Fortress Press

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,...

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...

Engaging the Bible: Critical Readings from Contemporary Women

Hee An Choi (Editor), Katheryn Pfisterer Darr (Editor)

Bringing together some of the leading luminaries in feminist, womanist, and multicultural critical biblical studies in this book, each woman describes her...

Faithful Interpretation: Reading the Bible in a Postmodern World

A.K. M. Adam (Author)

A K. M. Adam has become one of the leading voices in postmodern criticism. This volume brings together his original essays introducing postmodern interpretation...

Paul on the Cross: Reconstructing the Apostle's Story of Redemption

David A. Brondos (Author)

Even as theologians have become more critical of classic theories of atonement, biblical scholars have continued to rely upon such theories as a basis for...

Lazarus, Mary and Martha: Social-Scientific Approaches to the Gospel of John

Philip F. Esler (Author), Ronald Piper (Author)

Using social identity theory, Esler and Piper set out what social identity theory actually means, how it works, and how it applies to John's Gospel. They then...

Cómo se formó la Biblia: How the Bible Was Formed

Ediberto Lopez (Author)

Los doce profetas menores: The Twelve Minor Prophets

Alejandro F. Botta (Author)

Hebreos: Hebrews

Pablo A. Jimenez (Author)

Mateo: Matthew

David Cortes-Fuentes (Author)

Transforming the Powers: Peace, Justice, and the Domination System

Ray C. Gingerich (Editor), Ted Grimsrud (Editor)

Walter Wink's widely acclaimed trilogy from Fortress Press — Naming the Powers 0-8006-1786-X (1984), Unmasking the Powers 0-8006-1902-1 (1993), and...

Hechos: Acts

Justo L. Gonzalez (Author)

Paul and the Popular Philosophers

Abraham J. Malherbe (Author)

These studies continue a tradition of scholarship that flourished around the turn of the century when new editions of ancient philosophical sources were...

Jesus on Trial: A Study of the Gospels, Second Edition

Gerard S. Sloyan (Author)

How did Jesus, a much-loved and highly respected Jewish teacher, get sentenced to death as a criminal? The questions of students and scholars about the actual...

The Parables of Jesus

Luise Schottroff (Author), Linda M. Maloney (Translator)

In this startling work, Luise Schottroff proposes an alternative reading of Jesus' parables. Her work decries the traditional allegorizing of Jesus' stories,...

Gnosticism, Judaism, and Egyptian Christianity

Birger A. Pearson (Author)

In this important contribution to the scholarly study of Egyptian Gnosticism, Pearson situates Gnosticism in its historical context and describes its manifold...

Encounters with Biblical Theology

John J. Collins (Author)

This important book for use in Old Testament courses is also a valuable resource for those exploring the role of the Bible in culture today. The articles...

In Search of God in the Hebrew Bible

Tryggve N. D. Mettinger (Author)

Tryggve Mettinger's much-praised work analyzes the major names for God in the Old Testament to trace, through the many confrontations and challenges of...

New Testament Theology: Communion and Community

Philip F. Esler (Author)

Esler's innovative proposal features a cutting-edge combination of theology, exegesis, and social analysis. He argues for new thinking about New Testament...

The Dead Sea Scrolls and the New Testament

George J. Brooke (Author)

Brooke illuminates the first-century world shared by the Qumran community and the writers of the New Testament. The Dead Sea Scrolls have provided Old...