IVBS is a new Society of Biblical Literature book series available free online and for purchase in a paperback print edition.
The works published in this series will generally be in the area of reception history and criticism and will not be limited to any particular biblical text or historical timeframe. The works will mainly be published in English and, wherever possible, also in primary languages of authors.
Recent Publications
The Deuteronomistic History includes a host of workers who harvest and glean, fetch water and cook, spin and weave, heal the sick and much more. The mostly anonymous women who performed this work for others are sometimes mentioned only in a single verse. Consequently, they often are as unrecognized in modern scholarship as they seem in the biblical text. To help readers appreciate the place that these workers played in their ancient socio-economic and literary contexts, this work examines the key texts in the Deuteronomistic History that mention women in service occupations: slaves and dependents, cooks, wet nurses, childcare givers, prostitutes, and scribes. In the process, readers will discover, perhaps surprisingly, that these women were honored not in relation to matters such as sexual purity or marital faithfulness but on account of the valuable service that they provided.
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Latin America
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Mercedes García Bachmann
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5/1/2013 5:22:27 PM
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Reading tu’a-wise (Tongan: lau faka-tu’a) is an attempt to interpret the Bible through the ‘eye-/I-s’ of a Tongan commoner (tu’a). The primary concern of this book is to develop, on the one hand, an ‘alter-native’ approach to biblical interpretation from a Tongan standpoint and to depart, on the other hand, from theories and methods that dominate biblical scholarship. Lau faka-tu’a puts more emphasis on contextualizing the “pact” of biblical interpretation rather than the Bible per se.
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Pacific
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Nasili Vaka'uta
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11/2/2011 9:28:47 PM
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This volume collects reflective, analytical and exegetical contributions to the newly developing discipline of Biblical Spirituality. Biblical Spirituality interests itself in how aspects of faith come to expression within biblical texts, and how modern expressions of faith interact with those texts. The author, with doctorates in Religious Communications and Old Testament Exegesis, analyses proposals that have been made in this regard and explores ways in which the biblical texts mediate/d faith, ancient and contemporary. This is the first book to approach Biblical Spirituality in a systematic way, searching widely for impulses that feed into the discipline, and reviewing recent developments. It reflects theoretically and indicates practically aspects of the interaction of faith and Scripture, with both these dimensions approached critically. The volume incorporates insights from various international scholarly traditions: North American, British, European, and South African.
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Africa
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Christo Lombaard
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5/18/2012 3:20:08 PM
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