C. Kavin Rowe

A Greek Reader

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“Students who are just beginning Greek would often do well to read bits of narratives to get a sense of how the language works. The problem is that the ancients didn’t write study drills that are accessible to beginning students who have no familiarity with Greek and who therefore require texts that start with the simplest grammar/syntax. Mark Jeong provides such texts. His book fills a gap and should aid any student starting off on the adventure of learning Greek.”

Biblical Theology

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“The publication of many of C. Clifton Black’s essays and sermons is highly welcomed. Their range, their insight, and their elegance repeatedly testify not only to the author’s erudition but also to his eagerness to find the truth and speak it. Black’s contribution to reading the New Testament and grappling with its message in a multiplicity of ways is both profound and timely.”

Christian Doctrine and the Old Testament

Theology

“Christine doctrine and the Old Testament is a topic on which few scholars write well. Often the simplistic nature of the interpretative models is as much cause for worry as for anything else. Not so in the case of Gary Anderson. Anderson's work is rich, wise, and theologically deep. He neither skates across the surface of the biblical texts nor gets down too far in the weeds. Instead, he weaves together exegetical insights with history and doctrine in a way that elucidates the inseparable intersection between biblical interpretation and ecclesial reasoning.”

Faith in the New Testament

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“It is bizarre that we have had no English translation of Adolf Schlatter’s Faith in the New Testament until now. Schlatter is one of the more subtle modern thinkers about the message of the New Testament and its implications for current life. Schlatter is never content to remain at the surface. He reaches, instead, for the subject matter of Scripture and attempts to make explicit how grappling with the subject matter impacts the human being in all its complexity. All students of the New Testament should read him. Dr. Longarino’s translation now makes this possible for readers who cannot read German. We are in Longarino’s debt not only for his careful and thoughtful translation work but also for making such a remarkable scholar’s thought available more widely.”

Israel's Scriptures in Early Christian Writings

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“The early Christians were scriptural thinkers. To the degree that we do not understand that, we do not understand them much at all. The basic importance of Henze and Lincicum’s comprehensive volume is thus hard to overestimate. The essays explore not only the remarkable dexterity with which the early Christians read Israel’s Scriptures but also the significance of their readings for understanding the Christian texts in the first place.”

Paul and the Gift

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“One of the more important books on Paul to appear in many years.”

The Paradox of Sonship

Theology

“This is a highly important study both methodologically and exegetically. The Christology of the epistle to the Hebrews has long been seen as a set of difficult exegetical conundrums. Bobby Jamieson argues, however, that the main problem is not with the text of Hebrews itself but with the conceptual resources modern interpreters have typically brought with them to read the letter. Jamieson shows that if we attend more fully to the church's doctrinal tradition, we gain conceptual configurations that can actually resolve exegetical puzzles and help to arrange Hebrews' Christology into a coherent picture. His argument demonstrates that Christian doctrine is not an illegitimate imposition on the text but an otherwise unavailable form of fruitful interpretative perception.”

The Self, the Lord, and the Other according to Paul and Epictetus

Theology

“In an age of insatiable self-reference—think only of ‘selfies’—Gorman returns to classic Pauline texts to retrieve what a Christian sense of self can be. By juxtaposing his reading of Paul with a reading of Epictetus, Gorman shows how the Pauline self is one that belongs in and to community and works in service against self-exaltation.”

The Therapy of the Christian Body

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“Brock and Wannenwetsch have written remarkable books. Their learning is vast, their writing brisk, and their interpretative proposals rich in wisdom. Perhaps most impressive of all is the fact that all of what they know and want to say is put to use in the explication of the words of 1 Corinthians.”