Bücher der Reihe Society for Old Testament Study Monographs

A study into the effects of the Babylonian exile on Irsaelite and Judahite identity, using migration research, trauma studies, and postcolonial theory. This volume presents social-scientific concepts to differentiate the experiences of deportees taken to urban Babylon, rural Babylonia, and the impact this displacement had on those left in Judah.

This monograph is a study of the Hebrew word bama, which is used frequently in the Old Testament to describe cultic sites and has commonly been translated 'high place'. The word however occurs in a variety of contexts, which would indicate a wider range of meanings.

One of the most rewarding of recent approaches to the study of Deutero-Isaiah has been the attempt to understand his teaching against the background of his ministry to the second generation of Jewish exiles in Babylonia.

Gibeon, a site identified with el-Jib, which is very near Jerusalem, was a city of significance, particularly at the time of Saul, David and Solomon. Dr Blenkisopp examines and discusses this important site through the Bible, excavations at el-Jib and ancient Near Eastern non-biblical writings.

Dr Gooding offers a detailed analysis of two passages that may well hold the key to the major textual problems raised by the ancient Greek translation of 1 Kings demonstrating that these were either variant readings or alternative translations and interpretations of the Hebrew, carefully edited and arranged by some ancient scholar-exegete to form a discourse on two aspects of Soloman's reign.

In the first two chapters of the book of Amos, the prophet denounces a number of neighbouring nations for committing atrocities in war and then declares Israel to be equally blameworthy in view of the social injustices prevailing in his time. The essential contribution of Amos to Old Testament theology is to be found in his radical criticism of Israel.

The Old Testament accounts of the Exodus contain various indications of the routes taken by the Israelites and the so-called wilderness itineraries appear to be very precise. From the earliest times, students of the Bible have tried to relate references in the texts to place names known in their own day.