Criticism and exegesis of sacred texts

An examination of the Hebrew Scriptures reveals the ethical situations in ancient Israel as a structural analysis, and exposes a covenantal triangle that features a dynamic of giving and receiving, taking and paying penalties, as a meme for human relationships.

In this monograph, Adam Winn proposes that the ancient Greco-Roman literary practice of imitation can and should be used when considering literary relationships between biblical texts.

Biblical faith is passionately and relentlessly material in its accent.

This book is a companion volume to Scribes, Motives, and Manuscripts.

Matthew's Gospel makes mention of prophets and prophecy more than any other canonical Gospel.

This book examines migration and colonialism in the ancient Near East in the late second millennium BCE, with a focus on the Levant.

The first fruits of the literary career of St.

The Septuagint is the term commonly used to refer to the corpus of early Greek versions of Hebrew Scriptures.

The Epistle to the Romans remains the centerpiece of all serious Pauline theological research.

Love, seduction, betrayal, violence, riddles, and myth all find their place in the biblical story of Samson.

For fourteen centuries, a gap of mutual suspicion and hostility has existed between Christians and Muslims, despite attempts to engage theologically, apologetically, polemically, and militarily (such as the Crusades).

Catholic Social Teaching is a relatively new and growing body of theology.

Since the mid-twentieth century, apocalyptic thought has been championed as a central category for understanding the New Testament writings and the letters of Paul above all.

The biblical story of Ruth celebrates the power to begin life anew, to gather what has been scattered, to glean what one needs.

A helpfully concise commentary on Paul's letter to the early Christians in Rome, which the Apostle wrote just a few years before the outbreak of Nero's persecution.

This book questions all familiar readings of the body of Christ in Paul's letters and helps readers rethink the context and the purpose of this phrase.

Hidden in His Own Story is an invitation to reconsider and re-imagine both the humanity and divinity of Jesus.

The Johannine Gospel's Concept of Community takes an interdisciplinary approach to contextualizing the New Testament in an African milieu, which helps Johannine scholarship intersect with Akan anthropology and sociology through a tripartite frame of interpretation--a narratological analysis of community-oriented narratives in John, the exegesis of the Akan concept of community encapsulated in their proverbial lore (the anthology of inestimable information about the Akan conceptualization of communitarianism), and an engagement between the two conceptual schemes through an intercultural reading.

Traditionally revered as the literal word of God, the Qur'an serves as Islam's sacred book of revelation.

His birthday was once celebrated as a national holiday and his portrait once adorned the walls of almost every classroom in the United States.

The volume publishes papers read at the tenth International Conference on the Deuterocanonical Books, Budapest, 2013.

Judith Abrams, author of the highly acclaimed The Talmud for Beginners, Volumes I & II, creates yet another way of making Talmud study easy and accessible for the novice.

The books of Obadiah and Jonah can be read in just ten minutes.

The book of Jubilees was written by a Jewish author in the second century BCE.

What is life all about?

Economic justice is the core of the biblical tradition.

In this groundbreaking work to identify and address God's absence in three key rape narratives in the Hebrew Bible, Leah Rediger Schulte finds a pattern that indicates a larger community crisis.

Eschatological glory is a significant motif in Romans that has failed to garner the attention it deserves.

Though more than four hundred years have elapsed since the Bishops' Bible was first published in 1568, its story has never been adequately told.

Almost 75 percent of the Old Testament is made up of poetic passages, yet for many readers (lay Christians, even seminary students and pastors), biblical poetic passages remain the greatest challenge.

The sin narratives of Genesis 3 and 4 have been scrutinized by biblical interpreters throughout the centuries.

This volume of the Building Bridges Seminar, Power: Divine and Human, Christian and Muslim Perspectives, comprises pairs of essays by Christians and Muslims which introduce texts for dialogical study, plus the actual text-excerpts themselves.

Pablo de Tarso, después de su experiencia en el camino hacia Damasco, no solo se convirtió al Señor Jesús, sino que también tomó conciencia de su vocación para ser apóstol de los gentiles.

Jesus of Nazareth and the four New Testament gospels continue to fascinate people from many cultural and religious backgrounds.

Understanding and Using the Bible is an engaging and exciting introduction to biblical methods and practices of study, edited by two trusted teachers in collaboration with a diverse array of contributors.

Designed for both Hebrew and non-Hebrew students, A Handbook to Old Testament Exegesis offers a fresh, hands-on introduction to exegesis of the Old Testament.

The Jehuite Dynasty ruled more than ninety years (841-747 BCE) in the Kingdom of Israel, the longest dynasty in the history of the Northern Kingdom.

The Ten Commandments belong to the "e;classics"e; of Western culture.

Sport and Art explores relationship of sport to art.

This book provides a detailed analysis of the Messiah's bloodline that reveals many important concepts related to the human condition of mankind.

Walter Wink's writing has been described as brilliant, provocative, passionate, and innovative.

Living as an alien in one's native land is a familiar reality to marginalized communities.