Criticism Interpretation category: 2013 books
The Enemy in the Household
Family Violence in Deuteronomy and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
This fresh approach to troubling biblical texts explores the "family violence" passages in Deuteronomy, tracing their ancient interpretation and assessing their contemporary significance. Three laws in Deuteronomy command violence against a family member--the enemy in the household--who...
Encountering the Book of Psalms (Encountering Biblical Studies)
A Literary and Theological Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2004
According to author Hassell Bullock, "No collection of poems has ever exercised as much influence on the Western world as the Book of Psalms." The attraction for Jews, Christians, and others is surely the personal element that pervades these poems, which describe the human situation in all...
Prophecy and Hermeneutics (Studies in Theological Interpretation)
Toward a New Introduction to the Prophets
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2007
A fresh wave of studies on the prophets has appeared in recent years. Old Testament scholar Christopher R. Seitz has written Prophecy and Hermeneutics as a way of revisiting, from the ground floor up, what gave rise to studies of the prophets in our modern period. In addition, Seitz clearly shows...
by Leif E. Vaage
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2014
In Borderline Exegesis, Leif Vaage presents an alternative approach to biblical interpretation, or exegesis—an approach that bends the boundaries of the traditional North American methodology to analyze the meaning of biblical texts for a wider audience. To accomplish this, Vaage engages in a practice...
by John Calvin
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2012
Calvin produced commentaries on most of the books of the Bible. His commentaries cover the larger part of the Old Testament, and all of the new excepting Second and Third John and the Apocalypse. His commentaries and lectures stand in the front rank of Biblical interpretation. Commentaries On The...
by John Calvin
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2012
Calvin produced commentaries on most of the books of the Bible. His commentaries cover the larger part of the Old Testament, and all of the new excepting Second and Third John and the Apocalypse. His commentaries and lectures stand in the front rank of Biblical interpretation. The foundation of every...
by John Calvin
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2012
Calvin produced commentaries on most of the books of the Bible. His commentaries cover the larger part of the Old Testament, and all of the new excepting Second and Third John and the Apocalypse. His commentaries and lectures stand in the front rank of Biblical interpretation. Commentaries On The...
Pillars of Cloud and Fire
The Politics of Exodus in African American Biblical Interpretation
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2015
At the birth of the United States, African Americans were excluded from the newly-formed Republic and its churches, which saw them as savage rather than citizen and as heathen rather than Christian. Denied civil access to the basic rights granted to others, African Americans have developed their own...
Original Sinners
A New Interpretation of Genesis
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2009
In this vivid, original interpretation of Genesis, former Episcopal priest John R. Coats takes readers on a journey through the ancient text, inviting them to see its characters in a new light, not as religious icons, but as people whose day-to-day concerns, triumphs, and failures are like our own.
In...
by David Bokovoy
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2014
Book Description:
For the last two centuries, biblical scholars have made discoveries and insights about the Old Testament that have greatly changed the way in which the authorship of these ancient scriptures has been understood. In the first of three volumes spanning the entire Hebrew Bible,...
by Max Burnett
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
We are living in the end age of Christianity as we have known it. Our culture needs to be revamped, and we need to question our routine yearly celebrations of Jewish recordings that are unrelated to the mythos we espouse. In other words, we need to change our way of thinking.
Author Max Burnetts...
The Harp of Prophecy
Early Christian Interpretation of the Psalms
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2015
The Psalms generated more biblical commentary from early Christians than any other book of the Hebrew and Christian canon. While advances have been made in our understanding of the early Christian preoccupation with this book and the traditions employed to interpret it, no study on the Psalms traditions...
by Donald H. Carlson
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
The pseudo-Clementine writings are one of the most intriguing and valuable sources for early Jewish Christianity. They offer a second- or third-century polemic against the form of Christianity that eventually won out, the Gentile-majority, law-free Christianity that took Paul as its champion. Carlson's...
Why Not Her?
A Form and Literary-Critical Interpretation of the Named and Unnamed Women in the Elijah and Elisha Narratives
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2015
In this book, Hye Kyung Park examines the functions and roles of the women who appear in the Elijah and Elisha narratives. The named and unnamed female characters in the Elijah and Elisha cycles frequently drive the plot of these narratives, giving a voice to important theological, historical, and...