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Mesopotamian and biblical societies in antiquity were characterized by their patriarchal structure. The father was head of the family unit, and his rule extended over many areas of life. He had broad legal authority over the members of his household, including his offspring. It is therefore expected that in the ancient sources a dominant father figure would be mentioned alone or almost alone. And yet, in Mesopotamian and biblical texts, particularly legal writings, the exclusivity of the father is not always explicit. In many of the Mesopotamian and biblical writings, especially legal texts, the mother is mentioned in various contexts and in a range of realms, mainly those pertaining to her offspring. This intriguing phenomenon raised the question whether the mother in the ancient Near East and ancient Israel had legal authority in the household. The book The Legal Status of the Mother in the Ancient Near East and the Bible sheds light on the world of the ancient mothers and their status within the households and the societies in which they lived. This study demonstrates that the mother acted by virtue of the legal status she possessed in matters related to her sons and daughters' marriages and their behavior towards her. This book is for those walking in the fields of Mesopotamian and biblical research, and for readers interested in the universal subject in question - the relations between the mother and her offspring

BiAS 12 examines the phenomenon of prophets and prophecy in contemporary Zimbabwe. By applying insights from biblical studies and other approaches, the volume sheds light on how this contentious phenomenon has been discussed in the Zimbabwean context. The different chapters highlight the role of the Bible, gender, media, literature and other perspectives have influenced attitudes towards prophets and prophecy in Zimbabwe. While the phenomenon has been principally associated with the new wave of Pentecostalism, it remains critical to appreciate pre-existing attitudes towards prophets from African Initiated Churches (AICs), as well as traditional healers in African Indigenous Religions (AIRs). Contributors to this volume have explored the complexities that characterize prophets and prophecy. The volume is of interest to scholars in biblical studies, theology, religious studies, political science, anthropology, philosophy and other disciplines. General readers, church leaders and civil society activists will also find the chapters in this volume valuable.

Cover -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Series Editor's Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Introduction: Derrida's Bible -- beginnings -- 1. Between Genealogy and Virgin Birth: Origin and Originality in Matthew -- writing, posting, erasing -- 2. Of Secretaries, Secrets, and Scrolls: Jeremiah 36 and the Irritating Word of God -- 3. Postcards from the (Canon's) Edge: The Pastoral Epistles and Derrida's The Post Card -- 4. Erasing Amalek: Remembering to Forget with Derrida and Biblical Tradition -- specters and messiahs -- 5. The Missing/Mystical Messiah: Melchizedek Among the Specters of Genesis 14 -- 6. Jerusalem and Memory: On a Long Parenthesis in Derrida's Specters of Marx -- boundaries/hyphens/identity-markers -- 7. Shibboleth and the Ma(r)king of Culture: Judges 12 and the Monolingualism of the Other -- 8. The Book of Esther: The Making and Unmaking of Jewish Identity -- responsibilities, secrets, gifts -- 9. Triangulating Responsibility: How and Why Abraham, Isaac, and Ishmael Offer and Refuse the Gift of Death, and to/from Whom -- 10. Preferring or not Preferring: Derrida on Bartleby as Kierkegaard's Abraham -- 11. Justice as Gift: Thinking Grace with the Help of Derrida -- 12. Trembling in the Dark: Derrida's Mysterium Tremendum and the Gospel of Mark -- 13. Death At the Gate: Who Let Him In? Responsibility for Death in the Wisdom of Solomon and Derrida -- endings -- 14. The End of the World: Archive Fever, Qohelet 12:1-7, and Lamentations Rabbah -- 15. Decomposing Qohelet -- 16. And Sarah Died -- postscripts -- 17. Pardon Me . . . -- 18. Beliebigkeit -- Appendix: Abstracts -- Author Index -- Reference Index.

"Focused on the transmission of books from one generation to another, this study explores the connection between gender and book ownership by attempting to discover whether the 'reading lists' inadvertently compiled by testators for their offspring were informed by gender stereotypes and by specific perceptions of masculinity and femininity. By carefully considering the nature and content of these bequests, this study will try to identify the stereotypes attached to men and women's relation to books and, ultimately, to knowledge and consequently explore the place of books in their lives within the boundaries set by their gender in terms of social roles, access to education and involvement in the public sphere. By analysing the dynamics of bequests involving books, this study aims to explore the complex motives that impacted on testators' decisions, including concern for tradition and heritage. By looking at men and women as both donors and recipients of books, this article would like to identify emergent and possibly gendered reading cultures. Finally, by closely examining the intricacies of bequests recorded in probate inventories, this essay aims to highlight interaction within the family, vertically between generations and horizontally within them. Keywords: books, bequests, gender, generations, reading cultures, social roles, stereotypes."

"In this provocative new book from prophetic preacher and pastor Susan Williams Smith, the author tackles the truths that the church in the United States has long held to be self-evident-that ours is one nation under God, that our U.S. Constitution is (almost) as infallible as the Holy Bible, and that democracy and its principles of justice for all are sacrosanct and protected by both God and government. Yet, history and headlines alike expose the fallacy of those assumptions, particularly when viewed in the light of a national culture of white supremacy and systemic racial injustice. In fact, Smith argues, the two texts we count as sacred have not been merely impotent in eliminating racism; they have been used to support and sustain white supremacy. This important work examines how our foundational documents have failed people of color and asks the question, Can those whom a nation has considered "we the problem" ever become "we the people" who are celebrated in the Preamble to the Constitution? What will it take to reclaim the transforming and affirming power of God and government to secure liberty and justice for all?"--

Travel with Sean Gladding between the lines of the Scriptures to listen to the conversations of people wrestling with the Story of God for the first time. Whether by campfire in Babylon, at table in Asia Minor or by candlelight in Rome, you'll hear a tale that is at once familiar and surprising.

Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Abstracts -- Contributors -- Foreword, by Vincent Wimbush, Founding Director of the Institute for Signifying Scriptures, USA -- Introduction, by Musa W. Dube, University of Botswana, Botswana and Johanna Stiebert, University of Leeds, UK -- Border Crossing in Diasporic Academic Space, by Musa W. Dube, University of Botswana, Botswana -- Of Borders, Crossings, Colours and Botswana, by Johanna Stiebert, University of Leeds, UK -- Part I -- Paddling the Bellowing Waters Away From the Margins: African Perspectives of Proverbs 31, by Mmapula D. Kebaneilwe, University of Botswana, Botswana -- White is Purity: Christian Imagery, Popular Culture and the Construction of Whiteness, by Katie Edwards, University of Sheffield, UK -- Between Resisting White and Reflecting Black: A Hong Kong Resident's Response and Perspective, by Nancy N. H. Tan, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong -- Part II -- Empire and Identity Secrecy: A Postcolonial Reflection on Esther 2.10, by Tsaurayi K. Mapfeka, King's College London, UK -- 'My Words Dropped Upon Them Like Dew': Toward Reimaging the Identity of African Biblical Interpreters, by Mark S. Aidoo, Trinity Theological Seminary, Ghana -- Locating African Biblical Scholarship as Another Generation of African Biblical Scholars Takes up the Work, by Gerald O. West, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa -- Part III -- The Dark Heart of Biblical Scholarship: Western Readers and African Readings, by Hugh S. Pyper, University of Sheffield, UK -- Mwari and the Shona Bible: Colonial and Patriarchal Ideology in Translation, by Elizabeth Vengeyi, University of Bamberg, Germany -- The Politics of Appropriation, by Adriaan van Klinken, University of Leeds, UK -- Bibliography -- Index

"Bibles banned in California moves one step closer to evil reality."

The Bible in the Bowls represents a complete catalogue of Hebrew Bible quotations found in the published corpus of Jewish Babylonian Aramaic magic bowls. As our only direct epigraphic witnesses to the Hebrew Bible from late antique Babylonia, the bowls are uniquely placed to contribute to research on the (oral) transmission of the biblical text in late antiquity; the pre-Masoretic Babylonian vocalisation tradition; the formation of the liturgy and the early development of the Jewish prayer book; the social locations of biblical knowledge in late antique Babylonia and socio-religious typologies of the bowls; and the dynamics of scriptural citation in ancient Jewish magic. In a number of cases, the bowls also contain the earliest attestations of biblical verses not found in the Dead Sea Scrolls. Pre-dating the next available evidence by four to five centuries, the bowls are a valuable resource for biblical text critics.

By making these valuable witnesses to the Hebrew Bible easily available to scholars, The Bible in the Bowls is designed to facilitate further research by linguists, liturgists, biblical text critics, and students of Jewish magic. It collates and transcribes each biblical verse as it appears in the published bowls, furnishes details of the bowls' publication, and notes various features of interest. The catalogue is also accompanied by an accessible introduction that briefly introduces the incantation bowls, surveys their deployment of scripture in light of their magical goals, and discusses the orthography of the quotations and what this can tell us about the encounter with the biblical text in late antique Babylonia.

The way Lycus conquers power over Thebes in Pseudo-Apollodorus' Library is marked by some elements that seem to refer to political institutions. His election as a polemarch may allude to events that took place in Boeotia in the fourth century B.C. This allusion represents a clear anachronism against the background of the mythographer's tales. The anachronism is related to the narrative development of the section to which it belongs: the reference to polemarchy, by stressing the difference between the legitimate sovereignty of the Cadmeians and the illegitimate sovereignty of Lycus, Zethus and Amphion, contributes to the compositional plan conceived by ps. Apollodorus, which consists of genealogical continuity. Therefore, the anachronism can be considered as the result of a choice of the author and reveals that the mythographers played also a role in the iteration between mythical time and historical past that we can find in their works. ; [it] Il racconto della conquista del potere a Tebe da parte di Lico, fornito dalla Biblioteca, presenta alcuni elementi che sembrano far riferimento a istituti propriamente politici. L'elezione a polemarco, in particolare, può alludere a eventi storici della Beozia di IV secolo a. C. Tale allusione rappresenta un chiaro anacronismo rispetto all'universo che fa da sfondo ai racconti del mitografo, ma, in questo caso, non risulta estranea allo sviluppo narrativo della sezione in cui si trova inserita. Evidenziando una differenza qualitativa tra la sovranità legittima dei Cadmei e quella illegittima di Lico, Zeto e Anfione, il riferimento alla polemarchia contribuisce al piano compositivo dello ps. Apollodoro, che si fonda sulla continuità genealogica. Per tale ragione, l'anacronismo può essere qui considerato il risultato di una scelta autoriale, che mostra come anche i mitografi abbiano giocato un ruolo nell'iterazione tra tempo mitico e passato storico che si riscontra all'interno delle loro opere.

Canada has a majority Conservative party in power, and the Conservative Party is consciously and ideologically Zionist. Many of the Members of Parliament in the Conservative Party come from committed conservative evangelical backgrounds (with a strong commitment to Zionism). I took part in a debate at the University of the Fraser Valley (buckle of the Bible Belt in British Columbia) in the autumn of 2010 in which Marci McDonald (one of the best Canadian political journalists) lectured on her recently published book, The Armageddon Factor. This letter comments on the ideology of the ruling part in Canada, Canada's Bible Belt and the influence of the evangelical Israel Lobby.

In the Reformed Church in America, a denomination that embraces a fair amount of theological diversity and that values fellowship over doctrinal conformity, the fate of theological pronouncements by its General Synod is often ambiguous at best. Provocative and polarizing statements are unlikely to survive the centripetal force of General Synod's consensus-based politics. Any lingering doubt as to the community-building quality of a paper is likely to be resolved by synod's voting "to recommend the paper … to the congregations of the Reformed Church in America for study"—a recommendation that avoids outright rejection but falls well short of putting denominational weight behind the document. (Such reticence, of course, does not always prevent the document's partisans from citing it a few years down the road as the Reformed Church's "official" position.) This determination to "govern from the center" has its pastoral and institutional benefits. Attempts by study committees in sister denominations to seize the prophet's mantle by forwarding radical proposals to ecclesiastical assemblies have not always had happy results. For instance, the 1991 report to the PCUSA on "Presbyterians and Human Sexuality" may have so raised the temperature surrounding the issue as to set back the possibility of productive discussion by a decade or more. Although rejected resoundingly by the General Assembly (by a vote of 534 to 31 ), the report was widely distributed within the denomination and came to serve as a "sign of contradiction"—for some, as a goal of liberated and inclusive sexuality, for many others as a warning of the consequences of pitting contemporary cultural trends against the Scripture-based moral tradition of Christianity

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The complex relations between Hebrew Bible interpretation and the discipline of the Philosophy of Religion were last discussed in detail a decade ago (Gericke 2012). In the years that followed, the associated literature was seen as samples of a recent return to philosophy of religion as auxiliary discourse, albeit one that had yet to obtain a clear research profile (Schmid 2019). Shortly thereafter, evidence of a variety of philosophical approaches to the HB/OT as a distinct emergent current was provided (Keefer 2022). The original contribution of this article and its objective is to supplement and compliment the related research by way of an update on the relations between the Bible and Philosophy with special attention to Philosophy of Religion.

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