Criticism and exegesis of sacred texts

Faith and Oil tells the story of conservative Christianity's relationship with America's oil industry.

Whenever we interact with other people, we influence them--and they influence us.

Many scholars disagree about what was meant by Jesus's intriguing self-designation ?

Who needs the Old Testament?

Michael Udoekpo's work brilliantly and pastorally discusses the issues of conflict, friction, and disunity in the world--and in Nigeria in particular--from biblical, historical, and sociocultural perspectives.

How does Christian faith integrate with capitalism?

For a denomination like Roman Catholicism that is canonically difficult to leave, many American Catholics are migrating beyond the institution's immediate influence.

This is a treatment of the plants mentioned in the Old and New Testaments, their uses, ecology, history, beauty, and symbolism.

What happens to a community when it is destroyed by a foreign power?

Whatever life gives you and wherever life takes you, there is always a story.

Using a biblical theology method (explained in SwJT 56:1 [2013] 227-57), this book reflects the content of the text of Isaiah within its Jewish-Christian context.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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?

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.