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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.
$29.00
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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.
$39.00
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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.
$59.00
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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.
$49.00
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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.
$39.00
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Political Augustinianism: Modern Interpretations of Augustine's Political Thought
The thought of Saint Augustine stands as one of the central fountainheads of not only theology but Western social and political theory. This book examines the modern political readings of Augustine, providing an extensive account of the pivotal French, British, and American strands of interpretation.
$39.00
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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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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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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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The Holy Spirit and Ethics in Paul: Transformation and Empowering for Religious-Ethical Life, Second Revised Edition
Rabens argues that Paul understands the work of the Spirit relationally, and it is through intimate relationships that the Spirit transforms and empowers people's lives.
$59.00
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The Figure of Adam in Romans 5 and 1 Corinthians 15: The New Creation and Its Ethical and Social Reconfiguration
Felipe Legarreta gives careful attention to patterns of exegesis in Second-Temple Judaism and identifies, for the first time, a number of motifs by which Jews drew ethical implications from the story of Adam and his expulsion from Eden.
$49.00
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Christ the Miracle Worker in Early Christian Art
Images of Christ performing miracles or healings functioned as advertisements for Christianity and illustrated the nature of Christ.
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Rejected Prophets: Jesus and His Witnesses in Luke-Acts
McWhirter shows that Luke uses the biblical prophets as precedents, seeking to legitimate the apostles' teachings in the face of events, such as the destruction of Jerusalem and the deaths of Peter and Paul, which seem to contradict those teachings.
$34.00
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