Criticism and exegesis of sacred texts

The Hebrew prophets of ancient Israel strove to convey God's point of view to the people and the powers at a time when injustice, deceit, malfeasance, and crushing the poor and the oppressed was prominent--much like today!

Contents1 Ancient Palestinian Peasant Movements and the Formation of Premonarchic Israel2 Joshua3 Coveting Your Neighbor's House in Social Context4 Systemic Study of the Israelite Monarchy5 Debt Easement in Israelite History and Tradition6 The Political Economy of Peasant Poverty7 Bitter Bounty: The Dynamics of Political Economy Critiqued by the Eighth-Century Prophets8 Whose Sour Grapes?

Every day, a pastor faces armies of despair, fatigue, exhaustion, and frustration.

Christian ecotheology runs the risk of making God himself a resource for human exploitation as a means to species survival.

Baur published Die christliche Gnosis in 1835.

The Jesus of the four Gospels--and we have no knowledge of any other--appears mainly as a healer and a teacher--that is, as a healer of the soul.

If you are passionate about participating in the recovery of preaching for the spiritual formation of God's people, then you will want to jump into this lively collection of biblically rigorous, culturally intuitive, grace-drenched sermons.

While the conflict in the Middle East continues to fester, many Christians advance a theology that perceives these events to be the hand of God.

Theologians are constantly accused of only speaking in theories, positing arguments to be considered by the mind with little bearing on the practicalities of life.

Teaching preaching, like preaching itself, is a noble endeavor.

In Mark 8:34 and parallels Jesus challenges his disciples to "e;deny themselves.

The apostle Paul's Letter to the Galatians has had a deep impact on Christian theology and practice, far beyond its short length.

Homiletics is taking a theological turn.

In this book, Stan Chu Ilo offers an integral theology of development and a critical social analysis of different development theories and practices in the world, especially in Africa.

Teachers of religious education experience the challenge of secularization and diversity in the classroom.

Where does God live?

Wise Up!

An international array of twenty-six scholars contributes twenty-one essays to honor Ziony Zevit (American Jewish University), one of the foremost biblical scholars of his generation.

Biblical faith is passionately and relentlessly material in its accent.

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This collection of essays is drawn from a series of previous collections to which the author has contributed that were designed to honor senior scholars in the discipline of Old Testament study.

English may be the biggest obstacle to learning Greek!

Live Like You Give a Damn!

The book of Ruth is probably best known as a romantic love story that, through the expression of loving devotion, overcomes tragedy and ends with the founding of the most famous family in all of biblical Israel.

An unusually polyvalent symbol, fire assumes numerous functions in the Bible.

Jeremy Halstead graduated from college with a degree in Specialized Ministries and an emphasis in Youth Ministry.

The Lord warns of a "e;famine .

This book shows readers the nature of Christian faith by exploring how the gospel was originated, formed, and developed.

In New Testament scholarship, the study of space has been underrepresented in comparison with the study of time.

Mainstream Christianity tends to define salvation exclusively in terms of substitutionary atonement (Jesus died for me so that I can go to heaven when I die).

The Sage of Time and Chance is a work of fiction based on Ecclesiastes, the most skeptical book in the Bible.

James through the Eyes of Paul is a Bible study that guides readers in examining the book of James in light of Paul's teachings on faith, perseverance, and submission.

It has become standard in modern interpretation to say that Jesus performed miracles, and even mainline scholarly interpreters classify Jesus's healings and exorcisms as miracles.

It is reported that there are as many as 100 billion neurons that make up the human nervous system.

This book treats the three letters of John as a unified epistolary package.

For almost fifty years, much has been written concerning Mark 16:9-20.

Making sense of Paul's arguments in 1 Corinthians 11-14 regarding both the role of women in public worship and the value of tongues and prophecy for the unbeliever has long posed challenges for any lay reader or scholar.

Does the Bible allow us to deceive?

The God Who Kneels is a meditative journey in John 13.

This book is a reading of Matthew's Gospel as though it were written to integrate with, advance, and conclude the existing body of Scriptures.

The original recipients of the Letter of First Peter inhabited a radically different social context from our own.

John Hall Snow was professor of pastoral theology at the Episcopal Divinity School and considered preacher-in-residence at Christ Church, Cambridge, Massachusetts, for over eighteen years.

Luke provides valuable clues to an understanding of the religious and political power of the Roman Empire through Jesus's birth and trial accounts.

This cycle of poems travels the path of the Gospel of Mark, rereading and retelling the story, flashing back and anticipating, reading from unusual vantage points, flowing with the author's perspective and rowing against it.

Following Rabbi Jesus is a surprising exposure of who the Jesus we find in the Gospels really is, what he teaches those who dare to follow him, and how he models what it means to live God's radical-kingdom way.

This book aims to help prepare travellers for both their trip to Saudi Arabia and the sacred Pilgrimage itself.

An authoritative and accessible study guide that covers what the Book means to the believers and sets out the essential prerequisites of body, mind, and heart that serve to light up the inner life with the Qur'anic worldview; the etiquette of reciting, reading, and understanding the Qur'an; how to study the Qur'an collectively; and how to live by its teachings.

In this volume Alan Mugridge reviews claims that scribes of New Testament manuscripts altered the text of their copies to further their own beliefs, to stop people using them to support opposing beliefs, or for some other purpose.

This book explores the ways in which the origins of time, of the gods, and processes associated with time were conceptualised in antiquity, examining a variety of ancient sources from across the ancient world and addressing issues surrounding the sources themselves.