Criticism Interpretation category: 2013 books
by George T. Montague, Peter Williamson, Mary Healy
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2008
In the second volume of the Catholic Commentary on Sacred Scripture (CCSS), George Montague offers a Catholic pastoral commentary on the letters to Timothy and Titus, presenting sound exegesis followed by reflection on the pastoral, theological, and practical applications of the text.The CCSS offers...
by Mary Healy, Dennis SJ Hamm, Peter Williamson
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Philippians, Colossians, and Philemon, written by Paul from prison in the middle of the first century, were addressed to specific Christian communities facing concrete challenges. What did these letters mean at the time, and what do they mean for us today?
In this addition to the Catholic Commentary...
The Reluctant Parting
How the New Testament's Jewish Writers Created a Christian Book
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2011
Discover the New Testament’s Forgotten Jewish Origins
Introducing the New Testament
Its Literature and Theology
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2001
Introducing the New Testament is an outstanding guide to the writings of the New Testament for readers ranging from Bible students to those approaching the Christian Scriptures for the first time. Written by three leading Bible specialists, this book discusses in a clear and balanced way the New Testament's...
Chasing an Elusive God
The Bible's Quest and Ours
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2013
Is there anyone “up there” to hear our cries for help? Will there ever be justice in this world? Why do we suffer? Is there life after death? Is there a meaning in history? How will it all end? Is there a God? What do we mean by “God” anyway?The answers are in the Bible, some say. But are they?...
Apostle Paul
His Life and Theology
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Paul's writings are centrally important not only for the establishment of the Christian faith but also for the whole history of Western culture. Senior New Testament scholar Udo Schnelle offers a comprehensive introduction to the life and thought of Paul that combines historical and theological analysis....
Bewilderments
Reflections on the Book of Numbers
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2015
The newest book in Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg’s award-winning series of commentaries on the hebrew bible.
The book of Numbers is the narrative of a great failure. What should have been for the Israelites a brief journey from Mount Sinai to the Holy Land becomes a forty-year death march. Both...
Bible Babel
Making Sense of the Most Talked About Book of All Time
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2010
“Kristin Swenson offers a confident, well-paced, well-informed, and accessible guide to Bible basics and biblical literacy.” — Walter Brueggemann, author of An Unsettling God: The Heart of the Hebrew Bible
Bible Babel, from author and religious studies professor Kristin Swenson, is a...
Jesus and the Land
The New Testament Challenge to "Holy Land" Theology
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
This accessible volume describes first-century Jewish and Christian beliefs about the land of Israel and offers a full survey of New Testament passages that directly address the question of land and faith. Respected New Testament scholar Gary M. Burge examines present-day tensions surrounding "territorial...
Torah Lights: BeMidbar
Trials & Tribulations in Times of Transition
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2014
For Rabbi Shlomo Riskin, Torah is at once the oldest and the most contemporary document directing human lives. In this highly acclaimed, five-volume parashat hashavua series, Rabbi Riskin helps each reader extract deeply personal, contemporary lessons from the traditional biblical accounts. As Rabbi...
Vindicating the Vixens
Revisiting Sexualized, Vilified, and Marginalized Women of the Bible
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2017
Gain a greater understanding of gender in the Bible through the eyes of a diverse group of evangelical scholars who assert that Christians have missed the point of some scriptural stories by assuming the women in them were "bad girls."
Did the Samaritan woman really divorce five husbands...
The Other Gospels
Accounts of Jesus from Outside the New Testament
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
Bart Ehrman--the New York Times bestselling author of Misquoting Jesus and a recognized authority on the early Christian Church--and Zlatko Plese--a foremost authority on Christian Gnosticism--here offer a valuable compilation of over 40 ancient gospel texts and textual fragments that do not appear...
by William S. SJ Kurz, Peter Williamson, Mary Healy
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2014
What message was the author of Acts seeking to convey, and what would the original audience have understood? How is God speaking to believers today through Acts as it has been used by the church throughout the centuries? In this addition to the Catholic Commentary on Sacred Scripture, respected New...
by Robert G. Gromacki
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2008
Before coming to grips with an individual verse or passage in the New Testament, Bible students and expositors must understand how it relates to the theme of the book. This nontechnical survey offers readers a working understanding of the New Testament by providing the theological tools necessary...