Criticism and exegesis of sacred texts

How is God to be worshipped?

The disciplines of biblical studies and theology should serve each other, and they should serve both the church and the academy together.

Paul of Tarsus, the Pharisee who tried to destroy the church of God, experienced a conversion to faith in Jesus Christ that was to turn his life upside down and lead to his becoming one of the greatest missionaries and theologians of all time.

Nowadays many scholars are intensively studying the Book of Ben Sira in its different versions.

Early feminist theologians criticized the Christian doctrine of sin for its focus on female sexual purity and its enabling of the marginalization and oppression of women.

The telling of Mark's story of Jesus as the Messiah of peace in the decades following the Roman-Judean war announced a third way forward for Diaspora Judeans other than warfare against or separation from "e;the nations.

What if the texts of the canonical Gospel authors provide commentary alongside the texts they created?

Godfoolery: Beyond Belief and Unbelief is for religious skeptics who, like the author, have trouble accepting canned answers and confessions and creeds.

While it is widely acknowledged that Jesus told stories, there has not been much focus on why he did so and how these stories contributed to his ministry.

Readers' Choice Award WinnerBiblical Foundations Award WinnerWhen reading through the Bible, it is impossible to ignore the troubling fact that Israel and its leaders and even Jesus' own disciples seem unable to fully grasp the messianic identity and climactic mission of Jesus.

Ephesians speaks to our deepest questions about God: the redemptive plan of God written from ages past now revealed; the work of Christ complete and effective now and for eternity; the power of the Holy Spirit to change lives and build a community.

Ministry with Youth in Crisis is a comprehensive treatment of major adolescent crises related to life themes including self-identity, faith formation, family life, social relationships, sexuality, suicide, substance abuse, and eating disorders.

With the tools of far-reaching revolutions in literary theory and informed by the poetic sense of truth, William Franke offers a critical appreciation and philosophical reflection on a way of reading the Bible as theological revelation.

If something is commanded in the Bible, the command must surely be obeyed if we are to be true to the Bible.

Reflecting on Matthew's Gospel, renowned preacher Barbara Brown Taylor takes timeless stories of seeds, weeds, doubt, risk, fights, shame and glory and explores how they resonate with contemporary readers, enabling them to discover God's truth in their own lives.

In the last twenty years, Orthodox Catholics have come to expect their art to be necessarily about beauty.

Why another book about biblical interpretation (hermeneutics)?

This volume engages the Gospel of Matthew in full awareness of its inherently political character.

Actual y completo en todos los conceptos y todas las voces que aparecen en la Biblia.

James C.

Many books of the Hebrew Bible were either composed in some form or edited during the Exilic and post-Exilic periods among a community that was to identify itself as returning from Babylonian captivity.

What does Jesus value and seek in believers' hearts?

Since David Hume, the interpretation of miracle stories has been dominated in the West by the binary distinction of fact vs.

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Among the most challenging biblical figures to understand is Jeroboam son of Nebat, the first monarch of northern Israel whose story is told in 1 Kings 11-14.

Trans(in)fusion is a highly original book that tries to radicalize our ways of 'critical thinking' across disciplines.

Within the Judeo-Christian tradition, Sodom and Gomorrah represent locales in which threats to national formation are couched in sexual terms.

This book offers a historical-materialist reading of the opening chapters of the book of Genesis in an attempt to revive their potential to engage people in truthful discussions about power and pleasure.

While indeterminacy is a recurrent theme in philosophy, less progress has been made in clarifying its significance for various philosophical and interdisciplinary contexts.

Simon, Sohn des Johannes, erhält von Jesus den Beinamen Petrus (Stein).

This significant book, written a few years before his death, presents Ellul's fullest understanding of the meaning of Jesus' life.

Persecution, false accusations, and philosophical criticisms were all a common part of the life of the church in the second century.

Allein die Schrift!

John's gospel does not record "e;Thomas's doubt,"e; as later generations of Christians have branded the story.

Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John each has his own way of telling the Story of stories--an account of the arrival of the Messiah into our world.

This pioneering volume explores and exemplifies the relevance of psychoanalysis to contemporary philosophical problems.

It is the quintessential nature of humans to communicate with each other.