Criticism Interpretation category: 2013 books
Torah MiEtzion: Vayikra
New Readings in Tanach
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...
Pandora's Box Opened
An Examination and Defense of Historical-Critical Method and Its Master Practitioners
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2014
For many, the historical-critical method has released a host of threats to Christian faith and confession. In Pandora's Box Opened, however, Roy Harrisville argues that despite the evils brought upon biblical interpretation by the historical-critical method, there is still hope for it as a discipline.
Harrisville...
by D.H. Williams
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
Select ancient Christian writings on the Gospel of Matthew
The Church’s Bible series brings the rich classical tradition of biblical interpretation to life, illuminating Scripture as it was understood during the first millennium of Christian history. Compiled, translated, and edited by leading...
by M.M. Ninan
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2013
This is a study of the Pre-incarnation theophany of Jesus as the Angel of the Lord. The interpretation follows the the affirmations of the Eastern Churches. It analyses these theophanies to see whether they indicate the Angel of the Lord is God himself or not.
Framing Paul
An Epistolary Biography
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2014
All historical work on Paul presupposes a story concerning the composition of his letters -- which ones he actually wrote, how many pieces they might originally have consisted of, when he wrote them, where from, and why. But the answers given to these questions are often derived in dubious ways.
In...
The Conclusion of the New Testament (6)
Experiencing, Enjoying, and Expressing Christ (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...
The Conclusion of the New Testament (3)
The Believers (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...
But Where is the Lamb?
Imagining the Story of Abraham and Isaac
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
“I didn’t think he’d do it. I really didn’t think he would. I thought he’d say, whoa, hold on, wait a minute. We made a deal, remember, the land, the blessing, the nation, the descendants as numerous as the sands on the shore and the stars in the sky.”
So begins James Goodman’s original...
by Nijay K. Gupta, Michael F. Bird
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2019
The study of Paul's Thessalonian letters is enjoying fresh interest today. These texts are considered by many to be amongst the earliest extant Christian documents. They are included in conversations about early Jewish and Christian apocalypticism. New insights are coming from examination of the religious,...
An Introduction to the New Testament
Contexts, Methods & Ministry Formation
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
This New Testament introduction is different. Many introductions zero in on the historical contexts in which the New Testament literature was written. This introduction goes further—to give particular attention to the social, cultural, and rhetorical contexts of the New Testament authors and their...
by Jordan J. Ryan
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
No one disputes today that Jesus must be understood as a participant in the currents of Second Temple Judaism. However, his relation to the institution of the synagogue has received much less attention despite the clear depiction in all four Gospels of the synagogue as the site of his activity and...
The Conclusion of the New Testament (2)
God, Christ, and the Spirit (2)
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...
Conversion in Luke-Acts
Divine Action, Human Cognition, and the People of God
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2015
Repentance and conversion are key topics in New Testament interpretation and in Christian life. However, the study of conversion in early Christianity has been plagued by psychological assumptions alien to the world of the New Testament. Leading New Testament scholar Joel Green believes that careful...
Matthew's Theology of Fulfillment, Its Universality and Its Ethnicity
God’s New Israel as the Pioneer of God’s New Humanity
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
The interpretation of this gospel integrates an objective analysis of its historical context and a subjective semantic disclosure of meaning. To that end, a close reading of the text is combined with consistency building in order to achieve textual congruence and plenitude of meaning. The subject/...