Criticism Interpretation category: 2013 books
Epistemology and Biblical Theology
From the Pentateuch to Mark’s Gospel
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
Epistemology and Biblical Theology pursues a coherent theory of knowledge as described across the Pentateuch and Mark's Gospel. As a work from the emerging field of philosophical criticism, this volume explores in each biblical text both narrative and paraenesis to assess what theory of knowledge...
Tracking the Master Scribe
Revision through Introduction in Biblical and Mesopotamian Literature
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2016
When we encounter a text, whether ancient or modern, we typically start at the beginning and work our way toward the end. In Tracking the Master Scribe, Sara J. Milstein demonstrates that for biblical and Mesopotamian literature, this habit can lead to misinterpretation. In the ancient Near East,...
by Tod Linafelt
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
The Hebrew Bible, or Christian Old Testament, contains some of the finest literature that we have. This biblical literature has a place not only in the synagogue or the church but also among the classics of world literature. The stories of Jacob and David, for instance, present the earliest surviving...
Archetypes and the Fourth Gospel
Literature and Theology in Conversation
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2018
Employing Northrop Frye's system of archetypal literary criticism - the use of romance, tragedy, irony and satire, and comedy - Brian Larsen offers a compelling summary of the essential governing framework and means of exchange between literature and theology. Characters in the Fourth Gospel are examined...
Telling the Old Testament Story
God's Mission and God's People
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
While honoring the historical context and literary diversity of the Old Testament, Telling the Old Testament Story is a thematic reading that construes the OT as a complex but coherent narrative. Unlike standard, introductory textbooks that only cover basic background and interpretive issues for...
Disputed Temple
A Rhetorical Analysis of the Book of Haggai
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
The prophet Haggai advocated for the rebuilding of the temple, destroyed by Babylon, in the tumultuous period of reconstruction under Persian dominion; so much is evident from a surface reading of the book . John Robert Barker goes further, using rhetorical criticism of the prophet‘s arguments to...
A Theology of Literature
The Bible as Revelation in the Tradition of the Humanities
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
With the tools of far-reaching revolutions in literary theory and informed by the poetic sense of truth, William Franke offers a critical appreciation and philosophical reflection on a way of reading the Bible as theological revelation. Franke explores some of the principal literary genres of the...
Called by Stories
Biblical Sagas and Their Challenge for Law
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Distinguished legal scholar and Presbyterian minister Milner S. Ball examines great sagas and tales from the Bible for the light they shed on the practice of law and on the meaning of a life lived in the legal profession. Scholars and laypersons alike typically think of the law as a discipline dominated...
Rewriting Masculinity
Gideon, Men, and Might
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2019
Who is the biblical Gideon? A mighty warrior, or a fearful son? Hesitant solider, clever tactician, commanding father, ruthless killer, idolater, or illegitimate king? Gideon has long challenged readers of the book of Judges. How did so many conflicting portraits become inscribed in our biblical text...
Von Herder zu Duhm
Psalmenforschung im 19. Jahrhundert Studien zur Forschungsgeschichte der Weisheitspsalmen
Language: German
Release Date: August 14, 2015
Das Buch präsentiert die Erforschung der Weisheitspsalmen 1; 37 und 73 von den Anfängen der kritischen Bibelwissenschaft bis zum Beginn der gattungsorientierten Exegese. Es beginnt bei Robert Lowth und endet bei Bernhard Duhm. Einen besonderen Schwerpunkt stellt dabei die Arbeit Wilhelm Martin Leberecht...
by Andre Troost
Language: Dutch
Release Date: November 8, 2011
Language: Dutch
Release Date: November 8, 2011
Een van de meest verkochte bijbelse dagboeken, sluit nu geheel aan bij de Nieuwe Bijbelvertaling. Van dit dagboek zijn er inmiddels meer dan 100.000 verkocht en nog steeds is er grote vraag naar. Niet verwonderlijk. Ds. A.F. Troost weet zo te schrijven dat zijn dagelijkse meditaties een heel breed...
Paul Among the People
The Apostle Reinterpreted and Reimagined in His Own Time
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2010
It is a common—and fundamental—misconception that Paul told people how to live. Apart from forbidding certain abusive practices, he never gives any precise instructions for living. It would have violated his two main social principles: human freedom and dignity, and the need for people to love...
by Andrew Moore
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2016
Gnostic Christianity has been suppressed since the latter part of the Second Century AD.One of the Key elements of Gnostic Christianity is a rejection of the Old Testament construction of God.In the early part of the Second century, Marcion of Sinope published a text called 'Antithesis'...
by Verdadero Semaj
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2019
Knowledge Reigns Supreme
Verdadero Semaj opens and sheds light with a new perspective about thing's that we may or may not be familiar with. Using historical data and scientific facts Verdadero is bringing those who are in darkness into the light with.....
Knowledge Reigns Supreme