Bøker av Bernhard Lang

Offers a selection of essays on the life and literature of the ancient Hebrews. This book includes subjects that range from the Hebrew God, the world-view of the Bible, and the formation of the scriptural canon, to peasant poverty, women's work, the good life, and prophetic street theatre.

In heaven, we will meet our friends: this was one of the most conspicuous expectations Christians had, and continue to have, of life after death. This book explores how the rediscovery and development of the 'meeting again' theme by authors such as John Bunyan and Emanuel Swedenborg and by the artist William Blake created a modern heaven.

Examines many and varied ways that the story of Joseph has been interpreted in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe.