MU Libraries New Books: The Bible

About the new book list

11/18/2009

The RSS feeds for the new books list is updated every Wednesday and contains a list of books added to the Ellis Library collection for the last six weeks. The titles are grouped by call number classification, and are listed by week and alphabetically by title.

Books for the most recent weeks are currently on the New Books Shelves inside the north entrance of Ellis Library. They can be checked out.

Contextualizing gender in early Christian discourse : thinking beyond Thecla / Caroline Vander Stichele and Todd Penner. (11/18/2009)

11/18/2009

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In this book, Vander Stichele and Penner introduce their own gender-critical approach to the New Testament and other early Christian writings. Building on feminist and post-colonial insights, they explore the importance of gender in both text and context and discuss the diverse issues involved in interpretation as they relate to gender, sex, and sexuality. The authors also set out their methodology and highlight the various hermeneutical issues involved, such as the complexity of gendered and sexed identities in antiquity and the gap that exists between modern and ancient conceptions thereof. They further illustrate their gender-critical approach with concrete examples from the Acts of the Apostles, the letters of Paul, and the Acts of Paul and Thecla, in order to demonstrate how a gender-critical approach works in practice. As such, this book is unique in terms of its range as well as in the explicit methodological focus that is fostered throughout.

Call #: BS2361.3 .V36 2009

Die Würzburger Paulinenkommentare der Ottonenzeit / Hartmut Hoffmann. (11/18/2009)

11/18/2009

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Call #: BS2650.53 .H644 2009

Homeland and exile : biblical and ancient Near Eastern studies in honour of Bustenay Oded / edited by Gershon Galil, Mark Geller, and Alan Millard. (11/18/2009)

11/18/2009

Call #: BS410 .V452 130

Morales sur Job / [par] Grégoire le Grand. (11/11/2009)

11/11/2009

Call #: BS1415 .G754 1952

The new Isaac : tradition and intertextuality in the Gospel of Matthew / by Leroy A. Huizenga. (11/11/2009)

11/11/2009

Call #: BS2575.52 .H85 2009

Nahum : a new translation with introduction and commentary / Duane L. Christensen. (10/21/2009)

10/21/2009

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This volume represents a significant breakthrough in the study of Hebrew prosody with important implications for understanding the formation of the canon of the Hebrew Bible. Duane Christensen, a renowned biblical scholar, offers a detailed analysis of the Hebrew text of Nahum and demonstrates the intricate literary structure and high poetic quality of the work.

Nahum is a book about God’s justice and portrays God as strong, unyielding, and capable of great anger. This view of God’s nature stands in contrast to that found in Jonah, another book in the section of the Hebrew Bible known as the Book of the Twelve Prophets, which presents God as “compassionate, gracious . . . [and] abounding in steadfast love.” Christensen shows how Nahum and Jonah present complementary aspects of God’s nature, each essential for an understanding of the divine being. The commentary includes the most extensive bibliography published to date of works cited.

Call #: BS1623 .C47 2009

Receptions and transformations of the Bible / edited by Kirsten Nielsen. (9/23/2009)

9/23/2009

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These volumes of Religion and Normativity present the latest research in three central fields. Volume II deals with "Reception and Transformation of the Bible" as it occurs in modern literature (in both Danish and English), philosophy (including Kierkegaard), and Jewish and Christian religious practice. The researchers base their work on the theories and methods of the study of religion, philosophy, theology and literature.

Call #: BS535 .R38 2009