Criticism Interpretation category: 2013 books
The Revelation of John
A Narrative Commentary
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
As the only book of its kind in the New Testament, Revelation can be difficult to understand, and for readers without specialized training, the historical-critical approach used in many commentaries can provide more complication than illumination. Here James Resseguie applies the easily understandable...
How We Got the New Testament (Acadia Studies in Bible and Theology)
Text, Transmission, Translation
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
A recognized expert in New Testament Greek offers a historical understanding of the writing, transmission, and translation of the New Testament and provides cutting-edge insights into how we got the New Testament in its ancient Greek and modern English forms. In part responding to those who question...
An Introduction to the Old Testament
Exploring Text, Approaches & Issues
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Enter the classroom of one of todays premier biblical interpreters as he shares his infectious love for the Old Testament. This is where you begin the adventure of exploring the Bibles First Testament. Some Old Testament introductions tell you what you could have seen for yourself. They might...
The Form and Function of Mark 1:1–15
A Multi-Disciplinary Approach to the Markan Prologue
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
Identifying the "scenes" of written texts is a critical skill for following the course set by an author. Even a small variation in course heading can result in compounding an error over time with regard to one's intended destination. Perhaps nowhere is this more important than in the opening...
The Bible in Western Culture
The Student's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
The influence of the Bible in Western culture is immeasurable, but these days few of us know much about it. Presenting concise and accessible introductions to the Bible's most important characters, stories and themes, this text encourages better understanding, study and analysis of the Christian element...
by John Flood
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2010
As the first woman, Eve was the pattern for all her daughters. The importance of readings of Eve for understanding how women were viewed at various times is a critical commonplace, but one which has been only narrowly investigated. This book systematically explores the different ways in which Eve...
New Testaments
Cognition, Closure, and the Figural Logic of the Sequel, 1660–1740
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2011
In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, popular works of literature attracted—as they attract today—sequels, prequels, franchises, continuations, and parodies. Sequels of all kinds demonstrate the economic realities of the literary marketplace. This represents something fundamental about...
by Andrea Mele
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
The English translation of the Italian book ”Morte al Sistema! (Con la forza delle idee..)”.
“Death to the System! (With the strength of the ideas…)” overturns the current western civilization paradigm thanks to a fierce and incontrovertible criticism of the current European monetary system...
Who was Jesus?
A Critique of the New Testament Record
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
What do we know about the historical origins of Christianity? How reliable are the 27 books of the New testament? Is Jesus a historical or a legendary figure?
In the last 150 years, scholars have established many facts about the New testament, facts still largely unknown to the general public...
BIBLE DIFFICULTIES
Defending the Mosaic Authorship of the Pentateuch
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2014
Tracing the origin of the Documentary Hypothesis through the centuries, Edward Andrews investigates the assumptions and presuppositions underlying the theory, critically analyzing the original Bible text and addressing popular issues and authorial concerns. By comparing the textual evidence and the...
by Stuart Christie
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2015
Third and final collection of the Lectures and Essays (Vols.IX-XII) of Robert Green “Bob” Ingersoll (August 11, 1833 – July 21, 1899), nicknamed “The Great Agnostic” — one of outstanding orators, humanists, agnostics and freethinkers of his time — whose radical views on religion, superstition,...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2018
The first decades of the twenty-first century saw a resurgence of the biblical epic film, such as Noah and Exodus: Gods and Kings, which was in turn accompanied by a growth of biblical film criticism. This companion surveys that field of study by framing it in light of significant and recent biblical...
Scripturalizing the Human
The Written as the Political
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015
Scripturalizing the Human is a transdisciplinary collection of essays that reconceptualizes and models "scriptural studies" as a critical, comparative set of practices with broad ramifications for scholars of religion and biblical studies. This critical historical and ethnographic project...
by Robert Alter
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2011
From celebrated translator of the Hebrew Bible Robert Alter, the classic study of the Bible as literature, a winner of the National Jewish Book Award
Renowned critic and translator Robert Alter's The Art of Biblical Narrative has radically expanded our view of the Bible by recasting it as a...