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Telling Tales about Jesus: An Introduction to the New Testament Gospels
What are the Gospels and what does it mean to read them? Warren Carter leads the beginning student in an inductive exploration of the New Testament Gospels, asking about their genre, the view that they were written by eyewitnesses, the early church traditions about them, and how they employ Hellenistic biography.
$39.00
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Paul's Eschatological Anthropology: The Dynamics of Human Transformation
Sarah Harding examines Paul’s anthropology from the perspective of eschatology, concluding that his view of humans depends on his belief that the cosmos evolves through distinct aeons in progress towards its telos.
$79.00
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Walking in Love: Moral Progress and Spiritual Growth with the Apostle Paul
J. Paul Sampley explores how Paul instructed the followers who trekked behind him in "the upward call of God in Christ Jesus," (Phil. 3:14).
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The Wisdom and Foolishness of God: First Corinthians 1-2 in Theological Exploration
The first two chapters of 1 Corinthians have played a significant role in the history of Christian theology. Interpreting the central event in Christianity, the crucifixion of Jesus, Paul reflects on the wisdom and foolishness of God in the “word of the cross.”
$44.00
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Christ Is King: Paul's Royal Ideology
Until recently, many scholars have read Paul’s use of the word Christos as more of a proper name (“Jesus Christ”) than a title, Jesus the Messiah.
$49.00
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Puzzling the Parables of Jesus: Methods and Interpretation
Modern scholarship on the parables has long been preoccupied with asking what Jesus himself said and what he intended to accomplish with his parables. Ruben Zimmermann moves beyond that agenda to explore the dynamics of parabolic speech in all their rich complexity.
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Engaging the Passion: Perspectives on the Death of Jesus
Engaging the Passion gathers an impressive array of scholars to survey how the death of Jesus has been portrayed and represented in Scripture, liturgy and music, literature, art and film, and theology and ethics--from the first to the twenty-first centuries.
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John's Use of Ezekiel: Understanding the Unique Perspective of the Fourth Gospel
Scholars have long puzzled over the distinctive themes and sequence of John?s narrative in contrast to the Synoptic Gospels. Brian Neil Peterson now offers a remarkable explanation for some of the most unusual features of John.
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James in Postcolonial Perspective: The Letter as Nativist Discourse
James confronts the exploitive wealthy; it also opposes Pauline hybridity. K. Jason Coker argues that postcolonial perspectives allow us to understand how these themes converge in the letter.
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The Formation of the Christian Scriptures
The Formation of the Christian Scriptures is the second volume in a two-part introduction to the New Testament tracing the processes by which the various parts of the New Testament as we know it came to be written and put together, accepted as Scripture, and then translated.
$34.00
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A Commentary on Acts
The book of Acts recounts the birth of the church and the ministry of the disciples. It is of critical importance in the New Testament, and in this helpful guide, the section-by-section commentary draws out the historical, theological, and pastoral significance of the biblical text.
$34.00
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Threshing Floors In Ancient Israel: Their Ritual and Symbolic Significance
Jaime L. Waters here examines the various personnel active in the construction and operation of threshing floors to draw a more complete picture of ancient Israelite social life.
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The Disciples' Prayer: The Prayer Jesus Taught in Its Historical Setting
Christians around the world recite the "Lord's Prayer" daily, but what exactly are they praying for--and what relationship does it have with Jesus' own context?
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The Social World of the Sages: An Introduction to Israelite and Jewish Wisdom Literature
The notion of a distinct "wisdom tradition" in ancient Israel has a long history-but does it have a basis in the evidence? Mark R. Sneed argues for a redefinition of the wisdom literature as a loosely cohering collection of books aimed at educating scribal apprentices in moral instruction and the art of living.
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The Jewish Pseudepigrapha: An Introduction to the Literature of the Second Temple Period
Designed with the beginning student in mind, this volume introduces the reader to the books that did not make it into the Bible or the Apocrypha but that remained popular among Jews and early Christians for centuries.
$49.00
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The Divine in Acts and in Ancient Historiography
In this excellent book, Scott Shauf compares the portrayal of the divine in Acts with portrayals of the divine in other ancient historiographical writings.
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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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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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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."
$59.00
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Healing in the Gospel of Matthew: Reflections on Method and Ministry
Walter T. Wilson adopts an interdisciplinary approach to the healing narratives in the Gospel of Matthew, combining the familiar methods of form, redaction, and narrative criticisms with insights culled from medical anthropology, feminist theory, disability studies, and ancient archaeology.
$39.00
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