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The Historical Jesus: A Comprehensive Guide
In the continuing quest for the elusive but compelling figure of Jesus of Nazareth, Gerd Theissen and Annette Merz's authoritative yet engaging book is the...
$49.00
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The Psalms and the Life of Faith
Walter Brueggemann's unique gift of joining historical-exegetical insights to penetrating observations about the traumas and joys of contemporary...
$29.00
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Paul
This book makes a certain demand on its readers, though perhaps less on the professional theologian au fait with current research than on the layperson, for...
$44.00
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Prayer in the Hebrew Bible: The Drama of Divine-Human Dialogue
Balentine has forged new categories of analysis beyond our old critical pigeonholes. In the end, he has shown that prayer is neither a marginal activity...
$34.00
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Jesus and the Spiral of Violence: Popular Jewish Resistance in Roman Palestine
From this engrossing portrait of first-century Palestine, Jesus emerges as the catalyst of nonviolent social revolution that anticipates the renewal of...
$29.00
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Galatians: Continental Commentaries
The long-awaited commentary by Dieter Lührmann is now available to English-speaking audiences for the first time. It is a profound, succinctly written...
$25.75
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The New Testament and the People of God: Christian Origins and the Question of God: Volume 1
This first volume in the series Christian Origins and the Question of God provides a historical, theological, and literary study of first-century Judaism and...
$49.00
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Obadiah and Jonah: Continental Commentaries
Professor Wolff's clear and thorough orientation to the collection of oracles in the book of Obadiah and to the narrative art of the book of Jonah....
$39.00
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The Narrative Unity of Luke—Acts: A Literary Interpretation: Volume Two: The Acts of the Apostles
Demonstrates how the repetitions of ideas and formal structures function both to reinforce concepts and to achieve ideological progression.
$39.00
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The Pastoral Epistles: A Commentary on the Pastoral Epistles
There are many English commentaries on these letters, but none so replete with quotations (some quite extensive) from extra-biblical materials, whether...
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Israel's Praise: Doxology against Idolatry and Ideology
Atgues that, rightly practiced, the Psalms of Israel make available an evangelical world of Yahweh's sovereignty—a world marked by justice, righteousness, mercy, peace, and compassion.
$26.00
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God and the Rhetoric of Sexuality
Focusing on texts in the Hebrew Bible, and using feminist hermeneutics, Phyllis Trible brings out what she considers to be neglected themes and counter...
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Hopeful Imagination: Prophetic Voices in Exile
Professor Brueggemann here examines the literature and experience of an era in which Israel's prophets faced the pastoral responsibility of helping people to...
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The Suffering of God: An Old Testament Perspective
In this comprehensive and thought-provoking study, Terence Fretheim focuses on the theme of divine suffering, an aspect of our understanding of God which both...
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Jesus and Community: The Social Dimensions of Christian Faith
The author calls the present-day church to once again be the "contrast society," which attracts non-believers by living what it preaches and by being different without being narrowly sectarian.
$34.00
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Great Cloud of Witnesses: How the Dead Make a Living Church
Protestants should venerate the saints: this shocking claim is at the heart of Great Cloud of Witnesses. Readers will learn creative ways of reading Scripture, how important doctrines developed, and how to live like a monk, even with a job and a family. They will gain appreciation of the saints and saint veneration.
$29.00
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The Magi: Who They Were, How They’ve Been Remembered, and Why They Still Fascinate
The Magi examines the Magi story, its enrichments and expansions in apocryphal writing and early Christian preaching, its artistic expressions, and its modern legacy in writing and music. The book explores the fascination the Magi story elicits in both ancient and modern readers and what the legacy tells us about its storytellers--and ourselves.
$28.00
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An Asian Introduction to the New Testament
As the Asian context is the cradle of many of the world's religions, the New Testament writings should be interpreted and reinterpreted by accepting their pluriform religious and ideological aspects. Moreover, the existence of multiple Christian denominations demands a doctrinally and conceptually balanced interpretation of the Scriptures. This book will demonstrate inclusive biblical claims within multireligious and multidenominational contexts.
$39.00
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A Short Introduction to the Hebrew Bible: Second Edition
A marvel of conciseness, John J. Collins' A Short Introduction to the Hebrew Bible is quickly becoming one of the most popular introductory textbooks in colleges and university classrooms. The second edition has been carefully revised to take the latest scholarly developments into account.
$45.00
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Pauline Perspectives: Essays on Paul, 1978-2013
This companion volume to Paul and the Faithfulness of God and Paul and His Recent Interpreters brings together N. T. Wright's most important articles on Paul and his letters over the last three decades.
$69.00
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