Criticism Interpretation category: 2013 books
World Upside Down
Reading Acts in the Graeco-Roman Age
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2009
For almost 300 years, the dominant trend in New Testament interpretation has been to read the Acts of the Apostles as a document that argues for the political possibility of harmonious co-existence between 'Rome' and the early Christian movement. Kavin Rowe argues that the time is long overdue for...
Today When You Hear His Voice
Scripture, the Covenants, and the People of God
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2016
Presents a doctrine of Scripture based on Hebrews in dialogue with Augustine and Calvin
What vision of biblical authority arises from Scripture’s own use of Scripture? This question has received surprisingly little attention from theologians seeking to develop a comprehensive doctrine of Scripture....
Divine Bodies
Resurrecting Perfection in the New Testament and Early Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2019
A path†‘breaking scholar’s insightful reexamination of the resurrection of the body and the construction of the self
When people talk about the resurrection they often assume that the bodies in the afterlife will be perfect. But which version of our bodies gets resurrected—young or old,...
Defending the Trinity in the Reformed Palatinate
The Elohistae
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2015
This study begins with an examination of Girolamo Zanchi's De Tribus Elohim (1572), setting this important defense of the doctrine of the Trinity in the immediate context of the recent rise of antitrinitarianism within the Reformed Palatinate. De Tribus Elohim focused on the grammatical peculiarity...
Cain, Abel, and the Politics of God
An Agambenian reading of Genesis 4:1-16
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
The Genesis story of Cain’s murder of Abel is often told as a simplistic contrast between the innocence of Abel and the evil of Cain. This book subverts that reading of the Biblical text by utilising Giorgio Agamben’s concepts of homo sacer, the state of exception and the idea of sovereignty to...
The Acts of the Apostles
Interpretation, History and Theology
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2016
The Acts of the Apostles
Torah MiEtzion: Bereshit
New Readings in Tanakh
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
Torah MiEtzion presents original, insightful essays on the Bible by the rabbis 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 Talmud study...
by Keith Bodner
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2012
Among the most challenging biblical figures to understand is Jeroboam son of Nebat, the first monarch of northern Israel whose story is told in 1 Kings 11-14. This book explores the characterization of Jeroboam in the Hebrew text, and traces his rags to riches career trajectory. What are the circumstances...
by Andrew Bonar
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
The principle of interpreting the prophetic portions of Holy Scripture as literally as the historical is recognized throughout the following pages, and it is upon this ground alone that the writer builds his hope of escaping a charge of presumption in submitting them for consideration, as he has ventured...
Discovering Romans
Content, Interpretation, Reception
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2016
Concise, student-friendly introduction to Romans
This third volume in the Discovering Biblical Texts series offers readers a compact, up-to-date, and student-friendly introduction to Paul's letter to the Romans, focusing on its structure, content, theological concerns, key interpretive debates,...
The Conclusion of the New Testament (1)
God, Christ, and the Spirit (1)
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In the Lord’s recovery during the past five hundred years the church’s 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...
Queering the Ethiopian Eunuch
Strategies of Ambiguity in Acts
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Were eunuchs more usually castrated guardians of the harem, as florid Orientalist portraits imagine them, or were they trusted court officials who may never have been castrated? Was the Ethiopian eunuch a Jew or a Gentile, a slave or a free man? Why does Luke call him a “man” while contemporaries...
by Richard C. Miller
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
This book offers an original interpretation of the origin and early reception of the most fundamental claim of Christianity: Jesus’ resurrection. Richard Miller contends that the earliest Christians would not have considered the New Testament accounts of Jesus’ resurrection to be literal or historical,...
by Alan H. Cadwallader
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2012
The question of hermeneutics now dominates all disciplines of human knowledge and its construction. It has moved from a concentration on how to apply the results of research knowledge to considerations of the frameworks by which we conduct research as a meaningful exercise. The study of the Bible...