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The Apocalypse of Abraham is one of the most significant ancient documents to have been preserved solely in translation into Slavonic, says Kulik (Hebrew U. of Jerusalem), and its lost Hebrew, or perhaps Palestinian Aramaic, original may be the earliest mystical writing of Judeo-Christian tradition, and a missing link between early apocalyptic and

The problem Wakefield addresses is that the six references to scripture in the passage do more to obscure than clarify Paul's argument that the Galatians should not take up the law, and some even seem to counter it. He attributes the bewilderment of the many scholars who have grappled with the difficulty for these many centuries to their trying to

This book shifts the focus of biblical stories about David from historicity to popular culture, suggesting their origins in popular heroic literature of the later monarchy and Persian period and comparing them with Homeric and Arthurian heroic literature. Paperback edition is available from the Society of Biblical Literature (www.sbl-site.org)

Tauberschmidt has slightly revised his 2001 Ph.D. dissertation in religious studies for the University of Aberdeen. In it he argues that the translator of LXX Proverbs frequently rendered Hebrew parallelism in a form that is more closely parallel than the Masoretic Text, that is the colons of couplets correspond more closely to each other semantica

The Syriac Apocalypse of Baruch is a pseudepigraphic apocalyptic work ascribed to Baruch, the scribe of Jeremiah. Nir (history, the Open University of Israel) attempts to show that the internal structure and central ideas of 2 Baruch must be understood in a Christian context. The author's conclusion sheds light on the Christian character of other p

This book examines literary conventions in the psalms of communal lament and their reflection and modification in post-exilic penitential prayers. It analyzes elements of shared form and demonstrates the literary relationship between these psalms and prayers.

Though researchers in both Biblical studies and archaeology have finally recognized the contributions they can make to each others' disciplines, the integration has been difficult to transfer to teaching, so that future scholars will not have to keep climbing over the same wall every generation. Teachers of history and religious studies share some

Brill publishes the clothbound edition; the paperbound is published by the Society of Biblical Literature. Wade (a Bible translator) examines translation techniques in order to evaluate the contradictory claims about the number of translators producing the text. The translation is analyzed in terms of lexical equivalents, grammatical structures, an