Criticism and exegesis of sacred texts

Metaphysics and the Modern World makes the abiding questions of the nature of the self, world, and God available for the modern reader.

Late-modern theology is marked by persistent and widespread uncertainty as to how the wrath of God can be taken up as a legitimate theme within dogmatics.

Good Book interrogates how white evangelical Christians in the US make the Bible the "e;Good Book.

Melvin traces the emergence and development of the motif of angelic interpretation of visions from late prophetic literature (Ezekiel 4048; Zechariah 16) into early apocalyptic literature (1 Enoch 1736; 7282; Daniel 78).

This book examines an undertheorized topic in the study of religion and sacred texts: the figure of the neighbor.

At a time when biblical authority was under challenge from the Higher Criticism and evolutionary science, 'what providence meant' was the most keenly contested of questions.

What is the Bible?

The Letter to Titus is often branded as incoherent, its salutation inchoate.

Biblical studies is increasingly interdisciplinary and frequently focuses on how the Bible is read, received, and represented in the contemporary world, including in politics, news media, and popular culture.

the volume researches Baruch chapters 4-5 in the following successive steps.

Understanding the Hebrew Bible has never been easy.

This book introduces the reader to the various perspectives involved in the interpretation of the New Testament from the lexicographical to the feminist approach.

In Hebrew scripture men always get the exiting roles: leader, prophet, war hero.

In Joel and Obadiah, John Barton furnishes a fresh translation of the ancient manuscripts and discusses questions of historical background and literary architecture before providing a theologically sensitive and critically informed interpretation of the text.

In the wake of the Babylonian destruction of Jerusalem and the displacement of exile, there is a unique story that is told about the remnant left behind after the invasion.

This unique phrase-by-phrase exposition reads the Lord's Prayer as Jesus' description of God.

Ours is a world characterized by change.

Post-secularism is the fundamental evidence of the end of modernity.

The story of Jesus's life and the stories he told to teach people how to live--what could be more important?

There were fifteen important prophets in Israel, whose lives covered nearly four centuries, beginning about 750 B.

Whether singly or jointly authored, these essays model dynamic, interactive reading of human situations and biblical texts.

At the origin of the Watchers tradition is the single enigmatic reference in Genesis 6 to the sons of God who had intercourse with human women, producing a race of giants upon the earth.

Exploring what it means to come of age in an era marked by increasing antisemitism, readers see through the eyes of Jewish Gen Zers how identities are shaped in response to and in defiance of antisemitism.

The Old Testament is an ancient collection of theological reflections of life with God that the church has claimed as authoritative Scripture.

This book offers a concise overview of the development of intercultural philosophy since the early 1990s, focusing on one of its key pioneers Heinz Kimmerle (1930- 2016).

A fundamental problem in Christian theology has been that of determining whether God can be an object of experience and how we should account for God’s empirical availability to us.

From the recipient of the National Jewish Book Award for Lifetime Achievement, a "e;hugely entertaining and irreverent"e; (Adam Gopnik, New Yorker) account of the art of translating the Hebrew Bible into EnglishIn this brief book, award-winning biblical translator and acclaimed literary critic Robert Alter offers a personal and passionate account of what he learned about the art of Bible translation over the two decades he spent completing his own English version of the Hebrew Bible.

The four Gospels are the only books in the Bible to tell the same story from four different angles.

Son of Mary offers new solutions to some persistent exegetical problems in the interpretation of three of the most puzzling passages in the Gospel of John, and does so in a way that illuminates the social-cultural context to the New Testament world.

The Fortress Commentary on the Bible: The New Testament presents a balanced synthesis of current scholarship, enabling readers to interpret Scripture for a complex and pluralistic world.

An undergraduate textbook for use on modules introducing the New Testament.

It was reported that a doctoral student at Princeton once asked Albert Einstein, "e;What is there left in the world for original dissertation research?

This book provides an exegetical-theological-rhetorical paradigm, "e;the Christ-oriented approach"e; (Lk 24:27, 44), that facilitates accuracy, effectiveness, and practicality in preaching the New Testament use of the Old.

Since its beginning in the 1990s, Radical Orthodoxy has become perhaps the most influential, and certainly the most controversial, movement in contemporary theology.

Mountaintop Theology invites the reader to revisit biblical events that occurred on the slopes or summits of mountains.

This second of two volumes on Galilee in the Late Second Temple and Mishnaic Periods focuses on the site excavations of towns and villages and what these excavations may tell us about the history of settlement in this important period.

The church has too often lost its way in reading the Old Testament for lack of sound principles of interpretation.

This volume provides enough information about each story in the Gospel of Mark and about the gospel as a whole, in order to afford an informed understanding of the gospel.

The book of Joshua memorializes a transitional episode in Israel's national history.