Brill, 2006. — viii, 200 p. — (SBL - Symposium, Volume: 34). Since the “assured results” of scholarship are rarely certain, it should come as no surprise that the classical formulation of the Documentary Hypothesis has yet again been called into question. However, many North American scholars are unfamiliar with the work of a new generation of European scholars who are...
Brill, 2016. — viii, 440 p. — (Oudtestamentische Studiën, Old Testament Studies, Volume: 67). In The Deuteronomist’s History, Hans Ausloos provides for the first time a detailed status question concerning the relationship between the books Genesis – Numbers and the so-called Deuteronom(ist)ic literature. After a presentation of the origins of the 18th and 19th-century...
Brill, 2020. — xiv, 207 p. — (Supplements to the Textual History of the Bible, Volume: 4). For hundreds of years, disputes on the origin of the Septuagint, a biblical text that was translated from Hebrew into Greek in the third century BCE, and the number of its translators have been ongoing. In Multiple Authorship of the Septuagint Pentateuch, Hayeon Kim provides a clear...
Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2015. — xxii, 434 p. — (Biblia Arabica, Volume: 3). This edition of MS London BL OR7562 and other related MSS, and the accompanying linguistic and philological study, discuss a Samaritan adaptation of Saadya’s Judeo-Arabic translation of the Pentateuch, its main characteristics and place among other early Medieval Arabic Bible translations, viz., other...
De Gruyter, 2016. — 401 S. — (Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature Studies). — ISBN: 9783110418385. Die Erzählung vom Auszug aus Ägypten gehört zu den zentralen und für die kollektive Identität Israels grundlegenden Überlieferungen, die sich im Buch Exodus verdichten, aber auch die gesamte alttestamentliche Literatur durchziehen. Bis heute sind die Überlieferungen in...
Doubleday, 1964. — 378 p. — (The Anchor Bible, Vol. 1). Genesis is Volume I in the Anchor Bible series of new book-by-book translations of the Old and New Testaments and Apocrypha. Ephraim Avigdor Speiser was University Professor and Chairman of the Department of Oriental Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Using authoritative evidence from archaeology, linguistics, and...
Fortress Press, 2017. — 326 p. Throughout the two-thousand-year span of Christian history, believers in Jesus have sought to articulate their faith and their understanding of how God works in the world. How do we, as we examine the vast and varied output of those who came before us, understand the unity and the diversity of their thinking? How do we make sense of our own...
Cambridge University Press, 2009. — 298 p. — (Old Testament Theology) The book of Genesis contains foundational material for Jewish and Christian theology, both historic and contemporary, and is almost certainly the most appealed-to book in the Old Testament in contemporary culture. R. W. L. Moberly's The Theology of the Book of Genesis examines the actual use made of Genesis...
Cambridge University Press, 1972. — 260 p. — (Cambridge Bible Commentaries on the Old Testament) Dr Clements' volume, like others in the series, contains the text in the New English Bible translation, divided into sections, with introductory material preceding, and a commentary directly following each section of the text. Dr Clements discusses the content and historical...
Inter-Varsity Press, 1967. — 224 p. — (Tyndale Old Testament Commentaries) Genesis — the Bible's account of human origins and the harbinger of human destiny — is a book teeming with critical problems. Who wrote it? When? Does the account of creation square with modern science? What about Adam and Eve? Derek Kidner not only provides a running exegetical commentary, but lucidly...
Sheffield Academic Press, 1992. — 112 p. — (Old Testament Guides) Walter Moberly's study Guide to Genesis 12-50 provides an invaluable introduction to the second part of Genesis and is essential reading for anyone interested in the patriarchal narratives and the earliest history of the people of Israel.
IVP, 1973. — 239 p. — (Tyndale Old Testament Commentaries) Exodus, Cole says, is "the centre of the Old Testament." It recounts the supreme Old Testament example of the saving acts of God, narrates the instituting of Passover and enshrines the giving of God's law. It portrays Moses, the prototype of all Israel's prophets, and Aaron, the first high priest. The book of Exodus is...
Westminster John Knox Press, 2004. — 659 p. — (Old Testament Library) Taking a pioneering approach to commentary writing, Brevard Childs gives an entirely original treatment to the book of Exodus. Apart from the philological notes and translation, this commentary includes a form-critical section, looking at the growth of the tradition in its previous stages; a consideration of...
A&C Black, 2004. — 290 p. This book examines the portrayal of Israel as a royal-priestly nation within Exodus and against the background of biblical and ancient Near Eastern thought. Central to the work is a literary study of Exodus 19:4-6 and a demonstration of the pivotal role these verses and their main image have within Exodus. This elective and honorific designation of...
Brill Academic Publishers, 1970. — 306 p. The fourteen chapters with which the Book of Genesis conclude comprise a more or less complete story. One need not have read the first thirty-six chapters of the book to appreciate this charming narrative; but if one has one cannot help but be struck by the contrast between the crude and disjointed tales of the Patriarchs, and the...
T&T Clark, 2000. — 309 p. The divine promises to Abraham have long been recognized as a key to the book of Genesis as a whole. But their variety, often noted, also raises literary and theological problems. Why do they differ each time, and how are they related to each other and to the story of Abraham? Williamson focuses on the promises in Genesis 15 and 17, and concludes that...
Sheffield Academic Press, 1992. — 112 p. — (Old Testament Guides) Walter Moberly's study Guide to Genesis 12-50 provides an invaluable introduction to the second part of Genesis and is essential reading for anyone interested in the patriarchal narratives and the earliest history of the people of Israel.
Crossway, 2005. — 1247 p. To read Exodus is to encounter God. The book is about the mercy, justice, holiness, and glory of almighty God, who rules history by his sovereign power, saves the people of his covenant, and delivers his people from bondage. Once heard, the stories recorded in Exodus leave a lasting impression. Readers return to these great acts of redemption again and...
Cambridge University Press, 2005. — 336 p. — (New Cambridge Bible Commentary) This commentary views Exodus as a cultural document, preserving the collective memories of the Israelites and relating them to the major institutions and beliefs that emerged by the end of the time of the Hebrew Bible. It is intended to help the reader follow the story line of Exodus, understand its...
IVP, 1973. — 239 p. — (Tyndale Old Testament Commentaries) Exodus, Cole says, is "the centre of the Old Testament." It recounts the supreme Old Testament example of the saving acts of God, narrates the instituting of Passover and enshrines the giving of God's law. It portrays Moses, the prototype of all Israel's prophets, and Aaron, the first high priest. The book of Exodus is...
Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1988. — 136 p. — (International Theological Commentary) Genesis 1-11 preserves a unique view of Bible history, tracing the move from Eden, an idyllic world fully in accord with the will of God, to Babel, a fallen world desperately in need of salvation.
Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1998. — 160 p. — (International Theological Commentary Series) The book of Exodus is often seen only as ancient history, largely irrelevant to most of the modern Western world. This new commentary by Godfrey Ashby attempts specifically to show how this Old Testament book is of continuing significance to readers today. Ashby discusses the crucial...