The Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library Series

52 primary works • 52 total works
THE ANCHOR YALE BIBLE REFERENCE LIBRARY is a project of international and interfaith scope in which Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish scholars from many countries contribute individual volumes. The project is not sponsored by any ecclesiastical organization and is not intended to reflect any particular theological doctrine.

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The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha, Vol. 1: Apocalyptic Literature and Testaments
The writers of the Bible depended on other sources…
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The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha, Vol. 2: Expansions of the "Old Testament" and Legends, Wisdom and Philosophical Literature, Prayers, Psalms and Odes, Fragments of Lost Judeo-Hellenistic Works
Western culture has been shaped largely by the Bib…
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A Marginal Jew: Rethinking the Historical Jesus, Volume I - The Roots of the Problem and the Person
In this definitive book on the real, historical Je…
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Jesus and the Dead Sea Scrolls: The Controversy Resolved
A leading expert on the Dead Sea Scrolls explains …
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Archaeology of the Land of the Bible: 10,000-586 B.C.E.
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· 132 Ratings · 11 Reviews · published 1990 · 9 editions
The standard text on biblical archaeology--an awar…
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History and Prophecy: The Development of Late Judean Literary Traditions
An iconoclastic study of the entire Hebrew Bible (…
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A Marginal Jew: Rethinking the Historical Jesus, Volume II - Mentor, Message, and Miracles
This book is the second volume in John Meier's  ma…
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Reclaiming the Dead Sea Scrolls
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· 61 Ratings · 11 Reviews · published 1994 · 4 editions
Dead Sea Scrolls expert Lawrence H. Schiffman shif…
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An Introduction to the New Testament
4.29
· 733 Ratings · 47 Reviews · published 1997 · 25 editions
Every generation needs a comprehensive, reliable I…
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Education in Ancient Israel: Across the Deadening Silence
In this groundbreaking new book, distinguished bib…
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Warrior, Dancer, Seductress, Queen: Women in Judges and Biblical Israel
Some of the Bible's most memorable characters are …
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The Death of the Messiah, From Gethsemane to the Grave, Volume 1: A Commentary on the Passion Narratives in the Four Gospels
Since its original publication in 1994 as a two-vo…
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The Death of the Messiah, From Gethsemane to the Grave, Volume 2: A Commentary on the Passion Narratives in the Four Gospels
Since its original publication in 1994 as a two-vo…
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The Birth of the Messiah: A Commentary on the Infancy Narratives in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke
The truth behind the Gospel accounts of the  Nativ…
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A History of the Synoptic Problem: The Canon, the Text, the Composition, and the Interpretation of the Gospels
A History of the Synoptic Problem, by David Laird …
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Introduction to Rabbinic Literature
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· 22 Ratings · published 1994 · 4 editions
The rabbis are as important today as they were two…
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The Pentateuch: An Introduction to the First Five Books of the Bible
The Pentateuch (its Greek name, but also known as …
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Archaeology of the Land of the Bible, Volume 2: The Assyrian, Babylonian, and Persian Periods
Amateur and professional enthusiasts dig in Palest…
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A Marginal Jew: Rethinking the Historical Jesus, Volume III - Companions and Competitors
No man is an island, not even Jesus, as John Meier…
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Peoples of an Almighty God: Competing Religions in the Ancient World
Some ancient civilizations, notably the Babylonian…
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An Introduction to the Gospel of John
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· 100 Ratings · 16 Reviews · published 2003 · 5 editions
When Raymond E. Brown died in 1998, less than a ye…
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The Empty Men: The Heroic Tradition of Ancient Israel
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· 13 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 2005 · 6 editions
In a groundbreaking work of literary archaeology, …
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No Ordinary Angel: Celestial Spirits and Christian Claims about Jesus
A New Testament scholar compares ancient and moder…
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A Marginal Jew: Rethinking the Historical Jesus, Volume IV - Law and Love
A leading scholar of the historical Jesus clarifie…
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The Good and Evil Serpent: How a Universal Symbol Became Christianized
A pathbreaking study of the serpent’s symbolic mea…
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Among the Gentiles: Greco-Roman Religion and Christianity
The question of Christianity’s relation to the oth…
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The Composition of the Pentateuch: Renewing the Documentary Hypothesis
For well over two centuries the question of the co…
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Ancient Christian Martyrdom: Diverse Practices, Theologies, and Traditions
The importance of martyrdom for the spread of Chri…
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Archaeology of the Land of the Bible, Volume 3: Alexander to Constantine
Drawing on the most recent, groundbreaking archeol…
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Formation of the Jewish Canon
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· 21 Ratings · 3 Reviews · published 2012 · 4 editions
The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls provides unp…
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A Social History of Hebrew: Its Origins Through the Rabbinic Period
More than simply a method of communication shared …
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Women's Divination in Biblical Literature: Prophecy, Necromancy, and Other Arts of Knowledge
Divination, the use of special talents and techniq…
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Language and Literacy in Roman Judaea: A Study of the Bar Kokhba Documents
This comprehensive exploration of language and lit…
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Responsive Self: Personal Religion in Biblical Literature of the Neo-Babylonian and Persian Periods
Works created in the period from the Babylonian co…
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A Marginal Jew: Rethinking the Historical Jesus, Volume V - Probing the Authenticity of the Parables
Since the late nineteenth century, New Testament s…
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Where the Gods Are: Spatial Dimensions of Anthropomorphism in the Biblical World
The issue of how to represent God is a concern bot…
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The House of the Mother: The Social Roles of Maternal Kin in Biblical Hebrew Narrative and Poetry
A novel approach to Israelite kinship, arguing tha…
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Friendship in the Hebrew Bible
The first comprehensive study of friendship in the…
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The Birth of Christian History: Memory and Time from Mark to Luke-Acts
The first comprehensive account to explore the beg…
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Philo of Alexandria: An Intellectual Biography
Philo was a Hellenistic Jewish philosopher who lef…
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Revelation and Authority: Sinai in Jewish Scripture and Tradition
Winner of the 2016 Goldstein-Goren Award for the b…
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Apocalypse as Holy War: Divine Politics and Polemics in the Letters of Paul
Prevailing theories of apocalypticism assert that …
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How Old Is the Hebrew Bible?: A Linguistic, Textual, and Historical Study
From two expert scholars comes a comprehensive stu…
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The Temple in Early Christianity: Experiencing the Sacred
A comprehensive treatment of the early Christian a…
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Matthew within Sectarian Judaism
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· 8 Ratings · 1 Reviews · 2 editions
A renowned scholar of the Dead Sea Scrolls argues …
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Kinship by Covenant: A Canonical Approach to the Fulfillment of God's Saving Promises
A biblical scholar identifies the covenant as an o…
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Becoming Diaspora Jews: Behind the Story of Elephantine
Based on a previously unexplored source, this book…
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Literary Theory and the New Testament
A comprehensive case for a fresh literary approach…
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Jewish Christianity: The Making of the Christianity-Judaism Divide
A fresh exploration of the category Jewish Christi…
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The Gnostic Scriptures: A New Translation with Annotations and Introductions by
This definitive introduction to the gnostic script…
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Hell Hath No Fury: Gender, Disability, and the Invention of Damned Bodies in Early Christian Literature
The first major book to examine ancient Christian …
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The Spirit within Me: Self and Agency in Ancient Israel and Second Temple Judaism
The first full-length study of the evolution of se…
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