Criticism Interpretation category: 2013 books
Intimate Jesus
The sexuality of God incarnate
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
This is the first book to open up for general readers key questions about Jesus’ experience of human sexuality and his attitude towards it in himself and others. It examines all the relevant sayings and actions of Jesus and others in the Gospels, and explores their first-century cultural context...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Decades ago, Werner G. Kummel described the historical problem of Romans as its “double character”: concerned with issues of Torah and the destiny of Israel, the letter is explicitly addressed not to Jews but to Gentiles. At stake in the numerous answers given to that question is nothing less...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
The Dictionary of the Bible and Ancient Media is a convenient and authoritative reference tool, introducing specific terms and concepts helpful to the study of the Bible and related literature in ancient communications culture. Since the early 1980s, biblical scholars have begun to explore the potentials...
Old Testament Theology
Israel's Faith
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2010
Old Testament Theology: Israel's Faith is the second of John Goldingay's magisterial three-volume Old Testament Theology. The award-winning first volume, Old Testament Theology: Israel's Gospel, followed the story line of the First Testament, developing its narrative theology. This volume finds its...
Binding Testimony- Holy Scripture and Tradition
on behalf of the Ecumenical Study Group of Protestant and Catholic Theologians in Germany
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2014
Recently, voices were raised in the worldwide Christian ecumenical movement that it was high time the Protestant-Catholic fundamental topic «Holy Scripture and Tradition» was approached and ecumenically reviewed. In Germany, this has already been achieved by the «Ökumenischer Arbeitskreis evangelischer...
Gospel Writing
A Canonical Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2013
That there are four canonical versions of the one gospel story is often seen as a problem for Christian faith: where gospels multiply, so too do apparent contradictions that may seem to undermine their truth claims. In Gospel Writing Francis Watson argues that differences and tensions between canonical...
The Dance Between God and Humanity
Reading the Bible Today as the People of God
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
The Dance between God and Humanity brings together thirty-one articles written by Bruce Waltke, reformed evangelical professor of Old Testament and Hebrew, on fascinating topics in biblical theology including:
Studying the Psalms devotionally
The text and canon of the Old Testament
Preaching...
The Nature Miracles of Jesus
Problems, Perspectives, and Prospects
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2017
The nature miracle stories of Jesus--walking on the water or feeding thousands with a small amount of food, for example--are so spectacular that many find them a problem, whether historical, philosophical, or even theological. This is the first book to tackle this problem head on. Do the stories reflect...
New Testament Foundations
An Introduction for Students
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2018
Drawing upon over fifty years of scholarly experience of one of the most industrious contemporary scholars, this work, which was first published in 1975, has been revised, updated, and expanded to offer a fresh, in-depth introduction to the New Testament for today's students. Students will be immersed...
Heralds and Community
An Enquiry into Paul's Conception of Mission and Its Indebtedness to the Jesus-Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
This book is part of the ongoing debate about Paul’s understanding of the relationship between his own mission and the church’s. While this study endorses some previous scholarship on Paul’s silence about the church’s proactive evangelism in his letters, it argues that explanations for such...
by Eva Mroczek
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
Winner of the 2017 Manfred Lautenschlaeger Award for Theological Promise Winner of the 2017 The George A. and Jean S. DeLong Book History Book Prize The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls revealed a world of early Jewish writing larger than the Bible, from multiple versions of biblical texts to "revealed"...
by Elizabeth W. Goldstein
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2015
Impurity and Gender in the Hebrew Bible explores the role of female blood in the Hebrew Bible and considers its theological implications for future understandings of purity and impurity in the Jewish religion. Influenced by the work of Jonathan Klawans (Sin and Impurity in Ancient Judaism), and using...
End-Years Commentary
2 Agur Judaism Hunts Greek Bible Misogyny Lies
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2017
End-Years Commentary 2 is a brutal book that effectively utilizes syllogisms, anagrams, and Book of Moses quotes as weaponry in Agur Judaism’s continued assault on the Gospel of Christ. All 1,151 of Luke the physician’s verses are eviscerated.
Its predecessor is a layman’s...
by Tremper III Longman
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2006
With Proverbs, veteran Old Testament scholar Tremper Longman III offers an accessible commentary on one of Scripture's most frequently quoted and visited books. With his deft exegetical and expositional skill, the resulting work is full of fresh insight into the meaning of the text.
In addition...