Fortress Press

Meanings: The Bible as Document and as Guide, Second Edition

Krister Stendahl (Author)

These essays reveal the consistency and integrity of a master exegete, New Testament theologian, and churchman. Stendahl brings to the biblical text a constant...

Lucas (Luke)

Alvin Padilla (Author)

Isaias (Isaiah)

Samuel Pagan (Author)

The Power of the Word: Scripture and the Rhetoric of Empire

Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza (Author)

What is the purpose of reading the Bible? Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza tackles the tough question of the Bible's role in the world today and how its vision...

The Messiah: In Early Judaism and Christianity

Magnus Zetterholm (Editor)

The Messiah neatly surveys currents of messianic thought in the formative centuries of Judaism and Christianity, providing precision in thinking about...

The Literature of the Sages, Second Part

Shmuel Safrai (Editor), Zeev Safrai (Editor), Joshua Schwarz (Editor), Peter J. Tomson (Editor)

This long-awaited companion volume to The Literature of the Sages, First Part (Fortress Press, 1987) brings to completion Section II of the renowned...

Epistolas universales (Catholic Epistles)

Giácomo Cassese (Author)

Marcos (Mark)

Eliseo Pérez Álvarez (Author)

Biblical Faith: An Evolutionary Perspective

Gerd Theissen (Author)

In the tradition of Karl Rahner and Teilhard de Chardin, this book from renowned New Testament scholar Gerd Theissen daringly probes the innermost sanctuaries...

Jesus: According to the Earliest Witness

James M. Robinson (Author)

Who was Jesus, really? In these pages Robinson, one of the premier scholars of the New Testament and the Sayings Gospel Q, asks what we can know of Jesus from...

The Miracle Stories of the Early Christian Tradition

Gerd Theissen (Author)

The Social Context of Paul's Ministry: Tentmaking and Apostleship

Ronald F. Hock (Author)

In this "slim, readable, and provocative volume" (Journal of Biblical Literature), Ronald Hock focuses on the apostle Paul and his work within the...

Solving the Romans Debate

A. Andrew Das (Author)

Scholars have long debated the "double character" of Romans. Why did Paul address a long discussion of Jewish themes to a Gentile audience? Das provides...

The Bible and Contemporary Culture

Gerd Theissen (Author)

Why read the Bible? Gerd Theissen uses the wisdom gained from decades of teaching Bible instruction at a state university to address questions of the Bible's...

The Truth of the Gospel: An Exposition of Galatians

Gerhard Ebeling (Author)

In this intensive exegesis of the Epistle to the Galatians, renowned German theologian Gerhard Ebeling strives to open "our eyes to the explosive force that...

Between Text and Community: The ''Writings'' in Canonical Interpretation

Donn F. Morgan (Author)

The Rhetoric of Romans: Argumentative Constraint: and Strategy and Paul's Dialogue with Judaism

Neil Elliott (Author)

In The Rhetoric of Romans, Neil Elliott presents a rhetorical-critical reading of the letter that indicates that Paul wrote, not to counter Jewish opponents or...

Hermeneia on CD-ROM, Library Edition (4 simultaneous users): A Critical and Historical Commentary on the Bible

Hermeneia on CD-ROM captures the full text and apparatus of each volume and adds features that facilitate daily use in scholarship, teaching, and research,...

Constantine's Bible: Politics and the Making of the New Testament

David L. Dungan (Author)

Most college and seminary courses on the New Testament include discussions of the process that gave shape to the New Testament. Now David Dungan re-examines the...

Jesus & Utopia: Looking for the Kingdom of God in the Roman World

Mary Ann Beavis (Author)

Scholarship on the historical Jesus and, now, on the "Jesus movement" generally divides into separate camps around two sticky questions: was Jesus an...