This volume lays out the charged, complicated beginnings of the independent Jewish state founded by the Maccabees in the second century BCE. Contributors ...

There is little direct evidence for formal education in the Bible and in the texts of Second Temple Judaism and early Christianity. At the same time, ...

The psychological approach known as affect theory focuses on bodily feelings—depression, happiness, disgust, love—and can illuminate both ...

This new resource from Stephen D. Moore applies nonhuman critical theory to the biblical texts of Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, and Acts. Nonhuman theory ...

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