Criticism Interpretation category: 2013 books
Inexpressible
Hesed and the Mystery of God's Lovingkindness
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2018
God's identity is beyond what we could ever fully express in human words. But Scripture uses one particular word to describe the distinctiveness of God's character: the Hebrew word hesed. Hesed is a concept so rich in meaning that it doesn't translate well into any single English word or phrase. Michael...
by Craig S. Keener
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Highly respected New Testament scholar Craig Keener is known for his meticulous and comprehensive research. This commentary on Acts, his magnum opus, may be the largest and most thoroughly documented Acts commentary available. Useful not only for the study of Acts but also early Christianity, this...
Understanding Jesus
50 Reasons Why Jesus Matters
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Using archaeological and Christian sources, Understanding Jesus provides us with historical and scriptural reasons to know Jesus better and why he might matter to us.
by Yahweh's Restoration Ministry
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2013
A great deal of misinformation has been written about notable personalities down through history, but nothing compares to the delusion and confusion in the minds of millions regarding the true Messiah and His earthly mission...
by Yahweh's Restoration Ministry
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
How often have you wished you could explain a questionable Scripture or teaching but simply lacked the understanding? When someone blind-sides you with a particular point and you cannot think of a Scriptural response, what do you do?...
Miracles : 2 volumes
The Credibility of the New Testament Accounts
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Most modern prejudice against biblical miracle reports depends on David Hume's argument that uniform human experience precluded miracles. Yet current research shows that human experience is far from uniform. In fact, hundreds of millions of people today claim to have experienced miracles. New Testament...
Scripting Jesus
The Gospels in Rewrite
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2010
In Scripting Jesus, Michael White, famed scholar of early Christian history, reveals how the gospel stories of Jesus were never meant to be straightforward historical accounts, but rather were scripted and honed as performance pieces for four different audiences with four different theological agendas....
Reading the New Testament in the Church
A Primer for Pastors, Religious Educators, and Believers
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2015
Internationally respected scholar Francis Moloney offers a Catholic introduction to the New Testament that shows how to read it both faithfully and critically. The opening chapter and an epilogue directly address the theological requirements of, and historical challenges for, ecclesial reading. The...
Paul within Judaism
Restoring the First-Century Context to the Apostle
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
In these chapters, a group of renowned international scholars seek to describe Paul and his work from “within Judaism,” rather than on the assumption, still current after thirty years of the “New Perspective,” that in practice Paul left behind aspects of Jewish living after his discovery of...
The Figure of Adam in Romans 5 and 1 Corinthians 15
The New Creation and its Ethical and Social Reconfigurations
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
Felipe Legarreta gives careful attention to patterns of exegesis in Second-Temple Judaism and identifies, for the first time, a number of motifs by which Jews drew ethical implications from the story of Adam and his expulsion from Eden. He then demonstrates that throughout the “Christological”...
Healing in the Bible
Theological Insight for Christian Ministry
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
In the midst of an ongoing debate about health care, what does the Bible say about healing? Here a respected scholar reads biblical texts on health and healing with care and imagination, engaging the reader in lively conversations with the text and with questions of contemporary theological and pastoral...
Resurrection: Faith or Fact?
A Scholars' Debate Between a Skeptic and a Christian
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2019
Is there enough evidence to believe Jesus rose from the dead, or must such a judgment be based only on faith? Can the resurrection story be considered a fact of history, or should it be viewed as an ahistorical account? Two renowned professors, atheist Carl Stecher and Christian Craig Blomberg, engage...
by Œuvre Collective
Language: French
Release Date: August 2, 2018
Language: French
Release Date: August 2, 2018
de M. Robinson et W. Pierpont, bien connu pour la préférence qu'il accorde aux manuscrits Byzantins, sans toutefois se confondre avec le Textus Receptus. La traduction française est celle du Nouveau Testament Annoté de Louis Bonnet. Un appareil critique minimal indique ces différences, c'est-à-dire...
A Law Book for the Diaspora
Revision in the Study of the Covenant Code
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2002
The foundation for all study of biblical law is the assumption that the Covenant Code is the oldest legal code in the Hebrew Bible and that all other laws are revisions of that code. This book sets forth the radical hypothesis that those laws in the covenant code that are similar to Deuteronomy and...