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Biblical Studies
Horizons of Ancestral Inheritance
Commentary on the Levi, Qahat, and Amram Qumran Aramaic Traditions
Andrew B. Perrin, Athabasca University, Canada In this study of the Aramaic materials at Qumran, Andrew B. Perrin examines the Aramaic Levi Document, Words of Qahat, and Visions of Amram, showing how they exhibit a concentration of priestly concerns and knowledge and exploring new models for evaluating their potential textual or traditional connections. Perrin includes a comprehensive commentary on the conceptual elements, codicological features, and cultural contexts of the materials. He concludes with fresh analysis of the textual composition of these priestly pseudepigrapha, suggesting they are a “constellation” of texts developed within a larger world of scribal-priestly activity and traditions.
UK July 2022 • US July 2022 • 256 pages HB 9780567705433 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9780567705464 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9780567705440 • £76.50 / $105.78 Series: The Library of Second Temple Studies • T&T Clark
Arms, Men and Society in Roman Judaea
Guy D. Stiebel, Tel-Aviv University, Israel An in-depth study of Roman weaponry as used in Judaea from the arrival of the Romans circa 63 BCE until the time of the Bar Kochba Revolt (135/136 CE). Stiebel first examines Roman militaria and provides a study of the types of weapon used and how they were produced and stored, and then looks at how the types of weapon marked identity and carried symbolic meaning. He finally outlines how the Romans dealt with the aftermath of conflict, reusing and reshaping the ruins of conquered territories.
UK September 2022 • US September 2022 • 224 pages • 10 bw illus HB 9780567691729 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9780567691750 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9780567691736 • £76.50 / $105.78 T&T Clark
Song of Songs: An Introduction and Study Guide
The Bible’s Only Love Poem
J. Cheryl Exum, Sheffield University, UK Cheryl Exum provides a concise survey of the principal questions encountered in Song of Songs scholarship. As the Bible’s only love poem, the Song offers a unique picture of relations between the sexes in biblical times. It takes the discussion beyond the traditional research questions to introduce readers to new and developing areas in Song of Songs research. With suggestions of further reading at the end of each chapter, this guide will be an essential accompaniment to study of the Song of Songs.
UK August 2022 • US August 2022 • 128 pages PB 9780567674715 • £17.99 / $24.95 • HB 9780567693754 • £55.00 / $75.00 ePub 9780567674739 • £16.19 / $23.34 ePdf 9780567674722 • £16.19 / $23.34 Series: T&T Clark’s Study Guides to the Old Testament • T&T Clark
Legal Exegesis of Scripture in the Works of Josephus
Michael Avioz, Bar-Ilan University, Israel This is the first major study on Josephus' contribution to the development of the Halakha. It compares Biblical laws to Second Temple sources, drawing conclusions as to Josephus' knowledge of the interpretive traditions. Avioz provides a clear definition of Halakha, offering an explanation of methodology and sources. He then examines the structure and contents of the Pentateuch in Josephus’ writing, making close comparisons between the biblical laws and Josephus' rewriting of them.
UK July 2022 • US July 2022 • 192 pages PB 9780567696953 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9780567681157 ePdf 9780567681164 • £81.00 / $112.65 Series: The Library of Second Temple Studies • T&T Clark
The Dawn of Israel
History of the Land of Canaan in the Second Millennium BCE
Lester L. Grabbe, University of Hull, UK In this companion volume to his bestselling Ancient Israel: What Do We Know and How Do We Know It?, Lester L. Grabbe provides the background history of the main ancient Near Eastern peoples and empires. These include Babylonia, Assyria, Urartu, Hittites, Amorites, and Egyptians. This volume is a fascinating portrayal of ancient Israel, and this definitive work by one of the world's leading biblical historians will be of interest to all students and scholars of biblical history.
UK September 2022 • US September 2022 • 320 pages PB 9780567663214 • £18.99 / $25.95 • HB 9780567663221 • £60.00 / $80.00 ePub 9780567663245 • £17.09 / $24.72 ePdf 9780567663238 • £17.09 / $24.72 T&T Clark
Scribes and Scribalism
Edited by Mark Leuchter, Temple University, USA Contributors to this volume examine the varied roles of scribes and scribal practices in ancient Israel and Judah, shedding light on the social world of the Hebrew Bible. Part I examines praxis and materiality, looking at the tools and materials used by scribes. Part II looks at the power and status of scribal cultures, and how scribes functioned within their broader social world. Finally, Part III offers perspectives that examine ideological issues at play in both antiquity and the modern context(s) of biblical scholarship.
UK August 2022 • US August 2022 • 200 pages • 1 B&W illus PB 9780567697004 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9780567659743 ePub 9780567696168 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9780567696175 • £76.50 / $105.78 Series: The Hebrew Bible in Social Perspective • T&T Clark
New Perspectives on Ritual in the Biblical World
Edited by Laura Quick, Princeton University, USA & Melissa Ramos, George Fox University, USA While treating a diverse range of ritual phenomena (such as space, blessings and oath-taking) from the world of ancient Israel and Judah, essays focus on offering new methods and fresh theoretical perspectives on ritual. Beginning with an introduction that engages with the dominant scholarly models drawn from ritual theory, the chapters reflect high-level specialized engagement with specific ritual phenomena.
UK July 2022 • US July 2022 • 256 pages HB 9780567693372 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePdf 9780567693389 • £76.50 / $105.78 Series: The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies • T&T Clark
Human Interaction with the Natural World in Wisdom Literature and Beyond
Essays in Honour of Tova L. Forti
Edited by Mordechai Cogan, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, Katharine J. Dell, University of Cambridge, UK & David GlattGilad, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel Created in honor of the work of Professor Tova Forti, this collection considers the natural world in key wisdom books – Proverbs, Job and Qoheleth/Ecclesiastes, Ben Sira and Song of Songs/Solomon – and also examines particular animal and plant imagery in other texts in the Hebrew Bible.
UK August 2022 • US August 2022 • 288 pages HB 9780567701206 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePdf 9780567701213 • £76.50 / $105.78 Series: The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies • T&T Clark
The Conflict between Faith and Experience and the Shape of Psalms 73-83
Stephen J. Smith, Belhaven University, USA Entering the lively discussion of canonical or editorial-criticism of the Hebrew Psalter, this is a detailed investigation into one of its constituent collections, Psalms 73-83. It addresses scholarly disagreement over this collection’s structure, the degree and nature of its literary unity, and its primary message. Smith argues that Psalms 73–82 – and potentially 83 – are deliberately arranged to resolve the disorienting collision between Israel’s faith, traditional theology and the experience of God’s prolonged absence amid the sixth-century exilic crisis.
UK July 2022 • US July 2022 • 240 pages HB 9780567702739 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePdf 9780567702746 • £76.50 / $105.78 Series: The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies • T&T Clark
Social Identity and the Book of Amos
Andrew M. King, Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, USA This is the first book to use the social identity approach in relation to the Book of Amos. It provides a fresh insight to the interpretation of the book, exploring identity forming strategies embedded in Amos. Additionally, it addresses several long-standing problems in Amos interpretation, and offers a new perspective with ethical applications. Central to King’s investigation is the question of what, according to Amos, it means to be the people of God.
UK July 2022 • US July 2022 • 176 pages PB 9780567698414 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9780567695291 ePdf 9780567695307 • £76.50 / $105.78 Series: The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies • T&T Clark
The Book of Kings and Exilic Identity
1 and 2 Kings as a Work of Political Historiography
Nathan Lovell, George Whitefield College, South Africa Provides a new literary reading of the Book of Kings, including a new proposal for the literary structure of the book that overcomes some of the issues widely discussed in scholarship on the Deuteronomistic History. It interacts with a wide range of critical scholarship and offers fresh readings of passages that contribute to some of the ongoing debates. It also considers several novel ideas concerning the theology of the book of Kings—including developing a remnant theme which has not been widely utilised in scholarship— and new thoughts on the issue of centralisation of worship and kingship.
UK August 2022 • US August 2022 • 328 pages PB 9780567698568 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9780567695321 ePdf 9780567695338 • £81.00 / $112.65 Series: The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies • T&T Clark
The End of History and the Last King
Achaemenid Ideology and Community Identity in Ezra-Nehemiah
David Janzen, Durham University, UK This book examines community identity in the post-exilic temple community in Ezra-Nehemiah, and explores the possible influences that the Achaemenids, the ruling Persian dynasty, might have had on its construction. In the book, David Janzen reads Ezra-Nehemiah in dialogue with the Achaemenids’ Old Persian inscriptions, as well as with other media the dynasty used, such as reliefs, seals, coins, architecture, and imperial parks. In addition, he discusses the cultural and religious background of Achaemenid thought, especially its intersections with Zoroastrian beliefs.
UK August 2022 • US August 2022 • 288 pages PB 9780567698001 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9780567698018 ePdf 9780567698025 • £76.50 / $105.78 Series: The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies • T&T Clark
The Performative Dimensions of Rhetorical Questions in the Hebrew Bible
Do You Not Know? Do You Not Hear?
Jim W. Adams, LIFE Pacific College, USA This book sets out to describe the multidimensional nature and function of rhetorical questions in the Old Testament. Biblical scholars have previously analyzed the use of rhetorical questions in both Testaments, but consistently describe their function in persuasive terms. While this understanding is appropriate in a number of instances, many rhetorical questions do not operate this way, and Jim W. Adams focuses in particular on rhetoric expressing the self-involvement of both the speaker and hearer.
UK April 2022 • US April 2022 • 312 pages PB 9780567697899 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9780567553232 ePdf 9780567695581 • £85.90 / $117.00 Series: The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies • T&T Clark From Text to Image
Edited by Guadalupe Seijas, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain The Hebrew Bible and art are at the core of this book, which analyzes the iconographic representation of several women of the Bible. The contributors consider the ways in which the biblical texts regarding these women have been read and understood through time and the means by which they have been represented. By examining figures such as Bathsheba, Moses' Mother, Pharoah's Daughter, Ruth and Naomi, the book also explores the different values associated with these representations according to the problems, worries and concerns of each period.
UK July 2022 • US July 2022 • 224 pages • 25 bw illus HB 9780567703606 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePdf 9780567703613 • £76.50 / $105.78 Series: The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies & Scriptural Traces • T&T Clark
T&T Clark Handbook to the Historical Paul
Edited by Ryan S. Schellenberg, Methodist School of Theology in Ohio, USA & Heidi Wendt, McGill University, Canada This handbook gathers together leading voices on individual aspects of Paul’s biography. The contributors examine how recent trends in Pauline scholarship have reopened and reconsidered Paul’s personal history questioning –among other things -- his social location, his level of education and cultural formation, his place within Judaism and his place alongside other travellers and “freelance religious experts”, other ecstatics, exegetes and diviners. Part one surveys sources and methods; part two examines key biographical questions; and part three reconstructs potential "micro-biographies" from the letters associated with Paul.
UK June 2022 • US June 2022 • 496 pages HB 9780567691965 • £130.00 / $175.00 ePub 9780567691996 • £117.00 / $162.12 ePdf 9780567691972 • £117.00 / $162.12 Series: T&T Clark Handbooks • T&T Clark
Scholars Reading Romans 1 with Daniel Patte
Critique, Dialogue, and Pedagogy
Edited by James P. Grimshaw, Carroll University, USA A creative collection of essays that introduces, critiques, and dialogues with Daniel Patte’s groundbreaking work Romans: Three Exegetical Interpretations and the History of Reception: Volume 1: Romans 1:1-32 (T&T Clark, 2018). Nine scholars from different cultural and methodological perspectives engage with Patte’s work, critique his methodology and ethic of interpretation, and develop alternative readings.
UK September 2022 • US September 2022 • 224 pages HB 9780567703989 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9780567704016 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9780567703996 • £76.50 / $105.78 T&T Clark
From the Passion to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre
Memories of Jesus in Place, Pilgrimage, and Early Holy Sites Over the First Three Centuries
Jordan J. Ryan, Wheaton College, USA A historical and archaeological examination of how memories of Jesus are preserved, crystallized, and interpreted in place, pilgrimage, and holy sites from the first to fourth centuries. Jordan J. Ryan builds a much-needed bridge between the first and fourth centuries of Christian memory in Judea and Galilee. This book examines the history and archaeology of early Christian holy sites and traditions connected with specific places, in order to understand these sites as interpretations of Jesus and to explore them as instantiations of memories of him.
UK September 2022 • US September 2022 • 296 pages • 25 bw illus PB 9780567697745 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9780567677457 ePub 9780567677488 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9780567677464 • £76.50 / $105.78 Series: The Reception of Jesus in the First Three Centuries • T&T Clark
BIBLICAL STUDIES – The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies / Scriptural Traces / New Testament
Paul L. Danove, Villanova University, USA Paul Danove presents a case-frame grammar and lexicon for the Book of Revelation, with three major goals. He first provides a step-by-step introduction to Case Frame analysis, incorporating various adaptations and extensions to address the needs of the study of the Greek of the New Testament. He then supplies a comprehensive Case Frame grammar and description of the syntactic, semantic, and lexical requirements that each predicator imposes on its complements. Finally, Danove generates a Case Frame lexicon that guides the interpretation and translation of each predicator occurrence in its grammatical contexts.
UK June 2022 • US June 2022 • 224 pages HB 9780567705983 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9780567706010 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9780567705990 • £76.50 / $105.78 Series: The Library of New Testament Studies • T&T Clark
Luke in His Own Words
A Study of the Language of Luke–Acts in Greek
Jenny Read-Heimerdinger, University of Wales Trinity Saint David, UK An examination of the language of Luke-Acts that draws out aspects of the author's use of Greek that traditional approaches have not accounted for. These include variation in word order, alternative spellings and fine distinctions between synonyms. Drawing on recent developments in linguistics, broadly referred to as ‘discourse analysis’, Read-Heimerdinger shows how paying close attention to the context of language is important for understanding reasons behind an author’s choices.
UK June 2022 • US June 2022 • 240 pages HB 9780567692986 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9780567692979 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9780567692993 • £76.50 / $105.78 Series: The Library of New Testament Studies • T&T Clark
Encountering the Parables in Contexts Old and New
Edited by T. E. Goud, University of New Brunswick in Saint John, Canada, J.R.C. Cousland, University of British Columbia, Canada & John P. Harrison, Oklahoma Christian University, USA Contributors pursue three important lines of enquiry into parable study, in order to compare how these lessons have been received throughout the millennia. The books considers both the historical and material world of the parables’ composition, and focuses on the social, political, economic, and material elements of that world. It not only explores how the parables may have been seen and heard in ancient contexts but also considers the lessons they have imparted to subsequent and contemporary listeners.
UK July 2022 • US July 2022 • 288 pages HB 9780567706133 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9780567706164 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9780567706140 • £76.50 / $105.78 Series: The Library of New Testament Studies • T&T Clark
Paul’s Use of the Old Testament in Romans 9.19-24
An Intertextual and Theological Exegesis
Brian J. Abasciano, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, USA Brian Abasciano continues his project examining the use of the Old Testament in Romans 9. By employing thorough traditional exegesis, Abasciano creates a comprehensive analysis of Paul's use of Scripture against the background of interpretive traditions surrounding the texts that this volume alludes to. Abasciano places special emphasis on analysis of the original contexts of Paul's citations and allusions.
UK August 2022 • US August 2022 • 336 pages HB 9780567536518 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePdf 9780567528322 • £76.50 / $105.78 Series: The Library of New Testament Studies • T&T Clark
The Formal Education of the Author of Luke-Acts
Steve Reece, St Olaf College, USA Steve Reece argues that the author of Luke-Acts was aware of many literary works that formed a part of basic Hellenistic literate education, and makes his case by proving that many Greek authors were well known (from papyrological and citational data) at the likely time of Luke’s composition. By focusing solely upon LukeActs, Reece is able to explore the evident Hellenistic education of the author, including the content of the curriculum, and the papyrological evidence of school exercises, his potential familiarity with Greek authors, and the influence of each of these major authors upon his work.
UK July 2022 • US July 2022 • 288 pages HB 9780567705884 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9780567705914 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9780567705891 • £76.50 / $105.78 Series: The Library of New Testament Studies • T&T Clark
The Pauline Book and the Dilemma of Ephesians
Benjamin Petroelje, Western Theological Seminary, USA Argues that how one reads Ephesians is a function of deeper questions about how to read the Pauline book. Using Ephesians 3:1-13 as a point of analysis, Petroelje theorizes that the text’s “image of Paul” not only anticipates recent revisionist interpretations of Paul’s Jewish identity and gentile gospel, but also holds together tensions in the collection itself surrounding these questions. By assessing ancient letter collections beside their own hermeneutical priorities, and applying this method to the late-antique and modern reception of the corpus Paulinum, Petroelje historicizes the origins of the split of Paul's corpus.
UK July 2022 • US July 2022 • 256 pages HB 9780567703729 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9780567703767 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9780567703736 • £76.50 / $105.78 Series: The Library of New Testament Studies • T&T Clark
Early Christianity and the Ethiopic Textual Tradition
Edited by Meron Gebreananaye, Durham University, UK, Francis Watson, University of Durham, UK & Logan Williams, Durham University, UK. This book highlights the significance of a group of five texts excluded from the standard Christian Bible and preserved only in Ge‘ez, the classical language of Ethiopia. By focusing on texts valued by early Christian readers, the contributors break down the distinction between “Old Testament pseudepigrapha” and “New Testament apocrypha”, thus demonstrating the significance of the Ethiopic Christian tradition and its uniquely inclusive perspective on canonical literature.
UK August 2022 • US August 2022 • 192 pages • 04 bw illus PB 9780567697653 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9780567695857 ePub 9780567695888 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9780567695864 • £76.50 / $105.78 Series: The Library of New Testament Studies • T&T Clark
Paul and Matthew Among Jews and Gentiles
Essays in Honour of Terence L. Donaldson
Edited by Ronald Charles, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada This volume allows prominent New Testament scholars to engage with Terence L. Donaldson’s contributions to scriptural academia, both to sharpen some of his conclusions and to honour him for his work. The contributors explore Matthew, Paul and Second Temple Jewish Literature which are all central to Donaldson's work. With contributions ranging from remapping Paul within Jewish ideologies, and Paul among friends and enemies, to socio-cultural readings of Matthew, and construction of Christian Identity through stereotypes of the Scribes and Pharisees, the essays within provide a multi-scholar tribute to Donaldson’s accomplishments.
UK August 2022 • US August 2022 • 208 pages • 1 bw illus PB 9780567698193 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9780567694089 ePub 9780567694119 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9780567694096 • £76.50 / $105.78 Series: The Library of New Testament Studies • T&T Clark Karl Leslie Armstrong, McMaster Divinity College, Canada Addresses the long-established scholarly debate surrounding the date of Acts, taking a historiographical approach in his evaluation of primary and secondary sources. By using modern principles of textual criticism and linguistics, Armstrong suggests the historical context of Acts can be determined to be concurrent with a date of 62–63 CE. Examining the much-neglected issue of Acts and its sources, he claims there is no clear evidence that the author of the text used Paul’s letters or the writings of Josephus. Armstrong's work offers a useful and practical example of how a highly debated text such as Acts can be approached.
UK September 2022 • US September 2022 • 248 pages PB 9780567698582 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9780567696465 ePub 9780567696496 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9780567696472 • £76.50 / $105.78 Series: The Library of New Testament Studies • T&T Clark
The Politics of Salvation
Lukan Soteriology, Atonement, and the Victory of Christ
Timothy W. Reardon, Fuller Theological Seminary, USA Offers a new paradigm for Lukan soteriology and atonement, that overcomes modern delineations of religion and politics and identifies an embodied, spatial, and theopolitical salvation. Timothy Reardon uncovers the Lukan salvation narrative developed within Acts, and its key themes that include its presentation of time and space, while also being attentive to overcoming a facile compartmentalization of religion and politics. Reardon argues that Luke-Acts offers a complete, holistic, embodied, and theopolitical soteriology, cosmic in scope, that includes both the what and how of salvation.
UK September 2022 • US September 2022 • 264 pages PB 9780567698575 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9780567696595 ePub 9780567696625 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9780567696601 • £76.50 / $105.78 Series: The Library of New Testament Studies • T&T Clark
The Bible and Cultural Studies: Critical Readings
Edited by Robert Seesengood, Albright College, USA This volume of key critical readings presents 250,000 words of foundational content for researching the Bible and culture. Key theoretical perspectives are carefully introduced and examined throughout. The volume concludes with an annotated bibliography of further readings.
UK October 2022 • US October 2022 • 432 pages HB 9780567677624 • £150.00 / $200.00 ePub 9780567677648 • £135.00 / $186.85 ePdf 9780567677631 • £135.00 / $186.85 Series: T&T Clark Critical Readings in Biblical Studies • T&T Clark World English
The Bible and Global Tourism
Edited by James S. Bielo, Miami University, USA & Lieke Wijnia, Museum Catharijneconvent, The Netherlands An examination of how biblical tourism is enmeshed within the production and management of heritage; marketing and publicity in contexts of global tourism; accessibility of bible-related sites and routes for multiple audiences; and, the forging of connections between touristic experience and biblical identity. Covering issues such as devotional piety, religious pedagogy, and entertainment, the chapters trace how contexts of biblical tourism are choreographed and consumed, and how these practices shape the embodied experience of scripture.
UK September 2022 • US September 2022 • 288 pages • 17 bw illus PB 9780567698407 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9780567681393 ePub 9780567681423 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9780567681409 • £76.50 / $105.78 Series: The Bible in Contemporary Culture • T&T Clark
