'An amazingly wide-ranging book, showing that the world's religious texts can be a force for
good today'John Barton, author of A History of the Bible In our increasingly secular world …

An illuminating exploration of the Bible and many of our most contentious contemporary
issues Many people today claim that their positions on various issues are grounded in …

This book begins by arguing that early Greek reflection on the afterlife and immortality
insisted on the importance of the physical body whereas a wealth of Jewish texts from the …

Countering the traditional belief that Jews in antiquity were predominantly disinterested in
the popular entertainments of the Greek and Roman world, Loren R. Spielman maps the …

The purpose of this dissertation is to examine the logic behind the identification of Rome
with the pig in rabbinic literature. This identification is observed in the light of the broad …

While many ancient Jewish and Christian leaders voiced opposition to Greek and Roman
theater, this volume demonstrates that by the time the public performance of classical drama …

In Borderline Exegesis, Leif Vaage presents an alternative approach to biblical
interpretation, or exegesis—an approach that bends the boundaries of the traditional North …

Every doctoral dissertation is an arduous journey and this one was no exception. The
genesis of my research began during a time of post-graduate field studies in and around the …

The Sayings Gospel Q (Quelle)—a hypothetical “text” extrapolated from the double tradition
of the Gospels of Matthew and Luke—is widely held to be a Palestinian Jewish work …

The principal objective of this dissertation is to read the Apocalypse as resistance literature
in the interest of suffering readers through the construction of a new hermeneutic of …