Criticism Interpretation category: 2013 books
The Puppet and the Dwarf
The Perverse Core of Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2003
One of our most daring intellectuals offers a Lacanian interpretation of religion, finding that early Christianity was the first revolutionary collective.
Slavoj Žižek has been called "an academic rock star" and "the wild man of theory"; his writing mixes astonishing erudition and references...
Christian Doctrine and the Old Testament
Theology in the Service of Biblical Exegesis
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
The Old Testament offers a rich palette of ideas, images, and narratives that help us unpack some of the more compact and opaque theological ideas of the New Testament. In conversation with both Christian and Jewish interpreters, prominent scholar Gary Anderson explores the exegetical background of...
In the Beginning
A New Interpretation of Genesis
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2011
“Karen Armstrong is a genius.”—A. N. Wilson
As the foundation stone of the Jewish and Christian scriptures, The Book of Genesis unfolds some of the most arresting stories of world literature—the Creation; Adam and Eve; Cain and Abel; the sacrifice of Isaac. Yet the meaning of Genesis...
Reading the Women of the Bible
A New Interpretation of Their Stories
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2008
Reading the Women of the Bible takes up two of the most significant intellectual and religious issues of our day: the experiences of women in a patriarchal society and the relevance of the Bible to modern life.
by Stephen J. Bove
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2015
The Enemy was the First Great Theologian, he was the First High Priest of Mysteries, he was the First Master of Esoteric Knowledge. He was the Father of New Religion. Really, he was the First Self-Made God. To those who by nature sought power, he offered his course: Power-Grabbing Made Easy. To those...
by Witness Lee
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1984
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1984
In the Lords recovery during the past five hundred years the churchs knowledge of the Lord and His truth has been continually progressing. This monumental and classical work by Brother Witness Lee builds upon and is a further development of all that the Lord has revealed to His church in the past centuries....
by Lloyd Pieterson
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2012
Lloyd Pietersen argues that for too long the Old Testament has been the primary source for Christian ethics and the letters of Paul for Christian discipleship. Without disparaging these sources, the author suggests that the church in a postmodern, post-Christian society needs to look at Scripture...
by Symon Hill
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
Attempts to read Jesus’ teachings with an open mind can be hampered by years of being told the ‘right’ interpretation in church. Christians familiar with the texts can gain fresh insights by listening to people coming to it for the first time, who may find the traditional readings far from obvious....
Old Testament Theology
Reading the Hebrew Bible as Christian Scripture
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
A top Old Testament theologian known for his accessible and provocative writing probes what is necessary to understand and appropriate the Hebrew Bible as a fundamental resource for Christian theology and life today. This volume offers a creative example of theological interpretation, modeling a way...
by Yeshivat Har Etzion Rabbis
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2014
Torah MiEtzion presents original, insightful essays on the Bible by the rabbis and scholars of Yeshivat Har Etzion, one of today’s most vibrant and influential schools of modern biblical interpretation. Since its founding in Israel in 1968, Yeshivat Har Etzion has emphasized Bible study alongside...
Desiring Divinity
Self-deification in Early Jewish and Christian Mythmaking
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
Perhaps no declaration incites more theological and moral outrage than a human's claim to be divine. Those who make this claim in ancient Jewish and Christian mythology are typically represented as the most hubristic and dangerous tyrants. Their horrible punishments are predictable and still serve...
Evolution of Adam, The
What the Bible Does and Doesn't Say about Human Origins
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Can Christianity and evolution coexist? Traditional Christian teaching presents Jesus as reversing the effects of the Fall of Adam. However, an evolutionary view of beginnings doesn't allow for a historical Adam, making evolution seemingly incompatible with what Genesis and the apostle Paul say about...
Onesimus Our Brother
Reading Religion, Race, and Culture in Philemon
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
Noel and Johnson make the point that Philemon is as important a letter from an African-American perspective as Romans or Galatians have proven to be in Eurocentric interpretation. Here they gather critical essays by a constellation of African-American scholars, highlighting the latest in interpretive...
Seeing for Ourselves
Biblical Women Who Met Jesus
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2002
Katerina Whitley’s first book of biblical monologues, Speaking for Ourselves, was received with enthusiastic praise. Now she is back with another provocative collection of stories. In Seeing for Ourselves: Biblical Women Who Met Jesus, Whitley gives powerful voice to the New Testament women who...