Criticism and exegesis of sacred texts

This book focuses on redemptive historical hermeneutics and homiletics within New Testament theology.

This book is about the names given to Jesus by those followers responsible for putting his words and deeds into writing-the earliest "e;Christian scribes.

Polish messianism tells the story of a nation struggling to survive and regain its independence.

Today the "e;land of promise"e; is a spark in the tinder dry atmosphere of Middle Eastern affairs.

The 365 poems in this collection, one for every day of the year, are a journey through prayer.

Baptists worldwide recently celebrated 400 years of history and witness.

This book, a revision of the author's dissertation, describes the grounds on which knowledge about God is possible according to the Gospel of John.

Here's a guide for English grammar that reads as easily as a story.

Eighty years ago, Walter Bauer promulgated a bold and provocative thesis about early Christianity.

How Jews and Christians Interpret Their Sacred Texts is a comparative textual study that demonstrates the connections between the Hebrew Scriptures, sacred to both Judaism and Christianity, and the Jewish Talmud and Christian New Testament, which respectively became the bases for all modern systems of the two faiths.

What does the evangelical church in Palestine think about the land, the end times, the Holocaust, peace in the Middle East, loving enemies, Christian Zionism, the State of Israel, and the possibilities of a Palestinian state?

Many readers of the Bible believe that interpreting the Scriptures well simply involves a two-way dialogue between themselves and the text.

Acknowledging the Divine Benefactor is a sociorhetorical interpretation of the Second Letter of Peter.

When Paul pens his letter to the Roman believers, he writes as a missionary to strengthen a church at the center of imperial power, choosing language that is familiar to his recipients.

The premise of this book lies in its title.

Although preachers often question their effectiveness, no task of the church is more important than proclamation.

Is meticulous Matthew also mathematically so?

Forty years ago the one thing that could be said about sermons was they were biblical.

The time in college is such a precious time of freedom and searching for students walking the maze of new ideas and new relationships.

Is the church of the twenty-first century supposed to regain its former glory, or is it too late?

Does Christianity have anything useful or credible to say to the twenty-first century, or is it just a relic of a past era, doomed eventually to die a long and painful death, perhaps to be replaced by the new atheism or another religion?

If prophets are called to unveil and expose the illegitimacy of those principalities masquerading as "e;the right"e; and purportedly using their powers for "e;the good,"e; then Will D.

I Found God in Me is the first womanist biblical hermeneutics reader.

Drawing on the hermeneutical reflections of John Howard Yoder, Stanley Hauerwas, and Mikhail Bakhtin, Cartwright challenges the way twentieth-century American Protestants have engaged the "e;problem"e; of the use of scripture in Christian ethics, and issues a summons for a new debate oriented by a communal approach to hermeneutics.

How should the Word of God be interpreted and applied today?

No other book in the New Testament compares to John in its complexity of style and structure.

The advances of geologic science, Darwinism, theological liberalism, and higher textual criticism converged in the nineteenth century to present an imposing challenge to biblical authority.

Psalm 29, a sacred text in Jewish and Christian Bibles, has been understood in a variety of ways through time and in different traditions.

The essays presented here represent over twenty-five years of thinking about the theology and life of the Apostle Paul who, as a "e;slave of Jesus Christ"e; (Rom 1:1), was a "e;servant of the new covenant"e; with a "e;ministry of the Spirit"e; (2 Cor 3:6, 8).

Ours is a world characterized by change.

Evil, death, demons, reanimation, and resurrection.

Traditional methods employed in biblical interpretation involve a two-way dialogue between the text and the reader.

Where did Paul find leaders for his new churches?

Marxism is one of the revolutionary social-scientific theories that has come to have a prominent place in New Testament studies in the United States.

One of the most perplexing and misunderstood books of the Bible, Ezekiel has left many scholars and exegetes scratching their heads regarding its message, coherency, and interpretation.

Who will speak for Hagar or Isaac or Sarah or the daughters of Lot?

What is justice?

The apostle Paul affirms in several places that there is only one God.

Matters pertaining to our Lord's second coming, heaven, hell, and associated topics are often set aside by Christians, sometimes for very understandable reasons.

The Gospel of Matthew opens with a patrilineal genealogy of Jesus that intriguingly includes five women: Tamar, Rahab, Ruth, "e;she of Uriah,"e; and Mary.

Christian communities today face enormous challenges in the new contexts and teachings that try to redefine what churches should be.

In Teaching to Justice, Citizenship, and Civic Virtue, a group of teachers considers how students learn and what students need in order to figure out what God is requiring of them.

Life is filled with opportunities to practice nonviolence.

This book is not another volume attempting to persuade the reader of the rights of gays and lesbians in society and in the church.

The emergence of Pentecostalism in Ghana has attracted a massive following and generated institutions that have significantly impacted Christian discourse and national life.

The Bible can and should be an environment in which we live and move and have our being, an environment in which we are shaped by God in different and interrelated ways.

Since the rise of the "e;New Homiletic"e; a generation ago, it has been recognized that sermons not only say something to listeners, they also do something.

In 1861 a young farmer, drafted into the Confederate Army, was wounded in battle and sent home to die.

His birthday was once celebrated as a national holiday and his portrait once adorned the walls of almost every classroom in the United States.