True to Our Native Land is a pioneering commentary of the New Testament that sets biblical interpretation firmly in the context of African American experience and concern. The second edition includes updated commentaries and essays.
Dragons, battles, beasts, and plagues--it's no wonder Revelation is often called the scariest book in the Bible. And most of us aren't sure what to make of it. What do you think of when you think about the book of Revelation? Prophecy, apocalypse, rapture? While certain evangelicals are steeped in the rhetoric of Revelation (albeit a very ......
Female identity is fraught and fetishized, commercialized and contested--so potent a weapon in contemporary cultural warfare that a sitting US senator had no shame in asking a nominee to the Supreme Court to "define 'woman.'" But the battle over female identity is not of modern invention. Its roots are ancient. And in the Hebrew Bible, one text ......
Each new generation of readers is shaped by different historical, cultural, and political contexts, which in turn require new interpretations of an old, yet continually mesmerizing story. The church fathers interpreted Job as a forerunner of Christ, while medieval Jewish commentators debated God's providential love. Artists, beginning at least in ......
Perhaps no Hebrew prophet speaks so directly to our time as Jeremiah. Perhaps no one can unveil his message and warning as can Daniel Berrigan, whose eloquence and courage, like Jeremiah's, expose the corruption of religious commitments, address national trauma and uncertainty, and proclaim the requirements of true lament and resolve. Daniel ......
This volume challenges readers to recognize an alternative interpretation of the book of Job that is based on wisdom and not covenant. In doing so, it provides a basis to explore the role of trauma and its healing.
The book gathers and translates texts from early Christianity that explore the diversity of theological approaches to the nature and ends of humanity. Readers will gain a sense of how early Christians reflected on humanity and human nature in different theological movements and their legacies in late antiquity and the dawn of the Middle Ages.
Cain Hope Felder shows the ancient ambiguity in the Bible about what we call race. He uncovers misuses of the biblical text and shows how the Bible has been used to trivialize Black people in many ways. The book, a critical essay from Stony the Road We Trod, challenges readers to a more honest engagement with the biblical text.
The Man and the Myth, Revised and Expanded Edition
A revision of the award-winning Paul: The Man and the Myth. Includes updated research throughout, plus a new chapter on the significance of Paul's childhood and its influence on his life as an apostle and on the inclusive gospel he preached, and a new chapter on Mark as one of the earliest gospel interpreters of Paul, if not the earliest.
Ngien demonstrates that, for Martin Luther, the apostle Peter stood alongside John and Paul as a preacher of "the genuine and pure gospel." Luther's sermons on 1 Peter illustrate the range and depth of the reformer's mature theological thought. Peter's epistle stands as what Luther considered one of the "foremost books" of the New Testament.
A Common Heritage of Divine Songs for Muslim-Christian Friendship
The sacred text of the Psalms, along with musical tunes, provides a robust context for religious dialogue. This book proposes a creative strategy for building Muslim-Christian friendship by using the lyrical poetry of the Psalms translated into the vernacular and composed in culturally relevant music.
Should Paul's Gospel be read as decisive new beginning? Or should it be understood as the glorious fulfillment of Israel's covenant? Two seasoned Pauline scholars, J. Christaan Beker and N. T. Wright, weigh in.
From Mary through St. John's Gospel to Rudolf Steiner's Philosophy of Fr
An illuminating study of Mary as she appears in the New Testament, which also draws on Rudolf Steiner's The Philosophy of Freedom, to reveal the value of devotion and thinking with the heart.
To recreate or envision life in biblical times it is essential to acknowledge that humanity in every time and place is constantly immersed in sensation and derives meaning from sensual experience. The biblical text not only hints at sensual impressions, but also indicates how the senses are valued for interpretation.
In the Hermeneia Jonah translation and commentary, Susan Niditch considers Jonah as a complex reflection upon the heavy matters of life and death, good and evil, and human and divine relations. Her technical study examines the text through the lens of international folklore, and special attention is paid to a legacy of interpretive scholarship.
A Philosophical, Medical, and Sociological Sourcebook
Next to the philosophical tradition, ancient medical texts represent the most important systematic reflection on the components, aspects, and dimensions of the person and embodiment. Until now, these sources and their relation to the philosophical tradition have received little attention in biblical scholarship.
Since its initial publication, Textual Criticism of the Hebrew Bible has established itself as the indispensable authoritative textbook and reference on the subject. In this thoroughly revised fourth edition, Emanuel Tov has incorporated the insights of the last ten years of scholarship.
A new translation of the John's New Testament Letters plus perceptive analysis of the text, offering valuable insights into the background to the letters and their continuing relevance today.
