This title is part of UC Presss Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact.
A Minister's Manual for Spiritual Warfare is written to assist pastors and other ministers help their parishioners find freedom from demonic oppression.
The Texts @ Contexts series gathers scholarly voices from diverse contexts and social locations to bring new or unfamiliar facets of biblical texts to light.
This collection, first published in 1994, contains thirteen critical essays by established scholars from the fields of philosophy, literary criticism, feminist theory, politics, and sociology, and a new essay by Deleuze himself.
Modern historical biblical criticism, while having many strengths, often operates under the pretensions of objectivity, as if such scholarship were neutral and disinterested.
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.
This book presents nine biblical themes in essays authored by veteran educators who surprise and affirm readers with personal accounts of how these themes shaped their practice in education.
Scholars of the Hebrew Bible have in the last decade begun to question the historical accuracy of the Israelite sojourn in Egypt, as described in the book of Exodus.
Juan no es un evangelio caído del cielo sino que supone un origen, una tradición, un contexto histórico que ha determinado una interpretación elevada de la persona, de la obra y de la doctrina de Jesús, el Nazareno.
First published in 1988, David Aers explores the treatment of community, gender, and individual identity in English writing between 1360 and 1430, focusing on Margery Kempe, Langland, Chaucer, and the poet of Sir Gawain.
If the New Testament represents the crown jewels of Christianity, the Gospel of John is its "e;pearl of great price,"e; the most beloved, most read, most quoted, most distinctive, most memorable, most debated book in its canon.
The metaphor of the cosmos as the Body of Christ offers an opportunity to escape the aporias of standard Body of Christ imagery, which has often proved anthropocentric, exclusivist, triumphalist and/or sexist in the analyses of classical theologies.
El griego del Nuevo Testamento: texto programado pone al alcance del estudiante del Nuevo Testamento, un método actualizado que hace ameno lograr el dominio del griego Koiné.
Poniendo a Pablo dentro del mundo de la epoca helenista judia y griega, este libro examina su nuevo mensaje sobre la posicion preeminente del espiritu en su doctrina sobre las virtudes.
A rather acrimonious divorce is underway between evangelical theology and foundationalism--especially among younger evangelical proteges less directly connected with the modernist-fundamentalist controversy than are their professors.
History, Literature and Theology in the Book of Chronicles presents a new way of approaching this key biblical text, arguing that the Book employs both multiple viewpoints and the knowledge of the past held by its intended readership to reshape social memory and reinforce the authority of God.
Meist gelten die drei Johannesbriefe als Dokumente eines innerchristlichen Konflikts; demgegenüber geht der vorliegende Kommentar neue Wege, indem er sie in ein jüdisches Szenario einordnet.
