In this exciting new Overtures volume, the author brings a fresh approach to the question of how understanding rhetoric helps us -- specifically as readers of the Bible to understand ancient Israel…
recent years have seen the publication of a vast amount of material from both European and American scholars on Old Testament theology. A variety of differnt and sometimes contradictory approaches …
More than a simple exchange of words, conversations in the biblical narratives offer an array of clues that define the characters and their relationships, the setting, and the language they employ.…
Gregory Mobley plunges beneath the Bible's surface to reveal its "backstories" -- the tales that constitute the backbone of the people Israel and of the body of Christ. Viewing the Bible as "essent…
An iconoclastic study of the entire Hebrew Bible (Christianity's Old Testament) that argues provocatively that the Bible developed as a written tradition rather than an oral one, as commonly believed.
The Old Testament is the collection of writings which the Christian community received from Israel. This collection developed in three concentric circles around an innermost kernel called the Torah…
Using insights about ancient and modern tragedy, this study offers challenging and provocative new readings of selected Biblical narratives: the story of Israel's first king, Saul, rejected for his…
Dorsey proceeds book-by-book through the entire Old Testament, identifying the structure and offering commentary as to how it clarifies the text's meaning. He illuminates the "big picture" of each …
The author shows how each part of the Old Testament (Pentateuch, historical books, prophets, psalms, wisdom literature) and Old Testament theology have been explainded by leading scholars from Well…