Criticism and exegesis of sacred texts

This book invites you to see not only how Hellenistic Koine ought to be pronounced but also why.

"e;The virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and they will call him 'Immanuel'-which means, 'God with us.

This collection of essays on policing and the use of force, while written over the course of the last twenty-five years, remains relevant and timely.

Three conditions plague us individually and socially--the compulsion to be successful, to be powerful, and to be right.

Beginning with a conversation prompted by African American scholars like Dr.

Journal for the Evangelical Study of the Old Testament (JESOT) is a peer-reviewed journal devoted to the academic and evangelical study of the Old Testament.

A Dynamic Reading of the Holy Spirit in Revelation attempts to read the book of Revelation in a new way as a narrative, embracing literary elements such as plot, point of view, narrative voice, character, and story structure to help readers discover its meanings by tracing the story anew.

This book provides a thorough study of the sole biblical foundation of marriage as given in the short description of Genesis 2:24: "e;For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother, and be joined to his wife; and they shall become one flesh.

The "e;magical power of the spoken word"e; is a topic that often comes up in a discussion of biblical blessings and curses.

What if the way the book of Esther has been taught to us in church and retold to us in films, cartoons, and romance novels has missed the original point of the story?

The book you are holding is a small museum.

In 1969 Professor Greenberg published his Understanding Exodus, covering Exodus 1-11.

Biblical and Ancient Greek Linguistics (BAGL) is an international journal that exists to further the application of modern linguistics to the study of Ancient and Biblical Greek, with a particular focus on the analysis of texts, including but not restricted to the Greek New Testament.

Women were involved in every popular philosophy in the first century, and the participation of women reaches back to the Greek origins of these schools.

Inner-biblical studies is a blossoming field.

The topic of hell has held a strange fascination for believers through the centuries, becoming the subject of paintings, sermons, books, articles, and much more.

The question of how leadership and authority functioned in the Pauline church remains one of the most polarizing issues in New Testament scholarship today.

Journal of Biblical and Pneumatological ResearchVOLUME FOUR FALL 2012The Journal of Biblical and Pneumatological Research (JBPR) is a new international peer-reviewed academic serial dedicated to narratively and rhetorically minded exegesis of biblical and related texts.

In this book, Emmanuel Mbennah argues that Christian spiritual maturity is the bridge between the new identity of the Christian, articulated in Ephesians 1-3, and the moral code of the Christian life commensurate with the new identity, presented in Ephesians 4:17--6:20.

This book seeks to place before a broad audience essays on Jeremiah and the book of Jeremiah.

After creating man and woman, God's first recorded blessing upon them is "e;be fruitful and multiply.

The New Perspective on Mary and Martha gives Mary and Martha a total makeover.

Journal for the Evangelical Study of the Old Testament (JESOT) is a peer-reviewed journal devoted to the academic and evangelical study of the Old Testament.

The various studies presented in this anthology underscore the foundational matter of translation in biblical studies as understood from the specific perspective of Biblical Performance Criticism.

What if the story of Jesus was meant not just to be told but retold, molded, and shaped into something new, something present by the Evangelist to face each new crisis?

Buchanan has unlocked an interesting conflict that took place in Scripture and has important ethical implications that continue until today.

As one surveys the scholarship on the canonical letter to the Philippians, one notices the lack of attention to women within many scholars' analyses.

Jacob Milgrom was a man of deep faith and deep learning.

God as Father in Paul explores Paul's use of the kinship term "e;Father"e; to refer to God, along with related familial terms ("e;children"e; of God and Christ-followers as "e;brothers and sisters"e;), as part of a study of the use of kinship language in the identity formation of early Christianity.

When reading the Psalter, the sequencing of individual psalms is often overlooked or taken for granted, and it is easy to assume that the psalms' placement results purely from happenstance.

The idea of God the Father has attracted scholarly attention for centuries, especially in terms of the revelation of God's fatherhood through the Son.

Sarah, Hagar, Rebekah, Rachel, and Leah are women often condemned to be only the shadow of their male opposite numbers.

Looking Back for Jehoiachin examines the life and legacy of the last living Davidic king during the Babylonian captivity.

While commentaries continue to be published on the book of Revelation, few, if any, attempt to interpret the Apocalypse in light of the political, historical, and cultural setting of John's original audience.

Debate about church order has gone on for centuries within Christianity, and an end is nowhere in sight.

Great are the works of the Lord; They are studied by all who delight in them"e; (Psalm 111:2, NASB).

One of the most significant features of the Fourth Gospel is its unique version of the crucifixion of Jesus (19:12-42).

The church is one of the most intriguing and significant institutions on earth.

In The Text in Play, Mike Higton and Rachel Muers conduct a series of experiments in the reading of Scripture.

This book explores the little-regarded phenomenon of the tricolon in biblical Hebrew poetry, that is, those poetic lines that appear to have a tripartite form rather than the more common bipartite form.

At the end of Romans 11, Paul quotes both Isaiah and Job.

The world to which the Gospel of Mark introduces its reader is a world of conflicts and suspense, enigmas and secrets, questions and overturning of evidence, irony and surprise.

Reading Scripture with a view to hearing its significance and challenge within its original, foreign context is the essence of exegesis and an anchor point for responsible hermeneutics.

Throughout ages the prophetic literature of the Old Testament has always fascinated its readers.

Scripture, like any performance, aims for transformation of its audience.

The story of the Garden of Eden is one of the most familiar in the Bible.

Twenty-four scholars join their efforts to congratulate David Lee Balch for a long career of dedication to scholarship and teaching.

A most unlikely hero, the man born blind in John 9 champions Jesus' cause and triumphs against overwhelming odds.

The Catalogue of the Ethiopic Manuscript Imaging Project (EMIP), volume 7, provides a full catalog for the collection of fifty-four manuscripts in the Meseret Sebhat Le-Ab collection at Mekane Yesus Seminary in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

This commentary weaves together the interpretations of Christian exegetes, spanning the past two thousand years, who have concerned themselves with that most mysterious of texts, the book of Leviticus.