Going against the false perception that all Latinx views on the Bible are homogeneous, the contributors in this book use different hermeneutic perspectives to interpret the New Testament. Each chapter examines one of the twenty-seven documents thematically instead of following the traditional verse-by-verse commentary format.
How Beliefs about the Bible Affect the Way It Is Read
All over the UK, Evangelical Anglicans read and study the Bible, in churches and in homes, in groups and as individuals. They do this because they believe the Bible is God's word, a collection of texts that is authoritative, inspired, consistent, clear and sufficient. But what does this mean for the way the Bible is read? Should the Bible always ......
These essays, written over more than thirty years of Vincent L. Wimbush's career as a scholar, provide a response to the nearly universal, persistent, and sedimented modern-world hyper-signification of Black flesh, always needing to be framed, humiliated, policed, and dirtied. Because Wimbush is a scholar of religion as culture--having to do with ......
Comparing Perspectives on the Bible and the Constitution
In the study of American law, originalism is primarily a theory about the meaning of the Constitution--that its meaning can only change when its words change. Originalism also appears in biblical theology as a theory on the meaning of the Bible--that its meaning is that intended by the original authors. Originalism in Theology and Law: Comparing ......
How the Book of Mormon Reads, and Rereads, the Bible
Understanding the Book of Mormon on its own terms and through its two-way connection with the Bible Like the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Bible, the Book of Mormon uses narratives to develop ideas and present instruction. Michael Austin reveals how the Book of Mormon connects itself to narratives in the Christian Bible with many of the same ......
An engaging and inspiring Bible with stories retold for older children and accompanied by soft watercolour illustrations. Includes a presentation page and ribbon marker.
Drawing on Evangelical and Catholic exegetes, Church Fathers, and the ancient liturgies as well as later theological masters, Deep Mysteries shows how the events of the life of Jesus Christ have causal power to enter human existence now. History, metaphysics, and worshipful meditation are joined together herein.
Combining philological data, social-science models, and cross-cultural comparisons, Russaw examines the systems that constrict biblical daughters and the strategies they employ when hostile social forces threaten their well-being.
An Essay on Faith, Hope, and Love, an English translation of Une voie
Faith, hope, and love are the three core realities of Christian existence. Reflecting on the meaning these three realities have for us today, Christophe Chalamet argues that we gain a deeper understanding of them as we consider them in their interrelation, rather than separately.
In Death and Beyond?, Kumiko Takeuchi offers a fresh take on the book of Ecclesiastes. Premised on the current scholarly consensus that locates the composition of this book of the Hebrew Bible in the postexilic era, circa the late fourth or early third century BCE, Takeuchi proposes that Ecclesiastes may have served as a provocative ......
Reading Paul, the Old Testament, and Second Temple Jewish Literature
While much has been written about the apostle Paul’s view on the relationship between gentile Christians and the Mosaic law, comparatively little attention has been paid to Paul’s writings on the laws of Moses and how they apply to gentile unbelievers. In this book, Bryan Blazosky examines Paul’s teaching on the subject and ......
Race in John's Gospel: Toward an Ethnos-Conscious Approach offers a reading of the gospel that centers race and ethnicity. Aspects of racialized thinking permeate many of John's stories and dialogs, which adopt, adapt, and finally challenge various aspects of the racial attitudes of its day.
This book explores Josephus's silences as a historian of Jewish life and of early Christianity and how his silences and omissions are similar to and different from the silences of other writers like Tacitus and Pliny the Younger, who lived in Rome during the reign of the Emperor Domitian.
This book examines the role of suffering in Paul's letters. Davey concludes that the different letters employ a common logic to account for suffering in the church, specifically that suffering derives from and inheres with Paul's concept of "participation with Christ."
At the Intersection of Philology and Hermeneutics in Deuteronomy and the Temple Scroll
The historical-critical method that characterizes academic biblical studies too often remains separate from approaches that stress the history of interpretation, which are employed more frequently in the area of Second Temple or Dead Sea Scrolls research. Inaugurating the new series, Critical Studies in the Hebrew Bible, A More Perfect ......
The Rhetorical Function of Allusion to Genesis 13 in the Book of Leviti cus
A methodologically constrained examination of the lexical, syntactical, and conceptual correspondence between the opening chapters of Genesis and Leviticus 11, 16, and 26. Explores the potential rhetorical function of allusion for the texts’ original ......
Toward a Priestly Christology provides a constructive theology on the person and work of Christ from the standpoint of a systematic thinking about his priesthood. The study attempts to articulate a dynamic understanding of what it means to say that Christ is our priest today.
