Alexandra Brown

Framing Paul

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“A sharp, imaginative, painstaking study. . . . Like a puzzle master, Campbell fits together clues large and small to form a compelling whole. . . . To take Campbell's disciplined analysis seriously may mean, for some, to reframe Paul rather dramatically. But to ignore his argument is to miss an opportunity to check accumulated habits and prejudices that may, for a host of intellectual and theological reasons, `frame' unjustly Paul's actual, complicated, exigency-driven correspondence.”

Jesus and the Gospels

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“This is a rich and timely introduction to the Gospels by a seasoned scholar who is deeply committed to engaging biblical texts on their own terms, soundly and theologically, and then bringing them into genuine conversation about the pressing social and political realities of our times. The result is an honest, highly nuanced, yet imminently accessible reading of the Gospels in their ancient and modern contexts that neither shields their troubling aspects in piety nor allows the reader to go unchallenged (or uninspired) by their collective moral vision of worldly values turned upside down.”

Oneself in Another

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“With her signature clarity and pastoral insight, Susan Eastman unfolds, chapter by chapter, Paul’s conviction that communal solidarity in Christ is the heart of the good news he proclaims. As Paul’s relational plural ‘you’ answers the divided ‘I’ of Romans 7, so does Eastman’s own deft tuning of second-person discourse invite her reader into the healing mystery of Christ’s saving alliance with human beings and the whole creation.”

Practicing with Paul

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“As the title promises, the essays here draw, even compel, the reader into Pauline ‘practice,’ that is to say, into engagement with the Pauline gospel as it informs contemporary Christian ministries of transformation, justice, and peace-making. The essays span a distinguished, intergenerational company of authors whose work is informed and enriched by Susan Eastman’s extraordinary, generous, and generative gift for showing how careful Pauline exegesis speaks to the most urgent concerns of our times.”

Roman Imperial Texts

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“"This book is a long-needed and essential tool for scholars, teachers, and students who explore the rise of Christianity from ‘the grandeur that was Rome.’ A helpful introduction explains the contested place of Roman Imperial sources in New Testament scholarship and argues persuasively that careful attention to sources such as these is an important, too often neglected, stimulus for assessing ways in which the New Testament ‘includes or omits’ Rome in its multiple frames of reference. The book is an especially welcome enhancement of the Roman sources collected in more general New Testament ‘backgrounds’ anthologies and will be as useful in the classroom as in the study.””

The Apocalyptic Paul

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“Davies deftly navigates the complex and growing array of proposals concerning the ‘apocalyptic’ Paul to clarify the history, semantics, and contextual commitments of the various approaches and to outline their principal contributions. His aim to inform the ‘non-specialist’ is admirably accomplished. But more, through his generous assessment of areas of agreement and disagreement, he encourages dialogue among Pauline specialists against the fragmentation of ‘schools’ that so often stymies genuine exchange. A timely and vital offering.”