Criticism and exegesis of sacred texts

This cycle of poems travels the path of the Gospel of Mark, rereading and retelling the story, flashing back and anticipating, reading from unusual vantage points, flowing with the author's perspective and rowing against it.

When the New Testament was read publicly, what effect did the performances have on the audience?

Growing up in a world shaped by science and technology, young people may easily lose sight of God.

Before the 1960s, the goal of New Testament Textual Criticism was singular: to retrieve the "e;original text"e; of the New Testament.

Wieder einmal gibt es in der evangelischen Theologie und Kirche in Deutschland einen Streit um das Alte Testament und die Bedeutung von Schrift und Schriftauslegung.

Mit seiner asketischen Paulusexegese, die in dem Apostel das Bild des Vollkommenen erblickt, bewegt sich der anonyme Autor des Liber Graduum, ein Zeitgenosse des Johannes Chrysostomos, zunächst im Rahmen der Paulusrenaissance des ausgehenden vierten Jahrhunderts.

James, Brother of Jesus, and the Jerusalem Church opens fresh ground in our understanding of Christian origins through an exploration of the role of James in the founding of the church.

Key to a theology of scripture are the important issues of history, consciousness, rhetoric, and how theology functions in relation to interpretation of Christianitys religious texts.

In this book David Everett examines how Church has changed throughout a modern/postmodern context.

Stephanie Buckhanon Crowder provides an engaging womanist reading of mother characters in the Old and New Testaments.

The Ten Commandments and the Beatitudes are often considered significant texts for the Christian moral life.

In The Qur'an and Modern Arabic Literary Criticism, Mohammad Salama navigates the labyrinthine semantics that underlie this sacred text and inform contemporary scholarship.

In this new edition of Gerhard von Rad's classic work on the Moses traditions, the reader is provided with a more polished text, cross-references to von Rad's other works, an updated bibliography, Scripture index, and a new foreword by Walter Brueggemann.

Trajectories meets an urgent need in both undergraduate and graduate study of the Old Testament.

The Gospel Miracles examines the thirty-five miracles performed by Jesus, as reported in the four Gospels.

This study examines the speeches and prayers in the David-Solomon narrative in Chronicles and seeks to demonstrate that the Chronicler's portrayal of David and Solomon attempts to establish the Yehudite community's identity.

This edited collection responds to Richard Kearney's recent work on touch, excarnation, and embodiment, as well as his broader work in carnal hermeneutics, which sets the stage for his return to and retrieval of the senses of the lived body.

The influence of Hans Frei (1922-1988) is wide and deep in contemporary theology, even though he published little in his own lifetime.

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Ancient peoples regarded names as indicative of character and destiny.

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.

Recent years have seen a resurgence of interest in ethics, particularly in the approaches of deconstruction and hermeneutics.

The book of Revelation is confusing to read.

The third volume of this three-volume work exegetes and comments on every occurrence of the Greek terms for righteousness, righteous, righteously, and righteous judgment in the New Testament.

Why and how should we read Old Testament narrative?

The Apostle Paul, in exercising his ineffable wisdom, draws this magnificent letter to a close in an extraordinary manner.

It is no surprise that the Bible is filled with stories of violence, having come into being through the crucible of trauma, cultural conflict, and warfare.

After exploring several aspects of the craft of homily, How to Listen to a Sermon explains how listening to a sermon is different from attending to other forms of public address.

A number of distinguished biblical scholars and theologians come together in this volume to honor the life and work of Andrew T.

Pope Leo I's theological and political influence in his own time (440-461) and beyond far outweighs the amount of attention he has received in recent scholarship.

In Rabbinic Tales of Destruction, Julia Watts Belser examines early Jewish accounts of the Roman conquest of Judea.

Journal of Biblical and Pneumatological ResearchVOLUME ONE FALL 2009 The Journal of Biblical and Pneumatological Research (JBPR) is a new international peer-reviewed academic serial dedicated to narratively and rhetorically minded exegesis of biblical and related texts.

As of yet, the remarkable and highly influential textual form of Euclidean mathematics has not been considered from a literary-aesthetic perspective.

You are holding a collection of short stories that reveal how every aspect of life takes a particular dimension when considered from the perspective of faith in relationship with everyday experiences.