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Divine Wrath and Salvation in Matthew
The Narrative World of the First Gospel
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Judgment and the wrath of God are prominent themes in Matthew’s Gospel. Because judgment is announced not only on the hypocritical but also on those who reject God’s messengers—and because this rejection is implicitly connected with the destruction of Jerusalem—the Gospel has often been read...
A People's History of Christianity
From the Early Church to the Reformation
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
On its release, the seven volume A People’s History of Christianity was lauded for its commitment to raising awareness of the ways in which ordinary Christians have lived throughout more than twenty centuries of Christian History. Now, the essential material from that important project is available...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
The seven volume A People’s History of Christianity has been celebrated for raising awareness of the way in which lay Christians have lived throughout more than 20 centuries of Christian History.
By adopting a people’s history approach, over 100 contributors turned their attention to the...
Jesus the Seer
The Progress of Prophecy
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Scholars recognize that prophetic traditions, expressions, and experiences stand at the heart of most religions in the ancient Mediterranean world. This is no less true for the world of Judaism and Jesus. Ben Witherington III offers an extensive, cross-cultural survey of the broader expressions...
by Walter Brueggemann
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2019
In this new volume, prolific scholar Walter Brueggemann seeks to show Christian preachers how to consider the faith witnessed in several Old Testament traditions and to help them discover rich and suggestive connections to our contemporary faith challenges. The author also assumes that a wholesale...
Tenacious Solidarity
Biblical Provocations on Race, Religion, Climate, and the Economy
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
Tenacious Solidarity features essays and new writings from 2014 to 2018. As all of Walter Brueggemann's writing is, the chapters are deeply biblical while also concerned with the identities, practices, and obligations of religious communities in contemporary contexts within the United States. Brueggemann...
The Creative Word
Canon as a Model for Biblical Education
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
Every faith community knows the challenges of inviting new members and the next generation into its shared life without falling into an arid traditionalism or a shallow relativism. Renowned scholar Walter Brueggemann finds a framework for education in the structure of the Hebrew Bible canon, with...
Dogmatic Aesthetics
A Theology of Beauty in Dialogue with Robert W. Jenson
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
The identification of God with beauty is one of the most aesthetically rich notions within Christian thought. However, this claim is often at risk of becoming untethered from core Christian theological confessions. To avoid a theological account of beauty becoming a mere projection of our wildest...
The Rape of Eve
The Transformation of Roman Ideology in Three Early Christian Retellings of Genesis
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Sex, violence, power, and redemption. In recent decades, scholars of New Testament and early Christian traditions have given new attention to the relationships between gender and imperial power in the Roman world. In this surprising work, Celene Lillie examines core passages from three Gnostic texts...
The House of David
Between Political Formation and Literary Revision
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Current scholarly debate over the historical character of David’s rule generally considers the biblical portrait to represent David as king of Judah first, and subsequently over “all Israel.” The ninth-century Tel Dan inscription, which refers to the “House of David” (byt dwd), is often...
An Apocryphal God
Beyond Divine Maturity
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
In Portraits of a Mature God, Mark McEntire traced the narrative development of the divine character in the Old Testament, placing the God portrayed at the end of that long story at the center of theological discussion. He showed that Israel’s understanding of God had developed into a complex, multipurpose...
The Historical Writings
Introducing Israel's Historical Literature
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
History has an inescapable centrality in the Hebrew Bible, and biblical narratives are for many readers the best recognized and most memorable parts of the Bible. Yet the history of ancient Israel and the nature of Hebrew historiography remain hotly contested topics in contemporary scholarship. The...
James and Paul
The Politics of Identity at the Turn of the Ages
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Recent interest in the person and work of James of Jerusalem and in the community he led has sometimes put the apostle Paul in a negative light—a reversal of the more usual pattern in Protestantism, where Paul is the shining light and James is thrust into the shadows. Rather than exaggerating...
Comparing Judaism and Christianity
Common Judaism, Paul, and the Inner and the Outer in Ancient Religion
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Few scholars have so shaped the contemporary debate on the relation of early Christianity to early Judaism as E. P. Sanders, and no one has produced a clearer or more distinctive vision of that relationship as it was expressed in the figures of Jesus of Nazareth and Paul the apostle. Gathered for...