Criticism and exegesis of sacred texts

Is it right to pray for revival?

As preachers who come to the pulpit, before God and before God's people, each and every week, how do we make sense of the text as we live a new moment of its ongoing story?

This book offers two things in particular: first, these are papers that have been commented on and re-worked in the context of a set of lively sessions from (International) SBL conferences from 2012 to 2014 (Amsterdam, St.

Almighty Matters: God's Politics in the Bible explores the underlying politics of the Hebrew and Christian Bibles by uncovering their political-theological connection in a single story line.

This work is dedicated to David Alan Black, a New Testament scholar who has contributed to the love of the Koine Greek language as it pertains to New Testament studies in numerous ways--as a professor, author, missionary, and editor.

The Gospel is said to be concealed in the Old Testament and revealed in the New Testament.

Between the world of Ta-Nehisi Coates and Christianity there appears to be the widest difference.

Many refer to 1 Peter as an exegetical stepchild within the New Testament; that is, it does not receive the same attention as the Pauline writings, the Gospels, or the Johannine literature.

Drawing on recent scholarship on the Pauline tradition within early Christianity, this book examines Paul's theology of baptism and highlights its practical application in ministry today.

We are increasingly conscious of the significance of our body language in our everyday interactions.

The language of perfection crops up regularly in the Bible, from Noah ("e;a just man and perfect in his generations,"e; KJV) to Jesus ("e;be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly father is perfect,"e; NRSV).

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.

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.