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The flagship journal of the field, JBL is a quarterly periodical that promotes critical and academic biblical scholarship.

The Philo of Alexandria Scripture Index identifies and lists every instance in which Philo of Alexandria cites or alludes to passages from Jewish Scripture. With 7, 831 references, this book is the most comprehensive study of its kind to date, presenting the data in both the biblical order and Philo's treatise order. Sean A. Adams and Zanne Domoney-Lyttle provide a detailed introduction. Also included in this index are the Philo's fragmentary ...

The Philo of Alexandria Scripture Index identifies and lists every instance in which Philo of Alexandria cites or alludes to passages from Jewish Scripture. With 7, 831 references, this book is the most comprehensive study of its kind to date, presenting the data in both the biblical order and Philo's treatise order. Sean A. Adams and Zanne Domoney-Lyttle provide a detailed introduction. Also included in this index are the Philo's fragmentary ...

The Dead Sea Scrolls have expanded the corpus of early Jewish apocalyptic literature and tested scholars' ideas of what apocalyptic means. With all of the scrolls now available for study, contributors to this volume engage those texts and many more to reexplore not only definitions of the genre but also the influence of the Dead Sea Scrolls on the study of apocalyptic literature in the Second Temple period and beyond. Part 1 focuses on debates...

The Dead Sea Scrolls have expanded the corpus of early Jewish apocalyptic literature and tested scholars' ideas of what apocalyptic means. With all of the scrolls now available for study, contributors to this volume engage those texts and many more to reexplore not only definitions of the genre but also the influence of the Dead Sea Scrolls on the study of apocalyptic literature in the Second Temple period and beyond. Part 1 focuses on debates...

In Scribal Memory and Word Selection: Text Criticism of the Hebrew Bible, Raymond F. Person Jr. draws from studies of how words are selected in everyday conversation to illustrate that the same word-selection mechanisms were at work in scribal memory. Using examples from manuscripts of the Hebrew Bible, Person provides new ways of understanding the cognitive-linguistic mechanisms at work when scribes transmitted texts. Person reveals that, whi...

In Scribal Memory and Word Selection: Text Criticism of the Hebrew Bible, Raymond F. Person Jr. draws from studies of how words are selected in everyday conversation to illustrate that the same word-selection mechanisms were at work in scribal memory. Using examples from manuscripts of the Hebrew Bible, Person provides new ways of understanding the cognitive-linguistic mechanisms at work when scribes transmitted texts. Person reveals that, whi...

Rebecca K. Esterson explores how Christian methods of biblical interpretation shifted during the eighteenth century, producing a rhetorical rejection of allegory while embracing literalism. Under the influence of Enlightenment concepts of human reason and advances in the experimental sciences, Christian interpreters began casting Jewish biblical interpretation as allegorical, while presenting Christian interpretation as literal. This shift in ...

Rebecca K. Esterson explores how Christian methods of biblical interpretation shifted during the eighteenth century, producing a rhetorical rejection of allegory while embracing literalism. Under the influence of Enlightenment concepts of human reason and advances in the experimental sciences, Christian interpreters began casting Jewish biblical interpretation as allegorical, while presenting Christian interpretation as literal. This shift in ...

Using a cognitive-functional linguistic framework and cross-linguistic research on discourse markers, Christopher J. Fresch investigates the use of five discourse markers in the early Koine Greek found in the documentary papyri of the third to first centuries BCE and the Greek translations of the Hebrew Bible. Through this analysis, Fresch proposes linguistically grounded descriptions for how each discourse marker guides readers in how they pr...

Using a cognitive-functional linguistic framework and cross-linguistic research on discourse markers, Christopher J. Fresch investigates the use of five discourse markers in the early Koine Greek found in the documentary papyri of the third to first centuries BCE and the Greek translations of the Hebrew Bible. Through this analysis, Fresch proposes linguistically grounded descriptions for how each discourse marker guides readers in how they pr...

An international team of experts considers the question of what Plato and the Platonist tradition mean by the term soul. Essays examine theories of well-known philosophers and theologians, including Plato, Plotinus, Proclus, the emperor Julian, and Origen, as well as lesser-known but equally important figures. This essential volume includes contributions on the transmigration of the soul, the nature of the Platonist enlightenment experience, s...

This book explores images in dream and vision reports in biblical and related literature through a variety of methodologies informed by rhetoric, critical theory, trauma studies, the analysis of space and society, and the history of emotions. Contributors explore the hermeneutics of readership, the relationship between reading and intertextuality, and the interplay of affect and emotion within dreams and visions in religious texts. Contributor...

This book explores images in dream and vision reports in biblical and related literature through a variety of methodologies informed by rhetoric, critical theory, trauma studies, the analysis of space and society, and the history of emotions. Contributors explore the hermeneutics of readership, the relationship between reading and intertextuality, and the interplay of affect and emotion within dreams and visions in religious texts. Contributor...

This volume presents the first broadly inclusive collection, with accessible text and English translation, of documents related to judicial decisions in the ancient Near East, the oldest setting for such writing in the world. The texts in this volume belong to various genres, especially legal records and letters, and they span almost two thousand years. With such varied material, the work depends on the expertise of specialists in each setting...

This volume presents the first broadly inclusive collection, with accessible text and English translation, of documents related to judicial decisions in the ancient Near East, the oldest setting for such writing in the world. The texts in this volume belong to various genres, especially legal records and letters, and they span almost two thousand years. With such varied material, the work depends on the expertise of specialists in each setting...

This collection of essays by biblical scholars, art historians, and experts in early Christianity explores a variety of topics and issues regarding the material culture of early Christianity. Contributors place early Christian art found in sarcophagi, catacombs, architecture, mosaics, gems, and much more in dialogue with New Testament and early Christian texts. Scholars and students will benefit from these interdisciplinary essays that shed ne...

This collection of essays by biblical scholars, art historians, and experts in early Christianity explores a variety of topics and issues regarding the material culture of early Christianity. Contributors place early Christian art found in sarcophagi, catacombs, architecture, mosaics, gems, and much more in dialogue with New Testament and early Christian texts. Scholars and students will benefit from these interdisciplinary essays that shed ne...

From ancient times to the present day, utopian social ideas have made the unity of humankind a central concern. In this volume, scholars of ancient history, early Judaism, biblical studies, and early Christianity explore the themes of unity and oneness in important classical, biblical, early Jewish, and early Christian texts. The contributions show that the early Christians, with their inherited Jewish, Greek, and Roman traditions, were remark...

From ancient times to the present day, utopian social ideas have made the unity of humankind a central concern. In this volume, scholars of ancient history, early Judaism, biblical studies, and early Christianity explore the themes of unity and oneness in important classical, biblical, early Jewish, and early Christian texts. The contributions show that the early Christians, with their inherited Jewish, Greek, and Roman traditions, were remark...