Eerdmans imprint: 438 books
Early Judaism
A Comprehensive Overview
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
Culled from The Eerdmans Dictionary of Early Judaism, a monumental, groundbreaking reference work published in late 2010, Early Judaism: A Comprehensive Overview contains fifteen first-rate essays from a diverse group of internationally renowned scholars. This volume provides the most comprehensive...
The Gospel of the Lord
How the Early Church Wrote the Story of Jesus
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2014
Balanced, comprehensive survey of the critical questions involved in studying the four Gospels
In this book, through a distinctive evangelical and critical approach, Michael Bird explores the historical development of the four canonical Gospels. He shows how the memories and faith of the earliest...
Wisdom's Wonder
Character, Creation, and Crisis in the Bible's Wisdom Literature
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
Wisdom's Wonder offers a fresh reading of the Hebrew Bible's wisdom literature with a unique emphasis on "wonder" as the framework for understanding biblical wisdom. William Brown argues that wonder effectively integrates biblical wisdom's emphasis on character formation and its outlook...
by Stanley E. Porter, Andrew W. Pitts
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2015
Fills the need for a truly mid-level, quality textbook on New Testament textual criticism
Presenting all the essential, foundational elements necessary to grasp textual criticism of the New Testament, Stanley Porter and Andrew Pitts accurately define the subject of textual criticism, discuss the...
by J. Ramsey Michaels
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 1971
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 1971
This new commentary — part of Eerdmans’s acclaimed NICNT series — gives primary attention to John’s gospel in its present form rather than the sources or traditions behind it.
J. Ramsey Michaels assumes that the John who authored the book is someone very close to Jesus and, therefore,...
Karl Barth and the Making of Evangelical Theology
A Fifty-Year Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
Swiss theologian Karl Barth traveled to the United States only once during his long career. In 1962, newly retired, he came to visit family and to deliver a series of lectures subsequently published (by Eerdmans) as Evangelical Theology: An Introduction, which remains in print and widely read to this...
Katharine Drexel
The Riches-to-Rags Life Story of an American Catholic Saint
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2014
On October 1, 2000, Pope John Paul II proclaimed Katharine Drexel (1858–1955) to be a saint of the Roman Catholic Church. Only the second American-born Catholic saint in history, Drexel founded the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament in 1891 and established more than sixty Blessed Sacrament missions...
The Monk's Record Player
Thomas Merton, Bob Dylan, and the Perilous Summer of 1966
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2018
The story of a monk, a minstrel, and the music that brought them together
In 1965 writer-activist-monk Thomas Merton fulfilled a twenty-four-year dream and went to live as a hermit beyond the walls of his Trappist monastery. Seven months later, after a secret romance with a woman half his age,...
A Faithful Farewell
Living Your Last Chapter with Love
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2015
When the time comes for us to die, how do we say good-bye to our friends, our families, and the lives we have lived? How do we remain faithful -- to God, to ourselves, and to loved ones -- as we face our final journey?
As Marilyn McEntyre acknowledges, these questions are especially challenging...
How to Survive the Apocalypse
Zombies, Cylons, Faith, and Politics at the End of the World
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
Incisive insights into contemporary pop culture and its apocalyptic bent
The world is going to hell. So begins this book, pointing to the prevalence of apocalypse — cataclysmic destruction and nightmarish end-of-the-world scenarios — in contemporary entertainment.
In How to Survive...
Eva's Story
A Survivor's Tale by the Stepsister of Anne Frank
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2010
Many know the tragic story of Anne Frank, the teen whose life ended at Auschwitz during the Holocaust. But most people don’t know about Eva Schloss, Anne’s playmate and stepsister. Though Eva, like Anne, was taken to Auschwitz at the age of 15, her story did not end there. / This incredible memoir...
Divine Honours for the Caesars
The First Christians' Responses
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2015
Though the first century a.d. saw the striking rise and expansion of Christianity throughout the vast Roman Empire, ancient historians have shown that an even stronger imperial cult spread far more rapidly at the same time. How did the early Jesus-followers cope with the all-pervasive culture of emperor...
A Brief History of Sunday
From the New Testament to the New Creation
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
In this accessible historical overview of Sunday, noted scholar Justo González tells the story of how and why Christians have worshiped on Sunday from the earliest days of the church to the present.
After discussing the views and practices relating to Sunday in the ancient church, González...
Confess Your Sins
The Way of Reconciliation
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2017
An evangelical classic for a new generation of Christian readers
Back in print for the first time in many years, John Stott's classic treatise on confession discusses a neglected Christian practice. Though the Bible clearly teaches that confession is a necessary part of the redemption story,...