Criticism and exegesis of sacred texts

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Students will be glad to make Westcott their guide in this impressive exposition of St.

Aspects of the Old Testament, the Bampton lectures for 1897, were presented as eight talks before the University of Oxford.

As the dean of Luke-Acts studies in America, Henry J.

The study of languages forms the foundation of any study of ancient societies.

This text is designed to introduce students of the Bible to the archaeology, geography, and history of many of the important sites of the Old and New Testament worlds.

Renowned nineteenth-century textual critic Frederick Scrivener presents sixty-three manuscripts of the Greek New Testament and other like documents in this volume.

This volume is a Bible history, reaching, in its present imperfect form, from Adam to the death of Saul.

This book is a commentary on all the major biblical texts dealing with the Spirit, from Genesis to Revelation.

Just as a harmony of the Gospels is useful for tracing the life of our Lord Jesus Christ, this easy-to-use book provides the Bible student with a reference guide to the history of the kings of Judah and Israel as preserved in the books of Samuel, Kings, and Chronicles.

Students of the Old Testament have long recognized that in the two histories of the Hebrew monarchies, Samuel/Kings and Chronicles, a literary relationship exists which is akin to that of the Synoptic Gospels of the New Testament.

Beginning the Good NewsFrancis Moloney provides a narrative critical reading of Mark 1:1-13, Matthew 1-2, Luke 1-2, and John 1:1-18 to illustrate that the readings of the Gospels set up a tension in the reader who learns from the beginning, but still cannot rest satisfied.

This volume, a revised version of a doctoral dissertation submitted to the University of Sheffield in 1990, places John the Baptist within his first-century Jewish context by exploring his public roles and activities as a baptizer and a prophet as they would have been understood within the sociohistorical context of Second Temple Judaism.

In this book, Lochman presents an ethic illuminated by the Ten Commandments.

Probably no other works of ancient literature have had a greater influence on religious life and thought than the Four Gospels.

Church leaders want to know that their leadership strategies are informed by Christian teaching and made credible by the authority of Scripture.

In this insightful work, the author explores the fundamental Christian virtue of 'agape.

In this insightful work, the author explores the fundamental Christian virtue of 'agape.

Following his father's classic work CHURCH DOGMATICS, Markus Barth considered the doctrine of the Lord's Supper, which, had not received a full treatment.

An investigation of the term pneuma in Paul's letter to the Galations is needed from the side of NT scholarship, because debate continues over the question about the nature of the crisis in the churches of Galatia and, therefore, about the historical occasion of Paul's statements about the Spirit.

With the exception of Dr.

ContentsIntroductionThe Protoevangelium of JamesThe Gospel of Pseudo-MatthewThe Gospel of the Nativity of MaryThe History of Joseph the CarpenterThe [Infancy] Gospel of ThomasThe Arabic Gospel of the InfancyThe Letter of Abgar to JesusThe Letter of Jesus to AbgarThe Letter of LentulusPrayer of Jesus, Son of MaryThe Story of VeronicaThe Gospel of Nicodemus, or Acts of PilateThe Latin Gospel of Nicodemus (I), or Acts of PilateThe Latin Gospel of Nicodemus (II), or Descent of Christ to the UnderwoldThe Letter of Pilate to TiberiusThe Letters of Herod and PilateThe Epistle of Pilate to CaesarThe Report of Pilate the GovernorThe Trial and Condemnation of PilateThe Death of PilateThe Story of Joseph of ArimatheaThe Revenging of the SaviourThe Syriac Gospel of the Boyhood of our Lord Jesus

The publication of the apocryphal Acts in Greek and Latin by Lipsius and Bonnet as well as Schmidt have opened a large, but very little cultivated field of ancient Christian literature.

As there now seem to be sufficient grounds for thinking that ere long the Revised Version of Holy Scripture will obtain a wider circulation and more general use than has hitherto been accorded to it, it seems desirable that the whole subject of the Revised Version, and its use in the public services of the Church, should at last be brought formally before the clergy and laity, not only of this province, but of the whole English Church.

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This is an English translation of the Arabic version of Tatian's Diatessaron.

From the Preface:These lectures are easily understood and do not require a knowledge of the Hebrew language.

From the author's Preface:[This work] is designed to give the reader a clear view of the reality of Ezekiel, and in this grand prophetical figure to bring before his mind at the same time the nature of prophecy in general.

The Parker Society was the London-based Anglican society that printed in fifty-four volumes the works of the leading English Reformers of the sixteenth century.

This book contributes substantially to the formation of a vital sense of ethos and ethics in harmony with the biblical tradition.

Our entering the new millennium has heightened interest in what the Bible says about the end times, but where can you go to sort out the different ways Christians understand Bible prophecy?

John Keenan's 'The Gospel of Mark' is a radically new reading of this most intriguing of the Synoptic gospels - a remarkable feat in the face of the explosion of Markan scholarship over the last twenty years.

This engaging exploration of the Joseph story by trusted Bible scholar Ronald Wallace offers a fresh look at Genesis 37-50 and its continuing relevance to life in our modern world.