"For decades, James Crenshaw's Old Testament Wisdom has been the premier introduction to the wisdom books of the Old Testament. That tradition continues with this newly updated edition.
This volume, a part of the Old Testament Library series, explores the book of Ecclesiastes.
In this expanded edition, James Crenshaw takes stock of the wealth of new material produced by contemporary interpreters.
For those who want to read and understand Joel, this book is indispensable.
One of America's leading theologians defines the basic functions of the church while assessing its different roles in the lives of believers and in its mission on Earth.
Crenshaw has been writing about and pondering the issue of theodicy - the human effort to justify the ways of the gods or God - for many years. In this volume he presents a synthesis of his ideas on this perennially thorny issue.
The writers of the Bible depended on other sources for much of their work, including the pseudepigrapha, madeavailable here in two volumes In this groundbreaking new book, distinguished biblical scholar James L. Crenshaw investigates both ...
The series Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft (BZAW) covers all areas of research into the Old Testament, focusing on the Hebrew Bible, its early and later forms in Ancient Judaism, as well as its branching ...
The poems in this volume, honest and reverent, arose from the struggle to answer that question with an emphatic "No." They exhibit the tension that also exists in the Bible where the expression "Dust and Ashes" occurs.