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This book offers new interpretative insight into the Gospel of John, applying a combination of critical discourse analysis, conceptual metaphor theory, and anthropological theories of ritual. Specifically it explores the meaning of the statement Now the ruler of this world will be driven out in John 12:31 and defends a widely overlooked alternative reading. The author proposes a prophecy-fulfilment scheme whereby this predictive utterance by Jesus' is subsequently implied as fulfilled in the departure of the satanically-possessed Judas' from the circle of Jesus' disciples at the Last Supper in John 13:30. Addressing several major strands relating to purity, exorcism, and group identity, the analysis provides an important entry-point for a fresh examination of the Fourth Gospel as a whole. The book represents a significant contribution to Johannine scholarship and to New Testament studies and will be of interest to scholars of religion, theology and biblical studies.

"Mbuvi makes the case for African biblical studies as a vibrant and important emerging distinct discipline, whilst also critiquing biblical studies for its continued underlying racially and imperialistically motivated tendencies. Mbuvi argues that the emergence of biblical studies as a discipline in the West coincides with, and benefits from, the establishment of the colonial project. Mbuvi offers readings that destabilize and undermine dominant approaches and their ingrained prejudices, showing them as unresolved remnants of a colonial past."-- Provided by publisher

After Paul: The Apostle's Legacy in Early Christianity focuses on the many ways Pauline thought and tradition were reinterpreted, reused, reframed, and reconstructed in the first centuries of Christianity. James W. Aageson contends that it is insufficient simply to focus on Paul or on his legacy in the Greco-Roman world; what is needed is a bifocal look at Paul with the reference points being both how Paul transformed his own thinking and later how Paul and his thought were transformed by others in the church. To speak of Paul's legacy implies more than the reception of his texts, his ideas, or his theology. It also implies more than the interpretive techniques or the references to Paul by early post-Paul writers. It refers to the apostle's wider impact, influence, and sway in the first centuries of the church as well. The questions he addressed, his impulse toward theological reflection and argumentation, and his approach to pastoral and ethical concerns undoubtedly influenced the future course of the Christ movement. Aageson's investigation takes up the issues of memory and metamorphosis, conflict and opposition, authority and control, legacy and empire, the church and the Jews, women and marriage, Paul in place, and church unity to pinpoint interrelationships and interactions among important strands in Paul's thought, persona, and authority as together they interfaced with the changing culture and social life of early Christianity. After Paul is not intended to be a history of the first centuries of Pauline Christianity nor an exhaustive account of everything that pertains to the early development of Paul's legacy. Rather, Aageson endeavors to plot connections, identify patterns, and develop a theoretical context for understanding Paul's legacy in early Christianity. The picture that emerges is one of continuity and discontinuity between Paul and Pauline tradition as the historical Paul became a figure of memory and remembrance, framed and reframed. This specific investigation offers a fresh entry point to understanding the larger question of how the Christian tradition came into its own as a social body and religious movement that could endure even after Paul. -- Provided by publisher.

• Acknowledgements
• Abbreviations
• 1 Introduction
• 1 Beyond Universalism and Particularism
• 2 Why Cosmopolitanism?
• 3 Becoming a Citizen
• 2 Defining
• 1 Life as a Voluntary Exile: Diogenes of Sinope's Cosmopolitanism
• 2 Nomos-abiding Citizens: Philo of Alexandria's Cosmopolitanism
• 3 Citizens of the Same Cosmos: Plutarch's Cosmopolitanism
• 4 Kin of God: Epictetus's Cosmopolitanism
• 5 Parts of the Whole: Marcus Aurelius's Cosmopolitanism
• 6 Conclusion
• 3 Citizens of Christ
• 1 Philippians 1:27-30: Living as Citizens of Christ
• 2 Philippians 3:17-21: Heavenly
• 3 Conclusion
• 4 Equal, Thus United
• 1 1 Corinthians 12:12-14: Many, Baptized into One Body
• 2 Galatians 3:26-29: One in Christ, Neither Jew Nor Greek
• 3 Conclusion
• 5 Heterogeneous, Yet United
• 1 Romans 10:12-13: The Same Lord of All
• 2 Romans 12:3-5, 9-13: One Body, Many Members
• 3 Conclusion
• 6 Conclusion
• 1 Cosmopolitan Ecclesiology
• 2 Continuing Cosmopolitan Unity
• 3 Cosmopolitanism and Beyond
• Bibliography
• Index of Ancient Sources
• Index of Modern Authors.
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In this work, Jeehei Park proposes Greek and Roman cosmopolitanism as a constructive category through which to navigate a reading of human diversity and communal unity in Paul's letters. Park takes a thorough look at the cosmopolitan ideas of Diogenes of Sinope, Philo, Plutarch, Epictetus, and Marcus Aurelius to establish Paul as an interlocutor who critically participated in the discourse of cosmopolitanism. Park characterizes Paul's understanding of unity with the distinctive phrase "heterogeneous unity, " in which human differences are respected and embraced rather than being universalized or homogenized. This book offers a novel analysis of Paul's rhetoric about citizenship in Philippians and its adoption of Greek and Roman cosmopolitanism as an interpretive contour.
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• Producing objective facts : the scientific fundamentalism of William Foxwell Albright's biblical archaeology
• Political implications of objectivity and relativism in the works of William Foxwell Albright and Millar Burrows
• The Baltimore school and the formation of the "Judeo-Christian tradition"
• "The compulsion of geopolitics" : Nelson Glueck's shift from favoring cultural hybridity to Jewish nationalism
• Relativism as bad religion : objective knowledge of God's mighty acts in the work of G. Ernest Wright
• Mystical unification or ethnic domination? The Six-Day War and Paul Lapp's rebellion against objectivity and Zionism
• "No preconceptions" : William G. Dever and the pursuit of objectivity

"This book examines the relationship between several of the most prominent American biblical archaeologists and Zionism. While these scholars have been studied and historicized to some extent, little work has been done to understand their role in the history of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Two defining differences in the archaeologists' arguments were their understanding of culture and their views on objectivity versus relativism. Brooke Sherrard Knorr argues that relativist archaeologists envisioned the ancient world as replete with cultural change and opposed the establishment of a Jewish state, while those who believed in scholarly objectivity both envisioned the ancient world's ethnic boundaries as rigid and favored Zionism. Combining readings of the archaeologists' writings with archival research, this book studies the views of William Foxwell Albright, Millar Burrows, Nelson Glueck, George Ernest Wright, Paul Lapp, and William G. Dever regarding the establishment of an ethno-national state in Palestine in detail. The volume culminates with an epilogue commenting on the relevance of this topic in the present regarding the political ramifications of archaeology in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. American Biblical Archaeology and Zionism is of interest to students and scholars of Biblical and Near Eastern archaeology, American religious history, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, particularly its role in regional archaeology"-- Provided by publisher

"Seit den 1970er Jahren ist die Forschung verstärkt an der Endgestalt der Prophetenbücher interessiert. Dabei hat die methodische Ausdifferenzierung zu dramen- und erzähltheoretischen Zugängen geführt. Abseits loser Vergleiche zum Drama und eklektischer Rückgriffe auf Erzähltheorien wurden diese Zugänge aber noch nicht auf das Amosbuch angewandt. Daher integriert Alessandro G. K. Casagrande im Anschluss an die Literaturwissenschaft dramentheoretische Aspekte in einen erzähltheoretischen Zugang, um das Amosbuch als epische Erzählung im dramatischen Modus zu plausibilisieren und zu analysieren. Dabei legt er nicht nur einen begründeten Zugang zum Buch vor, sondern führt auch die Eigenheiten zentraler Einzeltexte erzähltheoretisch weiter. Schließlich bieten die unterschiedlichen Kommunikationsebenen die Möglichkeit einer diachronen Anknüpfung, die zwischen der erzählten Welt des Buches und eines Erzählzeitpunkts in nachexilischer Zeit unterscheidet." --Provided by publisher

"In this book, the author considers whether there are biblical texts that ascribe an implicit form of legal personhood as well as genuine legal rights to animals and, if so, which rights, to which animals in particular-domesticated, wild, both- and for what purpose? He also explores how the evidence of the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament) might contribute to contemporary debate about animal rights in the academy, in the courts, in the public square and in religious communities. Given the increasing interest in the status of animals in the Americas, Europe and across the world, the strides forward made in recent years by animal rights advocates in any number of countries and sub-national constituencies, and the fact that experts in the biblical field have mainly ignored the question of animal rights, while non-specialists in law or philosophy who argue on behalf of animals have tended to read the Hebrew Bible superficially and in an overly generalizing manner, an exploration of what the Hebrew Bible has to contribute to the question of animal rights is both timely and necessary"-- Provided by publisher.

This volume contains an English translation of the Arabic translation and commentary on the book of Proverbs composed by one of the most acclaimed, innovative, and prolific exegetes of the Karaite "Golden Age" (10th-11th centuries), Yefet ben 'Eli ha-Levi. 0A critical edition and an extensive introduction was published by Ilana Sasson as vol. 1 (KTS 8) in 2016. Dr. Sasson worked for many years on an English translation of the work and, before her untimely death in 2017, passed her unfinished manuscript to the series editors. The translation was then completed, edited, and prepared for publication by Dr. Wechsler. Yefet?s commentary on Proverbs is a masterpiece of literary and rational-contextual analysis of one of the most difficult and important books of wisdom in the Hebrew Bible. His work is an invaluable link in the history of interpretation of the book of Proverbs.

"Before the Scrolls: A Material Approach to Israel's Prophetic Library traces the media history of the biblical prophetic corpus in order to propose a material approach to biblical literature. Though often ignored, the realia of a text's form, format, production, and material substance have profound influence on the meaning of the text. The literature of the Bible was not initially written as discrete books with determined beginnings, middles, and ends. Before the Scrolls argues instead that biblical compositions of length, such as the great prophetic books Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel, were initially written on loosely organized collections of multiple short papyrus scrolls. Only later in the Hellenistic era were these compositions edited, organized, and copied into the longer book-scrolls known from the Dead Sea. The shift from prophetic library to linear prophetic book-scroll represents a transformation in material medium that had significant effects on that literature. This material approach to the prophetic corpus suggests novel solutions to classic problems in the field such as the relationship between the MT and LXX of Jeremiah and the between First and Second Isaiah. The failure to account for the materiality of the prophetic corpus has led scholarship to occasionally ask the wrong questions of these compositions and has blinded it to the vital role that Hellenistic bookmakers played in the creation of the Bible as we know it"-- Provided by publisher.

• Part I: Wisdom & Torah in Instructional Literature
• Instructions and Torah in Proverbs 1-9: Assessing the Confluence of Torah and Wisdom in Proverbs / JiSeong J. Kwon
• Proverbs 28 and the Discourse on Wisdom and Torah in the Book of Proverbs / Bernd U. Schipper
• Ben Sira and His Grandson on Torah and Wisdom: Similar or Divergent Views? / Pancratius C. Beentjes
• Part II: Wisdom & Torah in Skeptical-Critical Discourse
• "Things Too Wondrous" (Job 42:3): The Torah and the Limits of Knowledge in the Book of Job / Tobias Häner
• Failing to be Wise: The Case of Qohelet / Stuart Weeks
• Wisdom and Law in the Book of Wisdom: A New Type of Relationship / Luca Mazzinghi
• Sofia and Nomos in the Wisdom of Solomon / Lydia Gore-Jones
• Part III: Wisdom & Torah in Legal Discourse
• Explaining the "Confluence" of Biblical Wisdom and Torah: An Anthropological and Rhetorical Approach / Mark Sneed
• The Amalgamation of "Wisdom" in the Post-Deuteronomistic Deuteronomy of the Persian and Hellenistic Periods / Eckart Otto
• Law and Wisdom in the Epitaph of Abramos, Communal Magistrate (JIGRE 39 = SB 5765) / Lindsey A. Davidson
• Part IV: Wisdom & Torah in Poetic Reflection
• The Song of Songs: Torah, Creation, Celebration, and Libertinism / Torleif Elgvin
• Wisdom and Torah in the Hodayot and the Great Psalms Scroll: The Place of Prayer in Understanding Some Early Jewish Pedagogy / George J. Brooke
• Part V: Wisdom & Torah in Narrative Imagination
• The Question of Wisdom Influence in the Composition of the Joseph Narrative / Thomas Römer
• Ahiqar the "Patriarch": Tobit's Interpretation of the Wisdom of Ahiqar through a Torahizing Lens / Seth A. Bledsoe

"This book offers the first study of ruination in the Hebrew Bible. Drawing on scholarship in biblical studies, archaeology, contemporary historical theory, and philosophy, he demonstrates how the ancient experience of ruins differed radically from that of the modern era"-- Provided by publisher.

• Biblical studies/cultural studies / J. Cheryl Exum and Stephen D. Moore
• What is cultural studies anyway? / Richard Johnson
• Cultural studies : an introduction / John Storey
• Introduction: in debt to the censor / Roland Boer
• Graves of craving: fast food, or, Manna and McDonald's / Roland Boer
• Jezebel revamped / Tina Pippin
• Bathsheba plotted, shot, and painted / J. Cheryl Exum
• How the West was not one: Delilah deconstructs the Western / Jennifer L. Koosed and Tod Linafelt
• Dracula: 'The blood is the life!" / Larry J. Kreitzer
• House readings and field readings: the discourse of slavery and biblical/ cultural studies / Jennifer A. Glancy
• The bible John murders and media discourse, 1969-1996 / William T. Scott
• The world's largest Ten Commandments / Timothy K. Beal
• Almost cultural studies? Reflections on the "New Perspective" on Paul / R. Barry Matlock
• The selfish text: the Bible and memetics / Hugh S. Pyper
• Sitcom mythology / George Aichele
• Gospels of death / Richard Walsh
• Why girls cry: gender melancholia and sexual violence in Ezekiel 16 and Boys don't cry / Erin Runions
• Reading "This woman" back into John 7:1-8:59: Liar Liar and the "Pericope adulterae" in intertextual tango / Jeffrey L. Staley
• The question of the animal / Hannah M. Strommen
• From affect to exegesis / Jennifer L. Koosed and Stephen D. Moore
• Citizens of fallen cities: ruins, diaspora, and the materieal unconscous / Maia Kotrovis --Seven stations of affect: religion, affect, and Mel Gibson's the Passion of the Christ / Robert Paul Seesengood
• Introduction to Critical Race Theory / Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic
• Freedom is no fear: the New Testament and a theology of Policing / Esau McCaulley
• What we talk about when we talk about Samson / Nyasha Junior and Jeremy Schipper.

"Presents key critical readings in the Bible and cultural studies with a focus on the seminal works at the intersection of these fields"-- Provided by publisher.