Texts from Christian Late Antiquity 31
ISBN: 978-1-4632-0189-0
The fame of the martyr St. Phokas, first bishop of Sinope (on the Black Sea) and patron of seafarers, had spread to many parts of the Christian world by the fifth and sixth centuries. Although the Acts of his martyrdom under Trajan were composed in Greek, the earliest witness to them is the Syriac translation which is edited and translated here from two early manuscripts.
$34.00
Scribal Wit
Aramaic Mnemonics in the Leningrad Codex
By David Marcus
Series: Texts and Studies (Third Series) 10
ISBN: 978-1-61143-904-5
This book presents a detailed analysis of the Aramaic mnemonics, those short witty sentences written in Aramaic as memory aids in the margins of one of the oldest extant biblical Hebrew manuscripts, the Leningrad Codex (1008 CE). The material is presented in clear, user-friendly charts. Each mnemonic is set alongside the Hebrew verses it represents. This book demonstrates the ingenuity of the Masoretes in their grand endeavor to preserve the text of the Hebrew Bible precisely in the form that it had reached them.
$132.00
Perspectives on Hebrew Scriptures VIII
Comprising the Contents of Journal of Hebrew Scriptures, Vol. 11
Edited by Ehud Ben Zvi
ISBN: 978-1-4632-0220-0
This volume incorporates all the articles and reviews published in Volume 11 (2011) of the Journal of Hebrew Scriptures.
$278.00
Re-Presenting Texts
Jewish and Black Biblical Interpretation
Edited by W. David Nelson & Rivka Ulmer
Series: Judaism in Context 16
ISBN: 978-1-61143-924-3
This is the fifth issue of Proceedings of the Midrash Section at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature published in this series, and contains six papers on Jewish and Black biblical hermeneutics with regard to Rabbinic Midrash.
$159.00
Lamen., Prayer & Ep of Jer, 1/2 Ep of Baruch According to the Syriac Peshitta with Eng. Tr.
English Translation by Donald M. Walter & Gillian Greenberg; Text Prepared by George Anton Kiraz & Joseph Bali
Series: Surath Kthob 23
ISBN: 978-1-4632-0230-9
This volume is part of a series of English translations of the Syriac Peshitta carried out by an international team of scholars. The fully vocalized and pointed Syriac text, and the English translation, are presented on facing pages so that both can be studied together. Supplementary information is given in annotations, Addenda, and Appendices.
$150.00
Humanist Comic Elements in Aristophanes and the Old Testament
Series: Biblical Intersections 15
ISBN: 978-1-4632-0243-9
Lazarus compares and discusses comic elements used for didactic purposes in two separate literary traditions: Old Testament narrative and Aristophanic Comedies. Given that humour relies on taking people's ideas of what is normal and making them incongruous, this volume examines these very different texts to see how they use that comic incongruity to help define what it means to be human within the hierarchy of the universe.
$192.00
In the Arms of Biblical Women
Edited by John T. Greene & Mishael M. Caspi
Series: Biblical Intersections 13
ISBN: 978-1-4632-0231-6
The less-discussed character in the Bible is the woman: two talking animals therein have sometimes received more page space. This volume shines the light of close scrutiny in the less-trodden direction and focuses on biblical and allied women, or on the feminine side of Creation. Biblical women are compared to mythical characters from the wider Middle East or from contemporary literature, and feminist/womanist perspectives are discussed alongside traditional and theological perspectives.
$168.00
Perspectives on Hebrew Scriptures IX
Comprising the Contents of Journal of Hebrew Scriptures, vol. 12
Edited by Ehud Ben Zvi & Christophe Nihan
ISBN: 978-1-4632-0420-4
This volume incorporates all the articles and reviews published in volume 12 (2012) of the Journal of Hebrew Scriptures.
$287.00
Barhebraeus
A Bio-Bibliography
Series: Gorgias Eastern Christian Studies 9
ISBN: 978-1-59333-148-1
An extensive account of the life and works of Barhebraeus based on the latest research. It includes an appendix containing a comprehensive list of bibliographical references and manuscripts relating to Barhebraeus.
$231.00
Three Mirrors for Two Biblical Ladies
The Queen of Sheba and Susanna in the Eyes of Jews, Christians, and Muslims
Series: Biblical Intersections 14
ISBN: 978-1-59333-363-8
The biblical episode relating the encounter of the Queen of Sheba with Solomon and the apocryphal tale of Susanna, a Jewish woman slanderously accused of adultery by two judges and saved by Daniel, have become part of the collective imagination in West and East. These two Old Testament women have been adapted in art throughout time and space to meet the changing cultural horizons of the community. Like mirrors, various periods and modes of late-Ancient and medieval Judaism, Christianity and Islam have each, in their own way, reflected the characteristics of the great Queen and the chaste Susanna.
$121.00
An Introduction to Early Christianity
By Pau Figueras
Series: Gorgias Handbooks 32
ISBN: 978-1-4632-0238-5
A general introduction to the origin and development of Christianity, from its Jewish background in the land of Israel up to its contribution to the thought and art of medieval Europe.
$84.00
Studies in the Early Text of the Gospels and Acts
The Papers of the First Birmingham Colloquium on the Textual Criticism of the New Testament
Edited by David G.K. Taylor
Series: Texts and Studies (Third Series) 1
ISBN: 978-1-4632-0242-2
Eleven papers from the First Birmingham Colloquium on the Textual Criticism of the New Testament, examining aspects of the Textus Receptus, the ‘Pre-Johannine Text’ of the Gospel, the ratings system in the United Bible Societies’ Greek New Testament and the application of probability theory to textual transmission, as well as surveys of non-continuous papyrus witnesses to the New Testament and the Dura-Europos Gospel Harmony, alongside studies of variation in the form of the Beatitudes and the location of Emmaus.
$157.00
Early Syriac Translation Technique and the Textual Criticism of the Greek Gospels
Series: Texts and Studies (Third Series) 2
ISBN: 978-1-59333-096-5
Although scholars have often made inferences about the Greek texts that lay behind the Old Syriac and Peshitta versions of the Gospels, very few have ever attempted to formulate systematic rules for such inferences. This volume investigates a wide range of textual phenomena and formulates clear and simple rules for the use of Syriac texts as witnesses to the underlying Greek. It becomes possible to uncover errors that have accumulated during the evolution of the Greek New Testament textual apparatus. Williams argues these errors generally stem from the unjustified use of Syriac witnesses.
$170.00
A Short Introduction to the Tiberian Masoretic Bible and its Reading Tradition
Series: Gorgias Handbooks 28
ISBN: 978-1-4632-0246-0
This book is intended to provide a quick introductory overview of the Tiberian Masoretic tradition of the Hebrew Bible and its background. It was this tradition that produced the great Masoretic codices of the Middle Ages, which form the basis of modern printed editions of the Hebrew Bible. Particular prominence is given to the multi-layered nature of the Masoretic tradition. The volume contains a section describing the Tiberian reading tradition, which is essential for a correct understanding of the vocalization system.
$47.00
Can No Physician Be Found?
The Influence of Religion on Medical Pluralism in Ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia and Israel
Series: Gorgias Studies in the Ancient Near East 6
ISBN: 978-1-4632-0248-4
Can No Physician be Found analyzes how religion, as an expression of a universal order, is applied to the medical practices in the cultures of ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia and Israel. The comparative approach sheds light on how religious concepts shaped not only the particular medical identity of each society, but also how they can simultaneously participate in a broader medical culture spanning the ancient Near East.
$126.00
Insiders versus Outsiders
Exploring the Dynamic Relationship Between Mission and Ethos in the New Testament
Edited by Jacobus Kok & John Anthony Dunne
ISBN: 978-1-4632-0257-6
Christianity as a movement developed within the already established, but volatile Jewish movement/religion, expressing a profound sense of inclusivism illustrated in the transcendence of social boundaries. In this book the dynamic reality of creating and transcending boundaries and the relationship between insiders and outsiders are explored by way of reflecting on mission and ethos.
$158.00
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