Hermeneutics category: 533 books
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Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2018
The study of the Bible has long included a literary aspect with great attention paid not only to what was written but also to how it was expressed. The detailed analysis of biblical books and passages as written texts has benefited from the study of literature in classical philology, ancient rhetoric,...
Linguistic Analysis of the Greek New Testament
Studies in Tools, Methods, and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2015
In this volume, a leading expert brings readers up to date on the latest advances in New Testament Greek linguistics. Stanley Porter brings together a number of different studies of the Greek of the New Testament under three headings: texts and tools for analysis, approaching analysis, and doing analysis....
Narrative Theology and the Hermeneutical Virtues
Humility, Patience, Prudence
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2015
Dr. Jacob L. Goodson will be doing a book signing for Narrative Theology and the Hermeneutical Virtues: Humility, Patience, Prudence at Eighth Day Books in Wichita, KS, on Saturday March 21, 2015, at 4:00pm.
In Narrative Theology and the Hermeneutical Virtues: Humility, Patience, Prudence,...
Pandora's Box Opened
An Examination and Defense of Historical-Critical Method and Its Master Practitioners
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2014
For many, the historical-critical method has released a host of threats to Christian faith and confession. In Pandora's Box Opened, however, Roy Harrisville argues that despite the evils brought upon biblical interpretation by the historical-critical method, there is still hope for it as a discipline.
Harrisville...
Christ as Creator
Origins of a New Testament Doctrine
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2009
This book examines the New Testament teaching that Christ was the one through whom God made the world. While scholars usually interpret this doctrine as arising from the equation of Jesus and the Wisdom of God, Sean McDonough argues that it had its roots in the church's memories of Jesus' miracles....
The Voice of God in the Text of Scripture
Explorations in Constructive Dogmatics
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Scholars from biblical studies and theology have recently been engaged in various ways in the project of theological interpretation of Scripture. This literature has raised issues about the theological content of the biblical material, authorial intention, the reception and formation of the Bible...
The Babylon Complex
Theopolitical Fantasies of War, Sex, and Sovereignty
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014
Babylon is a surprisingly multivalent symbol in U.S. culture and politics. Political citations of Babylon range widely, from torture at Abu Ghraib to depictions of Hollywood glamour and decadence. In political discourse, Babylon appears in conservative ruminations on democratic law, liberal appeals...
Theology, Politics, and Exegesis
Essays on the History of Modern Biblical Criticism
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
Modern biblical scholars often view the methods they employ as objective and neutral, tracing the history of modern biblical scholarship to the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In this volume, Jeffrey Morrow examines some earlier, lesser known roots of modern biblical scholarship. He explores...
The Bible in Political Debate
What Does it Really Say?
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2016
Politicians and pundits regularly invoke the Bible in social and political debates on a host of controversial social and political issues, including: abortion, stem-cell research, gay marriage, the death penalty, separation of church and state, family values, climate change, income distribution, teaching...
by Ken Chant
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2015
Christ is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities – all things were created through him and for him. And he is before all things, and in...
Demolishing Supposed Bible Contradictions Volume 2
Exploring Forty Alleged Contradictions
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
The Bible is accurate and without error! Demolishing Supposed Bible Contradictions Volume 2 offers 40 powerful explanations to prove it.
There is an increasing focus in our culture on dismissing the Bible and its authority. Generations of skeptics and the religion of evolution have influenced...
by Peter S. Perry
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
In this volume, Peter S. Perry describes what performance criticism is and shows its application to biblical studies and theology. He draws on the best thinkers and practitioners in this field as well as his own experience to show how performance criticism can open up the meaning of and appreciation...
by Syed M S Nasser
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
Was it really a vision of Jesus that turned erstwhile persecutor, Saul, into the devoted follower, Paul? If so, why did he renounce his allegedly "revealed" doctrines when arrested? Why did Jesus' disciples abandon him to his fate in his hour of need, and later level against him grievous accusations...
by Edward D. Andrews
Language: English
Release Date: December 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 25, 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,...