Criticism and exegesis of sacred texts

The India Commentary on the New Testament (ICNT) series aims to give a well-informed exposition of the meaning of the text and relevant reflections in everyday language from a contemporary Indian context.

Este volumen comprende dos partes: la primera aborda el trasfondo sobre el cual se ha desarrollado la exégesis feminista de los evangelios; la segunda se desarrolla en torno a tres núcleos: 1) la reconstrucción de los contextos en que se han formado las tradiciones evangélicas; 2) los cuatro evangelios canónicos; 3) y algunas figuras especialmente relevantes (María, María de Magdala, Marta, etc.

When our Father of Faith is tempted to sacrifice his sense of humor on the Altar of God's Demands, God intervenes in a surprising way that really makes Abe laugh.

Peter is a fascinating character in all four canonical gospels, not only as a literary figure in each of the gospels respectively, but also when looked at from an intertextual perspective.

Originally published in 1995, The Antievolution Pamphlets of William Bell Riley is the fourth volume in the series, Creationism in Twentieth Century America, reissued in 2021.

Two human streams flow through history.

Understanding and assessing the New Testament writings from Asian viewpoints provides a unique and original outlook for interpretation of the Christian Scriptures.

This book uniquely explores how the notion of vision is presented in modern science and the Bible, and how it can be applied to contemporary Christian contexts.

Throughout the Bible, divine interaction with humanity is portrayed in almost embarrassingly human terms.

In a sense, Oceania can be considered a microcosm of World Christianity.

Jesus was the descendant of sexually exploited women, narrowly survived a child homicide, and grew up to be the world's most prominent defender of children.

Hebrews is a sermon, and a providentially sermon for our age.

The Stories of Jesus is a seven-week Bible study for small groups or individuals.

This book is aimed at those Christians who have begun to question the conventional understandings of Jesus, and Christianity, and even of what we mean by "e;God,"e; and have become discomforted by the dissonance between their own thinking and the church's stance.

For New Testament biblical scholars, this book constitutes a vital summary of contemporary, theoretically-sound interpretations of the linguistic functions of the Post-Classical (Koine) Greek article in a way that will inform exegesis of the text, especially in the field of larger discourse units.

Chasing Paper is an important new collection of essays written by senior publishers from around the world who have spent their careers in Christian publishing.

The city is an ambiguous symbol in the Bible.

The Bible and Sustainability addresses the ecological crisis the world is facing, and what the Bible can teach us about sustainable living.

ECPA Top Shelf Award WinnerIs it really possible to enjoy the Old Testament?

"e;John evidently loves the people committed to his care,"e; says John Stott in the preface to this commentary on 1, 2 and 3 John.

Oral and Manuscript Culture in the Bible is the fruit of Professor Loubser's confrontation with how Scripture is read, understood, and used in the Third World situation, which is closer than modern European societies to the social dynamics of the original milieu in which the texts were produced.

Sooner or later, we are all faced with death and are left asking whether death has the last word.

Westminster John Knox Press is pleased to present the seventeen-volume Old Testament for Everyone series.

Here is the first comprehensive, balanced account of historical Jesus studies.

The book of Isaiah has nourished the church throughout the centuries.

Women in the Biblical World: A Survey of Old and New Testament Perspectives is a volume featuring the most current research in biblical scholarship.

Where does God live?

Psalms for the Poor talk back to the blunt and beautiful phrases of the King James Bible.

In an age in which scholars continue to produce books on the nature and significance of Jesus's death, books that often assume the Old Testament cult was the New Testament authors' primary background for their conception of Jesus's death, Jarvis J.

Originally published in 1952, this book discusses the relevant historical facts and the main theories of the different theological schools on the literature of the New Testament.

In this practical book every occurrence of astheneia and its cognates in the Pauline Epistles is examined, both in its immediate context and in its relation to Pauline thought as a whole.

A leading poet and a theologian reflect on the Old Testament story of Ruth, a tale that resonates deeply in today's world with its themes of migration, the stranger, mixed cultures and religions, law and leadership, women in public life, kindness, generosity and fear.

This volume had its origins in a session presented to the Society of Biblical Literature in Washington in 2006 in order to examine the legacy of Peter Ackroyd to the field of biblical studies.

Susan Niditch's commentary on the book of Judges pays careful attention to the literary and narrative techniques of the text and yields fresh readings of the book's difficult passages: stories of violence, ethnic conflict, and gender issues.

In a day fascinated with questions of historiography and with explicating a distinctive Christian philosophy of time and history, Henri-Charles Puech's (1950s) work on Gnosis and time found an audience.

Current research shows what many in the Christian community already know: young people are leaving the church.

It is commonly accepted that the golden rule-most often formulated as "e;do unto others as you would have them do unto you"e;-is a unifying element between many diverse religious traditions, both Eastern and Western.

Did the Bible transition from the medieval Vulgate to the vernacular forms of the Protestant Reformation?

John Dominic Crossan, the eminent historical Jesus scholar, and Jonathan L.