History of Israel/Judaism  

2 Maccabees: A Critical Commentary

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Release Date: Friday, June 1, 2012

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The second-century B.C.E. Maccabean revolt against Seleucid oppression was a watershed event in early Jewish history and Second Maccabees is an important... read more

The Violence of Scripture: Overcoming the Old Testament's Troubling Legacy

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Release Date: Wednesday, August 1, 2012

No one can read far in the Hebrew Bible without encountering depictions of violence carried out by human beings, sometimes in the name of God, or indeed... read more

Common Judaism: Explorations in Second-Temple Judaism

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Release Date: Tuesday, November 1, 2011

E. P. Sanders's monumental Judaism: Practice and Belief inaugurated vigorous debates about the extent and significance of commonality and diversity in ancient... read more

1 Enoch 2: A Commentary on the Book of 1 Enoch, Chapters 37-82

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Release Date: Saturday, October 1, 2011

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1 Enoch presents interpreters with a complex knot of interrelated puzzles concerning the history of early Judaism, the trajectories of wisdom and apocalyptic... read more

Encountering the Jewish Future: with Wiesel, Buber, Heschel, Arendt, Levinas

Release Date: Friday, July 1, 2011

Marc Ellis maintains that the most vital questions about Judaism are prefigured in the work of Elie Wiesel, Martin Buber, Abraham Joshua Heschel, Hannah Arendt,... read more

Jewish Christianity Reconsidered: Rethinking Ancient Groups and Texts

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Release Date: Tuesday, April 10, 2007

For decades, scholars have used the phrase "Jewish Christianity" and, more recently, "Christian Judaism." But just what do those terms mean? Who... read more

The Social History of Ancient Israel: An Introduction

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Release Date: Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Histories of ancient Israel have usually focused attention on major figures in powerful positions: kings, prophets, and patriarchs. Kessler asks about the... read more

Gentiles—Jews—Christians: Polemics and Apologetics in the Greco-Roman Era

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Release Date: Monday, January 3, 2011

The roots of anti–Judaism and Jewish–Christian dialogue are examined in their historical contexts with a wide array of Greek, Roman, Jewish, and... read more

Daughters of Miriam: Women Prophets in Ancient Israel

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Release Date: Wednesday, February 13, 2008

There are untold numbers of female prophets hiding in the masculine grammar and androcentric focus of the Hebrew scriptures. There are women-prophets in the... read more

The Ways That Never Parted: Jews and Christians in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages

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Release Date: Friday, June 29, 2007

In this first paperback edition of a volume originally published by Mohr Siebeck in 2003, stellar international scholars question whether there in fact was a... read more