Conflict, Conversion, and Consolidation in Early Judaism and Christianit
Covering the period from 200 BCE to 600 CE, this book describes important aspects of identity formation processes within early Judaism and Christianity, and shows how negotiations involving issues of ethnicity, stereotyping, purity, commensality, and institution building contributed to the forming of group identities. Over time, some of these ......
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.
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.
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 ......
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.
AnELECTRONIC VERSIONof Lutheran Study Bible is now available. Lutheran Study Biblefeatures the NRSV translation as well as introductions, notes, and articles written by more than sixty Lutheran pastors and teaching theologians. This resource is designed to invite readers to experience the Bible and its message through solid background material, ......
AnELECTRONIC VERSIONof Lutheran Study Bible is now available. Lutheran Study Biblefeatures the NRSV translation as well as introductions, notes, and articles written by more than sixty Lutheran pastors and teaching theologians. This resource is designed to invite readers to experience the Bible and its message through solid background material, ......
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 ......
How the Thought of Francisco Suarez, SJ, Can Renew Contemporary Legal En
In Law from Below, Elisabeth Rain Kincaid argues that the theology of the early modern legal theorist and theologian, Francisco Suarez, SJ may be successfully retrieved to provide a constructive model of legal engagement for Christians today.
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.
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.
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.
Israel's Lord addresses the nature of Jewish monotheism in the Second Temple period, especially in relation to a concept known as "two powers" in heaven. Wilhite and Winn review the various figures that were depicted as the second power in heaven, such as God's Word, God's Wisdom, the Angel of the Lord, the Son of Man, and others. By establishing ......
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 ......
Those who have spent time within earshot of a crying baby know the stress this sound can induce. Considerable scientific research has been devoted to the causes and consequences of infant crying because it is a public health concern implicated in parental frustration and infant abuse. Infant Weeping seeks to draw on the extensive ......
After she received the stigmata, Judith von Halle began vividly to perceive the events that occurred at the time of Christ. These continuing experiences are not visions, but rather an actual participation - involving all human senses - in the events themselves. To complement this personal witnessing of Christ's life, von Halle has researched the ......
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 ......
