Recent scholarship on ancient Judaism, finding only scattered references to messiahs in
Hellenistic-and Roman-period texts, has generally concluded that the word''messiah''did not …

This is the first book-length study of the impact of the Great War on women's everyday lives
in Ireland, focussing on the years of the war and its immediate aftermath. Fionnuala Walsh …

Vishwa Adluri and Joydeep Bagchee undertake a careful and rigorous hermeneutical
approach to nearly two centuries of German philological scholarship on the Mahabharata …

Jeffrey Stackert addresses two of the oldest and most persistent problems in biblical studies:
the relationship between prophecy and law in the Hebrew Bible and the utility of the …

Lively, well-informed portrait of the complex figure who was the apostle Paul Though Paul is
often lauded as the first great Christian theologian and a champion for Gentile inclusion in …

In this book, Jason A. Staples proposes a new paradigm for how the biblical concept of
Israel developed in Early Judaism and how that concept impacted Jewish apocalyptic hopes …

Bible and Cinema: An Introduction is a comprehensive examination of how the Bible has
been used and represented in mainstream cinema to develop its plots, characters, and …

The letter to the Ephesians provokes an array of interpretive questions regarding authorship,
audience, date, occasion, purpose of writing, and the nature of its moral instruction …

An analysis that challenges the conventional Christian hierarchy of John the Baptist and
Jesus of Nazareth While the Christian tradition has subordinated John the Baptist to Jesus of …

Resurrection of the dead represents one of the more enigmatic beliefs of Western religions
to many modern readers. In this volume, CD Elledge offers an interpretation of some of the …