Israel in the Wilderness

Biographical note Readership Reviews

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Book

Pages, Illustrations:

260 pp.

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BRILL

Language:

English

Biographical note

Kenneth E. Pomykala received his Ph.D. (1992) from The Claremont Graduate School, Claremont, CA, and is Professor of Religion, Calvin College. His work on the interpretation of the Hebrew Bible in early Judaism and Christianity includes The Davidic Dynasty Tradition in Early Judaism (SBLEJL; Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1995) and “Images of David in Early Judaism” in Of Scribes and Sages: Early Jewish Interpretation and Transmission of Scripture Vol. 1 (Ed. C. A. Evans; London/New York: T & T Clark, 2004).

Readership

All those interested in ancient Judaism and early Christianity, the history of interpretation of the Hebrew Bible, and the hermeneutical appropriation of sacred texts.

Reviews

'These discussions provide a fascinating insight into early biblical interpretation, higihlighitng the fact that the struggles and trials of the Hebrews during their wilderness wanderings bore a lasting validity and a diversity of significance within later Jewish and Christian faith communities.'
Caroline Blyth, Edinburgh, The Expository Times, March 2009

'...the essays as a whole are stimulating... The collection is especially valuable for its insights into the wilderness as a topos and the interrelationship of Jewish and Christian exegesis in antiquity. One is pressed to find fault in this book...'
Richard J. Bautch, Biblical Interpretation 20 (2012)

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9789004242326

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The Figure of Solomon in Jewish, Christian and Islamic Tradition

Edited by Joseph Verheyden, Catholic University of Leuven

This volume contains the proceedings of an international conference on Solomon that was held at the University of Leuven in 2009 and discussed various aspects of this multifaced character as he appears in Jewish, early Christian, and Islamic tradition.

€105.00$144.00

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9789004216792

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The Day of Atonement

Edited by Thomas Hieke, Johannes Gutenberg-University of Mainz and Tobias Nicklas, University of Regensburg

The “Day of Atonement” in Leviticus 16 had a formative influence on Judaism and Christianity. The essays in this volume form a representative cross section of the history of reception of Leviticus 16 and the tradition of the Yom ha-Kippurim.

€106.00$137.00

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9789004192522

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Cain and Abel in Text and Tradition

€175.00$227.00

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9789004188433

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Abraham, the Nations, and the Hagarites

edited by Martin Goodman, George van Kooten & Jacques van Ruiten

Jews, Christians and Muslims describe elements of their origins with close reference to the narrative of Abraham, including the complex story of Abraham's relations with Hagar. This volume sketches the significance of this narrative in the three traditions.

€133.00$172.00

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9789004170186

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The Significance of Sinai

Edited by: George J. Brooke, Hindy Najman, Loren T. Stuckenbruck. Editorial Assistance: Eva Mroczek, Brauna Doidge and Nathalie Lacoste

The essays in this volume disclose how Sinai, its location, the scriptural narratives about it, and the content of the revelation received there, are variously read by Deuteronomy, the Dead Sea Scrolls, Paul, Josephus, rabbinic literature, art and philosophy.

€133.00$172.00

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9789004165649

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The Prestige of the Pagan Prophet Balaam in Judaism, Early Christianity and Islam

Edited by George H. van Kooten & Jacques van Ruiten

In this book the ambiguous reception is traced which the pagan prophet Balaam received in Judaism, early Christianity and Islam.

€100.00$130.00

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9789004153981

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The Revelation of the Name YHWH to Moses

Edited by George H. van Kooten

In this book the varied and important reception is traced which the story of the revelation of YHWH’s name to Moses received in Judaism, early Christianity, and the pagan Graeco-Roman world.

€100.00$130.00

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9789004142350

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The Creation of Heaven and Earth

Edited by George H. van Kooten

This volume is about significant re-interpretations of the ‘creation of heaven and earth’ as narrated in Genesis 1. The contents and contexts of these later interpretations extend through Early Judaism, Christianity, ancient myth and philosophy right up till the modern discussion about design in ...

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9789004140486

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Sodom's Sin

Edited by Ed Noort and Eibert Tigchelaar

This volume presents an overview of Jewish, Christian and Islamic receptions of the Genesis 18-19 story of Sodom. The subjects range from inner-biblical reception, Dead Sea Scrolls, the Martyrdom of Pionius, and Koran commentaries, to Peter Damian and Marcel Proust.

€100.00$130.00

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9789004126688

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The Fall of the Angels

Edited by Christoph Auffarth and Loren T. Stuckenbruck assisted by Alexandra Wisniewski

Fall of the Angels focuses on a biblical tradition whose significance has been recognised, elaborated and explored in literature and art outside the Bible. Its extensive influence on religion and culture during the last two millenia is reflected in the wide variety of interpretations of this ...