Criticism and exegesis of sacred texts

The Bible is full of amazing stories, and everyone knows the most famous ones.

This volume in the popular Interpretation series presents the book of Leviticus.

This book offers a fresh appraisal of the identity and involvement of the subalterns in Mark, arguing that the presence of the subalterns in Mark is a possible hermeneutical tool for re-reading the Bible in a postcolonial context like India.

The miracles of Jesus fulfil multiple functions, not least as part of Christ's ministry.

The papers in this volume focus on some of the ways in which God's people have been rejected and exiled throughout history so as to become a diasporic people.

Biblical scholarship has come a long way from the notion that the four Gospels were written by an evangelist who was an eyewitness follower of Jesus.

Peterson engages the identities and provenances of the authors of the various “editions” of the Deteronomistic History.

This book delves into the critical question of how counseling can help individuals navigate and resolve these struggles.

Do you desire to go deeper still in your understanding of the New Testament Scriptures?

LGBTQ Christians read, love, scrutinize, become absorbed with, and find deep spiritual meaning in the Bible.

In this book, the author draws on two original sources, on a Greek biographer, historian, and rhetorician, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, as well as on Pompeian domestic art and architecture.

This volume brings together an international group of scholars on Mark and Paul, respectively, who reopen the question whether Paul was a direct influence on Mark.

One of the most beloved books of the New Testament, the Gospel of Matthew speaks with eloquence and power.

This innovative book applies findings from the field of cognitive linguistics to the study of emotions in the Hebrew Bible.

How should followers of Christ live in a multi-religious world?

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Mapping Paradigms in Modern and Contemporary Art defines a new cartographic aesthetic, or what Simonetta Moro calls carto-aesthetics, as a key to interpreting specific phenomena in modern and contemporary art, through the concept of poetic cartography.

Understanding the Hebrew Bible has never been easy.

The book of Job has captivated readers for centuries, yet its sprawling dialogues set beside its seemingly simple narrative have also puzzled those who have attempted to understand the ancient book.

The evolution of Christianity as it is known today began in Antioch, but as Becoming Christian reveals, it had once been quite different.

Misunderstanding of Paul had started already in his lifetime, and his letters offer many examples of this.

Genesis offers insight and encouragement to those who live and minister in urban environments.

Narrative critics of the Hebrew Bible often describe the biblical narrators as ';laconic,' ';terse,' or ';economical.

Stephen Finlan surveys sacrifice and atonement and what they may reveal about patterns of injury, guilt, shame, and appeasement.

Unraveling the Origins of the New Testament CanonDespite the profound influence of the New Testament, a variety of questions related to its background and history remain common.

"e;Eschatology is the explication of what must be true of the end, both of history and of the individual, if God is to be the God of the biblical faith.

If you could add a book to the Bible, what would it contain?

Christians get confused about exactly what to do with the commands in the Bible.

Few Christian writings have had the world-changing impact of St Paul's epistles to the churches, and yet from the very beginning these works proved themselves to be tricky texts.

Throughout his years as a leader of the Reformation, John Calvin had a special interest in the proprieties of prayer.

In the first comprehensive proposal for revisionist theology's deployment of historical Jesus research, Inventing Christic Jesuses rejects positions that insulate theology from Jesus research.

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

1 Timothy is one of the more controversial documents in the New Testament.

The concept of inspiration is part and parcel of the theological tradition in several religious confessions, but it has largely receded to the background, if not vanished altogether, in the discussions of biblical scholars.