Criticism and exegesis of sacred texts

Jesus Christ is the most famous person in human history.

In an age of e-books and screens, it may seem antiquated to create a handwritten, illuminated Bible.

The ailments of the contemporary church are remarkably similar to those suffered by the fractious Corinthian church in the first century.

Worship is a dominant theme in the Old Testament.

We are in the last days.

Secrets from Heaven is a practical devotional guide that consists of Scriptures from the Bible on how to get our prayers answered.

When churches experience troubling conflicts, they are likely to be offered Matthew 18:15-17 as the only solution.

This book is introductory, but it is not an introduction to biblical content or to the history of early Christianity in the typical sense.

Would a book on how to lead a successful business answer the question of how to grow a church?

The Radical Teaching of Jesus carefully and thoughtfully invites the reader into an understanding of the life and teachings of Jesus.

Who do we meet in the stories Jesus told?

Beginners scanning Leviticus will find much detail about rituals and sinful situations, but little enlightening context or rationale.

Jesus before Pentecost studies the history of Jesus' ministry from William P.

Jesus' parables in Luke weren't only addressing his audience.

The troubles and ills of the church today can only be understood and healed when Christians begin to face up to their hidden alliances with the Corinthians of the first century and embrace both the Apostle's diagnosis and therapy offered in the epistle.

Though more than four hundred years have elapsed since the Bishops' Bible was first published in 1568, its story has never been adequately told.

This book seeks to demonstrate that the fellowship meal traditions in the ancient world form the background against which the Lord's Supper must be understood.

In his letter to the church in Galatia, the Apostle Paul addresses the inefficacy of religious tradition for salvation and reaffirms the completeness of Jesus Christ's redemptive work for our deliverance and righteousness.

One hundred taxis lined up on Church Street in Oslo on November 26, 1942, deployed in order to round up the city's Jews and send them to Auschwitz.

We are not even sure of her name: it might have been Salome; it might have been Herodias, like that of her mother.

This book is one of the many commentaries on the book of Acts.

This book aims to identify the beast from the sea and the beast from the land in Revelation 13 by studying their unique link together with the dragon in Revelation 12: the land beast is subordinate to the sea beast, which in turn is subordinate to the dragon.

Intuitive logical thinking would suggest that Revelation should be:One biblically coherent and complete narration,That uses only natural and biblical symbols,To retell God's consistent work from beginning to end;That reveals Jesus and his resurrection as the focus;To call for decisive response from every person,For the creation which God loves and will glorify;To close God's written oracle to humankind.

The I AM statements exclusive to the Fourth Gospel are seen as the attempt of the author(s) of that Gospel to present the nature and purpose of the earthly life of Jesus by engaging the imaginative faculty of the reader.

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.

Thanks to coded notes taken by the teenager John Pynchon, this volume transports the reader, virtually, back to Sundays in the seventeenth century, when the community gathered to listen to the Rev.

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.

Can a Lutheran be sociopolitically radical?

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.

This is a book about the enormous changes that took place at Baylor University from 1991 to 2003, as seen through the perceptive eyes of its provost at the time, Donald D.

FRAMEWORKS is a series dedicated to interdisciplinary studies on the integration of faith and learning.

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.