Criticism and exegesis of sacred texts

Since the 1960s, biblical scholars have noted a relationship between eschatology and ethics in Luke-Acts, but to date there has been no substantive study of the relationship between these themes.

Every disciple imagines Jesus; reading the Gospels we form images of him and of his surroundings.

How can sixty-eight words change the world?

The term Canaanite will be familiar to anyone who has even the most casual familiarity with the Bible.

Chadwick moves the talk about concentric parallelism (chiasm) in biblical prose out of academia and into the pastor's study.

Is the Christian faith something that can peacefully exist alongside all the other aspects of an ordinary human life, or does it by its very nature turn that life into something else?

In stark contrast to the shrill and nasty interactions among many Christians regarding contentious LGBT issues, this book models a redemptive mode of engagement by featuring respectful conversations among deeply committed Christians who hold to diverging traditional and non-traditional views.

This book about religious struggle studies four texts from postexilic Judah and applies them first to Judah and then, importantly, to modern America.

What does biblical faith look like?

The commentary tradition regarding 1 Corinthians unanimously identifies the "e;weak"e; as Christ-followers whose faith was not yet sufficient to indulge in the eating of idol food with indifference, as if ideally Paul wanted them to become "e;strong"e; enough to do so.

Over fifty years ago, Vatican II's Nostra Aetate 4 drew from Romans 11 to challenge the way Paul's voice has been used to negatively discuss Jews and Judaism.

The dominant portrayals of the apostle Paul are of a figure who no longer valued Jewish identity and behavior, opposing them for both Jew and non-Jew in his assemblies.

The Christian faith stands or falls with the confession that Jesus Christ is risen.

In Setting the Captives Free Marion Carson sets out to answer the question, what does the Bible say about human trafficking?

Remarkable is how extensively in each parable Jesus provides a subtle but rich array of unexpected possibilities hidden within the hierarchies of power so commonplace in his world.

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

"e;Why do the first generation still act like that?

This book is a collaboration between a biblical scholar (Mary Ann Beavis) and a practical theologian (HyeRan Kim-Cragg) who are concerned with the way that the Bible is portrayed and interpreted in popular culture, including but not limited to the movies.

Reading Romans as Lament examines how and why Paul uses such a high volume of Old Testament lament in his letter to the Romans.

Modern readers often assume that Genesis 1 depicts the creation of the earth and sky as we know it.

The Gospel of John has been examined from many different perspectives, but a comprehensive treatment of the theme of worship in this Gospel has not yet appeared.

This first full-scale study of the Evil Eye in the Bible and the biblical communities has traced in four volumes evidence of Evil Eye belief and practice in the ancient world from Mesopotamia (c.

Jerusalem, around 735 BC.

The tension between reading Scripture as primarily a historically situated text on one hand and binding canon addressed to a community of faith on the other constitutes a crucial issue for biblical interpretation.

Jesus did not die to save us from God.

The book of Deuteronomy is not an orphan.

Although Jesus of Nazareth was a devout first-century Jew, in the twenty-first century he is often lost in the thickets of Christian theology, reflection on the wisdom of his words, and the busyness of church life.

The Old Testament prophets and their writings were hugely instrumental in the formation of the second temple eschatology, so an appreciation of the Old Testament prophetic literature greatly helps us in understanding the life and ministry of Jesus and the rationale of the early church.

The study of the eighth-century prophets has experienced major changes over the past five decades.

Historical-critical scholars have often thought that writing a coherent theology of Isaiah 56-66 is impossible because it contains such historically and ideologically diverse materials.

The Ethiopic version provides a window into the state of the Greek Bible as it circulated in East Africa at the end of the fourth century.

How is the interpreter to approach Ecclesiastes?

The Epistle of James is a collection of essays that applies to the book of James linguistic methods of analysis that are based on the same theoretical framework, namely Systemic-Functional Linguistics.

The relationship between the church and the scriptures of Israel is fraught with complexities, particularly in regard to how the first Christians read scripture in light of the gospel of Christ.

Hedrick contends that parables do not teach moral and religious lessons; they are not, in whole or part, theological figures for the church.

This book attempts to solve the Samaritan riddle that is the focal point of the Dunn Debate.

There are many stories to tell about the Ethiopic manuscripts in the collection of the Mekane Yesus Seminary in Addis Ababa.

In this study Heather Gorman analyzes Luke's portrayal of Jesus' death in light of the ancient rhetorical tradition, particularly the progymnasmata and the rhetorical handbooks.

Did Jesus rise physically from the dead, or did he rise as a real, non-bodily apparition, like those reported in the parapsychological literature?

The Bible proclaims a message of liberation.

What is the most famous and influential sentence of all time?

This book explores why and how Paul uses Scripture (Old Testament) in Phil 2:10-16.

Before the Gospels were written, long before the creeds of the Church were hammered out, Christ followers in Philippi sang a hymn of the Christ who, "e;although he was in the form of God .

Faith and feminism unite in these essays to explore the theology of the Hebrew Bible as testimony to the faith of ancient Israel and as a source for Christian theology and ethics.

The life of Jesus is at the heart of the Christian faith, and is one of the great works of Western literature.

In Holiness and the Missio Dei, Andy Johnson takes the reader on a biblical journey that explores the question of what holiness or sanctification has to do with God's mission in the world.

This is the second edition of a 1979 commentary on the book of Daniel.

While serving as Interim Pastor in the 1993-1994 church year, Kenneth Vaux announced a year-long sermon series entitled "e;Intimations of the Sacred.

This book aims to provide advanced students of biblical studies, seminarians, and academicians with a variety of intertextual strategies to New Testament interpretation.

After a review of scholarly work on the speeches in Acts, particularly Paul's Pisidian Antioch speech, Morgan-Wynne sets Paul's speech in the context of the first missionary journey and of the rest of Luke-Acts.