Mappings Of The Biblical Terrain

Twenty-five international biblical scholars and literary theorists apply the methods of literary criticism, semantics, social criticism, theology, narratology, and gender studies to the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament, New connections between Judaism and Christianity are suggested.

The discipline of Old Testament theology seeks to provide us with a picture of YHWH and his relationship to the world as described in the Old Testament. But within this discipline, there are many disagreements about the key issues and methodologies: Is the Old Testament unified in some way? Should the context of the theologian play a role in interpretation? Should Old Testament theology merely describe what ancient Israel believed, or should it offer guidance for the church today? What is the relationship between history and theology? All these considerations and more result in so many different kinds of Old Testament theologies (and so many publications), that it's difficult for students, pastors, and laity to productively study this already complex field. In Understanding Old Testament Theology, professors Brittany Kim and Charlie Trimm provide an overview of the contemporary approaches to Old Testament theology. In three main sections, they explore various approaches: Part I examines approaches that ground Old Testament theology in history. Part II surveys approaches that foreground Old Testament theme(s). Part III considers approaches that highlight different contexts for doing Old Testament theology. Each main chapter describes both common features of the approach and points of tension and then offers a test case illuminating how it has been applied to the book of Exodus. Through reading this book, you’ll hopefully come to see the Old Testament in a fresh light—as something that’s alive and active, continually drawing us into deeper encounters with the living God.

THE ESSENTIAL COLLECTIONThe Essential Collection is a graphical reference book that features the most accurate Bible Maps and Chronologies available today. When you get the chronology right, the cartography right and the archaeology right, you get the Bible text right. What you read in the book you find in the ground!Large format 8.5 x 11, with over 240 full colour high-resolution maps, chronologies, graphics, charts, timelines and photos.WHO NEEDS THE ESSENTIAL COLLECTION?1.This book is perfect reading on long haul flights when travelling to Israel for a tour of ancient Biblical and archaeological sites. Every Bible story can be placed in its correct chronological time and precise geography on a map. You will learn more about Israel reading this book on the plane than you will on the entire trip in Israel. It provides an easy reference tool on the tour bus between sites.2.Christians who love to study the Bible including preachers, evangelists, elders, pastors, teachers of church classes or small group studies.3. Put a copy at the pulpit, in the church pews and library as a quick reference guide to the Bible.4. It is a great presentation gift to new converts or a gift to a loved one going on a "Holy Land Tour".Chronologically divided into 13 sections:1.Master Archaeological map plates2.Creation to Joseph: 5554-1870 BC3.The Exodus: 1446 BC4.The Conquest: 1406-1356 BC5.Judges: 1350 - 1094 BC6.United Kingdom: Eli to Solomon: 1094 - 931 BC7.Divided Kingdom: Rehoboam to Zedekiah: 931 - 587 BC8.Babylonian Captivity: 605 - 536 BC9.Greek Kingdom and the Rise of Synagogues: 333-49 BC10.Roman Kingdom, Jesus and Christianity: 49 BC - AD 10011.Textual Transmission of the Bible.12.Biblical Psychiatry and Dichotomous Nature of Man.13.Salvation and End of the WorldHIGH PRECISION CARTOGRAPHY, CHRONOLOGY AND ARCHAEOLOGY: BIBLE ARCHAEOLOGY: Bible cities name on maps feature their archeological name and are located with high precision using satellites and GPS. BIBLE CHRONOLOGY: Chronologies are likewise founded directly upon the Bible with creation in 5554 BC, the Noahic flood in 2850 BC, the birth of Abraham in 2166 BC, the Exodus in 1446 BC, migration of the Philistines 1177 BC, destruction of Shiloh in 1094 BC, birth of David in 1040 BC, Temple begun in 4th year of Solomon in 967 BC, start of Elijah's ministry in 877 BC, conquest of Jehu in 841 BC, death of Elisha in 795 BC, Assyrian captivity in 723 BC, lost book of the Law found in 623 BC, Babylonian captivity 605-536 BC, destruction of Solomon's temple 587 BC, 70 week of Daniel 9 begins in 458 BC, Alexander the Great in 333 BC, liberation of Temple by Judas Maccabeus in 164 BC, Roman empire begins in 49 BC when Julius Caesar crosses the Rubicon River, birth of Jesus in 2 BC, death of Herod in 1 BC, crucifixion on Friday 3 April AD 33, Herod's temple burned on Monday August 6th (10 Av) AD 70. BIBLE ARCHAEOLOGY: Archaeological plates feature date of origin, provenance place and date, current museum location, translation along with related Bible verses.What you read in the book you find in the gro

Feminist Theory and the Bible: Interrogating the Sources conceptualizes, contextualizes and maps a new kind of burgeoning scholarship that has grown up in recent decades. This scholarship emerged in the margins of Feminist Studies and Biblical Studies and has yet to find a foothold in either one of these more established contexts. In this book, Esther Fuchs argues that in order to find an enduring, stable place in the academe, this scholarship requires a theoretical perspective. Biblical Studies as a whole has not yet been sufficiently theorized as an academic field, and currently consists of multiple disciplines relying for the most part on traditional scholarly discourses. In this regard, Feminist Biblical Studies is both a departure from and an important supplement to both Feminist Studies and Biblical Studies.

Comprised of contributions from scholars across the globe, The Oxford Handbook of Biblical Narrative is a state-of-the-art anthology, offering critical treatments of both the Bible's narratives and topics related to the Bible's narrative constructions. The Handbook covers the Bible's narrative literature, from Genesis to Revelation, providing concise overviews of literary-critical scholarship as well as innovative readings of individual narratives informed by a variety of methodological approaches and theoretical frameworks. The volume as a whole combines literary sensitivities with the traditional historical and sociological questions of biblical criticism and puts biblical studies into intentional conversation with other disciplines in the humanities. It reframes biblical literature in a way that highlights its aesthetic characteristics, its ethical and religious appeal, its organic qualities as communal literature, its witness to various forms of social and political negotiation, and its uncanny power to affect readers and hearers across disparate time-frames and global communities.

This book is for anyone interested in religious studies and women's studies, as well as for biblical scholars. It offers a feminist oppositional reading of the biblical text. The main argument is that the Bible constructs a fictional universe in which women are shown to be intent on promoting male interests, and, for the most part, appear as secondary characters whose voice and point of view are often suppressed. In their limited roles as mothers, wives, daughters and sisters, women are constructed as male-dependent pawns intent on securing the status of their male counterparts. The Biblical narrative highlights the contribution of women as reproductive agents and protectors of sons. In this challenging collection of essays, Fuchs focuses on type-scenes as a way of demonstrating the mechanisms by which the texts validates male power and superiority. She also deconstructs the Biblical sexual politics by asking whose interest is being served by the 'good' women of the Bible.Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement series, Volume 310.

Camels are first mentioned in the Bible as the movable property of Abraham. During the early monarchy, they feature prominently as long-distance mounts for the Queen of Sheba, and almost a millennium later, the Gospels tell us about the impossibility of a camel passing through a needle’s eye. Given the limited extrabiblical evidence for camels before circa 1000 BCE, a thorough investigation of the spatio-temporal history of the camel in the ancient Near and Middle East is necessary to understand their early appearance in the Hebrew Bible. Camels in the Biblical World is a two-part study that charts the cultural trajectories of two domestic species—the two-humped or Bactrian camel (Camelus bactrianus) and the one-humped or Arabian camel (Camelus dromedarius)—from the fourth through first millennium BCE and up to the first century CE. Drawing on archaeological camel remains, iconography, inscriptions, and other text sources, the first part reappraises the published data on the species’ domestication and early exploitation in their respective regions of origin. The second part takes a critical look at the various references to camels in the Hebrew Bible and the Gospels, providing a detailed philological analysis of each text and referring to archaeological data and zoological observations whenever appropriate. A state-of-the-art evaluation of the cultural history of the camel and its role in the biblical world, this volume brings the humanities into dialogue with the natural sciences. The novel insights here serve scholars in disciplines as diverse as biblical studies, (zoo)archaeology, history, and philology.

There has been much discussion of narrative aspects of the Bible in recent years, but the ends of biblical narratives – how the ends contribute to closure for their stories and how the ending strategies affect the whole narrative – have not been studied comprehensively. This study shows how the writers and editors of short narratives in Genesis gave their stories a sense of closure (or in a few cases, the sense of non-closure). Multiple and sometimes unexpected, forms of closure are identified; together these form a set of closural conventions. This contribution to narrative poetics of the Hebrew Bible in the light of source criticism will also be valuable to those who are interested in narrative and in concepts of closure.