The authors build on their earlier social-scientific works and enhance the highly successful commentary model they developed in their social-scientific commentaries. This volume is a thoroughly revised edition of this popular commentary. They include an introduction that lays the foundation for their interpretation, followed by an examination of ......
No story is so well known, nor perhaps any so little understood, as the birth of Jesus. Its mystery steals into every heart as days shorten into winter. And commercialism's thickening veneer has neither quieted the cry of every soul nor stilled its urge to penetrate through it all to an understanding of this most magnificent event in all creation. ......
This book attempts to illuminate the issue of moral injury and identify means of healing, recovery, and repair for those morally injured by their experiences in combat (or similar situations).
John J. Collins's popular Introduction to the Hebrew Bible has now been divided into four volumes, one for each major part of the Hebrew Bible. This volume focuses on the Writings. This volume, based on the new third edition of the Collins textbook, is presented in a new and engaging format with new maps and images.
Callahan suggests that scholars have wrongly placedthe sequence and therefore the importance of the workscollectively known as the Johannine tradition - the Gospel ofJohn and the Johannine Epistles. His proposal includesliterary, theological, and historical analysis as he argues forthe reevaluation of a significant part of the biblical canon.
In this book, Frank W. Hughes and Robert Jewett argue that the Apostle Paul wrote eight letters to the church in Corinth, and that those letters were edited and reshaped into 1 and 2 Corinthians. This analysis, using redaction and rhetorical criticism, provides many insights into Paul's difficult relationship with the Corinthians.
The Myth of Christian Supremacy is the culmination of a lifelong scholarly inquiry into Christian history, religion as a social institution, and the role of myth in the history of religions. Mack shows that Christianity has been an ever-changing mythological engine of social formation, from Roman times to its distinct American expression today.
Constructions of the Apostle in Early Christianity
The influence of the apostle Paul in early Christianity goes far beyond the reach of the seven genuine letters he wrote to early assemblies. Paul was reveredand fiercely opposedin an even larger number of letters penned in his name, and in narratives told about him and against him, that were included in our New Testament and, far more often, ......
New Approaches in Biblical Studies, Second Edition
Provides a classroom resource in biblical studies. This book contains introductions to critical methods in biblical study, focused on a biblical book, "Judges". It features additions to original articles along with essays on Gender Criticism, Cultural Criticism, and Post-colonial Criticism.
