The Orion Center bibliography of the Dead Sea scrolls and associated literature

Ruth Clements, Nadav Sharon

BRILL, 2007 - 328 pages

The Orion Center Bibliography of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Associated Literature (2000-2006) is the fifth official Scrolls bibliography, following volumes covering the periods 1948-1957 (W. S. LaSor), 1958-1969 (B. Jongeling), 1970-1995 (F. Garcia Martinez and D. W. Parry), and 1995-2000 (A. Pinnick). The interdisciplinary cast of the Bibliography reflects the current emphasis in Scrolls scholarship on integrating the knowledge gained from the Qumran corpus into the larger picture of Second Temple Judaism. The volume contains over 4100 entries, including approximately 850 reviews; source, subject, and language indices facilitate its use by scholars and students within and outside the field. This work is based on the On-Line Bibliography maintained by the Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls, Jerusalem.

 

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The Pesher Nahum Scroll from Qumran: An Exegetical Study of 4Q169

Shani L. Berrin

BRILL, 2004 - 351 pages

The underlying premise of this study is the close relationship between Pesher Nahum (4Q169) and its biblical base-text. Historical and literary considerations, as well as theological, sociological, halakhic, textual, and linguistic data, are examined in terms of their exegetical functions.This edition includes a transcription and translation of 4QpNah, with textual notes. The treatment of 4QpNah follows the natural division of the extant text into five thematic literary sections, or "pericopes," each consisting of a series of "lemma/pesher units." For each pericope, proposed historical contextualizations are evaluated on the basis of exegetical criteria. "Equivalents" are "mapped" for each unit, such that individual elements of each lemma are aligned with corresponding elements from the biblical base-text. A focus upon "lemma/pesher correspondence" provides the framework for systematic exegetical analysis of 4QpNah.

 

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The Psalms in the New Testament

Steve Moyise, M. J. J. Menken

Continuum International Publishing Group, 2004 - 254 pages

 

The Psalms in the New Testament offers, for the first time, a set of studies that give an overview of the role and function of the Psalms in the first century, both at Qumran and in the New Testament. This ground-breaking collection forms an important research tool for Septuagintal and manuscript studies, first-century hermeneutics and the development of Christian apologetics and theology. Each chapter focuses on a particular biblical book and considers matters of textual form, points of particular interest and hermeneutics. The book is introduced and edited by Steve Moyise and Maarten J. J. Menken and includes contributions from George J. Brooke, Rikk Watts, Michael Labahn, Peter Doble, Margaret Daly-Denton, Sylvia C. Keesmaat, H.H. Drake Williams III, Thorsten Moritz, Harold W. Attridge and Sue Woan

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The Relationship Between Roman and Local Law in the Babatha and Salome Komaise Archives: General Analysis and Three Case Studies on Law of Succession, Guardianship and Marriage

Jacobine G. Oudshoorn

BRILL, 2007 - 456 pages

The discovery of the Babatha archive provided scholars with unique opportunities for reconstructing the life of Jews in second-century Arabia. Although legal issues and especially the question of the relationship between Roman and local law have received attention in a number of publications, this study presents the first complete overview of the legal situation as presented in the Babatha as well as the Salome Komaise archive, using references to law in the documents' texts as the key element for understanding what law is applicable to these documents. By distinguishing between two levels in the papyri, of substantive and of formal law, a new understanding is reached of the part both Roman and local law played in legal reality.

 

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The Sage in Israel and the Ancient Near East

 

John G. Gammie, Leo G. Perdue

Eisenbrauns, 1990 - 545 pages

The Temple Scroll: An Introduction, Translation & Commentary

Johann Maier

Continuum International Publishing Group, 1985 - 143 pages

The introduction, translation and commentary on the Temple Scroll by Johann Maier has been thoroughly revised and updated by the author for its English edition, taking account of improvements in readings, and, among other recent secondary literature, the English translation of Yadin's edition, to which cross-references are given. Students of Second Temple Judaism, and the Dead Sea Scrolls in particular, will at last have a convenient English edition of this most important document from Qumran.

 

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1-2 Corinthians 

Craig S. Keener

Cambridge University Press, 2005-06-13 - Religion - 299 pages

This commentary explains 1 and 2 Corinthians passage by passage, following Paul's argument. It uses a variety of ancient sources to show how Paul's argument would have made sense to first-century readers, drawing from ancient letter-writing, speaking, and social conventions. The commentary will be of interest to pastors, teachers, and others who read Paul's letters because of its readability, firm grasp of the background and scholarship on the Corinthian correspondence, and its sensitivity to the sorts of questions asked by those wishing to apply Paul's letters today. It will also be of interest to scholars because of its exploration of ancient sources, often providing sources not previously cited in commentaries.

 

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Alcohol, Addiction And Christian Ethics 

Christopher C. Cook (M.D.)

Cambridge University Press, 2006-05-04 - 221 pages

Addictive disorders are characterised by a division of the will, in which the addict is attracted both by a desire to continue the addictive behaviour and also by a desire to stop it. Academic perspectives on this predicament usually come from clinical and scientific standpoints, with the 'moral model' rejected as outmoded. But Christian theology has a long history of thinking and writing on such problems and offers insights which are helpful to scientific and ethical reflection upon the nature of addiction. Chris Cook reviews Christian theological and ethical reflection upon the problems of alcohol use and misuse, from biblical times until the present day. Drawing particularly upon the writings of St Paul the Apostle and Augustine of Hippo, a critical theological model of addiction is developed. Alcohol dependence is also viewed in the broader ethical perspective of the use and misuse of alcohol within communities.

 

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Altruism and Christian Ethics 

 

Colin Grant

Cambridge University Press, 2001 - 266 pages

 

Separated from its anchorage in religion, ethics has followed the social sciences in seeing human beings as fundamentally characterised by self-interest, so that altruism is either naively idealistic or arrogantly self-sufficient. Colin Grant contends that, as a modern secular concept, altruism is a parody on the self-giving love of Christianity, so that its dismissal represents a social levelling that loses the depths that theology makes intelligible and religion makes possible. The Christian affirmation is that God is characterised by self-giving love (agape), then expected of Christians. Lacking this theological background, the focus on self-interest in sociobiology and economics, and on human realism in the political focus of John Rawls or the feminist sociability of Carol Gilligan, finds altruism naive or a dangerous distraction from real possibilities of mutual support. This book argues that to dispense with altruism is to dispense with God and with the divine transformation of human possibilities.

 

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Churchgoing and Christian Ethics

 

Robin Gill

Cambridge University Press, 1999-08-19 - 277 pages

 

Robin Gill argues that once moral communities (such as churchgoers) take centre stage in ethics - as they do in virtue ethics - then there should be a greater interest in sociological evidence about these communities. This book examines recent evidence, gathered from social attitude surveys, about church communities, in particular their views on faith, moral order and love. It shows that churchgoers are distinctive in their attitudes and behaviour. Some of their attitudes change over time, and there are a number of obvious moral disagreements between different groups of churchgoers. Nonetheless, there are broad patterns of Christian beliefs, teleology and altruism which distinguish churchgoers as a whole from non-churchgoers. However, the values, virtues, moral attitudes and behaviour of churchgoers are shared by many other people as well. The distinctiveness of church communities in the modern world is thus real but relative, and is crucial for the task of Christian ethics.

 

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Genesis 12-50

 

R. W. L. Moberly

Continuum International Publishing Group, 1992 - 111 pages

 

What every student of the Old Testament needs is a short volume, concise and comprehensive, manageable and affordable, on the biblical book he or she is studying. OLD TESTAMENT GUIDES have been designed with the student's needs in mind: -introduction to the contents of the biblical book -balanced survey of the important critical issues -concentration on theological perspectives -assesment of the most recent scholarship -cross-references to standard works on Old Testament history and theology -annotated bibliographies OLD TESTAMENT GUIDES are published by the Sheffield Academic Press for the (British) Society for Old Testament Study. The authors are all members of the Society, and the series editor, R.N. Whybray, is a past president. Known internationally for their scholarly writings, they have for this series also drawn upon their experience as teachers of university and college students.

 

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How Things Are in the World: Metaphysics and Theology in Wittgenstein and Rahner

 

Terrance W. Klein

Marquette University Press, 2003 - 271 pages

 

"The Word was made flesh" is the foundational Christian assertion. Some two thousand years later, Christians are still reflecting upon its meaning. What is the relationship of words, or language, to our experience of God? Is God beyond words? Christianity has, in one venue or another, asserted just that, all the while maintaining the necessity of an explicitly religious life, one formed and focused upon words and that which might be called the "language of ritual." The very word "revelation" seems to evoke the question of language: words, concepts, assertions, judgements, etc. It's true that Christianity asserts that what God ultimately reveals in Jesus Christ is a person, not a message, or rather, that the person is the message, but words like "message," "communication," and even "communion" raise the question of language. If, on the one hand, God lies beyond all telling, and if, on the other, human life in the age of communication seems to be nothing more than a telling, a spinning, and the creation of realities formed by language, where do God and humanity meet? What does it mean to assert that the Word became flesh? The first half of this book is a theological examination of the work of Ludwig Wittgenstein who, with a small brace of others, stands as a progenitor of twentieth century thought. The work of Karl Rahner clearly stands as the center of postconciliar Roman Catholic theology, and of contemporary Christian theology in general. Rahner wrote voluminously and well. Although his own style of writing is dense and heavily weighted with continental philosophy, his treatments of so many basic theological questions have been popularized by innumerable secondary authors. It would beno exaggeration to say that Rahner's work has been a theological pivot for the second half of the 20th century. The time seems right, then, to take another look at Rahner and his Wittgensteinian critics

 

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Jesus Christ and the Religions: An Essay in Theology of Religions

Hans Waldenfels

Marquette University Press, 2009-02-28 - 145 pages

It is no longer controversial to grant that other religions have the same potential for salvation as our own. In this climate of plurality we are increasingly called upon to respond to the claims made by other religions on this issue. In this regard, Christians should know about their own Christian position and need to enter into a dialogue within their own church before they can engage fruitfully with other religions, other churches and communities. This book gives stimulus to an active dialogue between religions by arguing that interfaith dialogue in its depth entails an all comprising sharing, mutual openness and the proclamation of active faith in words and deeds.

 

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Martin Luther, Roman Catholic Prophet

 

Gregory Sobolewski

Marquette University Press, 2001 - 187 pages

 

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Paul and his Theology

 

Stanley E. Porter

Brill, 2006 - 454 pages

This volume consists of fifteen essays by an international group of scholars on a variety of topics in Pauline theology. These include his gentile mission, the concepts of faith, grace, and the law, reconciliation, the temple, eschatology, miracles, gender, and Paul's trinitarian tendencies.

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Self, Culture, and Others in Womanist Practical Theology 

 

 

Phillis Isabella Sheppard

 

Palgrave Macmillan

2011, 240 pages

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Septuagintal Midrash in the Speeches of Acts

 

Luke Timothy Johnson

Marquette University Press, 2002 - 76 pages

 

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Shame: Theory, Therapy, Theology

Stephen Pattison

Cambridge University Press, 2000-10-05 - Psychology - 343 pages

Stephen Pattison considers the nature of shame as it is discussed in the diverse discourses of literature, psychology, psychoanalysis, philosophy, history and sociology and concludes that ëshameí is not a single unitary phenomenon, but rather a set of separable but related understandings in different discourses. Situating chronic shame primarily within the metaphorical ecology of defilement, pollution and toxic unwantedness, Pattison goes on to examine the causes and effects of shame. He then considers the way in which Christianity has responded to and used shame. Psychologists, philosophers, theologians and therapists will find this a fascinating source of insight, and it will be of particular use to pastoral workers and those concerned with religion and mental health.

 

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Silence, Love, and Death: Saying Yes to God in the Theology of Karl Rahner

Shannon Nichole Craigo-Snell

Marquette University Press, 2008-06-30 - 253 pages

 

One of the central elements of Karl Rahner's theology is the affirmation that God offers salvation to every human being and, in so doing, empowers each of us to say "yes" to this holy vocation. This divine-human dialogue of offer and response is the heart of Rahner's understanding of Christian faith. In this book, Shannon Craigo-Snell explores what it means to say "yes" to God in Rahner's theology. Drawing on a variety of his writings, Craigo-Snell focuses on three moments in human freedom that Rahner repeatedly points to in describing how we say "yes" to God: silence, love, and death. In Rahner's theology, the theme of silence is often used to mark a posture of openness to the mysterious other, both human and divine, which is a primary characteristic of what it is to be human. This openness to the other is concretely realized in love, such that human identity is both gift received and task accomplished. Further, this self-possessing openness to the other is fully actualized in an eternal inter-communion. Rahner's discussions of eschatology do not center on an affirmation of the immortality of the individual soul, but rather paint a portrait of communally sanctified humanity that draws us forward into ourselves, our community, and God. Attending to these three ways of saying "yes" to God generates an understanding of Rahner's theology as neither modern nor postmodern, but rather a challenging alternative vision that can be a vital resource for contemporary feminist theologies.

 

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Soma in Biblical Theology: With Emphasis on Pauline Anthropology

Robert H. Gundry

Cambridge University Press, 2005-08-22 - 280 pages

This addition to the well-known series of theological monographs deals with the use of the Greek work traditionally translated 'body' but recently as 'person', especially in certain parts of the writings of Paul. Theologians have argued that the translation as 'person' defines man as an indivisible whole and as a complex of relationships rather than an organization of substances. Against the trends of modern biblical theology, Dr Gundry seeks to show that soma always refers to the individual physical body and that it should be defined in substantive categories. Consequently, the theological importance of the body as individual physical substance is insured for life in this world and in the next. Neither antagonism between body and spirit nor the possible independence of full personhood from physical existence characterizes biblical anthropology.

 

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