Arthur G. Patzia

Canon Revisited

Theology

“Canon Revisited is a well-written, carefully documented, and helpful examination of the many historical approaches that have been written to explain when and how the books of the New Testament were canonized. The author’s interest, however, is to move beyond the historical to the theological, concluding that the concepts of a self-authenticating canon and its corporate reception by the church are ultimately how we know that these twenty-seven books belong in the New Testament.”

Paul and First-Century Letter Writing

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“A comprehensive, impressive, insightful, informative and engaging account of letter writing in the ancient world with primary emphasis on the composition and collection of Paul's letters. Richards builds upon--but expands--his earlier work (The Secretary in the Letters of Paul, 1991) by including additional information about the mechanics of writing letters (all the 'nuts and bolts'), the role of coauthors and colleagues (such as Timothy, Sosthenes, Tertius, Silas), and the significance of preformed material and interpolations for understanding issues of Pauline authorship. The book is the fruit of sound historical research and cautious scholarship. It is a major contribution to the field, bound to be read with profit and treasured by teachers, pastors and students of the New Testament.”

Questions from the Pews

Theology

Foreword

“If you are a serious Bible student and are dissatisfied with academic proposals to questions of the faith, or if you are tired of trite answers and spiritual clichés as a response to your questions of the Bible and theology, then here is a book for you. Questions from the Pews is drawn from real-life situations and deals seriously with the issues that believers face. The author is commended for objectively engaging in biblical, historical, and spiritual discussions while providing good answers to serious inquiry.”

Text and Story

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“"Although Text and Story is not intentionally written as a textbook on textual criticism, Peter Rodgers offers enough technical material on this discipline to demonstrate how it enables us to understand certain textual variants in the New Testament. But Rodgers is not afraid to question or depart from some of the text-critical conclusions of previous and current scholars. The unique and somewhat courageous attribute of the book is that the author finds possible solutions in the narrative features of the texts in question and in Old Testament quotations, allusions, and narratives that lie behind them but that may have been forgotten, changed, and/or omitted during the process of transmission.”