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  • Introduction to the Hebrew Bible

    by John J. Collins ...
    John J. Collins's Introduction to the Hebrew Bible is one of the most reliable and widely adopted critical textbooks at undergraduate and graduate levels alike, and for good reason. Enriched by decades of classroom teaching, it is aimed explicitly at motivated students, regardless of their previous exposure to the Bible or faith commitments. The approach is ecumenical, in the sense that it seeks ... Read more

    $59.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Early Judaism

    A Comprehensive Overview

    Edited by John J. Collins, Daniel C. Harlow ...
    Culled from The Eerdmans Dictionary of Early Judaism, a monumental, groundbreaking reference work published in late 2010, Early Judaism: A Comprehensive Overview contains fifteen first-rate essays from a diverse group of internationally renowned scholars. This volume provides the most comprehensive and authoritative overview available of Judaism in the Hellenistic and early Roman periods ... Read more

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  • Apocalypse, Prophecy, and Pseudepigraphy

    On Jewish Apocalyptic Literature

    by John J. Collins ...
    A highly regarded expert on the Jewish apocalyptic tradition, John J. Collins has written extensively on the subject. Nineteen of his essays written over the last fifteen years, including previously unpublished contributions, are brought together for the first time in this volume. Its thematic essays organized in five sections, Apocalypse, Prophecy, and Pseudepigraphy complements and enriches ... Read more

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  • Apocalypticism as a Worldview in Ancient Judaism

    by John J. Collins ...
    How did apocalyptic concerns shape ancient Jewish life and literature?In this compelling study, renowned scholar John J. Collins examines the apocalyptic worldview that emerged in Jewish thought during the Hellenistic and Greco-Roman periods. He reconstructs this perspective through carefully contextualized readings of ancient Jewish apocalyptic literature.According to Collins, defining features ... Read more

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  • Daniel

    Introduction to Apocalyptic Literature

    by John J. Collins ...
    Series series The Forms of the Old Testament Literature (FOTL)
    This is a print on demand book and is therefore non- returnable.In his introduction to Jewish apocalyptic literature, Collins examines the main characteristics and discusses the setting and intention of apocalyptic literature. He begins his discussion of Daniel with a survey of the book's anomalies and an examination of the bearing of form criticism on those anomalies. He explores the book's place ... Read more

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    True Noir

    The Assassination of Anton Cermak

    by Max Allan Collins ...
    Narrated by Anthony LaPaglia, Renée Taylor, Bill Smitrovich, Katee Sackhoff, Richard Portnow, Barry Bostwick, Jeffrey Combs, PJ Byrne, John Kapelos, Jesse Spencer, Louis Lombardi, a full cast, Kris Carr, C. Thomas Howell, Adam Arkin, Michael Rosenbaum, Don McManus, Curtis Armstrong, Vincent Pastore, Devon Conrad, David Strathairn, Corey Landis, Saverio Guerra, Bill Mumy, William Sadler, Rob Roy Fitzgerald, Patton Oswalt, Nicholas Turturro ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 27 min

    In Depression-era Chicago, private eye Nathan Heller is caught between the Mob and City Hall in a battle for control of the 1933 World’s Fair while he attempts to find a lovely actress’ missing brother. Along the way, Heller meets an array of famed heroes and villains from Eliot Ness to Al Capone, climaxing with the detective dangling off a beam of the Fair’s sky tower.From the legendary author of ... Read more

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  • The Apocalyptic Imagination

    An Introduction to Jewish Apocalyptic Literature

    by John J. Collins ...
    One of the most widely praised studies of Jewish apocalyptic literature ever written, The Apocalyptic Imagination by John J. Collins has served for over thirty years as a helpful, relevant, comprehensive survey of the apocalyptic literary genre.After an initial overview of things apocalyptic, Collins proceeds to deal with individual apocalyptic texts — the early Enoch literature, the book of ... Read more

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  • The Invention of Judaism

    Torah and Jewish Identity from Deuteronomy to Paul

    by John J. Collins ...
    Series Book 7 - Taubman Lectures in Jewish Studies
    Most people understand Judaism to be the Torah and the Torah to be Judaism. However, in The Invention of Judaism, John J. Collins persuasively argues this was not always the case. The Torah became the touchstone for most of Judaism’s adherents only in the hands of the rabbis of late antiquity. For 600 years prior, from the Babylonian Exile to the Roman destruction of the Second Temple, there was ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • A Short Introduction to the Hebrew Bible

    by John J. Collins ...
    John J. Collins's A Short Introduction to the Hebrew Bible is one of the most popular introductory textbooks in colleges and seminary classrooms. Enriched by decades of classroom teaching, it is aimed explicitly at motivated students, regardless of their previous exposure to the Bible or faith commitments. This more compact version of Collins's renowned Introduction to the Hebrew Bible is combined ... Read more

    $46.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Early Judaism

    A Comprehensive Overview

    Edited by John J. Collins, Daniel C. Harlow ...
    Culled from The Eerdmans Dictionary of Early Judaism, a monumental, groundbreaking reference work published in late 2010, Early Judaism: A Comprehensive Overview contains fifteen first-rate essays from a diverse group of internationally renowned scholars. This volume provides the most comprehensive and authoritative overview available of Judaism in the Hellenistic and early Roman periods ... Read more

    $36.50 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Scepter and the Star

    Messianism in Light of the Dead Sea Scrolls

    by John J. Collins ...
    John J. Collins here offers an up-to-date review of Jewish messianic expectations around the time of Jesus, in light of the Dead Sea Scrolls.He breaks these expectations down into categories: Davidic, priestly, and prophetic. Based on a small number of prophetic oracles and reflected in the various titles and names assigned to the messiah, the Davidic model holds a clear expectation that the ... Read more

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  • The Bible after Babel

    Historical Criticism in a Postmodern Age

    by John J. Collins ...
    Biblical scholars today often sound as if they are caught in the aftermath of Babel -- a clamor of voices unable to reach common agreement. Yet is this confusion necessarily a bad thing? Many postmodern critics see the recent profusion of critical approaches as a welcome opportunity for the emergence of diverse new techniques. In The Bible after Babel noted biblical scholar John J. Collins ... Read more

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