Criticism Interpretation category: 2013 books
Toward Decentering the New Testament
A Reintroduction
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2018
Toward Decentering the New Testament is the first introductory text to the New Testament written by an African American woman biblical scholar and an Asian-American male biblical scholar. This text privileges the voices, scholarship, and concerns of minoritized nonwhite peoples and communities. It...
Womanist Sass and Talk Back
Social (In)Justice, Intersectionality, and Biblical Interpretation
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
Womanist Sass and Talk Back is a contextual resistance text for readers interested in social (in)justice. Smith raises our consciousness about pressing contemporary social (in)justice issues that impact communities of color and the larger society. Systemic or structural oppression and injustices,...
by John F. A. Sawyer
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2017
The first systematic and comprehensive attempt to identify and analyze the role of Isaianic language and imagery in literature, art, and music
Using reception history as its basis for study, Isaiah Through the Centuries is an unprecedented exploration of the afterlife of the Book of Isaiah,...
by Professor Christopher R. Seitz
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
The book of Joel is held to be one of the latest prophetic witnesses; it cites other books of the book of the Twelve prophets with a density that distinguishes it from its neighbours. The concept of the "Day of the LORD" which runs throughout the Minor Prophets as a whole reaches its zenith...
Have You Considered My Servant Job?
Understanding the Biblical Archetype of Patience
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2015
The question that launches Job’s story is posed by God at the outset of the story: “Have you considered my servant Job?” (1:8; 2:3). By any estimation the answer to this question must be yes. The forty-two chapters that form the biblical story have in fact opened the story to an ongoing practice...
Progressive Creation and the Struggles of Humanity in the Bible
A Canonical Narrative Interpretation
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Why does the Christian walk often feel like an ongoing struggle and why does God's creation include imperfection, let alone forces that are intent on thwarting God's creative work? In seeking a response to these questions, this book argues that the biblical accounts describe creation in terms of a...
Christian Generosity according to 2 Corinthians 8–9
Its Exegesis, Reception, and Interpretation Today in Dialogue with the Prosperity Gospel in Sub-Saharan Africa
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2017
The social and religious phenomenon popularly known as the “prosperity gospel” has made huge inroads in sub-Saharan Africa and raises many questions surrounding Christian giving. In this book, Dr Habarurema applies biblical scholarship, historical enquiry and contemporaneous analysis to generosity...
Astonishing Sparks
Biblical Mysteries Revealed
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2015
In these pages I share and explain insights into biblical “mysteries,” a word used by both Jesus Christ and the Apostle Paul in the New Testament. I begin with methods of biblical interpretation, including how to “rightly divide” the Scriptures, then I proceed to reveal insights into a number...
by Jeffrey Samuel Steinman, PhD.
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
The Second Coming of Jesus Christ by Jeffrey Samuel Steinman, PhD takes a unique approach toward making sense of biblical prophecy about future end-times. Dr. Steinman uses his extensive experience in mathematical physics, supercomputing, aeronautical engineering, statistical data analysis, game theory,...
Hebrews
A Critical & Exegetical Commentary
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2019
This is a phrase-by-phrase commentary and exposition of the New Testament book of Hebrews. This commentary is in use as a college textbook, yet is suitable for the lay church member.
Hebrews is one of the great sources for instruction in Christian faith, and for exhortations to faithfulness...
Hear, O Heavens and Listen, O Earth
An Introduction to the Prophets
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
2007 Catholic Press Association Award Winner!
In Hear, O Heavens and Listen, O Earth, Joan E. Cook guides students of theology, Scripture, and ministry in reading the prophetic books according to the current methodologies for biblical study. She encourages readers to apply the messages of the...
Wahrheit – Glaube – Geltung
Theologische und philosophische Konkretionen
Language: German
Release Date: February 28, 2019
In einer Zeit, in der sich unterschiedliche und zuweilen widersprechende Wahrheiten nahezu täglich neu Geltung verschaffen, müssen die Wahrheits- und Geltungsansprüche des christlichen Glaubens überprüft und in einer steten Interpretation der biblischen Texte vergegenwärtigt werden. Sich in...
by Prof. M.M. Ninan
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2018
While we claim to be interpreters of the Scripture and support a literal interpretation of the word directly given by God to Moses, it is surprising that most scholars refuse the idea that there are two creation stories in Genesis. Two different names of God - Elohim and YHVH of Elohim - are clearly...
by Norman K. Gottwald
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2018
This brief volume brings together three of Norman Gottwald's classic essays that address issues of social class and ideology as they pertain to the interpretation of the biblical documents. The small format makes them useful for classroom and small-group use, providing definitions, theoretical concerns,...