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Routledge Studies in the Biblical World


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Routledge Studies in the Biblical World publishes edited collections and monographs which explore the Hebrew Bible in its ancient context. The series encompasses all aspects of the world of the Hebrew bible, including its archaeological, historical, and theological context, as well as exploring cultural issues such as urbanism, literary culture, class, economics, and sexuality and gender. Aimed at biblical scholars and historians alike, Studies in the Biblical World is an invaluable resource for anyone researching the ancient Levant.

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The Dawn of Agriculture and the Earliest States in Genesis 1-11

The Dawn of Agriculture and the Earliest States in Genesis 1-11

1st Edition

By Natan Levy
November 29, 2023

This book invites a close textual encounter with the first 11 chapters of Genesis as an intimate drama of marginalised peoples wrestling with the rise of the world’s first grain states in the Mesopotamian alluvium. The initial 11 chapters of Genesis are often considered discordant and fragmentary, ...

Men, Masculinities and Intermarriage in Ezra 9-10

Men, Masculinities and Intermarriage in Ezra 9-10

1st Edition

By Elisabeth M. Cook
October 09, 2023

Offering a reading of the intermarriage debate and expulsion of the foreign women in Ezra 9-10, this book engages with the production and performance of masculinities in this biblical text, shifting the focus away from the 'foreign women' to the men who are the primary actors in this work. This ...

Job's Body and the Dramatised Comedy of Moralising

Job's Body and the Dramatised Comedy of Moralising

1st Edition

By Katherine E. Southwood
August 01, 2022

This book focuses on the expressions used to describe Job’s body in pain and on the reactions of his friends to explore the moral and social world reflected in the language and the values that their speeches betray. A key contribution of this monograph is to highlight how the perspective of ...

Cultures of Mobility, Migration, and Religion in Ancient Israel and Its World

Cultures of Mobility, Migration, and Religion in Ancient Israel and Its World

1st Edition

By Eric M. Trinka
February 28, 2022

This book examines the relationship between mobility, lived religiosities, and conceptions of divine personhood as they are preserved in textual corpora and material culture from Israel, Judah, Egypt, and Mesopotamia. By integrating evidence of the form and function of religiosities in contexts of ...

Embodiment of Divine Knowledge in Early Judaism

Embodiment of Divine Knowledge in Early Judaism

1st Edition

By Andrei A. Orlov
November 12, 2021

This book explores the early Jewish understanding of divine knowledge as divine presence, which is embodied in major biblical exemplars, such as Adam, Enoch, Jacob, and Moses. The study treats the concept of divine knowledge as the embodied divine presence in its full historical and interpretive ...

Male Friendship, Homosociality, and Women in the Hebrew Bible Malignant Fraternities

Male Friendship, Homosociality, and Women in the Hebrew Bible: Malignant Fraternities

1st Edition

By Barbara Thiede
July 02, 2021

Male alliances, partnerships, and friendships are fundamental to the Hebrew Bible. This book offers a detailed and explicit exploration of the ways in which shared sexual use of women and women’s bodies engenders, sustains, and nourishes such relationships in the Hebrew Bible. Hebrew Bible ...

A Commentary on Numbers Narrative, Ritual, and Colonialism

A Commentary on Numbers: Narrative, Ritual, and Colonialism

1st Edition

By Pekka Pitkänen
June 30, 2020

This book provides a new reading of the biblical book of Numbers in a commentary form. Mainstream readings have tended to see the book as a haphazard junkyard of material that connects Genesis–Leviticus with Deuteronomy (and Joshua), composed at a late stage in the history of ancient Israel.&...

Religion, Ethnicity and Xenophobia in the Bible A Theoretical, Exegetical and Theological Survey

Religion, Ethnicity and Xenophobia in the Bible: A Theoretical, Exegetical and Theological Survey

1st Edition

By Brian Rainey
November 26, 2018

Religion, Ethnicity and Xenophobia in the Bible looks at some of the Bible’s most hostile and violent anti-foreigner texts and raises critical questions about how students of the Bible and ancient Near East should grapple with "ethnicity" and "foreignness" conceptually, hermeneutically and ...

Masculinities in the Court Tales of Daniel Advancing Gender Studies in the Hebrew Bible

Masculinities in the Court Tales of Daniel: Advancing Gender Studies in the Hebrew Bible

1st Edition

By Brian Charles DiPalma
February 20, 2018

In this volume, Brian Charles DiPalma examines masculinities in the court tales of Daniel as a test case for issues facing the burgeoning area of gender studies in the Hebrew Bible. In doing so, it both analyses how the court tales of Daniel portray the characters in terms of configurations of ...

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