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Election of the Lesser Son: Paul's Lament-Midrash in Romans 9-11
Romans 9-11 remains one of the most difficult and contested biblical texts in scholarship today. David R. Wallace demonstrates how Paul weaves two distinct Jewish literary forms together--lament and midrash--into a logical narrative concerning Israel's salvation. The result is new insight into the theology of Paul.
$34.00
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By Bread Alone: The Bible through the Eyes of the Hungry
Here biblical scholars take readings of the Old and New Testaments, exploring the dynamics of hunger and its causation in ancient Israel and the Greco-Roman world and revealing the centrality of hunger concerns to the Bible.
$29.00
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Between Magisterium and Marketplace: A Constructive Account of Theology and the Church
Between Magisterium and Marketplace provides a theological genealogy of modern ecclesiology, arguing that modern and contemporary ecclesiology is a theological contest not between Barth and Schleiermacher, but rather Newman and Schleiermacher.
$49.00
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Idols of Nations: Biblical Myth at the Origins of Capitalism
Roland Boer and Christina Petterson here produce a critical survey showing that the rise of capitalist theory was shaped by the way different economic philosophers read the Bible.
$29.00
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Christ the Light: The Theology of Light and Illumination in Thomas Aquinas
In this book Whidden argues that illumination is a critical systematic motif in Aquinas' theology, one that involves the nature of truth, knowledge, and God; at the root, Aquinas' theology of light, or illumination, is Christological, grounding human knowledge of God and eschatological beatitude.
$49.00
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eBook-A Study Companion to Introduction to the Hebrew Bible: Second Edition
This Study Companion is tied directly to Introduction to the Hebrew Bible, Second Edition and features essential primary readings keyed to the text, along with a running timeline feature and discussions of technical terms, archaeological sites, and methods and concepts in biblical studies.
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eBook-The Historical Character of Jesus: Canonical Insights from Outside the Gospels
By their very nature, historical Jesus studies inevitably focus on the Gospel accounts, in the quest for the real or original Jesus behind them. This book redresses the balance by focusing specifically on non-Gospel material.
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A Study Companion to The Bible: An Introduction, Second Edition
This Study Companion is a handy complement to The Bible: An Introduction textbook, providing primary readings and a running glossary of terms keyed to the textbook along with exercises for further reflection.
$19.00
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Illumination in Basil of Caesarea's Doctrine of the Holy Spirit
Although Basil of Caesarea was the first to write a discourse on the Holy Spirit, many scholars have since questioned if he fully believed in the Spirit's divinity. Timothy P. McConnell argues that Basil did regard the Spirit as fully divine and an equal Person of the Trinity.
$59.00
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Women's Socioeconomic Status and Religious Leadership in Asia Minor: In the First Two Centuries C.E.
Moving beyond discussions of patriarchy and prescribed "women's roles" in the Roman world Katherine Bain explores what inscriptional data from Asia Minor can tell us about the actual socioeconomic status of women in the first and second centuries C.E.
$49.00
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Future of the Prophetic: Israel's Ancient Wisdom Re-presented
The new situation of contemporary prophetic challenges the fixed religious landscape of Judaism by reversing traditional boundaries, eschewing power and privilege, and brokering peace through solidarity and common struggle in ecumenical and interfaith contexts.
$39.00
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Silence and Praise: Rhetorical Cosmology and Political Theology in the Book of Revelation
Cosmology is a central focus in John's Apocalypse, Ryan Leif Hansen argues, but not in the sense that John envisions a stable cosmos. Rather, John employs cosmological themes for persuasive purposes that include a critique of Roman imperial cultic discourse.
$39.00
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Empowering Memory and Movement: Thinking and Working across Borders
With Empowering Memory and Movement, Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza completes a three-volume look across her influential work and career. Empowering Memory and Movement looks back, but also assesses current challenges and potentialities on the global scene, and envisions an emancipatory future, with a critical and wise engagement with scripture and the interpretive tradition always at the center.
$49.00
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Teaching All Nations: Interrogating the Matthean Great Commission
That Christian missionary efforts have long gone hand-in-hand with European colonization and American imperialist expansion in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries is well recognized. The "Great Commission" has more often been observed than analyzed, however.
$49.00
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Irony in the Matthean Passion Narrative
The book provides a history of different definitions of irony, from Aristophanes to Booth; discusses the constitutive formal elements of irony and the functions of irony; then studies particular aspects of the Matthean Passion Narrative that require the reader to recognize a deeper truth beneath the surface of the narrative.
$39.00
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Partakers of the Divine: Contemplation and the Practice of Philosophy
Partakers of the Divine shows that Christian philosophical and contemplative practices arose together and that throughout much of Christian history, philosophy, theology, and contemplation remained internal to one another.
$39.00
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A Theory of Character in New Testament Narrative
Bennema offers a full, comprehensive, and non-reductionist theory for the analysis, classification, and evaluation of characters in the New Testament.
$39.00
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Seeing the Lord's Glory: Kyriocentric Visions and the Dilemma of Early Christology
Kaiser examines the phenomenon of "kyriocentric" visions in Second Temple Judaism, asking whether such traditions are sufficient to account for the shape of early claims regarding the divinity of Christ.
$49.00
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Rumors of Resistance: Status Reversals and Hidden Transcripts in the Gospel of Luke
In Rumors of Resistance, Amanda C. Miller uses Scott's theory to explain tensions within the narrative of the Gospel of Luke, between more accommodationist narratives and poetic or parabolic passages that announce a dramatic eschatological reversal.
$59.00
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Practices of Power: Revisiting the Principalities and Powers in the Pauline Letters
Robert Ewusie Moses traces the distinct function of "power-practices" in each of Paul's letters and draws illuminating comparisons with traditional African religious practices.
$59.00
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