Borrowing from the ancient rabbinic use of midrash as a means of opening Scripture to students, James Lowry has chosen six texts from among those in which he believes Mark deliberately left silences.
In the last few years I've read rants against the evils of feminism from some of the top Evangelical and Fundamentalist Christian leaders who blame women wanting to go to work, go into ministry, and be equals to their husbands for all the social ills happening in our country.
These essays represent William Campbell's ongoing challenge over the last two decades to a residual aspect of the paradigm of Paulinism, namely that of interpreting Paul in antithesis to his Jewish roots.
As a dominant voice in our society, Western Christianity (including fundamentalism) is dying despite the growing tendency of people to identify as spiritual but not religious.
This revised edition of The Family Metaphor in Jesus' Teaching examines the family metaphors for God (Father) and for believers ("e;children,"e; "e;brothers"e;) that Jesus chose to use.
One of our best known biblical interpreters offers essays and sermons meant to assist preachers in their interpretation and explication of biblical texts.
Here is a concise, inviting introduction to the greatest of the early Christian missionaries, the Apostle Paul--his life, his letters, his thinking--and the life-transforming gospel he proclaimed.
Delio DelRio offers a fresh perspective on the contemporary quest for Paul by doing the hard work to uncover the milieu few have attempted to integrate into our understanding of Paul--the Jewish synagogue.
A Time to Live and a Time to Die will inspire its readers through a greater understanding of God's seasons for humanity as revealed by Solomon in the book of Ecclesiastes.
The Gospel of Mark is an invitation to anyone open to the stories told by believers about Jeshua, the son of Mary, about his life and especially his compassion for those excluded from society and struggling on the margins.
The long history of interpretation of the three Johannine letters has been largely characterized, at least since Irenaeus in the late second century, by the assumption that the Elder was addressing the Gnostic heresy.
Leviticus has been called "e;irrelevant,"e; "e;primitive,"e; and "e;a backwater"e; of the Bible, even by scholars and people of faith who treasure Scripture.
As the Christian church moved from its inception in an Eastern/Oriental culture westward across Asia Minor (Turkey) into Greco-Roman culture with primarily a Western philosophy, theology, and values, Jesus' message and Paul's teachings began to be interpreted according to those cultural norms.
This book seeks to place before beginning students and general readers a representative discussion of material contained in the biblical book of Jeremiah.
Most New Testament scholars today agree that Jesus used an enigmatic self-designation, bar nasha ("e;the Son of Man"e;), translated into Greek as ho huios tou anthropou in the Synoptic Gospels.
In this innovative work, Mowinckel employs the phenomenology of religion to investigate how religion was lived and experienced in ancient Israel and Judah.
Genesis "e;was a political document of the state, and its major function was to exalt David and his monarchy, not only with his own people but also among the other states of that world.
