Religious Studies in Higher Education from Cambridge University Press - Spring 2021

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Advance A Guide to T Biblical A NPraise IN for T RODUC IONHebrew TO Syntax

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T HE NE W T ESTA MEN T A ND T HE OR IGINS OF CHR IST I A NI T Y “What a joy to read! . . . . .The concept of having something to put into student’s hands after

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a year of grammatical study that attempts to lead them furtherinto making sense of the Hebrew text is a wonderful and commendable goal . And the authors accomplish that goal in a very readable and generally accessible format . . . . This is a long-overdue book .”

– roy l . heller, Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodists University

Biblical Hebrew Syntax

“This is a highly useful book . It is brief and concise, yet is long enough to provide helpful and detailed descriptions (along with copious examples) that condense and distill the best of recent developments in Hebrew grammar and syntax . Students and instructors of

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Biblical Hebrew will want and need this volume on their shelves .”

– brent a . strawn, Chandler School of Theology, Emory University

Delbert Burkett

A Guide to Biblical Hebrew Syntax introduces and abridges the syntactical features of the original language of the Hebrew Bible or Old Testament . Scholars have made significant progress in recent decades in understanding Biblical Hebrew syntax . Yet intermediate readers seldom have access to this progress due to technical jargon and sometimes-obscure locations of the scholarly publications, This guide is an intermediate level reference grammar for Biblical Hebrew . As such, it assumes an understanding of elementary phonology and morphology, and defines and illustrates the fundamental syntactical features of Biblical Hebrew that most intermediate- level readers struggle to master . The volume divides Biblical Hebrew syntax, and to a lesser extent morphology into four parts . The first three cover the individual words (nouns, verbs and particles) with the goal of helping the reader more from morphological and syntactical observations to meaning and significance . The fourth section moves beyond phaselevel phenomena and considers the larger relationship of clauses and sentences .

John H. Choi (1975–2015) earned degrees from the University of Chicago, Asbury Theological Seminary, Kentucky, and the Ph.D. in Hebraica and Cognate Studies from Hebrew Union CollegeJewish Institute of Religion. He authored Traditions at Odds: The Reception of the Pentateuch in Biblical and Second Temple Period Literature (2010).

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Old Testament

a guide to

Medieval Heresies

Biblical Hebrew Syntax

Bill T. Arnold is the Paul S. Amos Professor of Old Testament Interpretation at Asbury Theological Seminary, Kentucky. He is the author of Genesis (Cambridge, 2009), and Introduction to the Old Testament (Cambridge, 2014).

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Christianity, Judaism, and Islam

Christine Caldwell Ames

An Introduction to the New Testament and the Origins of Christianity

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BIBLICAL THEOLOGY The Convergence of the Canon

DRU JOHNSON

BEN W ITH ER I NGTON III

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Christianity and International Law

D R U J O HN S O N directs the Center for Hebraic Thought and is an associate professor of biblical studies at The King’s College.

He has authored five books on the intellectual world of the Bible, including Epistemology and Biblical Theology (2019), Knowledge

by Ritual (2016), and Biblical Knowing (2013).

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Christianity, Judaism and Islam

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BIBLICAL THEOLOGY

A Global History, 1500–2000

A HEBRAIC APPROACH TO THE OLD A N D NEW TESTAMENTS

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INDIGENOUS E X P E RI E N C E

In Biblical Philosophy, Dru Johnson examines how the texts of Christian Scripture argue philosophically with ancient and modern readers alike. He demonstrates how biblical literature bears the distinct markers of a philosophical style in its use of literary and philosophical strategies to reason about the nature of reality and our place within it. Johnson questions traditional definitions of philosophy and compares the Hebraic style of philosophy with the intellectual projects of ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, and Hellenism.

Identifying the genetic features of the Hebraic philosophical style, Johnson traces its development from its hybridization in Hellenistic Judaism to its retrieval by the New Testament authors. He also shows how the Gospels and letters of Paul exhibit the same genetic markers, modes of argument, particular argument forms, and philosophical convictions that define the Hebraic style, while they engaged with Hellenistic rhetoric. His volume offers a model for thinking about philosophical styles in comparative philosophical discussions.

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WO RL D C H RISTIANITY “Dru Johnson’s Biblical Philosophy asks questions that urgently need asking: Is there a philosophical tradition in Hebrew Scripture?

Does this Jewish tradition find defenders in the Christian New Testament? Johnson has been at the forefront of academic debates over these questions. In this book, he musters a dazzling array of scholarship to answer both questions in the affirmative.”

– Yoram Hazony, author of The Philosophy of Hebrew Scripture and President of the Herzl Institute, Jerusalem

Delbert Burkett

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Biblical Philosophy

Biblical Theology The Convergence of the Canon

A Global History, 1500–2000

A Hebraic Approach to the Old and New Testaments

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Accessible, engaging introductions to a range of major topics across theology and religious studies.

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The Cambridge Companion to Religious Experience offers an original introduction to this topic. Going beyond an introduction, it is a state-of-the-art overview of the topic, with critical analyses of and creative insights into its subject. Religious experience is discussed from various interdisciplinary perspectives, from religious perspectives inside and outside traditional monotheistic religions, and from various topical perspectives. Written by leading scholars in clear and accessible prose, this book is an ideal resource for undergraduate and graduate students, teachers, and scholars across many disciplines.

Paul K. Moser is Professor of Philosophy at Loyola University Chicago. His most recent publications include Understanding Religious Experience (Cambridge University Press, 2020), The God Relationship (Cambridge University Press, 2018), and The Elusive God (Cambridge University Press, 2008), which won the national book award from the Jesuit Honor Society. Moser, with Chad Meister, serves as the coeditor of the book series Cambridge Studies in Religion, Philosophy, and Society and Cambridge Elements of Religion and Monotheism.

Chad Meister is Professor of Philosophy and Theology at Bethel University. His most recent publications include Evil: A Guide for the Perplexed, Second Edition (2018), Christian Thought: A Historical Introduction, Second Edition (2016), coauthored with James Stump, and Contemporary Philosophical Theology (2016), coauthored with Charles Taliaferro. He is also coeditor, with Charles Taliaferro, of the six-volume work The History of Evil (2018).

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This Companion offers an overview of Jewish Theology, an aspect of Judaism that is equal in importance to law and ethics. Covering the period from antiquity to the present, the volume focuses on what Jews believe about God and also about the relation of God to humans and the world. Part I covers exciting new research in Jewish biblical and rabbinic theology, medieval philosophy, Kabbalah (Mysticism), and Liturgy. Part II turns to modern theology with an exploration of works by leading figures, such as Abraham I Kook, Franz Rosenzweig and Emmanuel Levinas, as well as the relation of theology to issues such as Feminism, the Holocaust, and the relation of Judaism to other world religions. In the final section, the Companion explores how the insights of analytic philosophy have been integrated with Jewish theology.

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Every Sunday, Christians all over the world recite the Nicene Creed as a confession of faith. While most do not know the details of the controversy that led to its composition, they are aware that the Council of Nicaea was a critical moment in the history of Christianity. For scholars, the Council has long been a subject of multi-disciplinary interest and continues to fascinate and inspire research. As we approach the 1700 th anniversary of the Council, The Cambridge Companion to the Council of Nicaea provides an opportunity to revisit and reflect on old discussions, propose new approaches and interpretative frameworks, and ultimately revitalize a conversation that remains as important now as it was in the fourth century. The volume offers fifteen original studies by scholars who each examine an aspect of the Council. Informed by interdisciplinary approaches, the essays demonstrate its profound legacy with fresh, sometimes provocative, but always intellectually rich ideas.

Young Richard Kim is Associate Professor in the Department of Classics and Mediterranean Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is the author of Epiphanius of Cyprus: Imagining an Orthodox World (2015), which won the North American Patristics Society Best First Book Prize (2016).

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