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Nitzan Shalev
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Associate Editor for Biblical Studies at De Gruyter Brill
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🎉 New #OpenAccess publication! 📚📜 In "When Jesus Rose Early", @mmonier.bsky.social utilizes the full potential of the digital revolution in manuscript research to study text and paratexts in the Gospel of Mark.
Hardcover out Aug 28th; #OA e-book out now:
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Book cover. When Jesus Rose Early: Studies on the Text and Paratexts of Mark’s Ending. By Mina Monier. Series: New Testament Tools, Studies and Documents, Volume 68. Brill. 2025.
August 18, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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📢New release! 📗📜 Athanasios Despotis offers a detailed commentary on Jesus's long speeches in John 1-12, revealing how the Gospel of John engages with the religious and philosophical discourses of its time.

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Book cover. Das Johannesevangelium und die antike griechische Philosophie. Untersuchung des philosophischen Hintergrunds der langen Reden Jesu im JohEv Band I (Joh 1–12). Author: Athanasios Despotis. Series: Novum Testamentum, Supplements. Volume 195. Brill. 2025.
August 6, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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New publication! 🎉Constructing Femininity in the Book of Jubilees 🙋‍♀️ 📕 Chontel Syfox interrogates the motives and priorities that informed the rewriting and heightened visibility of the matriarchs in Jubilees.
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#biblicalstudies #AcRel #genderstudies
Book cover: Constructing Femininity in the Book of Jubilees. By Chontel Syfox. Biblical Interpretation series, volume 230. Brill. 2025.
August 4, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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Very exciting new release – and in Open Access no less!

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📜 #biblicalstudies #AcRel #SBL #CriticalBible
Front cover of a book entitled “The Euthalian Tradition of the New Testament: A Catalogue of Greek Manuscripts”, by Garrick V. Allen, Kimberley A. Fowler, Emanuele Skier, and Maxim Venetskov. New Testament Tools, Studies and Documents, Volume: 67. Brill, 2025.
July 21, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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New from BINS 📕 Harrowing the Gospels 🌾
Kristofer Coffman engages in a unique Cambodian (American) reading of agriculture and agrarian life in the Gospels.

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"Harrowing the Gospels: A Cambodian (American) Rereading of Agriculture in Mark and Matthew". By Kristofer Dale Phan Coffman. Biblical Interpretation Series, Volume: 231. Brill. 2025.
July 8, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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Another new volume from VCS 🎉💙 John C. Solheid’s “Pedagogy of the Heart” presents a detailed and accessible analysis of the recently discovered Greek “Homilies on the Psalms” preached by Origen in the late 240s CE.

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Pedagogy of the Heart: Grammar, Philosophy, and the Christian Reader in Origen’s Greek Homilies on the Psalms. By John C. Solheid. Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae, Volume 190. Brill, 2025.
June 24, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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New from VCS 🎉 “Reincarnation in Clement of Alexandria” 🔄
Against international scholarly consensus, Sami Yli-Karjanmaa finds Clement’s position on reincarnation to be one of acceptance.
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Reincarnation in Clement of Alexandria: Salvific Cycles and Steps of Progress. By Sami Yli-Karjanmaa. Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae, Volume 189. Brill, 2025.
June 24, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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🎉New from VCS 📘 Papers presented at the Third International Conference on Clement of Alexandria, focused on the Paedagogus and its surprisingly profound theological undercurrents.
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#AcRel #BiblicalStudies #Classics
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June 5, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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NEW edited volume from TSEC 📗 10 leading scholars explore the works and legacy of Dionysius bar Ṣalībī, 12th-cent. bishop dubbed the "Guardian of the Syriac Orthodox Tradition".
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June 2, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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We're at #NAPS2025 in Chicago! Come by the De Gruyter Brill booth to say hello and check out our latest releases. @degruyterbrill.bsky.social @dgb-relbibtheo.bsky.social
May 22, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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🆕📚 Studies on the Children of Abraham ➡️ Green and Laato et al study the Jewish and Christian reception of Genesis and how concepts of “universalism” and “particularism” are used in the Noah, Abraham and Jacob stories #biblicalstudies #AcRel brill.com/display/titl... @dgb-relbibtheo.bsky.social
"Between Universalism and Particularism: The Reception of Noah, Abraham and Jacob Stories". Edited by Stefan Green and Antti Laato. Studies on the Childern of Abraham, vol. 12. Published by Brill, 2025.
May 19, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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🆕In “Early Christianity on the Lower Maeander”, Ulrich Huttner explores the religious authorities in the microcosm of the Maeander Valley (Asia Minor), and the conditions under which the Christian communities developed from the 1st to 5th centuries brill.com/display/titl... #BiblicalStudies #AcRel
Cover for 'Early Christianity on the Lower Maeander. Between Ignatius and Apollo: Greek Cities in the Interplay of Religious Authorities'. By Ulrich Huttner. Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity, Volume 122; Early Christianity in Asia Minor, Volume 5. Published by Brill, 2025.
May 12, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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🆕📚 Alicia Hein’s “The Prophet Is the People” offers a literary analysis of the Elijah texts in the Hebrew Bible and early Jewish and Christian literature, tracing the development of the Elijah tradition and the progression of its early interpretation #biblicalstudies #AcRel brill.com/display/titl...
Cover for the book 'The Prophet Is the People: An Answer to "Why Elijah?" in Second Temple Jewish and Early Christian Literature'. By Alicia R. Hein. Vetus Testamentum Supplements, Volume 199. Brill, 2025.
May 12, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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New in STAS 📕 “Studies in Targum Isaiah: Textual Witnesses, Translation Techniques, and Theological Explorations” by Alberdina Houtman is the culmination of 30 years of in-depth research into Targum studies @dgb-relbibtheo.bsky.social brill.com/display/titl...
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Cover for the book "Studies in Targum Isaiah: Textual Witnesses, Translation Techniques, and Theological Explorations" by Alberdina Houtman. Volume 19 in the series "Supplements to Aramaic Studies". Published by Brill.
April 28, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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New 📖 from LBS 🎉 “The Prestige Language of Christianity in the Book of Acts”. Sung Min Park applies sociolinguistics to understand early Christian communities and their linguistic practices.
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April 28, 2025 at 8:12 AM
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🆕 TSEC 📗 Divine Participation 🙏 Wagdy Samir examines humankind’s union with God by two fathers, Cyril of Alexandria and Matta al-Miskīn, in their commentaries on the Gospel of John. brill.com/display/titl... #CriticalBible #sblaar #BiblicalStudies #AcRel @dgb-relbibtheo.bsky.social
April 7, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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New from SVTP 📖 The Oniad Sibyl 🔮 Miguel Vargas investigates the prophetic literature and historical consciousness of one Egyptian-Jewish community under Roman rule.
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March 17, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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NEW 📕 from BINS 🎉 Revelation contains the most unusual Greek written in the ancient world. In this volume, Garrett Best argues that the irregular Greek is due to John’s imitation of the grammar found in his prophetic exemplar, Ezekiel.
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March 13, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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NEW PODCAST 📚🎙️ | Explore the Brill Encyclopedia of Early Christianity (2024). Spanning up to 600 CE, this 6-volume set bridges NT studies & patristics, linking Judaism, ancient history & philosophy. @degruyterbrill.bsky.social
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January 8, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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📚 NEW from @degruyterbrill.bsky.social Linguistic Biblical Studies | In "Johannine Portrayal of Jesus", Yan Ma introduces a new methodological framework to examine linguistic features of the New Testament text & provides a new analysis of the Johannine “I am” phrases.
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Book cover: Ma, Yan. Johannine Portrayal of Jesus. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 02 Dec. 2024. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004715288 Web.
December 10, 2024 at 1:44 PM
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NEW from @degruyterbrill.bsky.social Biblical Studies: The long-awaited new volume of the Flavius Josephus Translation and Commentary series, edited by Steve Mason.
"VOLUME 8: Judean Antiquities, Books 18-20", by Daniel R. Schwartz. Check it out here:
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December 3, 2024 at 11:01 AM