Criticism Interpretation category: 2013 books
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Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
Here an international team of scholars, draws out the implications of the newest scholarship on the nature of apocalypticism for the variety of New Testament writings. Each entry presses the boundaries of current discussion regarding the nature of apocalypticism in application to a particular New...
by Thomas R. Schreiner, Benjamin Gladd
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2019
Leading biblical scholar Thomas Schreiner provides an easy-to-navigate resource for studying and understanding the Acts of the Apostles and the Pauline Letters. This accessibly written volume summarizes the content of each major section of the biblical text to help readers quickly grasp the sense...
by Frank J. Matera, Mikeal Parsons, Charles Talbert
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
In this fresh and readable addition to the Paideia series, well-respected New Testament scholar Frank Matera examines cultural context and theological meaning in Romans. Paideia commentaries explore how New Testament texts form Christian readers by
• attending to the ancient narrative and...
Election of the Lesser Son
Paul's Lament-Midrash in Romans 9-11
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
God chooses Israel (salvation “first to the Jew and then the gentile”), but without showing favoritism? Paul genuinely grieves for Israel as one speaking “in” Christ, yet prays to be cursed, cut off from Christ? Romans 9–11 remains one of the most difficult and contested biblical texts in...
Introducing the Apocrypha
Message, Context, and Significance
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
This comprehensive, up-to-date introduction to the Old Testament apocryphal books summarizes their context, message, and significance. The first edition has been very well reviewed and widely adopted. It is the most substantial introduction to the Apocrypha available and has become a standard authority...
The Gospel on the Margins
The Reception of Mark in the Second Century
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2015
Scholars of the Gospel of Mark usually discuss the merits of patristic references to the Gospel’s origin and Mark’s identity as the “interpreter” of Peter. But while the question of the Gospel’s historical origins draws attention, no one has asked why, despite virtually unanimous patristic...
Resurrection as Anti-Imperial Gospel
1 Thessalonians 1:9b-10 in Context
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Presuming that the heart of Paul’s gospel announcement was the news that God had raised Jesus from the dead (as indicated in 1 Thessalonians 1:9b-10), Pillar explores the evidence in Paul’s letter and in aspects of the Roman imperial culture in Thessalonica in order to imagine what that proclamation...
by Donald A. Hagner
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2002
Although the Book of Hebrews "is not exactly what most of us would regard as a user-friendly book," notes Donald Hagner, "Hebrews has always been popular among Christians." Encountering the Book of Hebrews was written to help students more fully appreciate the complexities of this...
How New Is the New Testament?
First-Century Judaism and the Emergence of Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2018
What is so new about the New Testament? Senior scholar Donald Hagner tackles the issue of how distinct early Christianity was from the first-century Judaism from which it emerged. He surveys newness in the entire New Testament canon, examining the evidence for points of continuity and discontinuity...
The Body of Jesus
A Spatial Analysis of the Kingdom in Matthew
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2016
Little attention is usually given to the space or place of the kingdom. Yet Matthew employs the distinctive phrase "kingdom of heaven†? and also portrays Jesus as Immanuel (God with us). In this volume Patrick Schreiner argues that by expanding one's view of space one can see that Jesus' purpose...
The Meaning of Jesus' Death
Reviewing the New Testament’s Interpretations
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Barry D. Smith studies the salvation-historical meaning of Jesus' death (commonly known as the atonement) in the New Testament. Smith works his way through the four theories of the doctrine of the atonement that have emerged in the history of Christian theology: moral influence, governmental, satisfaction...
1 Corinthians
An Exegetical and Contextual Commentary
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
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. The intended audience is the theological seminary or bible college, both students and faculty....
Eschatology of the Thessalonian Correspondence
A comparative study of 1 Thess 4, 13-5, 11 and 2 Thess 2, 1-12 to the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Old Testament Pseudepigrapha
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
The book refers to universal eschatology contained in the Letters to the Thessalonians (1 Thess 4, 13-5, 11; 2 Thess 2, 1-12). The whole material is divided in two groups (eschatological motifs and apocalyptic motifs). Each of the motifs is analysed in the Biblical context and in the Intertestamental...
The Authors of the Deuteronomistic History
Locating a Tradition in Ancient Israel
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Peterson engages one of the most enduring controversies in current critical scholarship on the Hebrew Bible, the identities and provenances of the authors of the various “editions” of the Deuteronomistic History. Critically reviewing the presuppositions of scholars reaching back to Martin Noth,...