Criticism Interpretation category: 2013 books
Paul and the Apocalyptic Triumph
An Investigation of the Usage of Jewish and Greco-Roman Imagery in 1 Thess. 4:1318
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
1 Thessalonians 4:13–18 has long been the quintessential Pauline text on the parousia of Christ. Nowhere else does Paul reveal a more vivid picture of Christ’s coming. The apostle Paul employs a number of images to describe the parousia to the Thessalonian congregation who have become anxious,...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
In this exciting volume, Diane B. Stinton has assembled the work of nearly twenty prominent African theologians, making their writings accessible to the introductory level student.
The result is an ideal introduction to the wealth of African theologies and the major questions they raise. Topics...
How the Universe Began
Gods Number 1, 2, and 3
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2017
From my childhood, I was always a skeptic. A skeptic, in a dictionary’s version, is one who doubts the truth of any doctrine or system: one who doubts the existence of God or revelation. But my skepticism urges me on to find the truth of the matter. So in this book, I will try to reveal what I believe...
by Martin Johnson, Jamie Austin, Kate Wiltshire
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2018
The Bible is the most remarkable book in the world. Written over a period of several millennia and completed almost 2,000 years ago, its message still influences the lives of billions of people across the globe today. It can be found in virtually every country and every written language, and is the...
by Jeremy Schipper
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Although disability imagery is ubiquitous in the Hebrew Bible, characters with disabilities are not. The presence of the former does not guarantee the presence of the later. While interpreters explain away disabilities in specific characters, they celebrate the rhetorical contributions that disability...
Threshold to God's Word
A User-friendly Guide to Scripture Study
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2017
Newcomers and scholars alike will appreciate Binz’ accessible, insightful style as he shows that reading the Bible is not primarily an intellectual exercise, but a devoted and passionate search, an enthusiastic and joyful discovery. Taking us into the gospels and books such as Jonah and Exodus,...
Ethnicity, Race, Religion
Identities and Ideologies in Early Jewish and Christian Texts, and in Modern Biblical Interpretation
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2018
Religion, ethnicity and race are facets of human identity that have become increasingly contested in the study of the Bible - largely due to the modern discipline of biblical studies having developed in the context of Western Europe, concurrent with the emergence of various racial and imperial ideologies....
Connecting Gospels
Beyond the Canonical/Non-Canonical Divide
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2018
By the late second century, early Christian gospels had been divided into two groups by a canonical boundary that assigned normative status to four of them while consigning their competitors to the margins. Connecting Gospels: Beyond the Canonical/Non-canonical Divide finds new ways to reconnect these...
by Philip Y. Yoo
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
Ezra and the Second Wilderness addresses the relationship between Ezra, the Ezra Memoir, and the Pentateuch. Tracing the growth of the Ezra Memoir and its incorporation into Ezra-Nehemiah, Philip Y. Yoo discusses the literary strategies utilized by some of the composers and redactors operating in...
Matthew: An Introduction and Study Guide
The Basileia of the Heavens is Near at Hand
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017
Recent decades have seen significant shifts in biblical scholarship opening up a range of ways of engaging the biblical narrative - both methodologically (the tools and techniques for engaging the text) and hermeneutically (the perspectives that inform an interpreter's approach to the text and to...
The Normal Hermeneutic
The One Biblical Hermeneutic
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2018
The purpose is to present the massive difference between the two major approaches to Biblical interpretation. These two systems would be “the normal hermeneutic” that demands the plain, clear, consistent, normal, literal use of language, as opposed to the “allegorical base” that would allow...
by Rod Martin, Jr
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2019
Subtitle: The Need to Protect Our Own Salvation from Ravening Wolves
Jesus warned us about this. He told us that there would be some who would appear and sound pleasant, but who would really be wolves in sheep’s clothing. These are the enemies of Christ.
Today, we’re confronted by...
The Jewish Pseudepigrapha
An Introduction to the Literature of the Second Temple Period
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
This is a concise yet illuminating guide to the Pseudepigrapha, the Jewish texts of the late Second Temple Period (circa 250 BCE–100 CE) that are not included in the Hebrew Bible or standard collections of the Apocrypha. Designed with the beginning student in mind, the book begins with chapters...
Horizons in Hermeneutics
A Festschrift in Honor of Anthony C. Thiselton
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2013
From essays that focus on the horizon of the text through to essays that consider the horizon of the twenty-first century church, this collection invites reflection on the illumination that hermeneutical awareness brings to biblical interpretation. This Festschrift in honor of Anthony C. Thiselton...