Product Description: This volume compiles 17 articles by the late Jewish scholar Gunter Mayer (1936 2004) and his life-long collaborator, the Tubingen New Testament scholar Michael Tilly. Thematically wide-ranging in the fields of Hellenistic and Rabbinical Judaism, the papers explore biblical history, the socialization and education of children, ancient funerary practices, and the reception history of biblical prophetic texts...read more

Product Description: From leading Old Testament scholar Douglas A. Knight comes the latest volume in the Library of Ancient Israel series. Using socio-anthropological theory and archaeological evidence, Knight argues that while the laws in the Hebrew Bible tend to reflect the interests of those in power, the majority of ancient Israelites―located in villages―developed their own unwritten customary laws to regulate behavior and resolve legal conflicts in their own communities...read more

Product Description: How well integrated were Jews in the Mediterranean society controlled by ancient Rome? The Torah's laws seem to constitute a rejection of the reciprocity-based social dependency and emphasis on honor that were customary in the ancient Mediterranean world...read more

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