Sippar, the Babylonian main place of worship of the sun god Shamash, is one of the oldest and most important Mesopotamian cult centers. Stefan Zawa...

This volume offers the transliteration, translation, and selected copies of over 600 administrative documents on the textile industry in the Ebabba...

The aim of the present conference volume is to study the interrelationship of literary and material approaches to historical investigation of gende...

The book investigates omissions in the textual transmission of the Hebrew scriptures. Literary criticism (Literarkritik) commonly assumes that late...

This volume contains the proceedings of the conference entitled "Halakhah in Light of Epigraphy" held on 29 May 2008 under the auspices of the Davi...

This book provides people who want to work systemically with a set of practical tools. It is above all a reference book full of specific and helpfu...

24 scholars -- Jewish, Protestant, Roman Catholic -– from North America, Israel, and various European countries, contribute to this rich volume on ...

The long and complex history of reception and interpretation of the Hebrew Bible / Old Testament through the ages, described in the HBOT Project, i...

This large international standard work unites Christian and Jewish experts from all over the world. It comprehensively depicts the Old Testament ex...

The first part of the project Hebrew Bible / Old Testament deals with questions of the canon with regard to its interpretation from the Jewish, New...

It has often been noted that the Protestant Reformation of the early sixteenth century witnessed a revived interest in the scriptural notions of pr...

"Helpless Imperialists" enquires into the relation between imperial exposure, fear, radicalization and violence and highlights moments of peripety ...

This book analyses religious work for the marginalized from the perspective of citizenship and otherness. The articles try to answer the question i...