Criticism Interpretation category: 2013 books
by Robert Alter
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2011
Three decades ago, renowned literary expert Robert Alter radically expanded the horizons of biblical scholarship by recasting the Bible as not only a human creation but a work of literary art deserving studied criticism. In The Art of Biblical Poetry, his companion to the seminal The Art of Biblical...
Telling Tales about Jesus
An Introduction to the New Testament Gospels
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
What are the Gospels and what does it mean to read them? Warren Carter leads the beginning student in an inductive exploration of the New Testament Gospels, asking about their genre, the view that they were written by eyewitnesses, the early church traditions about them, and how they employ Hellenistic...
by John Burgon
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
The Causes of the Corruption of the Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels is a criticism of the Westcott and Hort New Testament.
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Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2016
Comprised of contributions from scholars across the globe, The Oxford Handbook of Biblical Narrative is a state-of-the-art anthology, offering critical treatments of both the Bible's narratives and topics related to the Bible's narrative constructions. The Handbook covers the Bible's narrative literature,...
Misquoting Logic
What Bart Ehrman Forgot To Tell You About The Coming Apocalypse And Your Place In It
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
Textual criticism is dealt with in this book with the help of Dr Mark D. Roberts, Harvard Educated Theologian. From there the author, Chris Queen, a mechanical engineer (BSME) lays out from the specific timelines in the Bible and the simple math in God's finally revealed word problems unsealed, as...
Theology, Politics, and Exegesis
Essays on the History of Modern Biblical Criticism
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
Modern biblical scholars often view the methods they employ as objective and neutral, tracing the history of modern biblical scholarship to the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In this volume, Jeffrey Morrow examines some earlier, lesser known roots of modern biblical scholarship. He explores...
Inconsistency in the Torah
Ancient Literary Convention and the Limits of Source Criticism
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2017
Inconsistency in the Torah
Encountering Jesus
Character Studies in the Gospel of John
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
The last thirty years have seen an increased interest in the Bible as literature and story. Yet “character” appears to be neglected in both literary theory and narrative criticism. Indeed, there is not even agreement amongst scholars on how to approach, analyze and classify characters.
Applying...
by Johann David Michaelis
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
When I first read Bishop Marsh’s Translation of the Introduction to the New Testament by Michaelis, I regretted that so much learning and such genuine criticism should not be more accessible to the generality of readers; and remembering what Pascal says in his Provincial Letters, that his first...
Jesus’s Identification with the Marginalized and the Liminal
The Messianic Identity in Mark
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2018
The first-century Judaic understanding of the identity and nature of the Messiah has been a much-debated topic among biblical scholars and preachers alike. So too has the messianic identity and nature of Jesus himself. Bekele Deboch informs these debates with fresh evidence outside the traditional...
Biblical Representations of Moab
A Kenyan Postcolonial Reading
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2014
Biblical Representations of Moab: A Kenyan Postcolonial Reading employs critical theories on colonial, anticolonial, and postcolonial ethnicity and African cultural hermeneutics to examine the overlap of politics, ethnicity, nationality, economics, and religion in contemporary Kenya and to utilize...
Behind the Gospels: Understanding the Oral Tradition
Understanding the Oral Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
New Testament scholars often talk about “oral tradition” as a means by which material about Jesus reached the writers of the Gospels; but despite the recent flowering of interest in oral tradition, the study of memory, and the role of eye-witnesses, the latest scholarly advances have yet to fully...
by Wayne Stewart
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
Soul Trap took over seven years to research and write. And, it promises to change everything you think you know about God, the Bible, and religion. Then it will change you: epiphanies can be weird like that. Example:1) The mystery behind the numbers 666: solved and revealed!2) The antichrist: solved...
The Apologetic Revisited
Exonerating Luke from an Ancestral Exegetical and Theological Burden
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
The trend in the scholarship of Luke has been that of presenting Luke as being interested in the survival of Christianity within the Power apparatus of the Roman world. To achieve this pivotal aim, he seems to overlook the abysmal social maladies and wrongdoings of the Powerful of his time hoping...