Society for Old Testament Study - Flyer 2020

HEBREW BIBLE & OLD TESTAMENT STUDIES 30% discount code: CSF2020SOT Order online at combinedacademic.co.uk

Liturgy and Biblical Interpretation The Sanctus and the Qedushah SEBASTIAN SELVÉN

In Liturgy and Biblical Interpretation, Sebastian Selvén answers questions concerning how the Hebrew Bible is used in Jewish and Christian liturgical traditions and the impact this then has on biblical studies. This work addresses the neglect of liturgy and ritual in reception studies and makes the case that liturgy is one of the major influential forms of biblical reception.

UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS Series: Reading the Scriptures January 2021 244pp 9780268200015 £58.00 HB now £40.60

The Harp of Prophecy

Early Christian Interpretation of the Psalms EDITED BY BRIAN E. DALEY, S.J. & PAUL R. KOLBET

The essays in The Harp of Prophecy represent some of the very best scholarly approaches to the study of early Christian exegesis, bringing new interpretations to bear on the work of influential early Christian authorities such as Athanasius, Augustine, and Basil of Caesarea.

UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS Series: Christianity and Judaism in Antiquity January 2015 352pp 9780268026196 £32.00 PB now £22.40

Free UK postage / EU £4.50 / ROW £4.99

Theological Hermeneutics and the Book of Numbers as Christian Scripture RICHARD S. BRIGGS

How should Christian readers of scripture hold appropriate and constructive tensions between exegetical, critical, hermeneutical, and theological concerns? This book seeks to develop the current lively discussion of theological hermeneutics by taking an extended test case, the book of Numbers, and seeing what it means in practice to hold all these concerns together.

UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS Series: Reading the Scriptures June 2018 350pp 9780268103736 £45.00 HB now £31.50

“Israel Served the Lord”

The Book of Joshua as Paradoxical Portrait of Faithful Israel RACHEL M. BILLINGS

In this newest volume in the series Reading the Scriptures, Billings offers a more holistic reading of Joshua, which joins theological sophistication with an emphasis on its meaning and purpose as a literary work. Through a hermeneutical and literary lens, the author analyzes the story of Rahab and Achan, the stories of the Gibeonites and the Transjordanian altar, and the theme of the completeness of Israel’s taking of the land of Canaan.

UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS Series: Reading the Scriptures June 2013 192pp 9780268022334 £33.00 PB now £23.10

Praying the Psalms in Christ

Thinking about God

LAURENCE KRIEGSHAUSER, O.S.B.

Who—or what—is God? Is God like a person? Does God have a gender? Does God have a special relationship with the Jewish people? Does God intervene in our lives? Is God good—and, if yes, why does evil persist in the world? In investigating how Jewish thinkers have approached these and other questions, Rabbi Kari H. Tuling elucidates many compelling—and contrasting—ways of thinking about God in Jewish tradition.

THE JEWISH PUBLICATION SOCIETY Series: JPS Essential Judaism August 2020 424pp 9780827613010 £25.99 PB now £18.19

In this book, a Benedictine monk examines the Christian praying of the Psalms, taking into account modern and contemporary research on the Psalms. Working from the Hebrew text, Fr. Laurence Kriegshauser offers a verse-by-verse commentary on each of the one hundred and fifty psalms.

UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS Series: Reading the Scriptures March 2009 368pp 9780268033200 £33.00 PB now £23.10

Jewish Bible Translations

Personalities, Passions, Politics, Progress LEONARD GREENSPOON

Jewish Bible Translations is the first book to examine Jewish Bible translations from the third century BCE to our day. It is an overdue corrective of an important story that has been regularly omitted or downgraded in other histories of Bible translation.

Examining a wide range of translations over twenty-four centuries, Leonard Greenspoon delves into the historical, cultural, linguistic, and religious contexts of versions in eleven languages THE JEWISH PUBLICATION SOCIETY November 2020 344pp 9780827613126 £27.99 PB now £19.59

Jewish Views KARI H. TULING

A Year with the Sages Wisdom on the Weekly Torah Portion REUVEN HAMMER

Quoting from the week’s Torah portion, Rabbi Hammer presents a Torah commentary, selections from the Sages that chronicle their process of interpreting the text, a commentary that elucidates these concepts and their consequences, and a personal reflection that illumines the Sages’ enduring wisdom for our era.

THE JEWISH PUBLICATION SOCIETY Series: JPS Daily Inspiration May 2019 384pp 9780827613119 £22.99 PB now £16.09

30% discount code: CSF2020SOT

Discovering Second Temple Literature

The Scriptures and Stories That Shaped Early Judaism MALKA Z. SIMKOVICH

Exploring the world of the Second Temple period (539 BCE–70 CE), Simkovich takes us to Jerusalem, Alexandria, and Antioch as she recounts Jewish history during this vibrant, formative era, Simkovich analyzes some of the period’s most important works for both familiar and possible meanings.

THE JEWISH PUBLICATION SOCIETY November 2018 1 timeline, 1 glossary 384pp 9780827612655 £23.99 PB now £16.79

The Commentators’ Bible, 5-volume set

The Rubin JPS Miqra’ot Gedolot EDITED BY MICHAEL CARASIK

Now, with the five volumes of the acclaimed English edition of Miqra’ot Gedolot—Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy—the voices of Rashi, Ibn Ezra, Nachmanides, Rashbam, Abarbanel, Kimhi, and other medieval Bible commentators come alive, speaking in a contemporary English translation annotated and explicated for lay readers.

THE JEWISH PUBLICATION SOCIETY Series: Commentators’ Bible August 2018 1798pp 9780827613515 £280.00 Quantity pack now £196.00

The Commentators’ Bible: Genesis

The Rubin JPS Miqra’ot Gedolot EDITED BY MICHAEL CARASIK

Each page in The Commentators’ Bible: Genesis: The Rubin JPS Miqra’ot Gedolot contains several verses from the book of Genesis, surrounded by both the 1917 and the 1985 JPS translations and by new contemporary English translations of the major commentators.

THE JEWISH PUBLICATION SOCIETY Series: Commentators’ Bible August 2018 488pp 9780827609426 £74.00 HB now £51.80

The JPS Holiday Anthologies, 8-volume set EDITED BY PHILIP GOODMAN & ABRAHAM E. MILLGRAM

Back in print by popular demand, the classic JPS holiday anthologies are unequaled compilations of Bible, Talmud, prayer, poetry, and folklore.

Even in our digital age, they deserve a place on the bookshelf of rabbis, cantors, educators, and any reader seeking the meaning and origin of the Sabbath and Jewish festivals. The volumes mine Bible, Talmud, midrashim, and a rich variety of other sources.

THE JEWISH PUBLICATION SOCIETY Series: The JPS Holiday Anthologies July 2018 3928pp 9780827613522 £145.00 Quantity pack now £101.50

The JPS Rashi Discussion Torah Commentary

JPS Study Bible SARAH LEVY & STEVEN LEVY

Rashi, the medieval French rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki (1040–1105), authored monumental commentaries on the Hebrew Bible and the Babylonian Talmud. With The JPS Rashi Discussion Torah Commentary, his commentary on the Torah—regarded as the most authoritative of all Torah commentaries—is finally accessible to the entire Jewish community.

THE JEWISH PUBLICATION SOCIETY January 2018 216pp 9780827612693 £15.99 PB now £11.19

The Heart of Torah, Volume 1

The Heart of Torah, Volume 2

Essays on the Weekly Torah Portion: Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy SHAI HELD FOREWORD BY YITZ GREENBERG

In The Heart of Torah, Rabbi Shai Held’s Torah essays—two for each weekly portion—open new horizons in Jewish biblical commentary.

Held probes the portions in bold, original, and provocative ways. He mines Talmud and midrashim, great writers of world literature, and astute commentators of other religious backgrounds.

THE JEWISH PUBLICATION SOCIETY September 2017 496pp 9780827613003 £19.99 PB now £13.99

Essays on the Weekly Torah Portion: Outside the Bible, 3-volume set Genesis and Exodus Ancient Jewish Writings Related to SHAI HELD Scripture FOREWORD BY YITZ GREENBERG In The Heart of Torah, Rabbi Shai Held’s EDITED BY LOUIS H. FELDMAN, Torah essays—two for each weekly JAMES L. KUGEL portion—open new horizons in Jewish & LAWRENCE H. SCHIFFMAN

biblical commentary.

Held probes the portions in bold, original, and provocative ways. He mines Talmud and midrashim, great writers of world literature, and astute commentators of other religious backgrounds.

THE JEWISH PUBLICATION SOCIETY September 2017 400pp 9780827612716 £19.99 PB now £13.99

The work of more than seventy contributing experts in a range of fields, Outside the Bible offers new insights into the development of Judaism and Early Christianity.

THE JEWISH PUBLICATION SOCIETY December 2013 3302pp 9780827609334 £248.00 Quantity pack now £173.60

Order online at combinedacademic.co.uk

The Rule of Peshat

Jewish Constructions of the Plain Sense of Scripture and Their Christian and Muslim Contexts, 900-1270 MORDECHAI Z. COHEN

Cohen explores the historical, geographical, and theoretical underpinnings of peshat as it emerged between 900 and 1270.

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS Series: Jewish Culture and Contexts May 2020 1 illus. 496pp 9780812252125 £74.00 HB now £51.80

Secularism and Hermeneutics YAEL ALMOG

In the late eighteenth century, a new imperative began to inform theories of interpretation: all literary texts should be read in the same way that we read the Bible. Almog reveals the tension between textual exegesis and confessional belonging and challenges the Enlightenment presumption that interpretation is indifferent to religious concerns.

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS Series: Intellectual History of the Modern Age June 2019 216pp 9780812251258 £54.00 HB now £37.80

The Bible, the Talmud, The Book of Shem On Genesis before Abraham and the New DAVID KISHIK Testament This short treatise analyzes the Elijah Zvi Soloveitchik’s Commentary to the Gospels ELIJAH ZVI SOLOVEITCHIK EDITED BY SHAUL MAGID TRANSLATED BY JORDAN GAYLE LEVY FOREWORD BY PETER SALOVEY

In 1870, Elijah Soloveitchik wrote Qole Qore. To this day, it remains the only rabbinic work written on the New Testament. This book presents the firstever English translation of this text.

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS Series: Jewish Culture and Contexts June 2019 1 illus. 440pp 9780812250992 £74.00 HB now £51.80

The Jewish Bible

founding text of the Abrahamic religions to rethink some of their deepest convictions. Kishik demonstrates the post-secular and post-human implications of a preAbrahamic position. A translation of the Hebrew source, included as an appendix, provides further guidance to the reader.

STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS November 2018 136pp 9781503607347 £13.99 PB now £9.79

Zohar Complete Set

Zohar: The Pritzker Editions TRANSLATED BY DANIEL C. MATT, JOEL HECKER & NATHAN WOLSKI

Stanford University Press is pleased to offer a complete set of all twelve volumes of The Zohar: Pritzker Edition.

In The Jewish Bible: A Material History, The Zohar: Pritzker Edition volumes David Stern explores the Jewish Bible as present the first translation ever made a material object—the Bibles that Jews from a critical Aramaic text of the have actually held in their hands—from Zohar, which has been established by its beginnings in the Ancient Near Professor Daniel C. Matt (along with Eastern world through to the Middle Nathan Wolski and Joel Hecker) based Ages to the present moment. on a wide range of original UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS manuscripts.

Series: Samuel and Althea Stroum Lectures in STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS Jewish Studies February 2018 7792ppp August 2019 83 color illus. 320pp 9781503605312 £560.00 HB 9780295746173 £26.99 PB now £18.89 now £392.00

A Material History DAVID STERN

Order online at combinedacademic.co.uk