Criticism and exegesis of sacred texts

Jesus's command to disciple all the nations in Matt 28:19 has provided a powerful catalyst for cross-cultural mission for the past two thousand years.

For many, the book of Revelation seems hopelessly hard to interpret.

For centuries scholars have analyzed the composition of Luke-Acts presupposing that the reference to "e;many"e; accounts in Luke's Preface indicates the written texts which served as the author's primary sources of information.

In this expositional commentary of the Letter to the Ephesians, Paul shares that the universal goodness of the gospel--the news of grace and truth from Jesus Christ--is not just for Jews but is for all people, regardless of birth, tribe, or nationality.

A struggle is currently underway to figure out one of the central groups in the gospel story .

Least of the Apostles is a study of Paul's relation, both in his ministry and through his epistles, to the rest of apostolic Christianity.

Matthew's Gospel makes mention of prophets and prophecy more than any other canonical Gospel.

Here is the inside story of the only New Testament church we know about in detail during both the 50s and the 90s of the first century AD.

In this innovative study, Horsley builds on his earlier works concerning the problematic and misleading categories of "e;magic"e; and "e;miracle"e; to examine in-depth the meaning and importance of the narratives of healing and exorcism in the Gospels.

The central question addressed in this book is whether Paul thought that Christ Jesus pre-existed in heaven, "e;in the form of God,"e; through whom all things were made, before being sent into the world to be born of a woman, in the likeness of sinful flesh.

If we pick up the Bible as God's word and at the beginning read with trepidation, then the whole of the Bible is so read.

Buried for more than a thousand years in the sands of Egypt, the Secret Revelation of John has stayed a secret far longer than it should have.

Economic justice is the core of the biblical tradition.

Work occupies most of our waking time, whether it is in a factory, office, school, or at home.

Given the present state of affairs in the area of intertextuality, along with the multitude of competing interpretations of Scripture, Validity in the Identification and Interpretation of a Literary Allusion in the Bible seeks to bring a measure of reason and methodological control back into the discussion.

Frustrated and fed up at trying to live your life by the list?

Romans is a missional document.

In Pentecostal Hermeneutics in the Late Modern World, L.

Millions of Christians the world over hold strong convictions about what happens to humankind at the end of history: Jesus will rapture the church away.

Ecclesiastes is a persuasive speech with a rhetoric so unique that it can be easily misunderstood.

The subtitle of this book is "e;A Somewhat Different Commentary,"e; so how is it different?

Bible readers are often preoccupied with themselves.

Our God is beyond a one-name moniker.