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Biblical Traditions in Transmission
Essays in Honour of Michael A. Knibb
Edited by Charlotte Hempel and Judith M. Lieu
• ISBN 90 04 13997 4
• List price EUR 139.- / US$ 181.-
• Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism, 111

This collection of essays by a group of well-known international scholars deals with the complex and fluid ways in which biblical traditions are transmitted in a variety of contexts focusing especially on the versions, the pseudepigrapha and Qumran, and early Christian literature.

NOW IN ONE VOLUME
Dictionary of Gnosis & Western Esotericism
Edited by Wouter J. Hanegraaff, in collaboration with Antoine Faivre, Roelof van den Broek and Jean-Pierre Brach
• ISBN 90 04 15231 8
• List price EUR 119.- / US$ 155.-

This is the first comprehensive reference work to cover the entire domain of “Gnosis and Western Esotericism” from Late Antiquity to the present. It contains critical discussions of all its major authors, currents and manifestations, from Gnosticism to the New Age.
This one volume edition is an unabridged version of the two volume edition published in 2005.

'The entries present balanced, neutral accounts of the topics and the major persons involved with them without simplification, distortion, or reductionism. …scholars will be delighted to have such a treasure take its place next to the popular treatments of the field. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All collections.'
M.R. Pukkila, Choice, 2005.

Studies in the Textual Criticism of the New Testament
Bart D. Ehrman
• ISBN 90 04 15032 3
• List price EUR 105.- / US$ 139.-
• New Testament Tools and Studies, 33

For the first time in one volume this book presents contributions to the textual criticism of the New Testament made over the past twenty years by Bart Ehrman, one of the premier textual scholars in North America. Including fifteen previously published articles and six lectures (delivered at Duke University and Yale University), this collection will be of vital importance to all students and scholars of the New Testament and early Christianity.

Bart Ehrman, in merely two decades, has emerged as one of a handful of New Testament textual critics worldwide who work at the cutting edge. Most of the fascinating and meticulous articles in this volume formed the basis of or carry forward his influential work on The Orthodox Corruption of Scripture (1993), which displayed for us the socio-historical and theological contexts of textual variants, demonstrating effectively their dynamic, creative role in early Christianity. The essays are interestingly informative, remarkably insightful, and–in the best sense–genuinely provocative. Overall, the volume, which includes detailed methodological studies and treatments of individual texts, as well as the Kenneth Clark Lectures at Duke University (1997) and the Shaffer Lectures at Yale (2004), will be a stimulating challenge to biblical and patristic scholars and to early church historians.
Eldon Jay Epp

Congress Volume Leiden 2004
Edited by André Lemaire
• ISBN 90 04 14913 9
• List price EUR 125.- / US$ 169.-
• Vetus Testamentum, Supplements, 109
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This volume presents the main lectures given at the XVIIIth Congress of the International Organization for the Study of the Old Testament (Leiden, August 2004). They are representative of the main trends and progress of current biblical research.

New Testament Manuscripts
Their Texts and Their World
Edited by Thomas J. Kraus and Tobias Nicklas

• ISBN 90 04 14945 7
• List price EUR 129.- / US$ 169.-
• Texts and Editions for New Testament Study, 2

This book comprises twelve essays dealing with manuscripts of the New Testament and/or what we can learn from them today. Starting from different angles the contributors — distinguished scholars of international reputation — focus on the fascinating and thrilling stories manuscripts tell, for instance about the times they were produced in or the people who handled them.

A Holy People
Jewish and Christian Perspectives on Religious Communal Identity
Edited by Marcel Poorthuis and Joshua Schwartz

• ISBN 90 04 15052 8
• List price EUR 119.- / US$ 159.-
• Jewish and Christian Perspectives Series, 12

This volume deals with the various ways in which Jews and Christians define their religious identity, people or community, as being holy. This is done throughout history to the present time and in an interdisciplinary perspective.

Septuagint Research
Issues and Challenges in the Study of the Greek Jewish Scriptures
Edited by Wolfgang Kraus and R. Glenn Wooden
• ISBN 90 04 14675 X
• List price EUR 149.- / US$ 194.-
• SBL - Septuagint and Cognate Studies, 53