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The Social Role of Liturgy in the Religion of the Qumran Community
Russell C.D. Arnold
• ISBN 90 04 15030 7
• List price EUR 95.- / US$ 124.-
• Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah, 60

This volume analyzes the wide variety of the Qumran community’s liturgical practices in light of their social and ideological structures, discussing their implications for community identity formation, boundary formation, and instruction of new members.

The Revelation of the Name YHWH to Moses
Perspectives from Judaism, the Pagan Graeco-Roman World, and Early Christianity
Edited by George H. van Kooten
• ISBN 90 04 15398 5
• List price EUR 109.- / US$ 139.-
• Themes in Biblical Narrative, 9

In this book the varied and important reception is traced which the story of the revelation of YHWH’s name to Moses received in Judaism, early Christianity, and the pagan Graeco-Roman world.

Compositional Strategy of the Book of Judges
An Inductive, Rhetorical Study
Gregory T.K. Wong
• ISBN 90 04 15086 2
• List price EUR 99.- / US$ 134.-
• Vetus Testamentum, Supplements, 111

This volume represents an inductive, literary/rhetorical analysis of the book of Judges in which possible rhetorical links connecting the book's three major sections are examined in detail to show that the book may have been a unified composition rather than a composite work as many assume.

Spiritual Care in a Hospital Setting
An Empirical-theological Exploration
Wim Smeets
• ISBN 90 04 15189 3
• List price EUR 89.- / US$ 116.-
• Empirical Studies in Theology, 13

This book reports on a theoretical and empirical study of spiritual care as a profession in health care. Central issues in spiritual care are analysed and the attitudes of Dutch spiritual caregivers towards these issues are investigated. The book discusses some challenges for the future.

Comparing Religions
Possibilities and Perils?
Edited by Thomas Athanasius Idinopulos, Brian C. Wilson and James Constantine Hanges
• ISBN 90 04 15267 9
• List price EUR 89.- / US$ 120.-
• Numen Book Series, 113

Comparing Religions covers such important topics as recent theoretical approaches to comparison, case studies of comparing religions in the classroom, and the impact of postcolonialism and postmodernism on the modernist assumptions of comparitivism in the academic study of religion.

Religion without Ulterior Motive
Edited by E.A.J.G. Van der Borght
• ISBN 90 04 15509 0
• List price EUR 89.- / US$ 119.-
• Studies in Reformed Theology, 13
An in-depth discussion among Reformed theologians on the thesis that only by a radical option for religion without ulterior motive - even good motives -, true religion can be safeguarded from abuse and be linked to God’s love for man without ulterior motive.