Ancient Religions

There are many books about how people ought to interpret the Bible. This book is about how people in churches actually interpret the Bible, and why they interpret it in the way that they do. Based on a study of Anglicans in the Church of England, it explores the interaction of belief, personality, ..

The Emergence of Israel in Ancient Palestine..

Centering on the first extant martyr story (2 Maccabees 7), this study explores the "autonomous value" of martyrdom. The story of a mother and her seven sons who die under the torture of the Greek king Antiochus displaces the long-problematic Temple sacrificial cult with new cultic practices, and pr..

This book considers a range of twentieth-century novelists who practise a creative mode of reading the Bible, exploring aspects of the Book of Genesis which more conventional biblical criticism sometimes ignores. Each chapter considers some of the interpretive challenges of the relevant story in Gen..

The Grotesque Body in Early Christian Discourse..

With an appendix providing a chronology, the Hebrew alphabet, weights, measures and coins, the Jewish calendar and a guide to further reading for easy reference, this is an accessible, user-friendly introduction which is indispensable to students as a starting point for studying the history, cultur..

The Love of David and Jonathan..

In The Moral Psychology of Clement of Alexandria, Kathleen Gibbons proposes a new approach to Clement's moral philosophy and explores how his construction of Christianity's relationship with Jewishness informed, and was informed by, his philosophical project. As one of the earliest Christian philoso..

First published in 1956, this seminal study, by the great Belgian scholar Franz Cumont, remains the definitive coverage and reconstruction of Mithraism in the first centuries of the Christian era...

This collection of John Barton's work engages with current concern over the biblical canon, in both historical and theological aspects; with literary reading of the Bible and current literary theory as it bears on biblical studies; and with the theological reading and use of the biblical text. John ..

This collection of John Barton's work engages with current concern over the biblical canon, in both historical and theological aspects; with literary reading of the Bible and current literary theory as it bears on biblical studies; and with the theological reading and use of the biblical text. John ..

The Ontology of Space in Biblical Hebrew Narrative..