The authors build on their earlier social-scientific works and enhance the highly successful commentary model they developed in their social-scientific commentaries. This volume is a thoroughly revised edition of this popular commentary. They include an introduction that lays the foundation for their interpretation, followed by an examination of ......
John J. Collins's popular Introduction to the Hebrew Bible has now been divided into four volumes, one for each major part of the Hebrew Bible. This volume focuses on the Writings. This volume, based on the new third edition of the Collins textbook, is presented in a new and engaging format with new maps and images.
Callahan suggests that scholars have wrongly placedthe sequence and therefore the importance of the workscollectively known as the Johannine tradition - the Gospel ofJohn and the Johannine Epistles. His proposal includesliterary, theological, and historical analysis as he argues forthe reevaluation of a significant part of the biblical canon.
Here are amazing insights showing reincarnation to be deeply and powerfully revealed in the Bible's most fundamental aspects. How and why have these insights escaped attention for so long? At last, they are uncovered here by a confluence of conventional Bible study and the epochal spiritual discoveries of Rudolf Steiner. With particular emphasis ......
In this book, Frank W. Hughes and Robert Jewett argue that the Apostle Paul wrote eight letters to the church in Corinth, and that those letters were edited and reshaped into 1 and 2 Corinthians. This analysis, using redaction and rhetorical criticism, provides many insights into Paul's difficult relationship with the Corinthians.
The Myth of Christian Supremacy is the culmination of a lifelong scholarly inquiry into Christian history, religion as a social institution, and the role of myth in the history of religions. Mack shows that Christianity has been an ever-changing mythological engine of social formation, from Roman times to its distinct American expression today.
New Approaches in Biblical Studies, Second Edition
Provides a classroom resource in biblical studies. This book contains introductions to critical methods in biblical study, focused on a biblical book, "Judges". It features additions to original articles along with essays on Gender Criticism, Cultural Criticism, and Post-colonial Criticism.
Pastors and students of the Bible who seek deep and detailed engagement with the text of the New Testament have long relied on R. C. H. Lenski's classic text - now available again. Lenski's massive yet readable commentary has been deeply influential in pastoral circles that prize serious work with the Greek text, a strong theological exegesis ......
