Discoveries in the Judaean Dessert (Discoveries in the Judaean Desert #XVI): (Oxford University Press) Publisher's Comments: This volume continues the publication of the series of biblical Dead Sea Scrolls that were discovered in Cave 4 at Qumran. It contains forty-two manuscripts of the Writings or Wisdom Books, from Psalms to Chronicles. These Hebrew texts antedate by a millenn... Details...

Early Israelite Wisdom (Oxford Theological Monographs): (Oxford University Press) Publisher's Comments: This is a new and ground-breaking study of the nature and origins of the earliest material in the book of Proverbs, drawing on evidence from Israel and neighboring countries in the ancient Near East. This literature has been widely believed to have originat... Details...

Encyclopedia of the Dead Sea Scrolls 2 Volume set: (Oxford University Press) Publisher's Comments: Discovered in 1947 by a Bedouin shepherd, the Dead Sea Scrolls are a collection of 800 manuscripts nearly one thousand years older than any other writings of the Hebrew Scriptures. Ever since, these mysterious documents have raised many questions. What do t... Details...

Etz Hayim: (Jewish Publication Society) Publisher's Comments: A landmark publication for the contemporary Jewish community, Etz Hayim is a publication of the Conservative movement, produced through a joint venture of The Rabbinical Assembly, the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism, and The Jewish Publication Soc... Details...

Etz Hayim-Travel Size: (Jewish Publication Society) Publisher's Comments: JPS is pleased to make available a new, more compact edition of the landmark publication, Etz Hayim: A Torah Commentary. This book, a publication of the Conservative movement, was produced through a joint venture of the Rabbinical Assembly, the United Synag... Details...

Fixing God's Torah The Accuracy of the Hebrew Bible Text in Jewish Law: (Oxford University Press) Publisher's Comments:The Hebrew text of the Torah has never been finalized down to the last letter. This is important not least because Jewish law requires that Torah scrolls read publicly in the synagogue be error-free. Jewish scribes, scholars, and legal authorities have sought... Details...

Flavius Josephus and Flavian Rome: (Oxford University Press) Publisher's Comments: Flavian Rome has most often been studied without serious attention to its most prolific extant author, Titus Flavius Josephus. Josephus, in turn, has usually been studied for what he is writing about (mainly, events in Judaea) rather than for the context in... Details...

God at War: Power in the Exodus Tradition: (Oxford University Press) Publisher's Comments: The destruction of the Egyptian army in the Book of Exodus is the primary story of salvation for Israel; God is the chief combatant in this story. "Yahweh is a warrior!" So goes the victory hymn in Exodus 15:3 after the annihilation of the enemy by Yahweh, ... Details...

God of Abraham: (Oxford University Press) Publisher's Comments: This cogently argued and richly illustrated book rejects the dichotomy between the God of Abraham and the God of the philosophers to argue that the two are one. In God of Abraham, one of our leading philosophers of religion shows how human values can illumi... Details...

Impurity and Sin in Ancient Judaism: (Oxford University Press) Publisher's Comments: This book examines the ways in which two distinct biblical conceptions of impurity-"ritual" and "moral"-were interpreted in the Hebrew Bible, the Dead Sea Scrolls, rabbinic literature, and the New Testament. In examining the evolution of ancient Jewish atti... Details...