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Theology & Biblical Studies New Books Catalogue January-March 2022
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T H E O L O G Y – Political Theology / T&T Clark Handbooks
Secular Nonviolence and the Towards a Politics of
Theo-Drama of Peace Communion
Anabaptist Ethics and the Catholic Catholic Social Teaching in Dark Times
Christology of Hans Urs von Balthasar Anna Rowlands, Durham University, UK
Layton Boyd Friesen, Evangelical Mennonite An accessible guide to the main time periods,
Conference, Canada key figures, documents and themes of thinking
Why do Mennonites need help with a theology of developed as Catholic Social Teaching (CST).
peace? How is Roman Catholic theology going to aid that theology Rowlands builds an overview of the central principles of CST with
of peace? Layton Boyd Friesen offers a theology of secularity as the case studies that relate to contemporary social policy themes. The
world's response to the non-resistance of Christ. He explores the volume also considers the increasingly critical questions concerning
three key aspects of von Balthasar's Christology to help Mennonite the role of CST in a pluralist and post-secular context. This is an
peace theology regain its momentum in the secular age with a incisive overview of this distinctive body of Catholic political theology,
contemplative union with Christ. and a new and challenging contribution to the debate about the
transformative potential of CST in contemporary society.
UK February 2022 • US February 2022 • 256 pages
PB 9780567704030 • £21.99 / $29.95 • HB 9780567704047 • £65.00 / $90.00 UK December 2021 • US December 2021 • 320 pages
ePub 9780567704054 • £19.79 / $26.05 PB 9780567242730 • £24.99 / $34.95 • HB 9780567219084 • £75.00 / $100.00
ePdf 9780567704061 • £19.79 / $26.05 ePub 9780567212337 • £22.49 / $29.96
T&T Clark ePdf 9780567003539 • £22.49 / $29.96
T&T Clark
World English
T&T Clark Handbooks
T&T Clark Handbook of the T&T Clark Handbook of
Early Church Anabaptism
T&T Clark Companion Edited by Brian C. Brewer, Baylor University,
USA
Edited by Ilaria L.E. Ramelli, Angelicum
Rome, Italy, J.A. McGuckin, Union Theological Through contributions from theologians, historians,
Seminary, USA & Piotr Ashwin-Siejkowski, King’s and biblical scholars, this handbook makes the
College London, UK complex (and sometimes disparate) Anabaptist
movement more accessible. It achieves this by
Exploring the key documents, authors and themes of early Christian
outlining Anabaptism's early history, its basic shared theological
traditions, this volume traces the vital trajectories of emerging
convictions, and its ongoing challenges to and influence on
distinctive Christian identity in the Graeco-Roman world. Special
contemporary Christianity.
attention is given to the coherent growth of Christian faith in
connection with worship, alongside the crucial transformation of UK December 2021 • US December 2021 • 648 pages
Christian life and doctrine under the Christian Emperor. HB 9780567689481 • £130.00 / $175.00
ePub 9780567689504 • £117.00 / $153.74
UK December 2021 • US December 2021 • 800 pages ePdf 9780567689498 • £117.00 / $153.74
HB 9780567680389 • £130.00 / $175.00 Series: T&T Clark Handbooks • T&T Clark
ePub 9780567680396 • £117.00 / $153.74
ePdf 9780567680402 • £117.00 / $153.74
Series: T&T Clark Handbooks • T&T Clark
T&T Clark Handbook of
Christian Prayer
Edited by Ashley Cocksworth, University of
Roehampton, UK & John C. McDowell,
St Athanasius College, Australia
Provides an extensive exploration of the theology
of prayer, covering biblical and historical (Part A),
doctrinal (Part B) and practical (Part C) perspectives.
The volume pushes on conventional disciplinary boundaries that
have tended to separate prayer from critical theological scholarship,
by exploring the inter-relationships between prayer and various
contemporary theological issues.
UK December 2021 • US December 2021 • 704 pages
HB 9780567664365 • £130.00 / $175.00
ePub 9780567664389 • £117.00 / $153.74
ePdf 9780567664372 • £117.00 / $153.74
Series: T&T Clark Handbooks • T&T Clark
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T H E O L O G Y – Catholic Theology / Historical Theology / Ethics
Suspended God: Music and a Christian Solar Symbolism and
Theology of Doubt Jesus the Sun of Justice
Maeve Louise Heaney, Australian Catholic Kevin Duffy, The Church of Notre Dame de
University, Australia France, UK
Heaney traces the hidden history of music's Kevin Duffy suggests that we rebalance a spiritual
presence in Christian thought. She uses Lonergan's symbolism that has over-emphasised darkness and
theological framework to explore musical cloud at the expense of light and sun. He proposes
composition as a theological act. The book presents a creative retrieval of the traditional title of Christ
how the best tradition of Christian theology is born precisely of that as the Sun of Justice. This book blends the personal, the social and
quest by introducing eleven ground-breaking theologians through the cosmic-ecological, speaking powerfully to a secularising era that
the lens of the questions they engaged with and insights discovered. contemporaries Friedrich Nietzsche and Thérèse of Lisieux both
described as one where 'the sun does not shine'.
UK March 2022 • US March 2022 • 400 pages
PB 9780567695604 • £24.99 / $34.95 • HB 9780567695611 • £75.00 / $100.00 UK February 2022 • US February 2022 • 176 pages
ePub 9780567695635 • £22.49 / $29.96 HB 9780567700100 • £85.00 / $115.00
ePdf 9780567695628 • £22.49 / $29.96 ePub 9780567700124 • £76.50 / $100.32
T&T Clark ePdf 9780567700117 • £76.50 / $100.32
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Barth and Bonhoeffer as The Life of Christian Doctrine
Contributors to a Post-Liberal Mike Higton, Durham University, UK
Ecclesiology The lives of Christian churches are shaped by
doctrinal theology – the practices by which ideas
Essays of Hope for a Fallen and Complex about God and God’s ways with the world are
World developed, discussed and deployed. This book
Tom Greggs, University of Aberdeen, UK explores those practices, and asks why they matter
for communities seeking to follow Jesus.
Edited by Robert W. Heimburger, University of
Aberdeen, UK UK February 2022 • US February 2022 • 288 pages
This work uncovers the influence that Barth and Bonhoeffer, killed PB 9780567697837 • £28.99 / $39.95
Previously published in HB 9780567687203
at the hands of the Third Reich, had on one another, revealing the ePub 9780567687227 • £81.00 / $106.83
insights that these two major theologians bring to today’s secular and ePdf 9780567687210 • £81.00 / $106.83
religious context. T&T Clark
UK December 2021 • US December 2021 • 224 pages
HB 9780567701565 • £85.00 / $115.00
ePub 9780567701602 • £76.50 / $100.32
ePdf 9780567701596 • £76.50 / $100.32
T&T Clark
T&T Clark Enquiries in Theological Ethics
Brian Brock, University of Aberdeen, UK and Susan F. Parsons, Editor at the journal of the Society for the Study of Christian Ethics
Transfigured not Conformed The Single Individual and the
Christian Ethics in a Hermeneutic Key Searcher of Hearts
Hans G. Ulrich, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, A Retrieval of Conscience in the Work of
Germany, Immanuel Kant and Søren Kierkegaard
Edited by Brian Brock, University of Aberdeen, Jeff Morgan, Saint Joseph’s College of Maine,
UK USA
The priority of God’s working and speaking orients Jeff Morgan argues that both Immanuel Kant and
the approach to Christian ethics in the work of Hans Søren Kierkegaard think of conscience as an individual’s moral self-
G. Ulrich, whose work is presented here for the first time in English. awareness before God, specifically before the claim God makes on
Ulrich’s ethics affirm the lively presence of the living work of God in each person. This innovative reading corrects prevailing views that
orienting the daily life of Christians. This presence enables members both figures, especially Kant, lay the groundwork for the autonomous
of the Church to live as creatures trusting in God’s promises, bearing individual of modern life – that is, the atomistic individual who is
witness in political and economic spheres, and trusting in life as a gift accountable chiefly to themselves as their own lawmaker.
in response to bioethical issues.
UK February 2022 • US February 2022 • 192 pages
UK January 2022 • US January 2022 • 312 pages PB 9780567697721 • £28.99 / $39.95
HB 9780567700414 • £85.00 / $115.00 Previously published in HB 9780567694638
ePub 9780567699985 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePub 9780567694669 • £76.50 / $100.32
ePdf 9780567699992 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9780567694645 • £76.50 / $100.32
Series: T&T Clark Enquiries in Theological Ethics • T&T Clark Series: T&T Clark Enquiries in Theological Ethics • T&T Clark
4 www.bloomsbury.com • UK, Europe, ROW • +44 (0)1256 302692 • orders@macmillan.co.ukT&T Clark Studies in Systematic Theology
T H E O L O G Y – Systematic Theology
Ian A. McFarland, University of Aberdeen, UK; Ivor J. Davidson, University of Aberdeen, UK; John Webster, University of Aberdeen, UK;
Phlip G. Ziegler, University of Aberdeen, UK
A Brief Systematic Theology of God's Church-Community
the Symbol The Ecclesiology of Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Joshua Mobley, Baylor University, USA David Emerton, St Mellitus College, UK
An exploration in Trinitarian theology from the David Emerton argues that Bonhoeffer’s thought
perspective of a theology of the symbol. In breaks open a necessary ‘third way’ between
dialogue primarily with Henri de Lubac, but also the Scylla of ‘ethnographic’ ecclesiology and the
with Karl Rahner, Aquinas and Augustine, the Charybdis of ‘dogmatic’ ecclesiology. Emerton
volume argues that the triad, symbolized-symbol- establishes a programmatic theological grammar for
symbolism, is an apt analogy for the Trinity, and a fruitful structuring any speech about the Church.
principle for theology.
UK February 2022 • US February 2022 • 200 pages
UK November 2021 • US November 2021 • 232 pages PB 9780567697738 • £28.99 / $39.95
HB 9780567702500 • £85.00 / $115.00 Previously published in HB 9780567693136
ePub 9780567702531 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePub 9780567693167 • £76.50 / $100.32
ePdf 9780567702524 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9780567693143 • £76.50 / $100.32
Series: T&T Clark Studies in Systematic Theology • T&T Clark Series: T&T Clark Studies in Systematic Theology • T&T Clark
The Defeat of Satan John Webster: The Shape and
Karl Barth's Three-Agent Account of Development of His Theology
Salvation Jordan Senner, University of St Andrews, UK
Declan Kelly, Independent Scholar, UK Provides a dynamic introduction to Webster’s
Declan Kelly offers an innovative, critical, and theology as a whole, as well as including fascinating
constructive exploration of Barth's theology, forays into the complexities of his engagement with
examining the doctrine of salvation as a 'three- Barth and Aquinas. This raises interesting questions
agent drama'; a drama involving God, humanity, for constructive theological dialogue that is neither
and the anti-God powers. straightforwardly Protestant nor Catholic.
UK February 2022 • US February 2022 • 176 pages UK January 2022 • US January 2022 • 216 pages
HB 9780567698230 • £85.00 / $115.00 HB 9780567698834 • £85.00 / $115.00
ePub 9780567698261 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePub 9780567698865 • £76.50 / $100.32
ePdf 9780567698247 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9780567698841 • £76.50 / $100.32
Series: T&T Clark Explorations in Reformed Theology • T&T Clark Series: T&T Clark Studies in English Theology • T&T Clark
The Worldview of the Word Love, Technology and Theology
of Faith Movement: Eden Edited by Scott A. Midson, University of
Redeemed Manchester, UK
Exploring love in the context of today’s
Mikael Stenhammar, Academy for Leadership technologies, this volume addresses the difficulty
and Theology, Sweden in separating love from romanticist ideals of
Approaches the Word of Faith as a worldview, and authenticity, intimacy and depth of relationship.
analyses the movement through N. T. Wright’s These ideals resonate with theological models of
model for worldview-analysis in order to provide love that highlight the way God benevolently created the world and
necessary nuance and complexity to scholarly interpretations. The continues to love it. Technologies, which are designed in response
analysis shows that there is a narrative core to Word of Faith beliefs in to our desires, do not necessarily enjoy this romanticist resonance,
the form of a unique theological story with focus set on the present and yet they are now remodelling the world. Are technologies then
restoration of Eden’s authority and blessings. antithetical to love?
UK December 2021 • US December 2021 • 336 pages UK January 2022 • US January 2022 • 200 pages
HB 9780567703446 • £95.00 / $130.00 PB 9780567699022 • £28.99 / $39.95
ePub 9780567703477 • £85.50 / $112.04 Previously published in HB 9780567689948
ePdf 9780567703453 • £85.50 / $112.04 ePub 9780567689962 • £76.50 / $100.32
Series: T&T Clark Systematic Pentecostal and Charismatic Theology • T&T Clark ePdf 9780567689955 • £76.50 / $100.32
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Freedom, Necessity, and The Fear of the Lord: Essays on
the Knowledge of God in Theological Method
Conversation with Karl Barth Michael Allen, Reformed Theological Seminary,
and Thomas F. Torrance USA
Explores some of the most central questions of
Paul D. Molnar, St. John's University, New York, contemporary theological method: revelation,
USA Scripture, theological interpretation, retrieval,
A defense of a Barthian-Torrancean approach to ascetics, and scholasticism. This volume asks in
a host of contemporary theological topics. The volume is in critical each case what it means to think fundamentally of the perfect and
dialogue and disagreement with important voices working today such present God involved and active in these spheres.
as Bentley Hart and McGrath.
UK January 2022 • US January 2022 • 208 pages
UK December 2021 • US December 2021 • 384 pages HB 9780567699275 • £85.00 / $115.00
PB 9780567700223 • £33.99 / $46.95 • HB 9780567700186 • £90.00 / $120.00 ePub 9780567699305 • £76.50 / $100.32
ePub 9780567700179 • £30.59 / $40.38 ePdf 9780567699282 • £76.50 / $100.32
ePdf 9780567700162 • £30.59 / $40.38 T&T Clark
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The Knowledge of God: Essays The Church in a World of
on God, Christ, and Church Religions
Michael Allen, Reformed Theological Seminary, Working Papers in Theology
USA
Tom Greggs, University of Aberdeen, UK
This volume explores what it means to learn of and
Edited by J. Thomas Hewitt, University of
come to know God, with several essays addressing
Aberdeen, UK
the doctrine of God, then the person of Christ, and
finally the miracle of the Church. Tom Greggs explores the nature of the Church in a
world of many religions, focusing on ecclesiology and theologies of
UK January 2022 • US January 2022 • 192 pages religion. The book addresses the Church as it is brought into being
HB 9780567699374 • £85.00 / $115.00 through glorifying God, as well as in a pluralist context as it engages
ePub 9780567699404 • £76.50 / $100.32
ePdf 9780567699381 • £76.50 / $100.32
in inter-faith dialogue. In this way, Gregg discerns what it means to be
T&T Clark the Church in a pluralist, multi-faith world.
UK December 2021 • US December 2021 • 256 pages
HB 9780567701480 • £85.00 / $115.00
ePub 9780567701510 • £76.50 / $100.32
ePdf 9780567701497 • £76.50 / $100.32
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The Living Christ
The Theological Legacy of Georges
Florovsky
Edited by John Chryssavgis, Office of
Ecumenical and Inter-Faith Affairs of the Greek
Orthodox Archdiocese of America, USA &
Brandon Gallaher, University of Exeter, UK
The first English translation of Florovsky’s
magisterial 1948 French essay on ecclesiology, ‘The Body of the
Living Christ: An Orthodox Interpretation of the Church’. This is the
only comprehensive critical anthology of theological and historical
aspects related to Florovsky’s thought.
UK March 2022 • US March 2022 • 512 pages
PB 9780567701855 • £39.99 / $54.95
Previously published in HB 9780567700469
ePub 9780567700490 • £117.00 / $153.74
ePdf 9780567700476 • £117.00 / $153.74
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6 www.bloomsbury.com • UK, Europe, ROW • +44 (0)1256 302692 • orders@macmillan.co.ukThe Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies
B I B L I C A L S T U D I E S – The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies
Laura Quick, University of Oxford, UK and Jacqueline Vayntrub, Yale University, USA
From Creation to Abraham Jonah: A Commentary
Further Studies in Genesis 1-11 Alastair G. Hunter, University of Glasgow, UK
John Day, University of Oxford, UK A commentary with a difference, this study explores
the reading of the prophet Jonah's travails in the
John Day investigates disputed points of
context of two wider themes. These are: (1) the
interpretation within Genesis 1-11, expanding on
overt and highly sophisticated intertwining of
his earlier book From Creation to Babel with 11
Jonah’s story with an impressively wide range of
stimulating essays. Day considers the texts within
other biblical texts, often deployed in surprising
their Near Eastern contexts, and pays particular
ways; and (2) the clearly contrarian relationship between God and
attention to the later history of interpretation and reception history.
Jonah which has both vexed and intrigued scholars and lay readers
Topics covered in the book include the meaning of the Bible’s first
alike for millennia.
verse and what immediately follows, as well as what it means that
humanity is made in the image of God.
UK March 2022 • US March 2022 • 224 pages
HB 9780567673619 • £85.00 / $115.00
UK November 2021 • US November 2021 • 288 pages ePdf 9780567673626 • £76.50 / $100.32
HB 9780567703101 • £85.00 / $115.00 Series: The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies • T&T Clark
ePdf 9780567703118 • £76.50 / $100.32
Series: The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies • T&T Clark
On Femininities in the Song of Psalms and the Use of the
Songs and Beyond Critical Imagination
“The Most Beautiful Woman” Essays in Honour of Professor Susan
Vita Daphna Arbel, University of British Gillingham
Columbia, Canada Edited by Katherine E. Southwood, University
Introduces new perspectives to gender and feminist of Oxford, UK & Holly Morse, University of
studies of the Song of Songs, offering an alternative Manchester, UK
reading of the multilayered conceptualization of its feminine The contributors provide fresh insight into the context surrounding
protagonist, “the most beautiful woman”. Vita Daphna Arbel situates the composition and reception of the Psalms, the relationships
this representation within the cultural-discursive contexts in which the between the Psalms, and of early audiences who engaged with
Song partly emerged, and considers the manner in which it disrupts the material. Close attention is also paid to specific interpretative
rigid, ahistorical notions of femininity. Finally, Arbel examines the problems which emerge in the Psalms, both linguistic and theological.
reception and impact of these ideas on later conceptualizations of
the Song of Songs' female protagonist with an heuristic examination UK March 2022 • US March 2022 • 224 pages
of Mark Chagall’s Song of Songs painting cycle, Le Cantique des HB 9780567696328 • £85.00 / $115.00
ePdf 9780567696335 • £76.50 / $100.32
Cantiques. Series: The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies • T&T Clark
UK January 2022 • US January 2022 • 192 pages • 5 bw illus
HB 9780567700063 • £85.00 / $115.00
ePdf 9780567700070 • £76.50 / $100.32
Series: The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies • T&T Clark
Sexuality and Law in the Torah Proverbs 1-9 as an Introduction
Edited by Hilary Lipka, University of New to the Book of Proverbs
Mexico, USA & Bruce Wells, University of Austin, Arthur Jan Keefer, Eton College, UK
USA
Proverbs 1-9 has long been called a 'prologue'
An examination of the laws in the Hebrew Bible and 'introduction' to the book of Proverbs, a label
governing sexual relations and the often implicit that this book clarifies by answering the question:
motivations behind these laws. The volume also how does Proverbs 1-9 function with respect to
considers narrative and poetic texts where legal the interpretation of Proverbs 10-31? Arthur Keefer
traditions and ideas concerning sexual status and behavior intersect argues that, in the detail and holistic context of Proverbs, Proverbs
and provide important insight into ancient Israel’s social norms and 1-9 functions didactically by supplying interpretive frameworks in
expectations. The book contains extended treatment of the nature literary, rhetorical and theological contexts for representative portions
and function of marriage and divorce in ancient Israel, the role of of Proverbs 10-31.
sexual regulations in maintaining what biblical authors believed was
proper social order, and the different types of sexualities that may UK February 2022 • US February 2022 • 224 pages
have existed in ancient Israel. PB 9780567696908 • £28.99 / $39.95
Previously published in HB 9780567693341
ePdf 9780567693358 • £76.50 / $100.32
UK November 2021 • US November 2021 • 344 pages • 8 bw illustrations
Series: The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies • T&T Clark
PB 9780567703828 • £28.99 / $39.95
Previously published in HB 9780567681591
ePdf 9780567681607 • £76.50 / $100.32
Series: The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies • T&T Clark
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Women of the Bible Reading Other Peoples’ Texts
From Text to Image Social Identity and the Reception of
Edited by Guadalupe Seijas, Complutense Authoritative Traditions
University of Madrid, Spain Edited by Ken S. Brown, Whitworth University,
The Hebrew Bible and art are at the core of USA, Alison L. Joseph, Jewish Theological
this book, which analyzes the iconographic Seminary, USA & Brennan Breed, Columbia
representation of several women of the Bible. Theological Seminary, USA
The contributors consider the ways in which the This volume draws together ten essays by scholars
biblical texts regarding these women have been read and understood of the Hebrew Bible, New Testament, Greco-Roman religion and early
through time and the means by which they have been represented. Judaism, to address the varying ways that conceptions of identity and
By examinig figures such as Bathsheba, Moses' Mother, Pharoah's otherness shape the interpretation of biblical and other religiously
Daughter, Ruth and Naomi, the book also explores the different authoritative texts.
values associated with these representations according to the
problems, worries and concerns of each period. UK January 2022 • US January 2022 • 304 pages
PB 9780567705204 • £28.99 / $39.95
UK March 2022 • US March 2022 • 224 pages • 21 bw illus Previously published in HB 9780567687333
HB 9780567703606 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePdf 9780567687340 • £76.50 / $100.32
ePdf 9780567703613 • £76.50 / $100.32 Series: Scriptural Traces & The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies • T&T Clark
Series: The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies & Scriptural Traces • T&T Clark
Searching for Sarah in the Storytelling the Bible at
Second Temple Era the Creation Museum, Ark
Images in the Hebrew Bible, the Encounter, and Museum of the
Septuagint, the Genesis Apocryphon, Bible
and the Antiquities Paul Thomas, Radford University, USA
Joseph McDonald, Brite Divinity School, USA Paul Thomas chronicles a multi-level reception
Building upon recent scholarship based on study of the Bible at both the Creation Museum
biblical women, Joseph McDonald uses a character-centered literary and the Ark Encounter in Kentucky, USA. Thomas explores the
approach to read the story of Sarah as it was told and retold in the commercial presentation of biblical narratives and the reception of
Second Temple period. McDonald offers an alternative to the usual those narratives by the patrons of each attraction, focusing upon
approaches to “rewritten Bible” narratives, which often emphasize three topics: what do young Creationists believe, how they interpret
near-context, synoptic comparison of retold stories and their scriptural their beliefs from the Bible, and what is the user experience at the
precursors. Rather, he argues that examination of retold narratives as museums?
stories in their own right reveals important aspects of their internal
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Bertolt Brecht and the David
Fragments (1919-1921)
An Interdisciplinary Study
David J. Shepherd, Trinity College Dublin,
Ireland & Nicholas E. Johnson, Trinity College
Dublin, Ireland
An examination of Brecht's fascination with the
character David in the context of Brecht's tumultuous early career and
the theatrical currents of the time, as well as his later work. Drawing
on Brecht's personal diaries and notebooks, and on theatrical
experiments conducted with an ensemble and performing the David
fragments themselves, David J. Shepherd and Nicholas E. Johnson
offer new insights into the early Brecht.
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8 www.bloomsbury.com • UK, Europe, ROW • +44 (0)1256 302692 • orders@macmillan.co.ukJewish and Christian Texts
B I B L I C A L S T U D I E S – Study Guides to the Old Testament / Jewish & Christian Texts
James H. Charlesworth, Princeton Theological Seminary, USA
Haggai, Zechariah and Malachi:
An Introduction and Study
Guide
Return and Restoration Persian Influence on Daniel and
Michael R. Stead, Moore Theological College, Jewish Apocalyptic Literature
Australia
Vicente Dobroruka, University of Brasilia, Brazil
Michael R. Stead introduces the books of
Dobroruka investigates the nature of the Iranian
Haggai, Zechariah and Malachi by examining their structures
influence on Second Temple Judaism, addressing
and characteristics, covering the latest Biblical scholarship, and
the problems created by a dualistic worldview, the
considering a range of scholarly approaches. In particular, he focuses
Indo-European origins of Zoaster and his ideas,
on the intertextual connections with other scriptures and identifies
and the long term implications for the notion of
the main interpretive issues and key messages of Haggai, Zechariah
free will. Dobroruka refers to a number of concepts that illuminate
and Malachi for their original audiences in the sixth and fifth centuries
this influence, including the idea of an 'Anointed One', as well as
BCE. He also examines the appropriation of these texts in the New
shamanistic visionary experience type and the resurrection.
Testament, and considers their ongoing significance today.
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Hellenistic Inter-state Political The Protevangelium of James
Ethics and the Emergence of the Volume 2
Jewish State Critical Questions
Doron Mendels, Hebrew University of George T. Zervos, University of North Carolina
Jerusalem, Israel Wilmington, USA
Dealing with the emergence of a moral ethical George T. Zervos provides a critical investigation
inter-state system in the Hellenistic world during of the Protevangelium of James. Whereas Zervos'
the years 200-168 BCE, this book provides a first volume offers a critical edition of the Greek text together with
comprehensive overview of this set of values. Doron Mendels argues English translation and critical introduction, he now considers the
that this perspective adds a new dimension to our knowledge of wide-ranging critical questions in greater depth. Zervos has created a
classical and Hellenistic political theory in which the individual data driven textual commentary on the very early complete papyrus
state, rather than an inter-state relationship, is the main concern. copy of the ProtJac, P.Bodm V, highlighting the idiosyncrasies of the
Mendels shows in this study that concepts such as liberty, justice, papyrus text vis-à-vis the remainder of the Greek MS tradition. He
fairness, loyalty, reciprocity, adherence to ancestral laws, compassion, additionally analyses the perpetuation of doctrinal misrepresentation
accountability and love of fatherland became meaningful in the by a number of later scribes.
relations between nations in the Hellenistic sphere.
UK February 2022 • US February 2022 • 560 pages
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Series: Jewish and Christian Texts • T&T Clark
Gods, Spirits, and Worship in Visions and Violence in the
the Greco-Roman World and Pseudepigrapha
Early Christianity Edited by Craig A. Evans, Houston Baptist
Edited by Craig A. Evans, Houston Baptist University, USA, Brian Leport & Paul T. Sloan,
University, USA & Adam Z. Wright, Horizon Houston Baptist University, USA
College and Seminary, USA A cutting edge study on how sacred tradition
is given new expression through vision and
The 12 studies within explore Greco-Roman
interpretation. The first four essays cover topics
religions and superstitions and early Christianity’s
such as Solomon, the demonology of the desert fathers, and varied
engagement with them. The contributors explore the Greco-Roman
receptions of the Revelation of the Magi and Shepherd of Hermas.
heroic gods, how they faced death, and how James and John — the
The five remaining chapters address important questions relating
sons of Thunder — may well have been viewed in some circles as the
to polemic and violence in the Pseudepigrapha, including Enoch's
equivalent of the “sons of Zeus”. There is also examination of Roman
Animal Apocalypse and Qumran's War Scroll.
omens, and how they might have been interpreted and utilised in
comparison to the omens that accompany the birth and death of
UK December 2021 • US December 2021 • 240 pages
Jesus. HB 9780567703217 • £85.00 / $115.00
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The Origin of Sin Fountains of Wisdom
Greece and Rome, Early Judaism and In Conversation with James H.
Christianity Charlesworth
David Konstan Edited by Gerbern S. Oegema, McGill
In this powerfully argued book, David Konstan University, Canada, Loren T. Stuckenbruck,
takes a close look at the religious texts of Classical Ludwig Maximilians University, Germany &
antiquity and the Bible to reveal the original Henry W. Morisada Rietz, Grinnell College, USA
meaning for 'sin' that was changed in later Christian Leading international contributors intersect with
interpretations. Through close philological examination of the words the work of James H. Charlesworth. Beginning with a section on the
for 'sin' in these texts, in particular the Hebrew hata' and the Greek Hebrew Bible and the New Testament, with particular focus on the
hamartia, he traces their usage over the centuries in four chapters gospel of John and Jesus studies, the contexts of these texts are
showing that the usual modern definition of sin, the violation against considered with a focus on the Greco-Roman and Jewish worlds. The
divine law, has closer links to Graeco-Roman ideas of (pagan) following two sections concentrate on the most significant body of
religious violations than to that found in the Hebrew Bible and New Charlesworth's work, the apocyrpha/pseudepigrapha and the Dead
Testament. Sea Scrolls, and the volume concludes with a section on the history of
scholarship on the core areas addressed throughout.
UK February 2022 • US February 2022 • 240 pages
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Earth Bible Commentary
Norman C. Habel, Flinders University of South Australia, Australia
Jonah: An Earth Bible Ruth: An Earth Bible
Commentary Commentary
Jione Havea, Charles Sturt University, Australia Alice M. Sinnott, University of Auckland, New
Reading Jonah through the lens of climate change, Zealand
this commentary uses present reality to reconsider Alice Sinnott highlights ecological dimensions of
the significance of Jonah for contemporary the book of Ruth and brings together aspects of
struggles and contexts. Jione Havea approaches ecology and environmental science with theology
the text by reading Jonah forward, giving special and exegesis to examine how the natural world
attention to the orientation of the narrative toward the sea and functions within the text. Sinnott shows how the narrator gives voice
Nineveh, and then backward, highlighting the significance of sea and to the way in which the Earth functions throughout the story and
life both on the mainland and on islands to the flow of the narrative. considers non-human characters as legitimate determining factors
Furtherore, Haves reminds readers that the fish, plant, worm and in the structuring of the narrative. Integral to Sinnott’s reading of the
other beasts are crucial in the narrative, and considers how this affects text is a concern for Earth and matters such as food, famine, death,
our reading of the text. harvests, grain, day and night and members of the Earth community.
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Acts: An Earth Bible Hebrews: An Earth Bible
Commentary Commentary
About Earth's Children: An Ecological A City That Cannot Be Shaken
Listening to the Acts of the Apostles Jeffrey S. Lamp, Oral Roberts University, USA
Michael Trainor, Australian Catholic University, In this ecological commentary upon the Letter
Australia to the Hebrews, Jeffrey S. Lamp makes use of
Michael Trainor empoys contemporary the approaches developed in the relatively new
environmental concerns to shape his interpretative approach towards field of Ecological Hermeneutics to shed light upon the connection
the gospel of Luke. He argues that Luke presents a Jesus connected of Hebrews with the Earth. Lamp uses a model of ‘suspicion-
to Earth, touching all aspects of creation, human and non-human, identification-retrieval’ in the light of ecojustice principles in his
and inviting disciples into an ecological asceticism. As Trainor traces reading.
Luke’s vast geographical journey around the Mediterranean, he cites
UK January 2022 • US January 2022 • 160 pages
key moments in the text that highlight fresh environmental insights,
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10 www.bloomsbury.com • UK, Europe, ROW • +44 (0)1256 302692 • orders@macmillan.co.ukThe Library of New Testament Studies
B I B L I C A L S T U D I E S – The Library of New Testament Studies
Chris Keith, St. Mary's University College, Twickenham, UK
A Jewish Apocalyptic Divine Christology in the Epistle
Framework of Eschatology in to the Hebrews
the Epistle to the Hebrews The Son as God
Protology and Eschatology as Nick Brennan, Westminster Seminary California,
Background USA
Jihye Lee, Westminster Graduate School of Nick Brennan investigates the depiction of the Son
Theology, Republic of Korea in his divine nature in the Epistle to the Hebrews.
He argues that not only is the Son depicted as divine in the Epistle,
Jihye Lee argues that a version of an Urzeit-Endzeit eschatological but that this depiction ranges outside the early chapters in which it is
framework — as observed in some Jewish apocalyptic texts — most often noted, and is theologically relevant to the pattern of the
provides a plausible background against which different depictions of anonymous author’s argument.
the transformation of the world, judgement and the creation of a new
world can be explored. Rather than transcendence to the heavenly UK October 2021 • US October 2021 • 248 pages
world that will come after the destruction of the shakable creation, HB 9780567700964 • £85.00 / $115.00
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Irenaeus, the Scriptures, and the Jesus and the Empire of God
Apostolic Writings Royal Language and Imperial Ideology in
Re-evaluating the Status of the New the Gospel of Mark
Testament Writings at the End of the Margaret Froelich, Willamette University, USA
Second Century Margaret Froelich examines the Gospel of
Kenneth Laing, Trinity Western University, Mark by applying political and empire-critical
Canada methodologies. Where previous scholars have
identified Mark as an anti-imperial and often
Kenneth Laing challenges the concept of Irenaeus as primary witness completely pacifist and egalitarian text, Froelich follows postcolonial
to the period of time in which the New Testament achieved scriptural thinkers in perceiving a far more ambivalent message. By situating
status, calling into question some of the most basic conclusions and the Gospel directly in a historical and socio-political context, she
assumptions of New Testament canon formation scholarship. Laing argues that the Gospel portrays the Kingdom of God as a conquering
proposes a new interpretation of Irenaeus’ understanding of the empire, with Jesus as its victorious general and client king.
nature and basis of authority of the New Testament writings, based
on his Christocentric theology of revelation. UK November 2021 • US November 2021 • 192 pages
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The Transformational Role of Jesus as Teacher in the Gospel
Discipleship in Mark 10:13-16 of Mark
Passage Towards Childhood The Function of a Motif
Katherine Joy Kihlstrom Timpte, St. Mary’s Evan Hershman, Independent Scholar, USA
College of California, USA Hershman examines the Markan portrayal of Jesus
Katherine Timpte addresses a gap in scholarship by as teacher in comparison with the portrayals of
answering the question: “how is a child supposed teachers in other Greco-Roman literature, and
to be the model recipient of the kingdom of God?”. While most argues that the teaching motif in Mark is used in highly distinctive
scholarship on Mark 10 agrees that children are metaphorically ways. Careful study reveals that Mark uses the trope of teaching not
employed because of their qualities of dependence, Timpte argues to expound a fully fleshed-out ethical agenda, but to emphasize
that it is an image of the disciples' radical transformation that both Jesus’s unique authority, to incorporate conflicts with other claimants
mirrors and reverses the traditional rites of passage by which a child to authority into the Gospel narrative, and to persuade the gospel
becomes an adult. audience to accept his Christological vision and its demands on their
lives.
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Studies in Canonical Criticism The Divine Builder in Psalm 68
Reading the New Testament as Scripture Jewish and Pauline Tradition
Robert W. Wall, Seattle Pacific University, USA Todd A. Scacewater, Dallas International
Robert Wall has collected and revised some of his University, USA
most important essays of the last two decades, The problem of Psalm 68:19 (MT) in Ephesians
including Unity of Luke and Acts (2010), The 4:8 has a rich history of interpretation. Particular
Unifying Theology of the Catholic Epistles (2003-13) focus has been placed on Jewish and Pauline
and Images of Church in John’s Revelation (2015). interpretations of the psalm, and the Jewish
Completed by a new essay on the canonical approach to the Paratext exegetical tradition that reads Moses as the one who ascends
of Hebrews, and with vital "introductory notes" for each chapter that Mount Sinai to receive and give the law. Todd Scacewater suggests
highlight both Wall's revisions and his response to critical reception, a second tradition, henceforth unnoticed, that interprets Psalm 68
this volume is yet one more asset in Wall's continuing pursuit of the eschatologically. Both traditions are significant, but the eschatological
canonical function of the church’s Scriptures. tradition provides a better matrix through which to understand Paul’s
use of the psalm.
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James (New Testament Guides) A History of the Jews and
John S. Kloppenborg, University of Toronto, Judaism in the Second Temple
Canada
Period, Volume 3
John Kloppenborg introduces a series of critical
issues bearing on the reading of James, providing The Maccabaean Revolt, Hasmonaean
a balanced presentation and assessment of a range Rule, and Herod the Great (175-4 BCE)
of scholarly views. The book also offers students Lester L. Grabbe, University of Hull, UK
guidance for further reading and research.
This third volume of Grabbe's history of the Second
UK January 2022 • US January 2022 • 136 pages
Temple period collects all that is known about the Jews from the
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literary sources and topics such as economy, Qumran and the Dead
Sea Scrolls, the Diaspora, causes of the Maccabaen revolt, and the
beginning and end of the Hasmonean kingdom and the reign of
Herod the Great.
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Telling the Christian Story Group Survival in the Ancient
Differently Mediterranean
Counter-Narratives from Nag Hammadi
Rethinking Material Conditions in the
and Beyond
Landscape of Jews and Christians
Edited by Francis Watson, University of Durham,
Philip A. Harland, York University, Canada &
UK & Sarah Parkhouse, Australian Catholic
Richard Last, Trent University, Canada
University, Australia
Philip A. Harland and Richard Last consider the
This volume is devoted to the ‘counter-readings’ of the core
economics of early Christian group life within its social, cultural
Christian story proposed by texts from Nag Hammadi and elsewhere.
and economic contexts, by drawing on extensive epigraphic and
The chapters retrace the major elements of the Christian story in
archaeological evidence. In exploring the informal associations,
sequence, showing how and why each of them was disputed on inner-
immigrant groups, and guilds that dotted the world of the early
Christian grounds and reflecting on the different accounts of Christian
Christians, the volume provides fresh perspective on the question
identity underlying these disputes. Contributors present material that
of how Christian assemblies and Judean/Jewish gatherings gained
is often difficult and little-known to contribute to ongoing efforts to
necessary resources to pursue their social and religious aims.
integrate Nag Hammadi and related literature into the mainstream of
New Testament and early Christian studies.
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