Criticism and exegesis of sacred texts

Welcome to a book of adventure and imagination, exploring lessons for today that could be taken to heart from reviewing centuries of Christian work with the Revelation of the living Jesus Christ.

The Final Battle for Earth presents events contained in the Book of Revelation (a 2000-year-old prophetic book in the Holy Bible) as a well-orchestrated divine plan to take over the control of the earth from Satan.

Godfoolery: Beyond Belief and Unbelief is for religious skeptics who, like the author, have trouble accepting canned answers and confessions and creeds.

Review essays feature analysis and elaboration--what scholars call "e;criticism"e;--largely missing from ordinary book and movie reviews.

Waiting on Tables addresses the well-known enigmatic verse appearing in Acts 6:1.

Most people think of the book of Job as an attempt to explain suffering, but they fail to see the more important issue of God's righteousness and graciousness in bringing good out of evil.

These essays explore the reconception of the Gospels as first-century compositions of sound performed for audiences by storytellers rather than the anachronistic picture of a series of texts read by individual readers.

A new movement in American Christianity calls itself "e;Matthew 25 Christians.

Many people think of the Bible as a confused mixture of entries, episodes, characters, and commands.

The theme of prophets and prophecy is a central area of theological research and discussion in both Christianity and Islam.

This book focuses on a neglected area of New Testament studies--the function of prayer across the Johannine literature.

Kings, Deliverers, and Prophets brings a new biblical perspective to the much-debated question of the meaning of Luke's journey narrative.

Our intellectual context is very complicated.

"e;No other book of the Bible is quite so R-rated.

Christians believe the Jews' Old Testament narrative is God's means of introducing himself to humanity.

There is much violence in the Old Testament, both human and divine.

After receiving a 2016 diagnosis of cancer, the author began to ask: If he had time on earth to complete only one more dream, what would it be?

With this memoir doubling as an exercise in theological reflection, Mark Lloyd Taylor invites readers to explore the work and play of a year of preaching.

The Gospel of John is a magnificent book.

Maybe we should read Genesis 37-50 as the story of Joseph and Judah.

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

The collision of COVID-19 and Christmas 2020 provoked Paul Dinter to try and make sense of Christianity's ancient narrative of "e;good news.

What led a thirty-year-old carpenter/builder from an obscure village in Galilee to abandon his trade and become the itinerant preacher, teacher, and healer described in the Gospels?

Worldwide, most Christians are members of denominations that exclude women from ministry.

Everyone loves a good story--one with interesting characters, an intriguing plot, lots of twists and turns, and a surprise ending.

Walk Through the Book of Genesis: A Verse-By-Verse Exposition is as the title suggests, an exposition of each verse of the book of Genesis.

La buena noticia (euangelion) del Mesias crucificado y resucitado fue proclamada primero a los judios en Jerusalen y luego a los de toda la tierra de Israel.

Far from being a stable situation, the historical context in the late Second Temple Era was full of conflict at the level of the empires and that of the rulers in Palestine.

Before it was written there were a wide variety of views about the end of time held across different Jewish movements.

In The Pauline Letters: A Rhetorical Analysis, David Oliver Smith unveils his revolutionary discovery that the apostle Paul divided his letters into structured literary units as he wrote them.

The wrestling match with God at Jabbok, where he insisted on a blessing, turned Jacob's life upside down.

The short story that we now know as the Gospel according to Mark was written in Greek twenty centuries ago in the context of an agrarian society that had been developing its own characteristics in the circum-Mediterranean region.

Very little work has been done on the function of example as a rhetorical induction in the New Testament.

No canonical Gospel is more concerned with wealth and poverty than Luke.

Christ's New Address completes a six-volume series of sermons by Bruce Taylor based on the Common Lectionary (Revised).

VOLUME ONE: Biblical Covenantalism in Torah: Judaism, Covenant Nomism, and AtonementVOLUME TWO: Biblical Covenantalism in Prophets, Psalms, Early Judaism, and Gospels: Judaism, Covenant Nomism, and Kingdom HopeVOLUME THREE: Biblical Covenantalism in New Testament Epistles: Engagement of the New Perspective and New Covenant AtonementBiblical covenantalism is the backbone of the Old Testament and the root of salvation and ethics.

This engaging text examines the complex interface that exists between a Christian's faith commitments on the one hand and the exercise of his or her responsibilities as a manager or nominal leader on the other.