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“david p wright”

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  • Inventing God's Law

    How the Covenant Code of the Bible Used and Revised the Laws of Hammurabi

    by David P. Wright ...
    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 ... Read more

    $53.09 USD

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  • The Jewish Annotated New Testament

    Edited by Amy-Jill Levine, Marc Z. Brettler ...
    Although major New Testament figures--Jesus and Paul, Peter and James, Jesus' mother Mary and Mary Magdalene--were Jews, living in a culture steeped in Jewish history, beliefs, and practices, there has never been an edition of the New Testament that addresses its Jewish background and the culture from which it grew--until now. In The Jewish Annotated New Testament, eminent experts under the ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Henri's War

    by A Survivor ...
    This is the story of a survivor, what he saw and felt during his Calvary from Antwerp to the Malin distribution camp in France and from there to the extermination camp of Buchenwald.To say that this book contains the scenes of a twentieth-century Inferno may sound commonplace. Yet, every page of this book reminds one of Dante's Inferno, with one exception: The Inferno, the author writes about ... Read more

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  • Jewish Babylonia between Persia and Roman Palestine

    by Richard Kalmin ...
    The Babylonian Talmud was compiled in the third through sixth centuries CE, by rabbis living under Sasanian Persian rule in the area between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. What kind of society did these rabbis inhabit? What effect did that society have on important rabbinic texts? In this book Richard Kalmin offers a thorough reexamination of rabbinic culture of late antique Babylonia. He shows ... Read more

    $81.89 USD

  • Chosen People

    The Rise of American Black Israelite Religions

    by Jacob S. Dorman ...
    Named Outstanding Academic Title by CHOICE Winnter of the Wesley-Logan Prize of the American Historical Association Winner of the Byron Caldwell Smith Book Prize Winner of the 2014 Albert J. Raboteau Book Prize for the Best Book in Africana Religions Jacob S. Dorman offers new insights into the rise of Black Israelite religions in America, faiths ranging from Judaism to Islam to Rastafarianism ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • Facets of Pauline Discourse in Christocentric and Christotelic Perspective

    by Dan Lioy ...
    Series Book 166 - Studies in Biblical Literature
    In this thought-provoking study, Dan Lioy asserts that a Christocentric and Christotelic perspective is an unmistakable feature of Paul’s discourse. The journey begins with an analysis of the old Adamic creation in Genesis 1–3 before digressing into representative passages from Paul’s writings, touching on such themes as new creation theology, the apostle’s apocalyptic interpretation of reality, ... Read more

    $111.99 USD

  • Jewish Blood

    Reality and metaphor in history, religion and culture

    Edited by Mitchell Hart ...
    Series series Routledge Jewish Studies Series
    This book deals with the Jewish engagement with blood: animal and human, real and metaphorical. Concentrating on the meaning or significance of blood in Judaism, the book moves this highly controversial subject away from its traditional focus, exploring how Jews themselves engage with blood and its role in Jewish identity, ritual and culture.With contributions from leading scholars in the field, ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • The Rise of Modern Jewish Politics

    Extraordinary Movement

    by C.S. Monaco ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Religion
    The path toward modern Jewish politics, a process that required a dramatic reconstruction of Jewish life, may have emerged during a far earlier time frame and in a different geographic and cultural context than has previously been thought. Drawing upon current sociological understanding of social movements, this book places the 1827 organized protest in London as an integral part of a ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • olam he-zeh v'olam ha-ba

    This World and the World to Come in Jewish Belief and Practice

    Edited by Leonard J. Greenspoon ...
    Series series Studies in Jewish Civilization
    Dining on Leviathan. Discoursing with Socrates. Debating the nature of existence in the afterlife. These are among the topics authors address in this wide-ranging account of how Jews have conceptualized the world to come and structured their lives in this world accordingly. Some authorities portrayed the afterlife as an endless round of feasting and drinking of chazerie that would put the fanciest ... Read more

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  • Sabbatai Ṣevi

    The Mystical Messiah, 1626–1676

    Translated by R. J. Zwi Werblowsky ...
    by Gershom Scholem ...
    Series series Princeton Classics
    Gershom Scholem stands out among modern thinkers for the richness and power of his historical imagination. A work widely esteemed as his magnum opus, Sabbatai Ṣevi offers a vividly detailed account of the only messianic movement ever to engulf the entire Jewish world. Sabbatai Ṣevi was an obscure kabbalist rabbi of seventeenth-century Turkey who aroused a fervent following that spread over the ... Read more

    $30.29 USD

  • Paul's Political Strategy in 1 Corinthians 1–4

    Constitution and Covenant

    by Bradley J. Bitner ...
    Series Book 163 - Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series
    This volume examines 1 Corinthians 1-4 within first-century politics, demonstrating the significance of Corinth's constitution to the interpretation of Paul's letter. Bradley J. Bitner shows that Paul carefully considered the Roman colonial context of Corinth, which underlay numerous ecclesial conflicts. Roman politics, however, cannot account for the entire shape of Paul's response. Bridging the ... Read more

    $27.09 USD

  • A Brief Guide to Judaism

    Theology, History and Practice

    by Naftali Brawer ...
    Series series Brief Histories
    The Jewish religion is one of the major faiths of the world yet one of the least understood. In a wide-ranging and accessible guide for the general reader Rabbi Naftali Brawer outlines the major themes and history of over 5,000 years of Jewish faith from its Abrahamic origins and the foundations of Jerusalem to the eras of exile, diaspora, and persecution. From ritual and practise to faith and ... Read more

    $10.99 USD