Criticism and exegesis of sacred texts

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.

"e;The contents of this volume consist largely of the Smyth Lectures delivered at Columbia Theological Seminary, 1941.

David Malick applies the hermeneutics of narrative analysis to select passages involving women in the Gospels of Mark, Luke, John, and in the Book of Acts.

Experience in the classroom at Nebraska Wesleyan and Wesleyan Universities has shown that there is need for an edition of the documents constituting the main sources of the Hexateuch.

This is a book about an ancient writer, the J writer--the Yahwist--who produced a work of political imagination.

Is the Bible True?

"e;Ours is an age of new things.

"e;The following chapters are a study in the history of early Christian thought.

"e;In the preface to his Essays in Biblical Greek, the late Dr.

This volume provides a "e;road map"e; of four major Old Testament/Hebrew Bible themes: covenant, universalism, remnant, and wisdom.

"e;Few things are more important than that Christian people should learn to realize the fact of our Lord's risen and ascended life, and its relation to their own lives and hopes.

This volume, based on seventy-three sermons that consecutively cover Matthew's Gospel, receives strength through the very roughness and directness of the word spoken under the inspiration of vast, visible audiences while addressed to the impressionable hearts of men.

In this astonishing book, the author's purpose is to help transform individuals by fostering a spirit of holy listening that enriches faith and opens seekers to the fullness of God's presence and of the neighbor's need.

Front-ranking theologians speak out on the crisis of biblical authority and interpretation in the church, focusing in particular on the adequacy of the historical-critical method of hermeneutics.

First published in 1981, Servant and Son attempts to look simultaneously at Jesus as the subject of our four canonical Gospels, and as a figure, at times the main figure, in his own parables.

The places described in this series of sketches are those which come into view most frequently and prominently in connection with the Story of Redemption.

To some the psalms are merely to be read and, perhaps, forgotten.

To describe this as simply a bedside book is to limit its usefulness.

"e;The study of the Gospels may be divided here for convenience into two branches, which may be called Textual Criticism and Introduction.

A recent movement in modern religious thought believes that the place to start in theology is at the end--eschatology.

The language of the Bible has no inconsiderable influence in forming and preserving our national language.

"e;These notes have a subordinate and restricted purpose.

Were you intrigued, but disappointed by The Bible Code?

Open the pages of Do What You Have the POWER to Do and you will meet, face to face and heart to heart, six New Testament women.

The intention of Ancient Texts and Translations (ATT) is to make available a variety of ancient documents and document collections to a broad range of readers.

An enlarged edition of The Lion and The Lamb: Figuralism and Fulfillment in the Bible, Art, and LiteratureBeginning with Northrop Frye's discussion of biblical typology--the understanding of the Old Testament as a source of anticipation of the New Testament--Tibor Fabiny develops his hermeneutical discussion using the insights of reader-response criticism in a wholly original way.

By the time Comfort and Protest was completed, South Africa was in a declared state of emergency.

Power from on High offers the first critical survey of scholarship on the subject of Luke's view of the Spirit, assessing the rival theories by means of three criteria: continuity with Luke's background, relationship to other aspects of Luke's theology, and Luke's place in the development of more general New Testament thinking about the Spirit.

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"e;The contributors represent varying outlooks in New Testament study so that the book offers a continuation of the current debate rather than a set of agreed conclusions.