The Literary and Theological Achievement of the Evangelist Mark
This book emphasizes the literary creativity of the Evangelist Mark by detailing his use and imitation of literary materials well-known to him and to his first-century audience. All this was in service of what constitutes the "secret of the Kingdom of God," that is, authentic Christian discipleship.
This book examines Philo's understanding of the acquisition of virtues and the avoidance of vices using the Greek concept of piety as a central virtue in his ethical discourse. Naveros exceptionally shows how Philo construes his understanding of living ethically within both the Hellenistic Jewish and Greek traditions.
In this book, Stein uncovers the meaning behind mentions of mental symptoms found in the Old Testament. The verses of the Old Testament were written with a primary religious intention, but sometimes they reference well-known psychiatric symptoms, which only becomes clear when all religion, history, and myth are stripped away.
Studies on Biblical Hebrew in Honor of George L. Klein
A collection of essays in honor of George Klein on the research and teaching of Biblical Hebrew. Contributors cover grammar, diachrony, syntax, lexicography, and pedagogy.
A collection of essays on the research and teaching of Biblical Hebrew. Contributors cover grammar, diachrony, syntax, lexicography, and ......
Examines the rhetorical function of Isaiah 28–35, a series of six woe oracles, in relation to reading the book of Isaiah as a whole. Explores the use of the language of agrarian wisdom to transport the reader from prior reflections on historical destruction into a vision of ultimate hope.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Christological Interpretation of the Psalms
In this book, Pribbenow explores the unique contribution of Dietrich Bonhoeffer to the history of interpretation of the Psalms. He considers the place of Bonhoeffer's interpretation in light of premodern and modern exegesis and traces his approach from his Confessing Church leadership through his final years in the prisons of the Third Reich.
This book seeks to present to the society and to all faiths and persons in any walk of life that an interpretation of each parable where Jesus seeks to direct us and advise us, pointing from earth toward heaven. The basic scope and subject of the book is to render to the reader some understanding of these stories in the New Testament.
These essays provide a panoramic view of current thinking on biblical texts that play important roles in contemporary struggles for social justice. Here, from the hands of an ecumenical array of leading biblical scholars, are fresh and compelling resources for thinking biblically about what justice is and what it demands.
Paul's Covenantal Hermeneutics and Participation in Christ
Although covenant language is not prominent in Paul's letters, Campbell argues that it remains the basis of his thought in differentiated ways concerning Israel and the nations. The covenant remains God's covenant with Israel, but through its re-ratification in Christ, non-Jews participate in the Abrahamic promises.
A collection of essays covering theology and methodology—emphasizing Wesleyan biblical hermeneutics, canonical perspectives, and the implications of these approaches for church life and work—as well as biblical texts/themes and the relationship of the study of Scripture to the life of the Christian.
Shinall contends that Mark and Q represent Jesus's miracles differently in relation to his proclamation of the kingdom of God. He compares three cases of Mark-Q overlaps that feature miracles: the Beelzebul controversy, the commissioning of the disciples, and the testing or "temptation" narratives.
The book is an in-depth, reader friendly analysis of the Book of Judges, one of the most dramatic books of the Bible. This study argues that the Book of Judges has a single focused message: that it is the values held by a people and not its politics that determine its fate.
Brandon R. Grafius examines the tale of Phineas as expressing the latent anxieties of the Israelite society that produced it, combining the insights of historical criticism with those of contemporary horror and monster theory. The combination of methods illumines the concern of a priestly class to control community boundaries.
Explores the figurative and symbolic function of animal imagery in the Bible, with particular attention to the structural and stylistic features of that imagery in the Book of Psalms.
Analysis of the laws in Exodus and Leviticus that involve the sale of a daughter as a slave, the forced prostitution of a daughter, and a priest's daughter who is a prostitute. Relevant mark Near Eastern and later Judaic laws are included in the analysis.
Readers of texts come from all generations, from different contexts and with different agendas. This book gives a sample of what both ancient and contemporary readers have brought to the book of Ecclesiastes in the quest for illumination of the text and for their own enlightenment, often furnishing their own agenda. Debates over meaning are ......
