Routledge Studies in the Biblical World
About the Book Series
Routledge Studies in the Biblical World publishes edited collections and monographs which explore the Hebrew Bible in its ancient context. The series encompasses all aspects of the world of the Hebrew bible, including its archaeological, historical, and theological context, as well as exploring cultural issues such as urbanism, literary culture, class, economics, and sexuality and gender. Aimed at biblical scholars and historians alike, Studies in the Biblical World is an invaluable resource for anyone researching the ancient Levant.
The Dawn of Agriculture and the Earliest States in Genesis 1-11
1st Edition
By Natan Levy
March 13, 2025
This book invites a close textual encounter with the first 11 chapters of Genesis as an intimate drama of marginalised peoples wrestling with the rise of the world’s first grain states in the Mesopotamian alluvium. The initial 11 chapters of Genesis are often considered discordant and fragmentary, ...
Men, Masculinities and Intermarriage in Ezra 9-10
1st Edition
By Elisabeth M. Cook
January 30, 2025
Offering a reading of the intermarriage debate and expulsion of the foreign women in Ezra 9-10, this book engages with the production and performance of masculinities in this biblical text, shifting the focus away from the 'foreign women' to the men who are the primary actors in this work. This ...
The Womb and the Simile of the Woman in Labor in the Hebrew Bible: Embodying Relationship with YHWH
1st Edition
By Karen Langton
October 30, 2024
This book explores figurative images of the womb and the simile of a woman in labor from the Hebrew Bible, problematizing previous interpretations that present these as disparate images and showing how their interconnectivity embodies relationship with YHWH. In the Hebrew Bible, images of the womb ...
Cultures of Mobility, Migration, and Religion in Ancient Israel and Its World
1st Edition
By Eric M. Trinka
October 28, 2024
This book examines the relationship between mobility, lived religiosities, and conceptions of divine personhood as they are preserved in textual corpora and material culture from Israel, Judah, Egypt, and Mesopotamia. By integrating evidence of the form and function of religiosities in contexts of ...
Embodiment of Divine Knowledge in Early Judaism
1st Edition
By Andrei A. Orlov
October 07, 2024
This book explores the early Jewish understanding of divine knowledge as divine presence, which is embodied in major biblical exemplars, such as Adam, Enoch, Jacob, and Moses. The study treats the concept of divine knowledge as the embodied divine presence in its full historical and interpretive ...
Male Friendship, Homosociality, and Women in the Hebrew Bible: Malignant Fraternities
1st Edition
By Barbara Thiede
August 26, 2024
Male alliances, partnerships, and friendships are fundamental to the Hebrew Bible. This book offers a detailed and explicit exploration of the ways in which shared sexual use of women and women’s bodies engenders, sustains, and nourishes such relationships in the Hebrew Bible. Hebrew Bible ...
Job's Body and the Dramatised Comedy of Moralising
1st Edition
By Katherine E. Southwood
August 01, 2022
This book focuses on the expressions used to describe Job’s body in pain and on the reactions of his friends to explore the moral and social world reflected in the language and the values that their speeches betray. A key contribution of this monograph is to highlight how the perspective of ...
A Commentary on Numbers: Narrative, Ritual, and Colonialism
1st Edition
By Pekka Pitkänen
June 30, 2020
This book provides a new reading of the biblical book of Numbers in a commentary form. Mainstream readings have tended to see the book as a haphazard junkyard of material that connects Genesis–Leviticus with Deuteronomy (and Joshua), composed at a late stage in the history of ancient Israel.&...