This volume successfully integrates the challenges of pastoral ministry with the insight of specialist in the academic disciplines of theology and biblical studies. Chapters are readable, relevant, and important, encouraging pastors to reclaim the value of study in the life of ministry.

The Wise Shepherd: Biblical and Theological Resources for the Pastoral Task

Brad E. Kelle

Point Loma Press

This study offers a distinctively political reading of Hosea 2 that explores the test as a metaphorical and theological commentary on the political and religious dynamics is Israel at the close of the Syro-Ephraimitic War (731-730 B.C.E.).

Hosea 2: Metaphor And Rhetoric in Historical Perspective (Academia Biblica (Series) (Society of Biblical Literature))

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

Society of Biblical Literature

Warfare, Ritual, and Symbol in Biblical and Modern Contexts (Ancient Israel and Its Literature)

New perspectives on Israelite warfare for biblical studies, military studies, and social theory Contributors investigate what constituted a symbol in war, what rituals were performed and their purpose, how symbols and rituals functioned in and between wars and battles, what effects symbols and rituals had on insiders and outsiders, what ways symbols and rituals functioned as instruments of war, and what roles rituals and symbols played in the production and use of texts. Features: <ul>
<li>Thirteen essays examine war in textual, historical, and social contexts</li> <li>Texts from the Hebrew Bible are read in light of ancient Near Eastern texts and archaeology</li> <li>Interdisciplinary studies make use of contemporary ritual and social theory</li> </ul>

Literature & Fiction

Frank Ritchel Ames

Jacob L. Wright

History & Criticism

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