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  • Reimagining Delilah’s Afterlives as Femme Fatale

    The Lost Seduction

    Series series Playing the Texts
    The story of Samson and Delilah in Judges 16 has been studied and retold over the centuries by biblical interpreters, artists, musicians, filmmakers and writers. Within these scholarly and cultural retellings, Delilah is frequently fashioned as the quintessential femme fatale - the shamelessly seductive 'fatal woman' whose sexual treachery ultimately leads to Samson's downfall. Yet these ... Read more

    $50.99 CAD

  • T&T Clark Handbook of Sexualities in the Bible and its Reception

    Series series T&T Clark Handbooks
    This volume explores the range and richness of sexualities evoked in the biblical texts and their reception history. Contributors utilise theoretical and hermeneutical approaches to engage with different aspects of sexualities in/and the Bible, including the beliefs, behaviours, and bodies that haunt both the texts and their interpretive traditions.The contributors cover themes that have ... Read more

    $199.99 CAD

  • The Bible in Crime Fiction and Drama

    Murderous Texts

    Series series Scriptural Traces
    The Bible has always enjoyed notoriety within the genres of crime fiction and drama; numerous authors have explicitly drawn on biblical traditions as thematic foci to explore social anxieties about violence, religion, and the search for justice and truth. The Bible in Crime Fiction and Drama brings together a multi-disciplinary scholarship from the fields of biblical interpretation, literary ... Read more

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    In this radical approach to the Bible, an acclaimed Hebrew scholar and translator looks at the Old Testament with a fresh perspective.With a fundamental return to its narrative prose, Robert Alter translates this section of the Bible through the eyes of a literary critic. He considers the Bible as literary text, guiding readers to approach scripture in a profoundly thoughtful way, proving himself ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Coming to Grips With Genesis

    Biblical Authority and the Age of the Earth

    Fourteen theological scholars address key topics related to the age of the earth, which is the crucial issue of debate in the church today regarding origins. Bringing to bear rigorous biblical, theological, and historical arguments in favor of a six-day creation, the global Flood, and a young earth, they also provide much-needed critiques of a number of contemporary old-earth interpretations of ... Read more

    $8.44 CAD

  • Genesis: History, Fiction, or Neither?

    Three Views on the Bible’s Earliest Chapters

    Series series Counterpoints: Bible and Theology
    The nature of the Genesis narrative has sparked much debate among Christians. This book introduces three predominant interpretive genres and their implications for biblical understanding.Each contributor identifies their position on the genre or genres of Genesis, chapters 1-11, addresses why their interpretation is respectful of and appropriate to the text, and contributes examples of its ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • The Acts of the Apostles

    The fifth book of the New Testament has been known from ancient times as The Acts of the Apostles; but this title cannot be found in the book itself. One of the earliest manuscripts, the Codex Sinaiticus, gives as the title the simple word Acts, with no mention of the apostles. There is a reason for this. Acts was intended to be more than a brief history of the service rendered by the twelve ... Read more

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  • Understanding Genesis

    How to Analyze, Interpret, and Defend Scripture

    There are many opinions and subsequent interpretations on the Book of Genesis. What did the author of Genesis intend and how can we possibly know, or is the important thing only what the Bible “means to you”? In this book, Dr. Jason Lisle answers questions such as:What are the most common mistakes people make in trying to understand Genesis?What are the necessary rules of biblical interpretation, ... Read more

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  • The Israelite Woman

    Social Role and Literary Type in Biblical Narrative

    Series series T&T Clark Cornerstones
    In the first edition of The Israelite Woman Athalya Brenner-Idan provided the first book-length treatment by a feminist biblical scholar of the female characters in the Hebrew Bible. Now, thirty years later, Brenner provides a fresh take on this ground-breaking work, considering how scholarly observation of female biblical characters has changed and how it has not. Brenner-Idan also provides a new ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • What Did Jesus Look Like?

    Jesus Christ is arguably the most famous man who ever lived. His image adorns countless churches, icons, and paintings. He is the subject of millions of statues, sculptures, devotional objects and works of art. Everyone can conjure an image of Jesus: usually as a handsome, white man with flowing locks and pristine linen robes.But what did Jesus really look like? Is our popular image of Jesus ... Read more

    $50.99 CAD

  • In Search of 'Ancient Israel'

    A Study in Biblical Origins

    Series series T&T Clark Cornerstones
    The appearance of In Search of 'Ancient Israel' generated a still-raging controversy about the historical reality of what biblical scholars call 'Ancient Israel'. But its argument not only takes in the problematic relationship between Iron Age Palestinian archaeology and the biblical 'Israel' but also outlines the processes that created the literature of the Hebrew bible-the ideological matrix, ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • History, Politics and the Bible from the Iron Age to the Media Age

    Series series The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies
    As biblical studies becomes increasingly fragmented, this collection of essays brings together a number of leading scholars in order to show how historical reconstruction, philology, metacriticism, and reception history can be part of a collective vision for the future of the field.This collection of essays focuses more specifically on critical questions surrounding the construction of ancient ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD