Bruce D. Chilton
Fiction
“Luis Perez deploys a novelist's lucidity and a pastor's heart in telling Maldonado's story. This itinerary of redemption, not the deus ex machina of wishful thinking, but the grittier, twisted tangle of life in a broken world and a flawed church, takes us into--and through--the jumble of our own hearts.”
James, Brother of Jesus, and the Jerusalem Church
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“In his vigorous and lucid analysis, Alan Saxby presents the group around James as a true 'community,' with all the values that implies, suggesting that James's position of leadership may have predated Jesus's execution. Broad in its address of scholarship, this act of sociological reflection is bound to influence the increasingly refined inquiry that James, the brother of Jesus, has attracted in recent decades.”
Jesus and the Suffering Servant
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“Did Jesus think of his own death as atoning? Because the figure of the Suffering Servant in Isaiah offers a model of atoning death, scholars have asked themselves whether Jesus ever referred to this text. Some have insisted that we have to say no in the absence of a precise citation; others have claimed that we have the right to say yes on the grounds of Christian belief. Both those extremes are represented here, as is the more productive approach of considering just how people in antiquity read this vitally important text.”
World Religions
“Le Donne explores the stubborn facts of that conflict by means of a wideranging and reflective discussion of the cultural faultlines that have driven human communities apart. Taking his analysis into his personal experience, he shows that living with an awareness of the culture we live in can redeem us from the sin of oppressing others and stunting our own faith.”
New Testament Texts and the Roman World
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“Sound theology combines personal engagements that are once intellectual, visceral, and social. The life’s work of Gerald L. Stevens, celebrated in this volume, exemplifies how those dimensions relate to one another, and in their interaction, produce genuine insight. Each of these essays is a fluent, critical contribution, and in aggregate, they illustrate how the present period is seeing a realignment of theological perspectives on the basis of biblical exegesis.”
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
Foreword
“[T]his monograph is not only a satisfying and complete discussion of its topic, but an original contribution to learning. DelRio has crafted a genuine thesis, and at the highest level of acumen. Its prose, logic, and presentation contribute cogently to the understanding of Paul and to the methods by which the New Testament might be related to its Aramaic and Targumic environments.”
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“Gerald L. Stevens brings an exacting, pedagogical focus to three related issues: (1) the historical and literary context of the Revelation to John, (2) the history of its reception (especially in modern America), and (3) the enduring value of John's visions. In treating those questions, he has developed a subtle and comprehensive defense of the place of the Apocalypse within a mature, Christian imagination--as well as a trenchant critique of dispensationalist claims.”
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“‘Romans is all about Israel’: that is the radical thesis of Gerald Stevens in his carefully researched analysis of Paul’s letter. Dealing both with issues of interpretation and an assessment of the issues Paul himself raises, the book develops its case by explaining not only how Paul defines ‘Israel,’ but also how he feels about Israel. Often lively in his interaction with other scholars, archaeologically aware as well as exegetically engaged, the author invites the reader to look beyond presuppositions about Paul, so that the apostle can again address humanity with the prospect that ‘all Israel shall be saved’ (Rom 11:26).”
History & Biography
“Sheldon W. Liebman provides a clear and cogent account of one of the most remarkable developments in the world's religious history: the transformation of a small movement within Second Temple Judaism into the official religion of the Roman Empire. Properly historical in its method, and responsible in its recourse to critical literature, The Great Betrayal challenges Christian supersessionism while remaining sensitive to the theological creativity of the New Testament and of Patristic thought.”
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“Christian theology proceeds from the central conviction that the kingdom of God is known in and through Jesus. In this accessible, clear consideration, Paul Rowntree Clifford suggests how that conviction may be sustained both in reading the Gospels and in engaging the world around us. He shows out of a wealth of experience that the inherent paradox of the kingdom, once understood, becomes a resource of paradox of the kingdom, once understood, becomes a resource of strength in our human relationships and of hope in our approach to God.”
Turn It and Turn It for Everything Is in It
World Religions
“Jonathan Kligler has mastered the immersive practice of midrash. He plunges into the ocean of the Torah; he identifies the ancient rivers that fed into its vast extent; he registers awe before the geysers emerging from its depths. To this classic approach, Rabbi Kligler adds a talent for encapsulation, focus, and intelligent summary. Profound and succinct at the same time, Turn It and Turn It brings the reader into the confidence of a mature explorer whose originality serves a life-long quest for the fulfilling truth of the Torah.”
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Biblical Studies & Commentaries
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