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The Dead Sea Scrolls and the New Testament
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...
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When Children Became People: The Birth of Childhood in Early Christianity
Bakke paints a fascinating picture of children's first real emergence as people against a backdrop of the ancient world. Using theological and social history...
$34.00
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Liberating Paul: The Justice of God and the Politics of the Apostle
For centuries the apostle Paul has been invoked to justify oppression — whether on behalf of slavery, to enforce unquestioned obedience to the state, to...
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A Love Supreme: A History of the Johannine Tradition
Callahan suggests that scholars have wrongly placed the sequence and therefore the importance of the works collectively known as the Johannine tradition—...
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Judas: Betrayer or Friend of Jesus?
This fascinating books sifts the evidence and startlingly concludes that in the earliest sources Judas was not a traitor. While the name Judas Iscariot evokes...
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The Book of Acts: Form, Style, and Theology
This volume brings together some of Dibelius's most important work. While he is especially renowned for his commentaries, Dibelius was on the forefront of...
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Beyond the Passion: Rethinking the Death and Life of Jesus
For most Christian believers, what is truly remarkable and important about Jesus is not his life, but his resurrection from the dead. They may believe that...
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Reading Mark: Engaging the Gospel
A renowned scholar on the Gospel of Mark, Rhoads utilizes a variety of methods to plumb the depths of this earliest story of Jesus. From new forms of literary...
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Conflict and Identity in Romans: The Social Setting of Paul's Letter
What is the purpose of Paul's letter to the Romans? Esler provides an illuminating analysis of this epistle, employing social-scientific methods along with...
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Magic and Paganism in Early Christianity: The World of the Acts of the Apostles
Klauck describes the religious world into which Christianity was born, by looking at it from the many experiences of the first Christians as recorded in Acts....
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Identity and Experience in the New Testament
How do the New Testament documents present issues of passion, will, identity, and perception? How did the earliest followers of Jesus understand their...
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Apocalypse Recalled: The Book of Revelation after Christendom
The Book of Revelation has often been read as a set of endtime scenarios, glorifying a vengeful God and predicting and even fomenting apocalyptic violence....
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The Social Setting of Jesus and the Gospels
The context of Jesus, his followers, and the early movement. What do the social sciences have to contribute to the study of Jesus and the Gospels? This is...
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The Sayings Gospel Q in Greek and English: With Parallels from the Gospels of Mark and Thomas
The International Q Project has been working for many years to establish the text of Q—the source for sayings of Jesus utilized by both Matthew and...
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The Human Being: Jesus and the Enigma of the Son of the Man
A thorny historical issue handled with artistry and imagination. The epithet "the son of the man" (or "the Human Being") in the Gospels has been a highly...
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Divine Becoming: Rethinking Jesus and Incarnation
The universally human element of Jesus' incarnation Despite the feverish pace of publishing in historical Jesus studies, biblical scholars and theologians...
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Jesus and the Village Scribes: Galilean Conflicts and the Setting of Q
This volume challenges Gerd Theissen's dominant thesis of "wandering radicals" as the earliest spreaders of the Jesus tradition. Several conclusions emerge:...
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Mark: Images of an Apostolic Interpreter
In this study of early Christian traditions, C. Clifton Black explores the figure and function of Mark, the apostolic associate to whom Christians...
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The Jesus Movement: A Social History of Its First Century
Now in paperback, this monumental work by two continental New Testament scholars is the first comprehensive social history of the earliest churches....
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The Social Gospel of Jesus: The Kingdom of God in Mediterranean Perspective
A dynamic analysis of Jesus' central proclamation. Scholars are agreed that the central metaphor in Jesus' proclamation was the kingdom of God. But what did...
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