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October 22, 2025
This chapter demonstrates that New Testament texts, whether in manuscripts or printed editions, are supplemented and constrained by "paratexts"-extra-textual features such as chapter numbers and titles, subheadings and notes, introductions and colophons, o ...
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May 12, 2021
Studies on the Intersection of Text, Paratext, and Reception brings together the latest research on how the fields of textual criticism, manuscript studies, and reception history can and should inform one another. ...
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January 31, 2020
Jennifer Knust surveys the gradual canonisation of the Maccabean martyrs
within a collection of Christian sacred texts. The eventual adoption of
these martyrs as proto-Christian models of faith were clearly the result
of a complex bu ...
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December 2019
This volume, originating from a conference on "Healing and Exorcism in Second Temple Judaism and Early Christianity" hosted by Orebro School of Theology (Sweden) in 2018, deals with the ideological and theological meaning of healing and ... ...
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October 14, 2019
As an institution, marriage legislates and enforces the dissemination and protection of property, sorting between the categories “legitimate” and “illegitimate.” Instructions regarding marriage, adultery, and divorce in various New Testament books confirm ...
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June 21, 2019
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2019
Bringing together nationally and internationally known scholars, The Museum of the Bible: A Critical Introduction analyzes the newly opened Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C., and wrestles with the thorny interpretive issues and ... ...
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April 13, 2018
A collection of essays by scholars in the field of biblical studies. Explores the prophetic voices of the Hebrew Bible, the Old Testament Apocrypha, and the Greek New Testament. ...
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November 14, 2017
An international, cross-disciplinary investigation of ancient religious practices and their material remains yields fresh insights and poses new questions.
Ritual Matters interrupts the anachronistic binaries of religious practice and belief, the materia ...
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April 21, 2016
The contributors to this volume (J.D. Punch, Jennifer Knust, Tommy Wasserman, Chris Keith, Maurice Robinson, and Larry Hurtado) re-examine the Pericope Adulterae (John 7.53-8.11) asking afresh the question of the paragraph's authenticity. Each contributor ...
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January 1, 2011
“In a Christian life,” German theologian Siegfried Leffler stated in 1939, “the heart always has to be disposed toward the Jew, and that’s how it has to be.” Yet, he goes on to argue, as a Christian one must also follow the laws of the state and, as such b ...
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