Marriage as a Covenant is part of the Biblical Studies Library, which features North American paperback editions of original monographs of proven academic merit.
"e;The one great and telling charge made against Christian religion in the modern period,"e; writes Amos Wilder, "e;is that it is otherworldly, escapist and irrelevant to the problems of life.
Most people probably have a copy of the Bible in their homes, some hold one in their hands each week at church-and perhaps even attend a Bible study- but not everyone sees or appreciates the great beauty and intricate composition of the Bible,"e; writes author Drake Williams.
This last of Amos Wilder's published works in the field of religion and literature collects twelve previously published or unpublished essays written, with a single exception, in the 1980s.
Amos Wilder is widely known as a pioneer of an indigenously North American approach to biblical interpretation which takes language to be an expression not only of psychological but also of sociological and concrete reality.
Far from being carbon copies of one another, the Gospels represent four individual approaches to God, to the world, to humankind, and above all to the one they call Jesus the Christ.
Designed for readers who have no familiarity with the Old Testament or Hebrew Bible, this introduction provides a complete overview of its development and its continuing interpretation.
This is a series of expositions of most of the passages in the first and second books of Kings which give the history of the two prophets, Elijah and Elisha.
Nineteen hundred years ago, someone called the Beloved Disciple told stories about Jesus and his days on earth, including reports of what Jesus did and said.
Scholars interested in narrative critical / narratological analyses of the Old Testament and New Testament Bible will welcome this extensive practical study that discusses all aspects that should be evaluated when a narratological analysis is undertaken.
Tracing the powerful motif of the "e;coming of the Son of man"e; from Daniel through to Revelation, Andrew Perriman provides thought-provoking ideas about eschatological narrative.
This commentary explores how Luke was retelling the story of Jesus in the light of the challenges faced by the early church as it spread through the Roman Empire, and shows how the gospel can be preached today both in faithfulness to the past and as a response to contemporary questions.
To the unstructured reader the book of Isaiah can be rather confusing--it seems to be composed of poems and narratives combined haphazardly not by one, but by several authors.
Although the book of Psalms is a collection of ancient hymns and poems originally written in Hebrew, it continues to be a source of fascination and inspiration.
It is generally agreed that Mark's Gospel was the first to have been written and that the Markan narrative created a literary form that inspired Matthew, Luke, and to a lesser extent, John to follow suit with the writing of their own gospels.
