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Revised version of author's Ph.D. thesis -- Aberdeen, Univ., 2010.

Based on the author's doctoral thesis, University of Aberdeen.

Allows us to learn more about the interactions between Jews and Christians in the Graeco-Roman and Late Antique periods, their understandings of the nature of Scripture, and the methods they used to make the Divine Word understandable.

Includes contributors such as E Bons, JM Dines, K Hauspie, J Joosten, TJ Kraus, A Leonas and K Usener.

To what extent does the Greek translation of the Bible contain stylistic and rhetorical elements that are not present in the Hebrew source text? This title examines this question. It investigates the stylistic and rhetorical elements present in various books of the Bible (for example: "Psalms", "Amos", and "Solomons Book of Wisdom").

Though interest in the use of metaphor in the Hebrew Bible has gained momentum in years, there is, to date, no investigation which concentrates exclusively on the animal metaphors in the book of "Jeremiah". This book brings to light this neglected area of study by examining the language and imagery of the animal metaphors for the people of Israel.

Through the use of Social Identity Theory, this book evaluates how ancient people constructed their group identity in daily life and how through a seemingly inferior model (that of Christ's kenosis in 2, 5-11) the community receives a re-definition of values which are according to God's values, and who has the last word in history.

A study of creation and nature in 4 Ezra argues that this first-century Jewish apocalypse's profound pessimism concerning humankind and the present age is matched by a surprisingly robust belief in the goodness of the created order.

The assumed LXX Vorlage of the explicit quotations in Hebrews remains unresolved - despite the fact that it is an important pre-requisite before one can attempt to investigate the function of these quotations within their NT context. This title addresses these matters from a tradition historical and a text critical angle.

Presents eight studies on the textual history of Jewish scriptures from Antiquity to the Middle Ages which engage in various aspects of Emanuel Tov's textcritical work.

Even laymen get a quick view over the aspects of Georg Friedrich Handel's life and work. This bibliography collects details to each groups: opera, oratories, vocal and instrumental chamber music, orchestra and keyboard music, to reception and interpretation.

Analyses religious work for the marginalized from the perspective of citizenship and otherness. This title includes articles that try to answer the question of whether religion makes a contribution to a growing recognition of human rights in society.

A monograph that examines the eschatological discourse of First Thessalonians. It also represents the first analysis of fundamental representatives of that discourse which acknowledges the epistolary and rhetorical structure of the letter, and which understands the various eschatological motifs as part of a exhortation to a community in conflict.