Criticism and exegesis of sacred texts

Though the Mountains Tremble is a collection of random commentaries, from a biblical perspective, on issues and events in the contemporary world.

In most areas of this Epistle, B.

This book explores Deuteronomy's understanding of exile.

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Franz Delitzsch's lectures in 1902 and 1903 set off the Babel-Bible controversy, which rocked Europe and North America.

Modern theorists are virtually united in understanding that space encodes social practices and power relations.

This collection of essays follows upon its predecessor, originally entitled In Defense of the New Perspective on Paul: Essays and Reviews (Wipf and Stock, 2005).

Pittsburgh Theological Monograph SeriesGeneral Editor - Dikran Y.

Never before has the problem of evil been a more urgent subject for our reflection.

New Testament Greek Intermediate is the companion volume to New Testament Greek Primer.

Called by the Gospel is the title for a series of introductory theological textbooks written from a distinctly Lutheran perspective.

This volume includes nine essays that move Ezekiel's creative reuse of older materials to the foreground of discussion.

The book of Proverbs is a large collection made up of diverse wisdom sayings emanating from different wisdom circles in different times.

The book is a manifesto or apologia for Chinese Christians.

Greek Is Great Gain presents to students and pastors an exegetical method with a rigor worthy of Scripture and a practicality suitable for weekly use.

This commentary is the first major work on the book of Revelation in many years that expounds the historicist interpretation.

The last few decades have seen a resurgence of the scholarly quest for the historical Jesus--for the words and deeds that probably can be attributed to the human Jesus who walked the hills of Galilee some two thousand years ago.

This translation of the Gospel of Thomas represents a departure from the usual literal English of previous publications.

Evangelical Christians vigorously defend the Bible as the inspired Word of God, yet we limit that term just to the autographs--those original writings of the Scriptures that no longer exist.

First Corinthians 15:56, "e;The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law,"e; is both puzzling and neglected.

Drawing from more than one thousand easily replicated examples, the author analyzes how biblical writers encoded messages into their texts.

Designed as a textbook for teaching introductory Greek grammar and syntax, Greek Is Good Grief uses a graded database, beginning with the simpler Greek of John 1, moving to Mark 8 as an example of middle level Greek, and concluding with 1 Thessalonia-ns 1-2 as representative of Paul's style.

The Light of Discovery is a Festschrift honoring Dr.

The United Nations Educational and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) entrusted author James Robinson with tracking down the place where the Nag Hammadi Codices had been discovered.

The seven Manichaean papyrus codices of the fourth or fifth century were discovered in illicit excavation in 1929 in the Egyptian desert.

In recent years, there has been rise in popularity and visibility of the debate about the last things.

How fitting it is that after some thirty-five years since the appearance of his original Anchor Bible Commentary on Hebrews Professor George WesleyBuchanan again turns his hand to this challenging document of early Christianity--now as an intertextual commentary.

A BIBLICAL LOOK at God's awesome call to be a shepherd to His flock.

'Beyond the Jordan' is a collection of essays written to honor the life and labors of W.

The following book is comprised of a series of essays and reviews that have been produced over the past several years, all related, in one way or the other, to the New Perspective on Paul (NPP).

In a recent essay "e;The Unmarked Way"e; Harvard scholar Oscar Handlin wrote: "e;At some point, midway into the 20th century, Europeans and Americans discovered that they had lost all sense of direction.

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'Read Greek by Friday' is a lean, mean introduction to the basics of New Testament Greek.

In this stimulating analysis, Shipp provides the reader with an introduction and critique of literary-rhetorical analysis as well as an in-depth treatment of the triple account of Paul's Damascus Road experience in Acts.

This significant volume draws together an exceptional list of contributors to honor the life and work of Victor Paul Furnish.

Paul is a polarizing figure in biblical history.

Bathsheba is undeniably a minor character in the biblical plotline, appearing in only four chapters in Samuel and Kings combined, and even therein saying and doing very little.

Jesus proclaimed an empowering message about the Kingdom of God in order to encourage the common people of his day to care for one another as a demonstration of their love for God.

This study builds upon recent scholarship exploring the significance of the Old Testament covenant metaphor in the Johannine writings.

This book is one of the many commentaries on the book of Acts.

In this study-the third panel of a trilogy on J's tales about evil and innocence in the primeval era-the author turns to Genesis 11:1-9, another parable, this time on the so-called "e;Tower of Babel.

In his commentary on Hosea, H.

The Damascus road encounter between Jesus and Paul is foundational to understanding the early development of Christology, and, indeed, Christianity, since it is the first appearance of the post-ascension Jesus contained in the earliest Christian literature.

"e;Professor Buchanan is eminent for many publications about both testaments.

The History of the Future--God's Revelation of events before they occur.

Most books on the prophets contain a page or two on what is usually called "e;prophetic symbolism,"e; but full-scale treatments are remarkably few, and in English entirely lacking.

Psalms 120-34--the "e;Psalms of Ascent"e;--are a hymnal within a larger hymnal.

Mark, the shortest of the four gospels, presents Jesus as the Son of God who crosses the religious and social boundaries of his time in order to extend God's rule to include the outsiders and those who are unclean.