The High Middle Ages (Bible and Women 6.2)

An international collection of ecumenical, gender-sensitive interpretations
The latest volume in the Bible and Women series examines the relationship between women and the Bible's reception in the centuries of the High and Late Middle Ages in Europe. Contributors bring a variety of new insights to questions of how women of the Bible were treated in literary, mystical, and doctrinal texts as well as in art and music. Though the Bible was used to legitimize the subordination of women to men and to exclude them from power, during this period women produced works of theology and biblical interpretation. Contributors include Gemma Avenoza, Marina Benedetti, Dinora Corsi, Maria Laura Giordano, Elisabeth Gössmann, Maria Leticia Sánchez Hernández, Hildegund Keul, Linda Maria Koldau, Martina Kreidler-Kos, Rita Librandi, Gary Macy, Constant J. Mews, Magda Motté, Rosa María Parrinello, María Isabel Toro Pascua, Claudia Poggi, Carmel Posa, Marina Santini, Valeria Ferrari Schiefer, Andrea Taschl-Erber, Adriana Valerio, and Paola Vitolo. Features <ul>
<li>Essays on the treatment of women in commentaries and didactic moral literature written by men</li> <li>Close study of women as scholars and interpreters of the Bible from the twelfth through the fifteen centuries</li> <li>Twenty-one essays from twenty-three scholars from around the world</li> </ul>

History

Kari Elisabeth Børresen

Adriana Valerio

Europe

SBL Press

The Community Rule: A Critical Edition with Translation (Early Judaism and Its Literature) (Early Judaism and Its Literature, 51)

An authoritative critical edition The discovery and translation of the Dead Sea Scrolls transformed our understanding of the life and history of ancient Jewish communities when both rabbinic Judaism and early Christianity were emerging. As part of this rich discovery, the Community Rule serves to illuminate the religious beliefs and practices as well as the organizational rules of the group behind the Dead Sea Scrolls. However, there is no single, unified text of the Community Rule; rather, multiple manuscripts of the Community Rule show considerable variation and highlight the work of ancient Jewish scribes and their intentional literary development of the text. In this volume, Sarianna Metso brings together the surviving evidence in a new edition that presents a critically established Hebrew text with an introduction and an English translation. Features:
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<li>A critical apparatus and textual notes</li> <li>All the surviving evidence of the Community Rule</li> <li>A new method for presenting complex developments and transmission history of ancient texts</li>
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The Community Rule: A Critical Edition with Translation (Early Judaism and Its Literature)

Literature & Fiction

Sarianna Metso

Classics

The Dead Sea Scrolls text known as the Community Rule describes the religious beliefs and practices as well as the organizational rules of the group behind the Scrolls. However, different manuscripts of the Community Rule show considerable variation, which displays the work of ancient Jewish scribes and their intentional literary development of the text. In this volume, Sarianna Metso brings together the surviving evidence in a new edition that presents a critically established Hebrew text with an introduction, English translation, and textual notes.

The Vision of the Priestly Narrative: Its Genre and Hermeneutics of Time (Ancient Israel and Its Literature)

A fresh look at the Priestly narrative that places less weight on linguistic criteria alone in favor of narrative coherence Boorer explores the theology of an originally independent Priestly narrative (Pg), extending through Genesis to Numbers, as a whole. In this book she describes the structure of the Priestly narrative, in particular its coherent sequential and parallel patterns. Boorer argues that at every point in the narrative s sequential and parallel structure, it reshapes past traditions, synthesizing these with contemporary and unique elements into future visions, in a way that is akin to the timelessness of liturgical texts. The book sheds new light on what this material might have sought to accomplish as a whole, and how it might have functioned for, its original audience. Features <ul>
<li>Solid arguments based on genre and themes, with regard to a once separate Priestly narrative (Pg) that concludes in Numbers 27*</li> <li>Thorough discussion of the overall interpretation of the Priestly narrative (Pg), by bringing together consideration of its structure and genre</li> <li>Clear illustration of how understanding the genre of the material and its hermeneutics of time is vital for interpreting Pg as a whole</li> </ul>

Religion & Spirituality

Suzanne Boorer

Christian Books & Bibles

A fresh look at the Priestly narrative that places less weight on linguistic criteria alone in favor of narrative coherence Boorer explores the theology of an originally independent Priestly narrative (Pg), extending through Genesis to Numbers, as a whole. In this book she describes the structure of the Priestly narrative, in particular its coherent sequential and parallel patterns. Boorer argues that at every point in the narrative's sequential and parallel structure, it reshapes past traditions, synthesizing these with contemporary and unique elements into future visions, in a way that is akin to the timelessness of liturgical texts. The book sheds new light on what this material might have sought to accomplish as a whole, and how it might have functioned for, its original audience. <ul>
<li>Solid arguments based on genre and themes, with regard to a once separate Priestly narrative (Pg) that concludes in Numbers 27*</li> <li>Thorough discussion of the overall interpretation of the Priestly narrative (Pg), by bringing together consideration of its structure and genre</li> <li>Clear illustration of how understanding the genre of the material and its hermeneutics of time is vital for interpreting Pg as a whole</li> </ul>

Keeping the Feast: Metaphors of Sacrifice in 1 Corinthians and Philippians (Early Christianity and Its Literature)

Develop a keener ear for Pauls rhetorical strategy
Patterson uses cognitive metaphor theory to trace the apostle Paul s use of metaphors from the Jewish sacrificial system in his moral counsels to the Philippians and the Corinthians. In these letters, Paul moves from the known (the practice of sacrifice) to the unknown (how to live in accord with the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ). Patterson illustrates that the significant sacrificial metaphors in 1 Corinthians and Philippians are not derived from Jewish sacrifices of atonement, but rather from the Passover and sacrifices of thanksgiving. Attention to these metaphors demonstrates that imagery drawn from these sacrifices shapes the overall moral counsel of the letters, reveals more varied and nuanced interpretations of sacrificial references in Paul s letters, and sheds light on Paul s continuity with Jewish cultic practice. Feature <ul>
<li>Clarification of the strategic function of metaphors as a means of establishing an imaginative framework for ethical deliberation</li> <li>Evidence of Paul s active processes of theological reflection</li> <li>Exploration of the intertwining of Jewish cultic practice with the rhetoric of moral commitment within early Christian churches</li> </ul>

Jane Lancaster Patterson

History & Criticism

The Qumran Paradigm: Critical Evaluation of Some Foundational Hypotheses in the Construction of the Qumran Sect (Early Judaism and Its Literature)

A fundamentally revisionist approach that leaves behind the constructed social reality of a sectarian paradigm Gwynned de Looijer reexamines the key hypotheses that have driven scholars understandings of the Dead Sea Scrolls, the archaeological site of Khirbet Qumran, and the textual descriptions of the Essenes. She demonstrates that foundational hypotheses regarding a sect at Qumran have heavily influenced the way the texts found in the surrounding caves are interpreted. De Looijer's approach abandons those assumptions to illustrate that the Dead Sea Scrolls reflect a wider range of backgrounds reflecting the many diverse forms of Judaism that existed in the Second Temple period. Features: <ul>
<li>In depth analysis of 4QMMT</li> <li>Reevaluation of the concept of dualism as it has been applied to Qumran texts</li> <li>Charts and tables illustrate complex theories, concepts, and connections</li> </ul>

Gwynned de Looijer

A fundamentally revisionist approach that leaves behind the constructed social reality of a sectarian paradigm
Gwynned de Looijer reexamines the key hypotheses that have driven scholars understandings of the Dead Sea Scrolls, the archaeological site of Khirbet Qumran, and the textual descriptions of the Essenes. She demonstrates that foundational hypotheses regarding a sect at Qumran have heavily influenced the way the texts found in the surrounding caves are interpreted. De Looijer's approach abandons those assumptions to illustrate that the Dead Sea Scrolls reflect a wider range of backgrounds reflecting the many diverse forms of Judaism that existed in the Second Temple period. Features: <ul>
<li>In depth analysis of 4QMMT</li> <li>Reevaluation of the concept of dualism as it has been applied to Qumran texts</li> <li>Charts and tables illustrate complex theories, concepts, and connections</li> </ul>

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The High Middle Ages (Bible and Women 6.2)

The High Middle Ages (Bible and Women 6.2)

The Community Rule: A Critical Edition with Translation (Early Judaism and Its Literature)

The Community Rule: A Critical Edition with Translation (Early Judaism and Its Literature) (Early Judaism and Its Literature, 51)

The Vision of the Priestly Narrative: Its Genre and Hermeneutics of Time (Ancient Israel and Its Literature)

The Vision of the Priestly Narrative: Its Genre and Hermeneutics of Time (Ancient Israel and Its Literature)

Keeping the Feast: Metaphors of Sacrifice in 1 Corinthians and Philippians (Early Christianity and Its Literature)

Keeping the Feast: Metaphors of Sacrifice in 1 Corinthians and Philippians (Early Christianity and Its Literature)

The Qumran Paradigm: Critical Evaluation of Some Foundational Hypotheses in the Construction of the Qumran Sect (Early Judaism and Its Literature)

The Qumran Paradigm: Critical Evaluation of Some Foundational Hypotheses in the Construction of the Qumran Sect (Early Judaism and Its Literature)