This book is packed with a wealth of material, ample consideration being given to the many divergent viewpoints represented by scholars of all backgrounds.
A thorough revision of Youngbloods two earlier studies: How it all Began and Faith of our Fathers, The Book of Genesis provides students with a vast resource for understanding the beginning of the universe, marriage, society, redemption, life, sin and civilization.
Written as only a dedicated missionary to the Israelites could write it, this is a penetrating analysis of the Son of God as a servant as is pictured in Isaiah 53.
Martin argues that Paul's differences with the Jewish view of the law stem from his starting point that righteousness and life (or salvation) can only come through Christ.
Although valuable for their early witness to the text of the Greek New Testament, the influence of the papyri on Bible translations in this century has largely gone unnoticed.
A grammar, reader, and glossary"e;Syriac, the language of the Christian Aramaeans, who had their headquarters in Edessa in northern Mesopotamia, is, in the first place, historically important, since it was through the medium of Syriac literature that Christian and philosophic learning passed to the Arabs and Persians, and even to India and China.
All too often problems of biblical hermeneutics are too closely linked to technical biblical study rather than to the day-by-day issues confronting the church.
'The Sword of His Mouth' is a study of the rhetorical and poetic form of synoptic sayings which argues that many of these sayings use a "e;depth rhetoric"e; which seeks to challenge the hearer's fixed structures of meaning and value, moving one to new action by awakening new insight.
Here Professor Hengel argues with a wealth of documentation that the traditional views of the origin and tradition of the Gospel of Mark have far more to be said for them than has been usually allowed by modern New Testament scholars.
More happened in the period between Jesus and Paul, Professor Hengel argues, than in the whole of the next seven centuries, up to the time when the doctrine of the early church was completed.
