Criticism Interpretation category: 2013 books
Bipolar God
Understanding God's Link to Mental Illness
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
"Bipolar God" is a narrative identifying the link between the Christian God and mental illnesses such as bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. It uses relationships established in the Bible by God and look at different decisions that He made as evidence to support its claims. While...
Immaculate Assumptions
All the Stuff You Heard About the Bible That Isn't True
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
In a society increasingly ruled by secular humanism the notion that the unseen, unable-to be-seen-spirit world rules the natural seems almost quaint especially since modern men only want solutions not ideas. But increasingly the data of reality and science makes this more probable than not. If we do...
Judas
The Most Hated Name In History
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
“A straightforward biography that thankfully avoids preaching. Readers curious about Judas’ broad effect on world history will welcome this book.” (Kirkus Reviews)
In this fascinating historical and cultural biography, Peter Stanford deconstructs that most vilified of Bible characters:...
Adam, Eve, and the Serpent
Sex and Politics in Early Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2011
Deepens and refreshes our view of early Christianity while casting a disturbing light on the evolution of the attitudes passed down to us. How did the early Christians come to believe that sex was inherently sinful? When did the Fall of Adam become synonymous with the fall of humanity? What turned...
Reading the Gospels Wisely
A Narrative and Theological Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
This textbook on how to read the Gospels well can stand on its own as a guide to reading this New Testament genre as Scripture. It is also ideally suited to serve as a supplemental text to more conventional textbooks that discuss each Gospel systematically. Most textbooks tend to introduce students...
Jesus and the Eyewitnesses
The Gospels as Eyewitness Testimony
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
A groundbreaking work in New Testament studies expanded and updated
Winner of the 2007 Christianity Today Book Award in Biblical Studies, this momentous volume argues that the four Gospels are closely based on the eyewitness testimony of those who personally knew Jesus. Noted New Testament...
Jesus Risen in Our Midst
Essays on the Resurrection of Jesus in the Fourth Gospel
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2013
Jesus Risen in Our Midst mines the Resurrection Narrative of John's gospel as a rich resource for understanding and developing Christian spirituality. In this series of essays, which can be read independently of one another, Scripture scholar Sandra Schneiders draws out especially fascinating insights...
History of New Testament Research
From C.H. Dodd to Hans Dieter Betz
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
In this masterful volume—the culmination of his three-volume History of New Testament Research (vol. 1, From Deism to Tubingen, 1992;vol. 2, From Jonathan Edwards to Rudolf Bultmann, 2012)—William Baird continues his insightful, balanced, and accessible survey of the major developments in New...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2016
Since the mid-twentieth century, apocalyptic thought has been championed as a central category for understanding the New Testament writings and the letters of Paul above all. But “apocalyptic” has meant different things to different scholars. Even the assertion of an “apocalyptic Paul” has...
by Jason M. H. Gaines
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
Applying criteria for the identification of biblical Hebrew poetry, Jason M. H. Gaines distinguishes a nearly complete poetic Priestly stratum in the Pentateuch (“Poetic P”), coherent in literary, narrative, and ideological terms, from a later prose redaction (“Prosaic P”), which is fragmentary,...
by Edward D. Andrews
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2012
It is a daunting task for the new Bible student to walk into a store for the purpose of purchasing a Bible. Immediately, he is met with shelves upon shelves of more than 100 different English translation choices: AMP, AT, ASV, BLE, CEB, CEV, ERV, ESV, HCSB, IB, ISV, JB, KJ21, LB, MLB, NAB, NASB,...
by Edward D. Andrews
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2012
It is a daunting task for the new Bible student to walk into a store for the purpose of purchasing a Bible. Immediately, he is met with shelves upon shelves of more than 100 different English translation choices: AMP, AT, ASV, BLE, CEB, CEV, ERV, ESV, HCSB, IB, ISV, JB, KJ21, LB, MLB, NAB, NASB,...
by Samuel Butler
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
This book is about the consequences of religion more than whether Christ rose from the dead (Krishna, Mithras, Osiris, Attis of Phygia, Dionysus, all of whom besides being born on December 25th from a virgin mother, died and were resurrected, except for Mithras (who ascended directly without dying)...
by Rev. Fred A. Ross
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
Maybe you agree with slavery (it may seem incomprehensible to you, but there are still Christians today who believe this practice is "Ordained of God") but more probably you do not. We at CrossReach Publications certainly do not. But in the mid 1850s slavery was so normal and acceptable...