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The Disciple's Prayer
The Prayer Jesus Taught in Its Historical Setting
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Christians around the world recite the “Lord’s Prayer” daily, but what exactly are they praying for—and what relationship does it have with Jesus’ own context? Jeffrey B. Gibson reviews scholarship that derives the so-called Lord’s Prayer from Jewish synagogal prayers and refutes it. The...
1 Enoch
The Hermeneia Translation
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
1 Enoch was an important and popular text in ancient Judaism, well attested among the manuscripts at Qumran, and a key piece of the puzzle of Jewish origins. George W. E. Nickelsburg and James C. VanderKam have now revised their translation in conjunction with their publication of the complete...
by Ryan P. Bonfiglio
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
John J. Collins’s Introduction to the Hebrew Bible is one of the most widely used textbooks in the world, and for good reason. Balanced and richly informative, it introduces current thinking and leads the student into the important interpretive questions. This Study Companion is tied directly to...
Crucifixion
In The Ancient World And The Folly Of The Message Of The Cross
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1977
In a comprehensive and detailed survey on its remarkably widespread employment in the Roman empire, Dr. Hengel examines the way in which "the most vile death of the cross" was regarded in the Greek-speaking world and particularly in Roman-occupied Palestine. His conclusions bring out more starkly...
John's Use of Ezekiel
Understanding the Unique Perspective of the Fourth Gospel
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
Scholars have long puzzled over the distinctive themes and sequence of John’s narrative in contrast to the accounts in the Synoptic Gospels. Brian Neil Peterson now offers a remarkable explanation for some of the most unusual features of the Fourth Gospel, including the exalted language of the Johannine...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
At the origin of the Watchers tradition is the single enigmatic reference in Genesis 6 to the "sons of God" who had intercourse with human women, producing a race of giants upon the earth. That verse sparked an explosion of cosmological and theological speculation in early Judaism. Here...
Healing in the Gospel of Matthew
Reflections on Method and Ministry
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Although healing constitutes both a major theme of biblical literature and a significant practice of biblical communities, healing themes and experiences are not always conspicuous in presentations of biblical theology. Walter T. Wilson adopts an interdisciplinary approach to the healing narratives...
The Fear of Islam
An Introduction to Islamophobia in the West
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
American and European societies have struggled with the recurrent problem of Islamophobia, which continues to surface in waves of controversial legislative proposals, public anger over the construction of religious edifices, and outbreaks of violence. The ongoing conflict between Israel and Palestine...
The Church in Act
Lutheran Liturgical Theology in Ecumenical Conversation
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
The Church in Act explores the dynamics of ecclesial and liturgical theology, examining the body of Christ in action. Maxwell E. Johnson, one of the premier liturgical specialists in the field, provides in this volume historical and doctrinal thinking on a diversity of liturgical subjects under the...
Roman Imperial Texts
A Sourcebook
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
A selection of the most important sources for the cultural and political context of the early Roman Empire and the New Testament writings, Roman Imperial Texts includes freshly translated public speeches, official inscriptions, annals, essays, poems, and documents of veiled protest from the Empire’s subject peoples —all introduced by Mark Reasoner.
Anatomy of the New Testament
Seventh Edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
This broadly adopted textbook weds literary and historical approaches to focus on the New Testament’s structure and meaning. Anatomy of the New Testament is systematic, critical, and reliable in its scope and content.
This seventh edition has been revised throughout, to take account of current...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Understandings of the Church explores the ways imagery is used by biblical writers and early Christian teachers such as Cyprian, Ignatius of Antioch, Tertullian, Clement of Alexandria, and Origen to describe the concept of church. Ad Fontes: Early Christian Sources is a series designed to present...
The Words of Jesus
A Gospel of the Sayings of Our Lord
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2019
What if you could encounter the words of Jesus on their own, lifted up from the surrounding narratives and presented in their full power and mystery? That's the question Phyllis Tickle--one of America's most beloved writers on Christian spirituality--asked when she set out to write what she calls...
A Question of Consensus
The Doctrine of Assurance after the Westminster Confession
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
From the very earliest days after its completion in 1646, the Westminster Confession’s position on assurance has been a subject of controversy. In this exciting new work, Jonathan Master considers the Westminster Confession’s statements on assurance as a position of consensus among a...