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Overtures to Biblical Theology series

Biblical studies that inform theology and stimulate discussion of the issues of our time.
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Battered Love: Marriage, Sex, and Violence in the Hebrew Prophets

by Renita J. Weems (Author)

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Release Date: Thursday, November 30, 1995

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Weems's pioneering study explores the puzzling ways in which the Hebrew prophets' portrayals of divine love, compassion, and conventional commitment often... read more

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Missing Persons and Mistaken Identities: Women and Gender in Ancient Israel

by Phyllis A. Bird (Author)

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Release Date: Tuesday, November 25, 1997

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In these outstanding studies, Phyllis Bird retrieves the identities of women in ancient Israel through penetrating investigations of Israelite religion, the... read more

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Prayer in the Hebrew Bible: The Drama of Divine-Human Dialogue

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Release Date: Saturday, May 1, 1993

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Balentine has forged new categories of analysis beyond our old critical pigeonholes. In the end, he has shown that prayer is neither a marginal activity... read more

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Reconstructing Old Testament Theology: After the Collapse of History, Second Edition

by Leo G. Perdue (Author); Walter Brueggemann (Editor)

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Release Date: Wednesday, June 15, 2005

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In this informative and keen look at contemporary trends in Old Testament theology, Perdue builds on his earlier volume The Collapse of History (1994). He... read more

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The Land: Place as Gift, Promise, and Challenge in Biblical Faith, 2nd Edition

by Walter Brueggemann (Author)

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Release Date: Thursday, August 29, 2002

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The land was one of the most vibrant symbols for the people of ancient Israel. In the land—gift, promise, and challenge—was found the physical... read more

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A Biblical Theology of Exile

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Release Date: Monday, August 19, 2002

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The Christian church continues to seek ethical and spiritual models from the period of Israel's monarchy and has avoided the gravity of the Babylonian... read more

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The Torah's Vision of Worship

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Release Date: Friday, July 30, 1999

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A complement to the author's earlier Overtures to Biblical Theology study on prayer, this volume addresses the topic of worship as articulated in the first... read more

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The Land Is Mine: Six Biblical Land Ideologies

by Norman C. Habel (Author)

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Release Date: Wednesday, December 1, 1993

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Norman C. Habel identifies six discrete ideologies in the Hebrew Bible regarding land: royal, agrarian, theocratic, prophetic, ancestral household, and immigrant.

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A Theology of the Cross: The Death of Jesus in the Pauline Letters

by Charles B. Cousar (Author)

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Release Date: Tuesday, May 1, 1990

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In Paul's epistles the crucifixion story reveals a God who is free and in no way bound by human categories or expectations. Yet God in Christ chooses to be... read more

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God and the Rhetoric of Sexuality

by Phyllis Trible (Author)

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Release Date: Wednesday, January 1, 1986

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Focusing on texts in the Hebrew Bible, and using feminist hermeneutics, Phyllis Trible brings out what she considers to be neglected themes and counter... read more

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