Jewish Studies

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Cover of 'Biblia Americana'
Biblia Americana
Cotton Mather's Biblia Americana (1693-1728) is colonial America's first commentary on the whole Bible. Perhaps best remembered for his writings on Salem witchcraft, the hugely prolific Mather was undeniably one of New England's leading Enlightenment thinkers.
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Cover of 'Jews, Pagans and Christians in the Roman Empire'
Jan N. Bremmer
Jews, Pagans and Christians in the Roman Empire
This volume presents a selection of studies by Jan N. Bremmer on the interplay between Judaism, Christianity, and paganism in the Roman Empire. The author covers a wide range of subjects, including pogroms, ghosts, sacrifice, miracles, mysteries, the decline of traditional ancient religion, Constantine's conversion, and the survival of paganism.
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Cover of 'Recht und Intertextualität im Buch Ruth'
Deborah Storek
Recht und Intertextualität im Buch Ruth
How controversial is the Book of Ruth? Is marriage to a foreign woman presumed to be unproblematic or discussed? Deborah Storek sees a subtle controversy in the narrative depiction of marriage as the fulfilment of two legal customs (levirate and redemption) as well as in discursive intertextual allusions to other biblical texts.
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Josiah D. Peeler
Punning in Odd or Elegant Constructions in Jeremiah
The Hebrew text of Jeremiah utilizes infelicitous or symmetric elements to produce puns demonstrating a contextual theme. While previous studies have largely ignored this type of pun in the Hebrew Bible, Josiah D. Peeler illustrates that it was a common device in ancient Near Eastern textual production.
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