Life of Adam and Eve

Using Jewish Traditions and Confronting Gnostic Reversed Exegesis

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The present book is the 9th volume of the multidisciplinary series Studies in the Reception History of the Bible. Simultaneously, SRB 9 is the third contribution to the project “Where are you, Adam? A New Understanding of Adam in Jewish-Christian-Muslim Context” funded by the Academy of Finland. In this volume contributors discuss exegetical and folkloristic motifs in the pseudepigraph Life of Adam and Eve, which has been. . . (more)

Adam and Eve Story vol. 2

In Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Perspectives

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In August 2014, a conference was organized in Turku with the topic “Where are you, Adam? A New Understanding of Adam in Jewish-Christian-Muslim Context.” The conference was a part of a research project that was funded by the Academy of Finland during the years 2013–2017. Almost 30 papers were presented in the conference and they, together with two other papers, are. . . (more)

Adam and Eve Story vol. 1

In the Hebrew Bible and in Ancient Jewish Writings Including the New Testament

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In August 2014, a conference was organized in Turku with the topic “Where are you, Adam? A New Understanding of Adam in Jewish-Christian-Muslim Context.” The conference was a part of a research project that was funded by the Academy of Finland during the years 2013–2017. Almost 30 papers were presented in the conference and they, together with two other papers, are published in the volumes SRB 7 and 8. This volume. . . (more)

Take Another Scroll and Write

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From the table of contents:
Elijah, the Servant, and Phinehas: The Exegetical Tradition behind Ben Sira‘s Portrayal of Elijah‘s Coming (Sir 48:10-11) / Lotta Valve
“Prophecy” and “Rewriting” in the Dead Sea Scrolls / Peter Porzig
“One of the Prophets of Old” (Lk 9:19): Luke‘s Rewriting of the Biblical Prophetic Tradition / Lukas Bormann
Past, Present, and Prophecy in Hebrews 1 / Cornelis de Vos
Bringing the Beast into the Present: Daniel 7 Rewritten in. . . (more)

Textbook of Aramaic Ostraca from Idumea, volume 4

By Bezalel Porten and Ada Yardeni

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Since the early 1990s, about two thousand Idumean Aramaic ostraca have found their way onto the antiquities market and are now scattered across a number of museums, libraries, and private collections. This multivolume textbook classifies these ostraca according to subject matter and brings them together into a single publication. With this fourth installment, Bezalel Porten and Ada Yardeni continue their comprehensive edition of Aramaic ostraca from Idumea. . . (more)

The 2004 Season at Tall al ʿUmayri and Subsequent Studies

Edited by Larry G. Herr, Douglas R. Clark, and Lawrence T. Geraty

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Modeled after previous seasonal reports, this ninth volume of the Madaba Plains Project’s excavations at Tall al-ʿUmayri, Jordan gives a detailed accounting of the artifactual finds from the 2004 season of the excavations, accompanied by hundreds of photos and supplemented with related research. The active fields in 2004 included Field A, the western citadel with Early Iron Age domestic structures; Field B, the. . . (more)

Numayra

Excavations at the Early Bronze Age Townsite in Jordan, 1977–1983

Edited by Meredith S. Chesson, R. Thomas Schaub, and Walter E. Rast

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The emergence of ancient urbanism has long held the interest of archaeologists attempting to understand the origins of inequality and its links to early urban life. This volume presents the results of archeological research at the Early Bronze Age sites of Numayra and Ras an-Numayra, conducted to investigate the rise of Early Bronze Age urban society, with a distinctive focus on links between environmental and social. . . (more)

A Concise History of Ancient Israel

From the Beginnings Through the Hellenistic Era

Bernd U. Schipper, translated by Michael Lesley

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The history of biblical Israel, as it is told in the Hebrew Bible, differs substantially from the history of ancient Israel as it can be reconstructed using ancient Near Eastern texts and archaeological evidence. In A Concise History of Ancient Israel, Bernd U. Schipper uses this evidence to present a critical revision of the history of Israel and Judah from the late second millennium BCE to the beginning of the. . . (more)