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  • The Song of Songs

    A Biography

    by Ilana Pardes ...
    Series series Lives of Great Religious Books
    An essential history of the greatest love poem ever writtenThe Song of Songs has been embraced for centuries as the ultimate song of love. But the kind of love readers have found in this ancient poem is strikingly varied. Ilana Pardes invites us to explore the dramatic shift from readings of the Song as a poem on divine love to celebrations of its exuberant account of human love. With a ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Countertraditions in the Bible

    A Feminist Approach

    by Ilana Pardes ...
    In this eye-opening book, llana Pardes explores the tense dialogue between dominant patriarchal discourses of the Bible and counter female voices. Pardes studies women’s plots and subplots, dreams and pursuits, uncovering the diverse and at times conflicting figurations of femininity in biblical texts. She also sketches the ways in which antipatriarchal elements intermingle with other repressed ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • Ruth

    A Migrant's Tale

    by Ilana Pardes ...
    Series series Jewish Lives
    A wide-ranging exploration of the story of Ruth, a foreigner who became the founding mother of the Davidic dynasty“A virtuoso exploration of the Book of Ruth as an admirable touchstone in the realms of literature, art, and human values. Ilana Pardes foregrounds the timeless emergency of migrants and refugees with compassion and depth.”—Galit Hasan-Rokem, author of Web of LifeThe biblical Ruth has ... Read more

    $18.79 USD

  • The Biography of Ancient Israel

    National Narratives in the Bible

    by Ilana Pardes ...
    Series Book 14 - Contraversions: Critical Studies in Jewish Literature, Culture, and Society
    The nation--particularly in Exodus and Numbers--is not an abstract concept but rather a grand character whose history is fleshed out with remarkable literary power. In her innovative exploration of national imagination in the Bible, Pardes highlights the textual manifestations of the metaphor, the many anthropomorphisms by which a collective character named "Israel" springs to life. She explores ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

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    by Jack Miles ...
    WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZEWhat sort of "person" is God? What is his "life story"? Is it possible to approach him not as an object of religious reverence, but as the protagonist of the world's greatest book—as a character who possesses all the depths, contradictions, and abiguities of a Hamlet? This is the task that Jack Miles—a former Jesuit trained in religious studies and Near Eastern ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Introduction to Biblical Hermeneutics

    The Search for Meaning

    by Walter C. Kaiser, Jr., Moisés Silva ...
    Since its publication in 1994, An Introduction to Biblical Hermeneutics has become a standard text for a generation of students, pastors, and serious lay readers. This second edition has been substantially updated and expanded, allowing the authors to fine-tune and enrich their discussions on fundamental interpretive topics. In addition, four new chapters have been included that address more ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

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  • Genesis: The Book of Beginnings

    by Sacks, Jonathan ...
    Series Book 1 - Covenant & Conversation
    This collection makes Rabbi Jonathan Sacks' brilliant essays on the weekly Torah portion available in book form for the first time. Rabbi Sacks fuses Jewish tradition, Western philosophy and literature to present a highly developed understanding of the human condition under God's sovereignty. This first volume in the five-volume series includes several concise essays for each parasha of Bereshit. ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Bible among the Myths

    Unique Revelation or Just Ancient Literature?

    by John N. Oswalt ...
    Sixty years ago, most biblical scholars maintained that Israel’s religion was unique—that it stood in marked contrast to the faiths of its ancient Near Eastern neighbors. Nowadays, it is widely argued that Israel’s religion mirrors that of other West Semitic societies. What accounts for this radical change, and what are its implications for our understanding of the Old Testament? Dr. John N. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Deep Things of God

    How the Trinity Changes Everything

    by Fred Sanders ...
    The doctrine of the Trinity is widely taught and believed by evangelicals, but rarely is it fully understood or celebrated. Systematic theologian Fred Sanders, in The Deep Things of God, shows why we ought to embrace the doctrine of the Trinity wholeheartedly and without reserve, as a central concern of evangelical theology.Sanders demonstrates, with passion and conviction, that the doctrine of ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Murmuring Deep

    Reflections on the Biblical Unconscious

    by Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg ...
    From one of the most innovative and acclaimed biblical commentators at work today, here is a revolutionary analysis of the intersection between religion and psychoanalysis in the stories of the men and women of the Bible.For centuries scholars and rabbis have wrestled with the biblical narrative, attempting to answer the questions that arise from a plain reading of the text. In The Murmuring Deep, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Complete Literary Guide to the Bible

    by Leland Ryken, Tremper Longman III ...
    A Complete Literary Guide to the Bible is consideration of the Bible from a literary perspective, reflecting contemporary interest in the academic world of the Bible as literature. This collection of essays addresses both specific books of the Bible and general topics dealing with the Bible. The four main sections of the book are; The Bible as Literature, The Literature of the Old Testament, The ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Genesis

    Translation and Commentary

    Edited by Robert Alter ...
    "[Here is] the Genesis for our generation and beyond."—Robert FaglesGenesis begins with the making of heaven and earth and all life, and ends with the image of a mummy—Joseph's—in a coffin. In between come many of the primal stories in Western culture: Adam and Eve's expulsion from the garden of Eden, Cain's murder of Abel, Noah and the Flood, the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Abraham's ... Read more

    $13.99 USD