The Texts @ Contexts series gathers scholarly voices from diverse contexts and social locations to bring new or unfamiliar facets of biblical texts to light. In 1 and 2 Corinthians, scholars from a variety of cultural and social locations shed new light on themes and dynamics in Pauls most intriguing letters to a complex church. Subjects include ......
The ending of Mark's Gospel is one of the great unsolved mysteries. Comments about the different attested endings date back to Eusebius in the fourth century. This volume argues that Eusebius proposes a double solution to the problem that can be read as recognizing the authority of both the Longer and the Abrupt conclusions to Mark's Gospel.
Although character has been the subject of focused literary-critical study of the New Testament (and a point of connection with "character ethics") since the 1970s, the author observes that there is still no consensus regarding how characterization should be understood in contemporary literary theory or in biblical studies.
Anatomy of the New Testament is one of the most trust-worthy and enduring introductory textbooks of its kind. Its authors bring literary and historical approaches to the New Testament together, offering a comprehensive and accessible approach that appeals to students at all levels.
What distinguishes the "new perspective on Paul" and what lies beyond it? What are scholars saying about Paul and the Roman Empire or about the intersection between feminist and postcolonial interpretation of Paul? Magnus Zetterholm provides a clear and reliable guide to these and other lively issues in the contemporary study of Paul, surveying ......
Luke's two-volume work contains the only narrative depictions of Jesus' ascent into heaven in the New Testament. While select studies have focused on particular aspects of these accounts, however, the importance of the ascension to Luke-Acts calls for renewed attention to the narratological and theological significance of these accounts.
Scholars have read Paul's use of the word Christos as more of a proper name ("Jesus Christ") than a title, Jesus the Messiah. Joshua Jipp broadens the discussion by surveying Greco-Roman and Jewish depictions of the ideal king and argues for the influence of these traditions on aspects of Paul's thought and language of participation "in Christ."
Yung Suk Kim takes up the language of "body" that infuses 1 Corinthians about social realities in the early church. Kim argues against the view that in speaking of the church as Christ's body Paul seeks to emphasize unity and the social boundary.
Sexual Ethics in the New Testament and Their Implications for Today
Includes text and notes, taking advantage of studies of sexual ethics and, where appropriate, criticizing them. This book also includes a chapter that engages the presumed "ethic of creation". It also contains a chapter on sex which is rewritten and offers a positive statement of a New Testament sexual ethic.
