Criticism and exegesis of sacred texts

This book focuses on Jesus, the four last things, and their relevance for our lives.

New science has surprised many by showing, contrary to received wisdom, that a real Adam and Eve could have lived amongst other humans in historical times and yet be the ancestors of every living person, as traditional Christianity has always taught.

Pivoting upon her ten-year stay as a missionary in Rwanda, in this memoir McAllister reflects deeply on her experiences of redemption and transformation.

Genesis Ideology explores the purpose of stories in the book of Genesis as building blocks for ancient Israelite culture.

Did Jesus rise physically from the dead, or did he rise as a real, non-bodily apparition, like those reported in the parapsychological literature?

Various cross-textual readings have been attempted between the Christian Bible and Chinese literature.

This book attempts to solve the Samaritan riddle that is the focal point of the Dunn Debate.

The Book of Job has been a rich source of truth and comfort for its readers throughout the ages, but the crowning glory of this book is the prophetic testimony it bears to the sufferings that Jesus Christ would endure as the savior of his people.

In biblical and theological studies, fresh perspectives and novel approaches can breathe new life into familiar subjects.

The voices of Messianic rabbis and believers have been collected in this volume to share concerns about the gap that remains between Jews and the church.

The Rev.

Hebrews is a powerful meditation on the gospel.

Because of their ever-changing personalities, their high energy, and their emerging ability to think critically, younger adolescents present a special faith formation challenge to the congregations who love them.

Son of Mary offers new solutions to some persistent exegetical problems in the interpretation of three of the most puzzling passages in the Gospel of John, and does so in a way that illuminates the social-cultural context to the New Testament world.

Abraham, the father of all believers, plays host to three strangers, one of whom is God, and thus sets an example for others to follow.

The Dead Sea Scrolls continue to shed ancient light on both the text and interpretation of the Hebrew Bible during the Second Temple period.

This book provides pastors, seminarians, and interested laity with the background necessary to understand the need for disability ministry and the contexts out of which the church's ministry among people with disabilities must emerge.

Employing a postmodernist literary approach, this book identifies C.

Biblical contributors express an oral stage engaging Christianity within a properly basic communal worldview similar to Alvin Plantinga advocates.

Guilt!

A collection of essays composed during the Obama presidency on politics, theology, art, and education.

Grace is supposed to be amazing, but all too often the Christian life can be more about keeping stuffy rules than enjoying a relationship with Christ.

In Psalm 49 and the Path to Redemption, Janet Smith revisits her PhD dissertation, Dust or Dew: Immortality in the Ancient Near East and in Psalm 49, reconfiguring the book for a general audience and expanding it to focus on a theme of biblical redemption.

How does one summarize the thirty-nine books of the Old Testament?

Do you ever feel hopeless or depressed?

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

Pastors and ministers have one of the most challenging jobs on earth.

The nature miracle stories of Jesus--walking on the water or feeding thousands with a small amount of food, for example--are so spectacular that many find them a problem, whether historical, philosophical, or even theological.

This book is a different kind of commentary.

Every soul carries within itself pain caused by the hurtful words and acts of another human being.

Devils and Deviants takes up the question of the impact of religious schism on the composition of 1 and 2 John.

A shorter, simpler first draft of the Gospel of Mark has been theorized by New Testament scholars for almost two hundred years.

Why another book about biblical interpretation (hermeneutics)?

The Letter to the Romans explains the way Paul thought Jewish covenantal identity continued now that the messianic era had begun.

Humans, seeking to understand the nature of reality, have learned to discern life's patterns and to respond to life's vicissitudes by acting wisely, doing what brings happiness and success.

Yung Suk Kim raises a perennial question about Jesus: How can we approach the historical Jesus?

Genesis 1-11 contains some of the best-known stories in the world.

The community of faith finds itself located precariously between Jesus' first and second comings, between the promise and fulfillment, between what God has begun in the gospel and what God has yet to complete.

Gundamentalism and Where It Is Taking America is the work of James Atwood, a retired Presbyterian pastor and an avid deer hunter for half a century who has also been in the forefront of the faith community's fight for two constitutional rights: the right to keep and bear arms and the right to live in domestic tranquility, free of gun violence.

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Five hundred years after Luther's famous posting of his 95 Theses in 1517, the church again faces an important crossroads.

How does starting with women's statements that "e;God was there"e; in the moment of wartime violence shift the ways we think about religion, conflict, and healing?

In his first book, The End of the Island, Jeffrey C.

The Bible makes remarkable claims about people and events in world history.

North American study of the Christian Apocrypha is known principally for its interest in using noncanonical texts to reconstruct the life and teachings of Jesus, and for its support of Walter Bauer's theory on the development of early Christianity.

Reading Scripture is a spiritual practice at the very heart of the Christian faith.

This work employs multiple methodologies to analyze the story of the man born blind (John 9) in order to discern how this episode serves the greater purpose of the Gospel, stated in 20:31: "e;so that you may trust that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and through trusting you may have life.

God's invitation to join in the love feast of Holy Communion resounds at the very heart of the Christian faith and life.

Beginning in the 1970s evangelical Christians decided to become involved in our nation's political life by becoming Republican partisans.

This study examines the speeches and prayers in the David-Solomon narrative in Chronicles and seeks to demonstrate that the Chronicler's portrayal of David and Solomon attempts to establish the Yehudite community's identity.