Sheffield Phoenix Press
Sheffield Phoenix Press Ltd. (SPP) is an independent academic publisher specializing in biblical studies. It was launched in January 2004, continuing the traditions of the former Sheffield Academic Press.
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| Status | Active |
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| Founded | 2004 |
| Founder | David J. A. Clines |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Headquarters location | Sheffield |
| Distribution | Worldwide |
| Publication types | Books |
| Nonfiction topics | Biblical Studies |
| Official website | http://www.sheffieldphoenix.com |
SPP's main series of titles are Hebrew Bible Monographs, New Testament Monographs and Bible in the Modern World. Its staff are its Directors, Professor David J. A. Clines and Dr Jeremy M.S. Clines, together with its Manager Louise A. Clines.
Since its inception, SPP has published about 330 titles, including monographs, collective volumes, Festschriften, and a few noteworthy dissertations each year. Its authors reflect its worldwide reputation, coming from all the nations of the United Kingdom, and from Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Switzerland and Sweden, as well as from Australia, Argentina, Canada, Israel, Japan, New Zealand, South Korea, South Africa and the USA.
All SPP’s titles are peer-reviewed, and authors are promised that their work will be kept in print indefinitely.
Sheffield Phoenix Press exhibits its titles at the Annual and International Meetings of the Society of Biblical Literature, as well as at the meetings of the Society for Old Testament Study in the UK. Customers are encouraged to order directly from the publisher, who prints its books through Lightning Source in the UK, the USA and Australia. The Society of Biblical Literature is its North American distributor.
Notable publications
Best-sellers include the following by year:
2017
- Clines, The Dictionary of Classical Hebrew Revised. I. Aleph
2016
- Tonstad, The Letter to the Romans: Paul among the Ecologists
- Wainwright, Habitat, Human, and Holy: An Eco-Rhetorical Reading of the Gospel of Matthew
- Clines, The Dictionary of Classical Hebrew. IX: English-Hebrew Index
- Scholz, Feminist Interpretation of the Hebrew Bible in Retrospect. III. Methods
2015
- Avalos, The Bad Jesus: The Ethics of New Testament Ethics
- Adelman, The Female Ruse: Women’s Deception and Divine Sanction in the Hebrew Bible
- Porter, The Letter to the Romans: A Linguistic and Literary Commentary
- Charney, Persuading God: Rhetorical Studies of First-Person Psalms
2014
- Carrier, On the Historicity of Jesus: Why We Might Have Reason for Doubt
- Korpel and de Moor, Adam, Eve, and the Devil: A New Beginning
- Overland, Learning Biblical Hebrew Interactively
- Spellman, Toward a Canon-Conscious Reading of the Bible: Exploring the History and Hermeneutics of the Canon
2013
- Markl, The Decalogue and its Cultural Influence
- Lundbom, Biblical Rhetoric and Rhetorical Criticism
- Scholz, Feminist Interpretation of the Hebrew Bible in Retrospect. I. Biblical Books
- Zehnder and Hagelia, Encountering Violence in the Bible
2012
- Brodie, Beyond the Quest for the Historical Jesus: Memoir of a Discovery
- Beavis and Gilmour, Dictionary of the Bible and Western Culture
- Carey, The Gospel according to Luke: All Flesh Shall See God's Salvation
- Berges, The Book of Isaiah: Its Composition and Final Form
2011
- Leung Lai, Through the 'I'-Window: The Inner Life of Characters in the Hebrew Bible
- Heacock, Jonathan Loved David: Manly Love in the Bible and the Hermeneutics of Sex
- Avalos, Slavery, Abolitionism, and the Ethics of Biblical Scholarship
- Trevaskis, Holiness, Ethics and Ritual in Leviticus
2010
- O’Kane & Morgan, Biblical Art from Wales
- Putnam, A New Grammar of Biblical Hebrew
- Gray, The Book of Job
- Lundbom, Jeremiah Closer Up: The Prophet & the Book
2009
- Barker, On Earth as it is in Heaven: Temple Symbolism in the New Testament
- Wallace, Psalms (Readings)
- Goulder, Five Stones and a Sling: Memoirs of a Biblical Scholar
- Johnson, Now my Eye Sees You: Unveiling an Apocalyptic Job
2008
- Barker, The Gate of Heaven: The History & Symbolism of the Temple in Jerusalem
- Bodner, 1 Samuel: A Narrative Commentary
- Brett, Decolonizing God: The Bible in the Tides of Empire
- Fontaine, With Eyes of Flesh: The Bible, Gender and Human Rights
2007
- Exum & Nutu, Between the Text and the Canvas: The Bible and Art in Dialogue
- O’Kane, Painting the Text: The Artist as Biblical Interpreter
- Ogden, Qoheleth, Second Edition
- Rooke, A Question of Sex? Gender and Difference in the Hebrew Bible and Beyond
2006
- Moore, Empire & Apocalypse: Postcolonialism & the NT
- Schaberg, The Illegitimacy of Jesus: A Feminist Theological Interpretation of the Infancy Narratives, Expanded Twentieth Anniversary Edition
- Morrow, Protest against God: The Eclipse of a Biblical Tradition
- Holloway, Orientalism, Assyriology and the Bible
2005