Households and Holiness provides a clear overview of the religious lives of Israelite women. Carol Meyers stresses the diversity of religious practices in ancient Israel and argues we must examine practices as well as beliefs. The book explores anthropology, archaeological evidence, ethnographic data, and textual sources.
With more than 150,000 copies sold, Mother Knows Best is one of the top training books of all time. Based on the natural way a mother dog trains her puppies, Benjamin's training method is humane, effective and all natural. Now we've put a bright new cover on a timeless classic.
Field Sacralization and the Agrarian Priesthood of Second Temple Judaism
This book explores the Judean priesthood's influence on agriculture during the Second Temple period, revealing how their role extended beyond worship. It examines the sanctity of land ownership linked to deities, providing context for the Hebrew Bible's view of God as the landowner and early Jewish literature's references to sacred landholdings.
Attention to empire, monarchy, and potentates within biblical texts proves fruitful for illumining social and religious movements, power dynamics, and complex negotiations of culture and economic realities in the ancient world. Critical imperial studies and postcolonialism, complemented by historical examination and contextual awareness, shed new light on representations of monarchy in Judaism of the second temple period. This historical moment, in which the empires of Alexander the Great and successors, as well as of Rome emerge, witnesses various responses in Judea and in other colonized contexts to domination. The same period gives rise to the second Commonwealth and Hasmonean dynasty. The relationship of the latter with Seleucids and Romans is complex and provides additional vistas on navigating monarchy and power. The articles in this issue explore empire and potentates across texts and traditions of this historic context and in so doing, further clarify biblical texts and related literature.