New monographs from Biblical Studies (November)

And finally, we can take a look at some of the new series monographs we published last month.

These include:

Children’s Bibles in America: A Reception History of the Story of Noah’s Ark in US Children’s Bibles

By Russell Dalton

Russell Dalton's wonderful book explores the depiction and representation of specific biblical stories in children's Bibles throughout American history. His survey reveals both the remarkable malleability of biblical narratives and also helps index America’s diverse and changing approaches to religion, childhood, and morality. As part of the Scriptural Traces series, the focus is on reception history of the Bible, and this volume perfect complements the other volumes in the series.

Buy it, and other ST volumes, here!

Composite Citations in Antiquity

edited by Sean A Adams and Seth Ehorn

After running into the editors of this fabulous new Library of New Testament Studies series volume at AAR/SBL this year, we're thrilled to post not just an image of the book cover, but the book itself being held by Sean Adams and Seth Ehorn:

The first of two volumes, this work identifies the existence and use of composite citations by Early Jewish, Greco-Roman and Early Christian authors. The essays focus on central issues and explore the rhetorical/literary impact of specific quotations in their textual locations, and whether the intended audiences would have recognised and reverse engineered the composite citations. Professor Christopher Stanley has contributed a final essay which reflects on the essays and draws them together. This volume challenges the assumption that composite citations were specifically and exclusively a Jewish literary phenomenon.

Find the table of contents, and buy it here!

Luke’s Christology of Divine Identity

by Nina Henrichs-Tarasenkova

Nina Henrichs-Tarasenkova employs a narrative approach to establish how Luke binds Jesus' identity to the divine identity of YHWH and concludes that the Lukan narrative does in fact portray Jesus as God, when it shows that Jesus shares YHWH's divine identity. She argues against a long tradition regarding how best to represent Luke's Christology.

Find it here!

Finally, we switch to the Hebrew Bible with Michael K. Snearly's

The Return of the King: Messianic Expectation in Book V of the Psalter

In this work, Michael Snearly argues that the arrangement of Book V of the Psalter witnesses to a renewed hope in the promises made to David.

'Michael Snearly has succeeded masterfully in making his case that the Psalter’s final message includes a strong affirmation of the Davidic kingship alongside the divine kingship. His knowledge of the relevant literature is encyclopedic, his methodology is careful and precise, and his writing is clear and persuasive.' -David M. Howard, Jr., Professor of Old Testament, Bethel University, USA.

 

'His focus on the shaping and purpose of Book V of the Psalter makes a major contribution to the ongoing discussion in this area and other Psalms scholars (like myself) will certainly want and need to take account of his arguments and conclusion.'

J. Clinton McCann, Eden Theological Seminary, USA

 

You can buy this gem here!