Criticism and exegesis of sacred texts

Given the extraordinary richness and range of contemporary theology, questions about the authority and inspiration of the Bible tend to garner ever increasing variety, complexity and controversy.

The extent of the so-called History of David's Rise has been indecisive, and as a result, various issues around the document have been left extremely flexible.

The Gospel of Matthew opens with a patrilineal genealogy of Jesus that intriguingly includes five women: Tamar, Rahab, Ruth, "e;she of Uriah,"e; and Mary.

This study offers a creative combination of methodologies to provide grounded intertextual procedure for the apocalyptic genre with impact on understanding Revelation 15.

Die Beiträge dieses Bandes richten neue und ungewohnte Perspektiven auf die Mutter Jesu, ohne das Thema auf dürre historische Fragestellungen oder auf religionsgeschichtliche Ableitungen engzuführen.

Because of illness and age the Jesuit theologian and philosopher Bernard Lonergan never completed the systematic study on Christology, the doctrine concerning the person of Christ, that he had planned to write.

Virtually every scholar on both sides of the same-sex discussion eventually addresses the account of Sodom found in Genesis 19.

Employing a postmodernist literary approach, this book identifies C.

The Shoah is without question the defining moment in modern history, and it has transformed the manner in which the Bible is read and how God is understood.

What led a thirty-year-old carpenter/builder from an obscure village in Galilee to abandon his trade and become the itinerant preacher, teacher, and healer described in the Gospels?

The story of Jonah, often read as a simple children's story, is a multifaceted and elaborate narrative with serious intent.

In this volume, Niels Peter Lemche and Emanuel Pfoh present an anthology of seminal studies by Mario Liverani, a foremost scholar of the Ancient Near East.

The Roman Catholic Church issued its first, modern, one-volume Lectionary--a book of biblical texts assigned for every day of the year--in 1970 in response to the Second Vatican Council's call for a greater fare of Scripture during Mass.

This book questions all familiar readings of the body of Christ in Paul's letters and helps readers rethink the context and the purpose of this phrase.

Dios, que es amor, nos ha creado a su imagen y semejanza.

In this provocative study, Lester Grabbe presents a unique approach to Ezra-Nehemiah with the combination of a literary and historical approach.

What is the nature of the Qur'an?

Did Jesus intend to found a church separate from Judaism?

Los amantes de la historia más antigua de la humanidad y los buscadores de las más profundas raíces de la fe bíblica disponen de la primera obra en español dedicada a adentrarse en el Oriente Bíblico, una primigenia Tierra Santa en la que se gestó la primera relación entre Dios y el hombre.

This book demonstrates that Luke-Acts provides its audience with a basic foundation for all of the various dimensions of Christian worship.

Current research shows what many in the Christian community already know: young people are leaving the church.

Convinced that we no longer have immediate access to the sense of Jesus' words but must account for the history of its "e;effects,"e; David Clark seeks to trace the meaning of the Lord's Prayer through the early centuries of the faith.

Winner of a third-place award for spirituality books from the Catholic Media Association.

In The Dead Sea Scrolls for a New Millennium, Phillip R.

Does the Apostle Paul have any use for the person of Jesus presented in the Gospels?

John J.

The second volume of this three-volume work exegetes and comments on every occurrence of the Hebrew terms for righteousness in the Old Testament.

Das Markusevangelium bietet eine Geschichte, die auf zwei Ebenen angesiedelt ist.

Why are we here?

The religious associations surrounding the Bible make it difficult for the general reader to appreciate, in its full purity, the value which the Scriptures bear as literature, and as an epic in no way inferior, in cultural worth, to the greatest works of Greece and Rome.

This book presents the first detailed treatment of Gadamer's account of the nature of meaning.

The visions of Isaiah, Ezekiel, Daniel, Paul, and John have captivated the people of God.

Secret Scrolls is the very first examination of some forty novels in which someone discovers a new gospel.

What was life like among the first Christians?

How do we communicate the message of the Scriptures in our twenty-first-century, post-Christian context?

The Greek family of words characterizing the doctrine of "e;justification by faith"e; (as it is known in English) is most prominent in the writings of the Apostle Paul.