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Jesus' Sermon on the Mount: Mandating a Better Righteousness
Through careful attention to the structure of Matthew's Gospel and the place of the Sermon within it, keen sensitivity to the patterns and themes of Israelite prophecy, and judicious comparisons with other Jewish and rabbinic literature, Jack R. Lundbom elucidates the meaning of the Sermon and its continuity with Israel's prophetic heritage as well as the best of Jewish teaching. By deft appeal to Christian commentators on the Sermon, Lundbom brings its most important themes to life for the contemporary reader.
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Viva Vox: Rediscovering the Sacramentality of the Word through the Annunciation
In failing to take the sacramentality of the word of God seriously, the preaching of the church has suffered negative consequences, particularly failing to bring about divine participation with Jesus' corporeal humanity in his living word. In order to recover this sacramental reality, this volume argues that one should consider the annunciation to Mary as the paradigm of the corporeal Christ taking up residence in the flesh of his hearer and delivering the fullness of the Godhead.
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Portrait of the Kings: The Davidic Prototype in Deuteronomistic Poetics
By examining the narrative techniques used in the Deuteronomistic History to portray Israel's kings, Joseph offers a deepened understanding of the worldview and theology of this important biblical work.
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Hezekiah and the Dialogue of Memory
Examining the different accounts of Hezekiah's reign in 2 Kings, 2 Chronicles, and Isaiah, Song-Mi Suzie Park describes a "Hezekiah complex" in which the king served as a symbol for the vicissitudes of Judah's history.
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The Transformative Church: New Ecclesial Models and the Theology of Jürgen Moltmann
Throughout the course of his theological career, Moltmann has been interested in the ecclesial and societal consequences of systematic theology and what each doctrine means for our life in this world. This book explores these concerns in Moltmann?s major texts and highlighs themes relevant for a transformative ecclesiology.
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Repentance at Qumran: The Penitential Framework of Religious Experience in the Dead Sea Scrolls
Mark A. Jason offers a detailed investigation of the place of repentance in the Dead Sea Scrolls, addressing a significant lacuna in Qumran scholarship. Jason establishes the importance of repentance as a fundamental way of structuring and describing religious experience within the Qumran community, lacuna, Pseudepigrapha, daily life in ancient Judea
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Cleansed Lepers, Cleansed Hearts: Purity and Healing in Luke-Acts
Pamela Shellberg shows that Luke's use of the language of "clean" and "unclean" has particular first-century medical connotations that make it especially powerful for expressing his understanding of the universal salvation prophesied by Isaiah and by Jesus.
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Christian Doctrine and the Grammar of Difference: A Contribution to Feminist Systematic Theology
McRandal argues that the doctrinal narrative of creation, fall, and redemption provides resources to resolve the theological impasse of difference in contemporary feminist theology.
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Genealogies of New Testament Rhetorical Criticism
Rhetorical criticism is now an established discipline in New Testament interpretation, but "rhetorical criticism" means very different things to different practitioners. This book gathers critical appreciations of five pioneers of rhetorical criticism and responses from the pioneers themselves or their representatives, along with an evaluation of 'the rhetoric of rhetorical criticism."
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Creativity as Sacrifice: Toward a Theological Model for Creativity in the Arts
This book argues for a theological methodology in engaging the arts and puts forward a theological model for understanding human creativity in the light of Jesus' sacrificial redemption.
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Paul and the Politics of Diaspora
It is a commonplace today that Paul was a Jew of the Hellenistic Diaspora, but how does that observation help us to understand his thinking, his self-identification, and his practice? Ronald Charles applies the insights of contemporary diaspora studies to address much-debated questions about Paul's identity as a diaspora Jew.
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Consider Leviathan: Narratives of Nature and the Self in Job
Brian R. Doak observes that the book of Job, more than any other book in the Bible, uses metaphors drawn from the natural world, especially of plants and animals, as raw material for thinking about human suffering. Doak argues that Job should be viewed as an anthropological "ground zero" for the traumatic definition of the post-exilic human self in ancient Israel.
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Preservation and Protest: Theological Foundations for an Eco-Eschatological Ethics
McLaughlin offers an alternative to anthropocentric and conservationist paradigms within the Christian tradition, an alternative that affirms both scientific claims about natural history and the theological hope for eschatological redemption.
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Parables Unplugged: Reading the Lukan Parables in Their Rhetorical Context
The author here proposes to read the parables "unplugged" from any assumptions beyond those given in the narrative situation in the text, on the common-sense premise that the very form of the parable works to propose a (sometimes startling) resolution to a particular problem.
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We the People: Israel and the Catholicity of Jesus
We the People explores John Howard Yoder's account of peoplehood and develops an appreciative revision that considers the politics of Jesus in relation to the people of Israel.
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Dogmatic Aesthetics: A Theology of Beauty in Dialogue with Robert W. Jenson
To avoid a theological account of beauty becoming a mere projection of our wildest desires, it must be reined in by dogmatics. To make this case, this book employs the thought of Robert W. Jenson to construct a dogmatic aesthetics.
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Walking with the Mud Flower Collective: God's Fierce Whimsy and Dialogic Theological Method
Arguing for a retrieval of the landmark work, God's Fierce Whimsy, Stina Busman Jost establishes the critical importance of this volume for the construction of a dialogic theological method and makes the argument that a dialogic theological method is relevant for the doing of theology today
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The Woman Babylon and the Marks of Empire: Reading Revelation with a Postcolonial Womanist Hermeneutics of Ambiveilence
Here Shanell T. Smith brings the categories of race/ethnicity and class to bear on John's metaphors of the "Great Whore" and highlights the simultaneous duality of the woman Babylon characterization.
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eBook-Fortress Commentary on the Bible set
A team of six scholar editors and seventy contributors provide clear and concise commentary on key sense units in each book of the Old Testament, Apocrypha, and New Testament. Each unit is explored through the lenses of three levels of commentary based on these critical questions. The result is a commentary that is comprehensive and useful for gaining insights on the texts for preaching, teaching, and research.
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Encountering Jesus: Character Studies in the Gospel of John, Second Edition
Applying a comprehensive theory of character to the Gospel of John, Cornelis Bennema provides a fresh analysis of both the characters and their responses to Jesus.
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