While many have recognized unusual patterns of repetition within the book of Hebrews, which seem to play a range of important functions within the text, the consistency of this patterning has not been fully appreciated and its function has been largely unexamined.
Via a hermeneutics focused on Chinese numerology and concentric arrangements, this book offers a novel construal of the textual universe proper to early China writings.
Via a hermeneutics focused on Chinese numerology and concentric arrangements, this book offers a novel construal of the textual universe proper to early China writings.
Since the second century, 1-2 Timothy and Titus, often referred to as the "e;Pastoral Epistles,"e; have been read and practiced together to help order a Christian congregation's life and mission.
This three-volume commentary on the Psalms engages hermeneutics for preaching, employing theological exegesis that enables the preacher to utilize all the psalms in the Psalter to craft effective sermons.
Climate change, species loss, and the pollution of our air, water, and soil all indicate that humans have failed in their God-given mandate to care for the earth.
For centuries, Jesus' parables have been--and still are--extensively interpreted by those who impose Christian dogma and tradition on a parable told decades before Christianity per se even existed.
The book of Psalms is a favorite of Christians, even though we frequently read it in portions and pieces, hopscotching through the familiar and avoiding the odd, the unpleasant, and the difficult.
Many of our current, lasting controversies in American Christianity are due, in part, to the willingness of liberals to champion reason and experience while leaving Scripture and tradition to conservatives, and vice versa.
The book of Isaiah remains one of the most significant works of the Old Testament, dealing with actual responses to a series of political changes and crises--those responses being both of the people of God and also of the dominant great empires of that age.
African grassroots theologies and churches are expressions of the faith, spirituality, and praxis of African Christians who seek to articulate and live out their Christian identity and mission in their diverse and complex contexts.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton's 'The Woman's Bible (Complete Edition)' boldly tackles the patriarchal interpretations of religious texts, particularly those that suppress female voices and experiences.
In William Blake's epic poem 'Jerusalem', the reader is transported to a mystical and visionary world where the boundaries between reality and imagination are blurred.
Ernest Renans Buch 'Die Apostel' ist ein Meisterwerk der historischen Literatur, das sich mit der Geschichte des Christentums und der Entstehung des Apostolats auseinandersetzt.
Das Buch Henoch, verfasst von dem mysteriösen Autor Anonym, ist eine faszinierende Abhandlung über apokalyptische Visionen und himmlische Offenbarungen.
In seinem Buch 'Das Leben Jesu' untersucht Ernest Renan die historische Figur Jesu von Nazareth und präsentiert eine wissenschaftliche Analyse seines Lebens und seiner Lehren.
This book offers an alternative commentary--concise, up-to-date, readable, engaging the text as a cross-cultural encounter, acknowledging distance and difference from our contemporary world as well as highlighting proximity and relevance.
Rooted in and advocating for a postmodern and postcolonial understanding of mission, Liberating Scripture is the first book-length study designed specifically to introduce readers to the emerging subfield of biblical interpretation known as missional hermeneutics.
This three-volume commentary on the Psalms engages hermeneutics for preaching, employing theological exegesis that enables the preacher to utilize all the psalms in the Psalter to craft effective sermons.
