Criticism and exegesis of sacred texts

In Revelation 21-22, John offered a resplendent portrayal of a new Jerusalem without a temple, in which he seemed to reference the final chapters of Ezekiel.

In this little volume, Anthony Thiselton makes an impassioned appeal for closer attention to the philosophy of hermeneutics.

Which biblical leader most closely reflects your personality traits?

Since the 1980s, renewal scholars have given considerable attention to the role of the believing community in the interpretive process.

Bertrand Russell defines power as the ability to produce intended effects.

This collection of poems honors the Sabbath, a sacred time of rest decreed by God.

In seventeenth-century France, Jeanne Guyon (1648-1717) writes about the suffering of the apocalypse followed by the consummation of the second coming.

David Wilson's initial research into the phenomenon of prophecy in the Hebrew Bible suggested that many of the passages featuring prophets, and hitherto considered to be bizarre myths (or much-edited collections of traditions) were, in fact, sequences of dreams.

This book investigates stories of Jesus' exorcisms in the Gospel of Mark.

From time immemorial, in every age, a set of questions has persisted, perplexing human beings.

Most of the challenges today's church is experiencing were experienced by the early church in New Testament times.

Worship in the Old Testament has been frequently misunderstood.

Having studied preaching at a doctoral level and practiced the craft for more than thirty years, Brad Estep offers fifty biblically grounded, theologically informed, and congregationally contextualized sermons centered around the different seasons of the Christian year.

What do unicorns, law, love, and hell all have in common?

This travel guide focuses on places that Holy Land tour groups typically visit and gives major attention to connections between the Bible and the land.

The biblical story is about more than sin and salvation.

To read and visualize the transfiguration of Christ is to enter its mystery and encounter its hope.

Good poetry is like a good painting: the more you linger over it, the more it reveals.

The pastor who seeks to preach expositionally through Psalms faces a daunting task, for the sermon series would take several years to complete and many of the sermons would seem repetitious because of similar psalms.

One Greater Than Satan, like God's Unfolding Story of Salvation, is a Bible study based on A Tale of Two Kingdoms.

Slave markets, temple courts, prophetic lawsuits, diplomatic treaties, imperial victory processions, dying and rising deities.

God's Saved Israel examines identity in the Pauline corpus in terms of how Paul expresses the new identity in Christ in relation to the identity of ancient Israel.

How can we find our way through the complexities of life in the twenty-first century?

The good news (euangelion) of the crucified and risen Messiah was proclaimed first to Jews in Jerusalem, and then to Jews throughout the land of Israel.

Crosby claims that much of the Bible is myth.

In the past 2000 years the followers of Jesus have been debating the standards of Christian living.

This book interprets Mark's gospel in light of the Roman-Jewish War of 66-70 CE.

Sacramental Letters is a spirited exploration of the sacramental themes that underlie some of our more profound literature.

If Christians follow the Prince of Peace, why do they often behave so violently?

Preachers at funerals differ in approach.

In this work Susann Liubinskas provides a coherent reading of Paul's letter to the Romans in light of ancient ethnography.

The ministry is difficult.

In The Hasidic Moses, Aryeh Wineman invites readers to join him on a journey through various eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Hasidic texts that interpret the life of Moses.

Jesus said, "e;Blessed are the peacemakers"e;--but in our increasingly polarized communities and nation, where can a person of faith begin?

For decades scholars have reached no consensus on the writing order of Luke's gospel.

Although the Apostle John endorses "e;Lamb"e; twenty-nine times in his Apocalypse and employs a term that is used only one other time in the New Testament to this end, this unique title and its sophisticated christological implications has only received cursory attention both historically and more recently.

The Gospels are the most important texts of the Bible because they tell the story about Jesus--who he was and what he achieved.

Jeffrey Cohen employs his poetic skill and biblical scholarship to the challenging task of rendering the Book of Psalms into rhymed verse.

Churches often find themselves in the middle of conflict.

Have you ever puzzled over a strange word in the Bible, a hymn, or a prayer book, or wanted to explore a familiar term more fully?

Few Christian writings have had the world-changing impact of St Paul's epistles to the churches, and yet from the very beginning these works proved themselves to be tricky texts.

The hour of Jesus is a fundamental theme running throughout John's Gospel (2:4--19:27) referring to Jesus' glorification (7:39; 12:16, 23, 28; 13:31, 32; 16:14; 17:1, 5) in his passion and death (3:14; 8:28; 12:32, 34).

Preaching is as dangerous and as exhilarating as careening down some class IV rapids.

Your God is too small--way too small!

Paul's conflict with viscous enemies, human and otherwise, led him to employ efficacious powers, charismata (charismatic powers), and controversial and sometimes illegal practices that are only coherent when placed in context of the first century Hellenistic-Roman world.

This book accomplishes two distinct tasks.

In 2016, the Centre for Biblical Linguistics, Translation, and Exegesis (CBLTE), a research center located at McMaster Divinity College, hosted the annual Bingham Colloquium.

Portraits of Jewish Learning brings together colorful accounts of the ways that Jewish students today are having meaningful learning experiences in day school classrooms, Hebrew programs, synagogue-based schools, and high school and college courses that push students out of their comfort zone.

Scripture testifies that in the work of Jesus Christ the power of Satan, sin, and death has been broken.

Over the years there have been many treatments of Paul's theology that have focused on what the churches he wrote to were like, and what that might mean for today.