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.
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.
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 ......
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.
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.
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.
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.
This volume addresses the problematic relationship between colonialism and the Bible. It does so from the perspective of the Global South, calling upon voices from Africa and the Middle East, Asia and the Pacific, and Latin America and the Caribbean.
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.
