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Matthew: Texts @ Contexts series

Nicole Wilkinson Duran (Editor), James P. Grimshaw (Editor)

Matthew sheds new light from new perspectives on themes in the Gospel including community; land, labor, and Empire; children, parents, and families; health and disabilities; and border-crossings.

Portraits of a Mature God: Choices in Old Testament Theology

Mark McEntire (Author)

What difference would it make for Old Testament theology if we turned our attention from the forceful "mighty acts of God" to the more subdued themes of later writings in the Hebrew Bible?

Leviticus and Numbers: Texts @ Contexts series

Athalya Brenner (Editor), Archie Chi Chung Lee (Editor)

Leviticus and Numbers focuses attention on practices and ideals of behavior in community, from mourning and diet to marriages licit and transgressive, examining all of these from a variety of global perspectives and postcolonial and feminist methods.

Soundings in Cultural Criticism: Perspectives and Methods in Culture, Power, and Identity in the New Testament

Francisco Lozada Jr. (Editor), Greg Carey (Editor)

Questions of historical reconstruction, textual interpretation, and present cultural deployment are addressed in an ideal second textbook for New Testament courses.

Onesimus Our Brother: Reading Religion, Race, and Culture in Philemon

Matthew V. Johnson Sr. (Editor), James A. Noel (Editor), Demetrius K. Williams (Editor)

Philemon is as important a letter from an African American perspective as Romans or Galatians has proven to be in Eurocentric interpretation. Here the editors...

Soundings in the Religion of Jesus: Perspectives and Methods in Jewish and Christian Scholarship

Bruce Chilton (Editor), Anthony Le Donne (Editor), Jacob Neusner (Editor)

Jesus was a Jew and not a Christian. That affirmation may seem obvious, but here an international cast of Jewish and Christian scholars spell out...

The Practice of Hope: Ideology and Intention in 1 Thessalonians

Néstor O. Míguez (Author)

Although the political interpretation of Paul is still considered something of a novelty in North America and Europe, it is well established in Latin America...

Jewish Literature between the Bible and the Mishnah: Second Edition

George W. E. Nickelsburg (Author)

Nickelsburg introduces the reader to the broad range of Jewish literature that is not part of either the Bible or the standard rabbinic works.

Like Fire in the Bones: Listening for the Prophetic Word in Jeremiah

Walter Brueggemann (Author), Patrick D. Miller (Editor)

Common Judaism: Explorations in Second-Temple Judaism

Wayne O. McCready (Editor), Adele Reinhartz (Editor)

E. P. Sanders's monumental Judaism: Practice and Belief inaugurated vigorous debates about the extent and significance of commonality and diversity in ancient...

Slavery as Moral Problem: In the Early Church and Today

Jennifer A. Glancy (Author)

Recent US and UN reports document the startling incidence of human trafficking in the world today. Yet the situation is hardly new. The fact that some early...

The Word That Redescribes the World: The Bible and Discipleship

Walter Brueggemann (Author)

In the last several years, Walter Brueggemann's writings have directly addressed the situation of Christian communities in today's globalized context, with its...

Disruptive Grace: Reflections on God, Scripture, and the Church

Walter Brueggemann (Author), Carolyn J Sharp (Editor)

Walter Brueggemann has been one of the leading voices in Hebrew Bible interpretation for decades. His landmark works in Old Testament theology have inspired and...

Gentiles—Jews—Christians: Polemics and Apologetics in the Greco-Roman Era

Hans Conzelmann (Author)

The roots of anti–Judaism and Jewish–Christian dialogue are examined in their historical contexts with a wide array of Greek, Roman, Jewish, and...

Introduction to the Old Testament as Scripture

Brevard S. Childs (Author)

This Introduction attempts to offer a different model for the discipline from that currently represented. It seeks to describe the form and function of the...

Divine Complexity: The Rise of Creedal Christianity

Paul R. Hinlicky (Author)

Paul Hinlicky reads the history of the early church as a genuine, centuries–long theological struggle to make sense of the confession of Jesus' life,...

Soundings in the Theology of Psalms: Perspectives and Methods in Contemporary Scholarship

Rolf A. Jacobson (Editor)

The many introductions to the psalms available to readers tend to focus on various types and forms of psalms but overlook different theological approaches to...

Hermeneia New Testament on CD-ROM

The Hermeneia series is designed to be a critical and historical commentary to the Bible without arbitrary limits in size or scope. It will utilize the full...

Hermeneia Old Testament on CD-ROM

Unique, authoritative, indispensable, Hermeneia has in a generation produced many of the most influential and informative commentaries on the Bible in the...

Studying the New Testament: A Fortress Introduction

Bruce Chilton (Author), Deirdre J. Good (Author)

Watch Bruce Chilton and Deirdre J. Good discuss their new book, Studying the New Testament. Find more videos like this on Fortress Forum. This book...