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  • Scripture and Violence

    Edited by Julia Snyder, Daniel H. Weiss ...
    In the public sphere, it is often assumed that acts of violence carried out by Muslims are inspired by their religious commitment and encouraged by the Qur’an. Some people express similar concerns about the scriptures and actions of Christians and Jews. Might they be right? What role do scriptural texts play in motivating and justifying violence in these three traditions?Scripture and Violence ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Characters and Characterization in Luke-Acts

    Edited by Dr Frank Dicken, Dr Julia Snyder ...
    Series series The Library of New Testament Studies
    Like all skilful authors, the composer of the biblical books of Luke and Acts understood that a good story requires more than a gripping plot - a persuasive narrative also needs well-portrayed, plot-enhancing characters. This book brings together a set of new essays examining characters and characterization in those books from a variety of methodological perspectives.The essays illustrate how ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

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  • The Invention of Jesus

    How the Church Rewrote the New Testament

    by Peter Cresswell ...
    The Invention of Jesus is a pivotal, ground-breaking work, arguably one of the most important ever written in the field of New Testament textual analysis, and one that should direct scholastic endeavour for years to come. The author has developed some new techniques and taken an indepth look at the earliest surviving manuscripts of the gospels describing the life and death of Jesus as well as ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Tribals, Empire and God

    A Tribal Reading of the Birth of Jesus in Matthew's Gospel

    by Dr Zhodi Angami ...
    Tribal biblical interpretation is a developing area of study that is concerned with reading the Bible through the eyes of tribal people. While many studies of reading the Bible from the reader's social, cultural and historical location have been made in various parts of the world, no thorough study that offers a coherent and substantive methodology for tribal biblical interpretation has been made ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • An Introduction to the Study of Luke-Acts

    by V. George Shillington ...
    Series series T&T Clark Approaches to Biblical Studies
    V. George Shillington introduces readers to the text, texture and context of Luke-Acts in this tried and tested introduction, now in its second edition. Using various approaches currently practiced by biblical scholars Shillington outlines the methods of biblical interpretation and then shows how they might be applied to the texts in question.Through historical criticism Shillington looks at and ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Early Church Understandings of Jesus as the Female Divine

    The Scandal of the Scandal of Particularity

    by Revd Dr Sally Douglas ...
    Series series The Library of New Testament Studies
    Central to debates about Jesus is the issue of whether he uniquely embodies the divine. While this discussion continues unabated, both those who affirm and those who dismiss, Jesus' divinity regularly eclipse the reality that in many of the earliest strands of the Christian tradition when Jesus' divinity is proclaimed, Jesus is imaged as the female divine.Sally Douglas investigates these early ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • From Tomb to Text

    The Body of Jesus in the Book of John

    by Christina Petterson ...
    The idea of writing plays a central role in John. Apart from the many references to scriptural texts, John emphasizes the role of writing in the inscription on the cross and in its own production. Petterson's From Tomb to Text examines what this means for the understanding of the Johannine Jesus in two interrelated ways. First Petterson takes these claims to revelation through writing seriously, ... Read more

    $39.69 USD

  • The Old Testament in the New: An Introduction

    Second Edition: Revised and Expanded

    by Professor Steve Moyise ...
    Series series T&T Clark Approaches to Biblical Studies
    Steve Moyise provides an accessible and well-informed introduction to the Old Testament in the New Testament. Tried and tested in previous editions, it explores the basic issues and offers summaries of the uses of the Old Testament in the Gospels and Acts, in Paul and Hebrews, James, and Revelation.Issues of quotation, allusion and echo are fully explored and placed sensitively in the context of ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Reading Acts in the Discourses of Masculinity and Politics

    Edited by Eric Barreto, Matthew L. Skinner, Dr Steve Walton ...
    Series series The Library of New Testament Studies
    This book looks at the Acts of the Apostles through two lenses that highlight the two topics of masculinity and politics. Acts is rich in relevant material, whether this be in the range of such characters as the Ethiopian eunuch, Cornelius, Peter and Paul, or in situations such as Timothy's circumcision and Paul's encounters with Roman rulers in different cities. Engaging Acts from these two ... Read more

    $153.99 USD

  • Into the World of the New Testament

    Greco-Roman and Jewish Texts and Contexts

    by Dr Daniel Lynwood Smith ...
    Daniel Lynwood Smith orients readers of the New Testament to its historical and cultural settings, introducing the cast of characters, and illuminating key concepts by exploring their use in ancient texts. Smith includes quotations from many primary sources including Josephus, Tacitus, the Qumran Community, Pliny the Younger, and other carefully chosen texts from lesser-known ancient sources. ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Matthew's Theology of Fulfillment, Its Universality and Its Ethnicity

    God’s New Israel as the Pioneer of God’s New Humanity

    by Dr Herman C. Waetjen ...
    The interpretation of this gospel integrates an objective analysis of its historical context and a subjective semantic disclosure of meaning. To that end, a close reading of the text is combined with consistency building in order to achieve textual congruence and plenitude of meaning. The subject/ object split of traditional biblical scholarship that requires analysis in order to produce ... Read more

    $38.89 USD

  • Where is the Wise Man?

    Graeco-Roman Education as a Background to the Divisions in 1 Corinthians 1-4

    by Dr Adam G. White ...
    Series series The Library of New Testament Studies
    The divisions in the Corinthian church are catalogued by Paul in 1 Corinthians 1:12: "Each of you says, 'I follow Paul,' or 'I follow Apollos,' or 'I follow Cephas,' or 'I follow Christ.'” White shows how these splits are found in the milieu of 1st-century Graeco-Roman education. By consulting relevant literary and epigraphic evidence, White develops a picture of ancient education throughout the ... Read more

    $39.99 USD