Criticism and exegesis of sacred texts

The term Canaanite will be familiar to anyone who has even the most casual familiarity with the Bible.

The Gospel of Mark is an invitation to anyone open to the stories told by believers about Jeshua, the son of Mary, about his life and especially his compassion for those excluded from society and struggling on the margins.

To read and visualize the transfiguration of Christ is to enter its mystery and encounter its hope.

Good poetry is like a good painting: the more you linger over it, the more it reveals.

Thanks to coded notes taken by the teenager John Pynchon, this volume transports the reader, virtually, back to Sundays in the seventeenth century, when the community gathered to listen to the Rev.

A Time to Live and a Time to Die will inspire its readers through a greater understanding of God's seasons for humanity as revealed by Solomon in the book of Ecclesiastes.

There are few more loaded words in American life than "e;family.

There are many books on the use of the Old Testament in the New.

Is the Christian faith something that can peacefully exist alongside all the other aspects of an ordinary human life, or does it by its very nature turn that life into something else?

One Greater Than Satan, like God's Unfolding Story of Salvation, is a Bible study based on A Tale of Two Kingdoms.

Slave markets, temple courts, prophetic lawsuits, diplomatic treaties, imperial victory processions, dying and rising deities.

The Imitation of Saint Paul takes us behind the headlines of his career and offers a fresh, compelling, contemporary look at the man who changed the world.

In stark contrast to the shrill and nasty interactions among many Christians regarding contentious LGBT issues, this book models a redemptive mode of engagement by featuring respectful conversations among deeply committed Christians who hold to diverging traditional and non-traditional views.

How can we find our way through the complexities of life in the twenty-first century?

The good news (euangelion) of the crucified and risen Messiah was proclaimed first to Jews in Jerusalem, and then to Jews throughout the land of Israel.

The present volume is the first in a five-volume study of church doctrine.

Crosby claims that much of the Bible is myth.

This book about religious struggle studies four texts from postexilic Judah and applies them first to Judah and then, importantly, to modern America.

What does biblical faith look like?

Here is the true story of a man from India who comes to the United States to go to seminary, which he finds to be both a demanding social environment and a vigorous philosophical and theological world.

Sacramental Letters is a spirited exploration of the sacramental themes that underlie some of our more profound literature.

Papua New Guinea is experiencing changes that grow in significance and accelerate in pace.

Delio DelRio offers a fresh perspective on the contemporary quest for Paul by doing the hard work to uncover the milieu few have attempted to integrate into our understanding of Paul--the Jewish synagogue.

Retreats to Go: Twelve Creative Programs that Renew and Refresh offers everything you need to plan your next retreat.

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

This book traces the journeys of seven victims of childhood sexual abuse who have experienced recovery through the activity of the Holy Spirit within the context of the local church.

The book of Jonah remains an engaging part of the religious lives of Jews and Christians.

The calling to parish ministry involves a journey leading through lowland thickets and high plateau vistas.

Narrative Discipleship examines the thematic and theological impact of women in the Gospel of Mark.

For almost two millennia, Jesus' story has been retold in various forms and fashions, but in the last century a new way of reimagining the man from Galilee and rewriting the canonical Gospels has sprung up in the form of Jesus novels.

The overall problem raised in this book is that the Western culture of modern rationality, power, and economics departs from a rather narrow, secular and ego-centric worldview.

How are we to see the Old Testament's characters--typically a tangle of both virtue and vice--as models for our own ethical living?

Parables of Jesus are stories about everyday life, ranging from a person's worldview to economic justice in society.

Congregations, the members who attend them, and the leaders who serve them are too often wounded by the ill effects of bad decision-making.

Pentecostal women ministers have been silenced in official conversations about their place in church leadership.

This collection of essays continues a long and venerable debate in the history of the Christian church regarding the legacy of the Roman emperor Constantine the Great.

Taking its cue from Mark Nation's regret that John Howard Yoder refrained from a fuller engagement with the Western philosophical tradition, this book is an effort to explore the possibilities inherent in that conversation.

This volume provides enough information about each story in the Gospel of Mark and about the gospel as a whole, in order to afford an informed understanding of the gospel.

As biblical hermeneutics moves increasingly toward the inclusion of vernacular approaches to the text--understandings of the Bible based on culture, context, and human experience--many communities of faith around the world are contributing their voices to the conversation of global Christianity.

The rise of China as a superpower and of Chinese Christians as vital members of the global church mean that world Christianity would be a dynamic transformation and bountiful blessing to the world by engaging with Chinese biblical interpretations among global theologies.

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.

This study of Song of Songs uncovers many patterns related to the numerical value twenty-six and related numbers for the divine name YHWH.

What kind of a leader is God?

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The thesis of the book may be stated simply: it is an argument based upon the four prophetic texts of Jer 23:5; Zech 3:8; 6:12; and Isa 4:2 as a foundational pattern for the four Gospels.

The Vehement Jesus composes a fresh examination and interpretation of several perplexing passages in the Gospels that, at face value, challenge the conviction that the mission and message of Jesus were peaceful.

Is Jesus relevant to the sufferings of the helpless, the voiceless, those dying of hunger, those traumatized by violence, people with learning difficulties?

The foundation of a good biblical sermon is the biblical text.

Your kids will truly recognize the illustrations featured in this book.

The letters of John are some of the most simple yet profound texts in the New Testament.