Criticism and exegesis of sacred texts

The Social-Science Commentary series pioneers an alternative commentary genre, providing in this volume the text of the deutero-Pauline letters and cultural notes on them.

This concise volume introduces readers to the three main sections of the Hebrew Bible (Tanakh) and to the biblical books found in each.

As the first century came to a close, the church struggled with its identity due to its memories of a disconnected past.

The thought of G.

Unscheduled Grace: 40 Reflections and Prayers for College Students, is a collection of devotions and prayers.

Offering a reading of the intermarriage debate and expulsion of the foreign women in Ezra 9-10, this book engages with the production and performance of masculinities in this biblical text, shifting the focus away from the 'foreign women' to the men who are the primary actors in this work.

Charles Kacprowicz is persuaded that defending our republic (through Article V single-issue amendments) is the LORD's way for state legislatures to restore our constitutional republic, Christian heritage, and states' rights.

This book offers new interpretative insight into the Gospel of John, applying a combination of critical discourse analysis, conceptual metaphor theory, and anthropological theories of ritual.

This volume presents a collection of studies by international experts on various aspects of ancient Israel's society, economy, religion, language, culture, and history, synthesizing archaeological remains and integrating them with discussions of ancient Near Eastern and biblical texts.

Keen to make your church relevant to Millennials?

The Fourth Gospel has been known as the "e;spiritual gospel"e; since the second century, but only recently have biblical scholars attempted to express the unique spirituality found in that sacred text.

Preaching's Survey of Bibles and Bible ReferenceWe often turn to the book of Job when we encounter suffering.

The rule of Jesus articulated in Matthew's Gospel is neither obscure nor archaic.

Deolito Vistar brings a new perspective to the interpretation of the temple incident--a key event in Jesus' life--by approaching the subject not from the "e;historical Jesus"e; point of view but from that of the authors of the Gospels.

When your faith no longer works, and the catch phrases and Christianese that got you to where you are cannot take you past your current crisis, what do you do?

On the margins of the biblical canon and on the boundaries of what are traditionally called 'mainstream' Christian communities there have been throughout history writings and movements which have been at odds with the received wisdom and the consensus of establishment opinion.

The purpose of this book is to introduce the Pentateuch to (under)graduate students by approaching it from the perspective of five theological polarities: chaos-creation (Genesis), slavery-freedom (Exodus), defilement-holiness (Leviticus), wilderness-homeland (Numbers), and conflict-covenant (Deuteronomy).

This book is a very personal reflection on the life of Belinda (BJ) Allder, a young missionary whose life was cut short through cancer.

Jesus was a Jew, living in a Jewish culture and under Jewish laws, laws that governed the people of Israel at a time of conflict with their Roman overlords.

The Invention of Ancient Israel shows how the true history of ancient Palestine has been obscured by the search for Israel.

Health is God's original created intent: whole persons, healthy relationships, a thriving environment, and ongoing interaction with himself.

Have you ever been puzzled by contradictions in the Bible?

The few popular Bible stories about women are often presented in black and white-the women were good or bad, Ruth or Jezebel.

This volume presents a detailed case for the plausible literary dependence of the Gospel of Mark on select letters of the apostle Paul.

This volume, a part of the Interpretation: A Bible Commentary for Teaching and Preaching series, focuses on Paul's letter to the Romans.

Why, in our supposedly secular age, does the Bible feature prominently in so many influential and innovative works of contemporary U.

The Midrash: An Introduction sets forth the way in which Judaism reads the Hebrew Bible.

1 and 2 Timothy, Titus: A Theological Commentary for Preachers engages hermeneutics for preaching, employing theological exegesis that enables the preacher to utilize all the units of these epistles to craft effective sermons.

The Protestant Reformation emphasized the centrality of scripture to Christian life; the twentieth-century liturgical movement emphasized the Bible‘s place at the heart of liturgy.

Since the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls, scholars have traced out the rich and complex traditions of biblical interpretation in Second Temple Judaism.

This book offers a complete translation of the Majjhima Nikaya, or Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha, one of the major collections of texts in the Pali Canon, the authorized scriptures of Theravada Buddhism.

In this work, the author brings the book of Bereshit (Genesis) to life by his idiomatic, easily understood translation of the Masoretic text.

Decades of use and refinement have solidified the place of How to Think Theologically as the indispensable guide to helping students of theology realize their call to be theologians.

Advocating New Testament Christology as a historically informed theological enterprise readily suggests the book's two-part structure: the treatment of the four Christologies in Part Two is warranted by the arguments in Part One, whose first chapter neither surveys nor summarizes the history of research but instead presents a historically informed argument about the impact of "e;history"e; on Christology.