Criticism and exegesis of sacred texts

When the topic of homeschooling comes up, there often seem to be various assumptions as to why we homeschool our children, which are simply wrong, or, at the most, inadequate.

John J.

We all love stories--whether printed, passed down orally from generation to generation, or made into films.

Each volume in the Insights series presents discoveries and insights into biblical texts from a particular approach or perspective in current scholarship.

Every disciple imagines Jesus; reading the Gospels we form images of him and of his surroundings.

As a pastor, have you ever had a loss of words during those many trying moments in your ministry, when you found it difficult to express your true feelings?

"e;There are no words foul and filthy enough to describe war.

In this study in three-dimensional character reconstruction, Cornelis Bennema presents a new theory of character in the New Testament literature.

Violence committed by religious young people has become a regular feature of our daily news reports.

Modern biblical scholars often view the methods they employ as objective and neutral, tracing the history of modern biblical scholarship to the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

In 2003 the British New Testament scholar N.

With a Bible and guitar, Bob Marley set out to conquer the world of popular music.

The Bible is rich with complex and diverse material on the topic of money and possessions.

Todo ser humano anhela realizarse y ser feliz, pero no hay felicidad barata y fácil: ¿Qué me merece la pena en la vida?

Even casual acquaintances of the Bible know that the Truth shall set you free, but in the pursuit of that Truth in higher education--particularly in Christian or Jewish seminaries--there are often many casualties suffered along the way.

When the earliest Christ-followers were baptized they participated in a politically subversive act.

This work employs multiple methodologies to analyze the story of the man born blind (John 9) in order to discern how this episode serves the greater purpose of the Gospel, stated in 20:31: "e;so that you may trust that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and through trusting you may have life.

The fourth edition of The Christian Theological Tradition provides students with essential theological knowledge of key persons and events of the Bible and the Christian faith, and of Christianity's multifaceted encounter with Western culture.

Although the object of centuries of study, only relatively recently has Genesis 1-11 been analyzed with attention to its literary unity and theological purpose.

In his trailblazing studies of the spirit in Jewish and Christian Antiquity, John R.

People love their metaphors for the Bible.

Liberating Biblical Study is a unique collaboration of pioneering biblical scholars, social-change activists, and movement-based artists.

This study examines how the New Testament scriptures might form and foster intellectual humility within Christian communities.

Millions of Christians read the Bible not only to know what happened in ancient biblical times but also to find God's message to them.

This book offers new perspectives on animals and animality from the vantage point of the rabbis of the Babylonian Talmud.

This is a book about the enormous changes that took place at Baylor University from 1991 to 2003, as seen through the perceptive eyes of its provost at the time, Donald D.

In The Power of Equivocation Amy Kalmanofsky addresses the Bible's inherent complexity as well as the complexity of those who seek to read the Bible critically, generously, and honestly.

How the billionaire owners of Hobby Lobby are spending hundreds of millions of dollars to make America a "e;Bible nation"e;The Greens of Oklahoma City-the billionaire owners of the Hobby Lobby chain of craft stores-are spending hundreds of millions of dollars in an ambitious effort to increase the Bible's influence on American society.

The Bible contains four Gospels which tell the story of Jesus of Nazareth.

El presente volumen de la colección «Introducción al Estudio de la Biblia», patrocinada y dirigida por la Asociación Bíblica Española, es una presentación de los Evangelios Sinópticos y los Hechos de los Apóstoles en la que se aúnan el rigor y la profundidad con la claridad expositiva.

The importance of faith in Christianity cannot be denied, nor the arguments surrounding it.

These books of the Bible, despite their differences, all treat the phenomenon of what it means to live wisely before God.

The bible is indeed a world of the strange and mysterious when it comes to the variety of creatures that are presented in its texts.

Compelling perspectives on the Gospel of John from a premiere scholar of the subjectThis multidimensional volume from the leading American scholar of Johannine studies brings together D.

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.

Focus on Matthew is part of the Focus Bible Study Series which contains studies of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.