Long an admirer of the King James Bible, celebrated critic Harold Bloom here offers a singular appreciation of its beauty and importance as a literary masterpiece.

Long an admirer of the King James Bible, celebrated critic Harold Bloom here offers a singular appreciation of its beauty and importance as a literary masterpiece.

In this unique book, one of the most original voices in biblical studies today focuses on the themes of marriage, sexuality, fertility, impurity, creation, and love in the Bible to illuminate the remarkable subtlety and sophistication of biblical views about sex and religion.

Printed in Germany in 1534 and smuggled into England for distribution, Tyndale's masterly translation of the New Testament outraged the clerical establishment by giving the laity direct access to the word of God for the first time. Despite its suppression, it ultimately formed the basis of all English bibles—including much of the King James Version—until after the Second World War. Now for the ...

This book makes available William Tyndale's sixteenth-century English translation of the Pentateuch (the first five books of the Old Testament) and the historical books of the Old Testament, translations that laid the foundation for all subsequent English bibles. This edition includes modernized spelling, Tyndale's introduction and notes, and an introduction by David Daniell that explores Tyndale'...

In this work Calum Carmichael shows how each law and each narrative in Numbers, the least researched book in the Pentateuch, responds to problems arising in narratives in Genesis.

Interweaving historical and methodological discussions with detailed textual case studies, Joel S. Baden addresses the question of the composition of the Pentateuch and provides a fresh and comprehensive argument for the Documentary Hypothesis.

In this innovative study, Candida Moss offers a radically new history of martyrdom in the first and second centuries that challenges traditional understandings of the spread of Christianity and rethinks the nature of Christian martyrdom itself.

In this engaging introduction to the New Testament, a distinguished Yale professor presents a historical study of the origins of Christianity by analyzing the literature of the earliest Christian movements.

This pathbreaking book explores in plentiful detail the symbolic meanings of the serpent from 40,000 BCE to the present, and from diverse regions in the world. In doing so it emphasizes the utter creativity of the biblical authors’ use of symbols and argues that we must, today, reexamine our own archetypal conceptions with comparable creativity.

An acclaimed scholar presents a fundamentally new conception of the relationship between Christianity and the Paganism of Greece and Rome.

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