Craig L. Blomberg
Commentary on the New Testament from the Talmud and Midrash
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“I have long wished for an English translation of Strack-Billerbeck. [...] Many, many thanks to Lexham for completing a project a long time in the works.”
Commentary on the New Testament from the Talmud and Midrash
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“I have long wished for an English translation of Strack-Billerbeck. [...] Many, many thanks to Lexham for completing a project a long time in the works.”
Communal Reading in the Time of Jesus
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“People of all kinds regularly read their and others’ compositions aloud in public in the ancient Mediterranean world at the time of Jesus. Christians regularly read the Hebrew Scriptures, along with their own literature in similar fashion. Public declamation regularly stemmed from or produced careful preservation of texts, sometimes from memory. Wright comprehensively surveys all this material, mounting an impressive case for all kinds of checks and balances in the preservation of early Christian tradition. A must read for anyone who still thinks that this tradition was largely uncontrolled and constantly distorted.”
Apologetics
“In light of the amount of misinformation in today's world about the reliability of the Bible, we cannot have too many books like Benjamin Shaw's to set the record straight. For an absolutely up-to-date and succinct introduction to a representative selection of key issues about New Testament trustworthiness, Shaw's little book is hard to top.”
Christian Living
“How should Christians navigate the complex world of disagreements with other Christians? Can we differentiate the scriptural non-negotiables, the things we just personally feel strongly about, and those to which we give scarcely a second thought? How can the church best model unity in both love and truth in these matters? Naselli and Crowley bring both cross-cultural experience and scriptural acumen to deftly deal with these issues in straightforward language that almost anyone can grasp. Warmly recommended.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“Haile Selassie, emperor of Ethiopia, if only because I had heard that some believed he was semi-divine. As a young adult in the 1970s, I definitely read about the Marxist coup but had no clue why it happened. And what Westerner, alive during the horrible droughts and famines of the 70s and 80s, can forget the images of emaciated Ethiopians having to await foreign aid if they were even to survive? But how are these events linked? What was the West’s role in them all? What is Ethiopia like today and what is the role of the various branches of the Christian church there? What is the way forward? Ethiopian missiologist, Alemayehu Mekonnen, answers all these and related questions in a riveting account of key events of the last 70 years of his homeland’s history. Must reading for anyone who wants to be a truly global Christian!”
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“The Bible is the story of God and his dealings with humanity from creation to new creation. The Bible is made up more of stories than of any other literary genre. Even the psalms, proverbs, prophecies, letters, and the Apocalypse make complete sense only when set in the context of the grand narrative of the entire Bible. This commentary series breaks new ground by taking all these observations seriously. It asks commentators to listen to the text, to explain the text, and to live the text. Some of the material in these sections overlaps with introduction, detailed textual analysis and application, respectively, but only some. The most riveting and valuable part of the commentaries are the stories that can appear in any of these sections, from any part of the globe and any part of church history, illustrating the text in any of these areas. Ideal for preaching and teaching.”
Theology
“Desmond Alexander has produced a concise, readable introduction to the distinctives of each of the four New Testament Gospels and the process of their composition. Written clearly and simply, will helpful charts and diagrams, this small book reflects what a broad cross-section of evangelical New Testament scholars today believe. I recommend it warmly.”
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“The Bible is the story of God and his dealings with humanity from creation to new creation. The Bible is made up more of stories than of any other literary genre. Even the psalms, proverbs, prophecies, letters, and the Apocalypse make complete sense only when set in the context of the grand narrative of the entire Bible. This commentary series breaks new ground by taking all these observations seriously. It asks commentators to listen to the text, to explain the text, and to live the text. Some of the material in these sections overlaps with introduction, detailed textual analysis and application, respectively, but only some. The most riveting and valuable part of the commentaries are the stories that can appear in any of these sections, from any part of the globe and any part of church history, illustrating the text in any of these areas. Ideal for preaching and teaching.”
Exploring Jewish Literature of the Second Temple Period
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“The literature of Second Temple Judaism is so vast that few college or seminary students ever receive a decent introduction to it at all. Here, in one volume, are references to judicious samplings from every major corpus, complete with introduction and background, and detailed explanation of relevance for New Testament studies. A wonderful gift for students and professors alike. Perhaps many will now actually teach, and teach substantially, on the topic!”
Apologetics
“Over his illustrious career, Paul Barnett has returned repeatedly to questions about the historical Jesus, the historicity of the Gospels, and the history of earliest Christianity. Drawing together scattered strands of all of that work, elaborating them further, and adding still new ones, Barnett here mounts what may be his most impressive case yet for the accuracy of the canonical material and the messiahship of Jesus of Nazareth on historical grounds alone.”
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“The role of oral tradition as the key component behind the formation of the Gospels, even where literary dependence exists, is making a comeback in Gospel scholarship. It hasn’t yet replaced the reigning paradigms of redaction and literary criticism, but if it does, David Wenham’s works over the years will have had a lot to do with it. This short, straightforward little book masks years of research and a breadth of learning. . . . A delight to read and recommend.”
Christian Living
“Not everyone largely paralyzed in a major skiing accident comes back to complete master’s and doctoral degrees and goes on to teach as an adjunct and assistant director at an alma mater. Very few manage to live a life in which they can honestly say they rejoice in their circumstances because of their relationship with Jesus Christ. J. D. Kim has done all of this and writes his story in a very down-to-earth, emotion-packed, and page-turning style. I recommend it to the widest possible cross-section of readers.”
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“This commentary series breaks new ground ... Ideal for preaching and teaching.”
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“Modern readers are often surprised to discover 'greed' in the New Testament vice lists along with what they view as much more serious sins. But Ephesians and Colossians both call it idolatry, and other eras of church history often understood this better than we do in today's Western world. Rosner explores the concept of greed as idolatry in rich detail from every imaginable angle — exegetical, theological, historical, sociological — and challenges contemporary Christianity to take it far more seriously. A crucial topic for anyone who wants to be faithful to biblical ethics.”
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“What would happen if we reminded ourselves every time we encountered the Bible that most all of its original audiences were listeners rather than readers? What would happen if we tried to read it not in a monotone but in a way intended to animate people with tone of voice and cadence, or if we retold biblical stories true to their historical contexts in first-person narrative? Brent Sandy challenges us to better understand the Bible's orality and reawakens our interest in its content. Thanks, Brent!”
Hearing Her Voice, Revised Edition
Women
“Can anything new possibly be said in the endless debates over gender roles in the church? If something new is said, could it possibly be true? The answers to both questions are “yes”! John Dickson has recognized the limited, technical sense of “teaching” in many ancient religious contexts, including Christian ones, especially Paul, and consistently in the Pastoral Epistles. Applying this recognition to 1 Timothy 2:12, he has convincingly demonstrated that even a conservative complementarian has no exegetically based grounds for preventing women from delivering sermons. He wisely bypasses entirely larger questions of ordination and leadership for this one virtually incontrovertible observation. That many complementarians continue to controvert it demonstrates the extent to which, however unwittingly, they are bound to the “traditions of men” rather than to the Word of God!”
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“Even seasoned students of hermeneutics seldom get a detailed overview of the discipline's most influential thinkers of the last two hundred years in a connected, chronological, descriptive, and evaluative analysis. Stan Porter -- already well known for his prolific writing, especially in Greek linguistics and hermeneutical theory -- here teams up with his former student Jason Robinson to provide such a volume. This is a text that will help readers with significant grounding in the discipline to connect many dots that they otherwise might never have realized form coherent patterns. Warmly to be welcomed.”
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“For Anthony Thiselton, longtime professor of New Testament interpretation in Sheffield and Nottingham and prodigious and profound author and thinker, not to receive a Festschrift would be a grave injustice. Stanley Porter and Matthew Malcolm have not only honored Thiselton appropriately with this learned anthology of essays; they have also collected a series of first-rate studies covering the hermeneutic waterfront systematically and with reference to all of Thiselton's main interests. This is a special gift, with something for almost everyone in the church and the academy.”
Theology
“For the past thirteen years, I have developed wonderful friendships with a small group of religion professors at Brigham Young University, all members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in good standing. Through extensive conversations I have learned firsthand what they actually believe and teach, what directions the church is heading in the twenty-first century, and how evangelical Christians are generally perceived in LDS circles. When people have asked me for the best resource available for how best to interact with LDS friends today with respect to religious topics, I have told them, ‘The Bridges video series, produced by Salt Lake Seminary.’ Now similar material is even more accessible in this book. A must read for all who care about this topic.”
NOTE: Only includes books currently in our catalog; not necessarily a complete list.
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Can We Still Believe the Bible?
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Theology
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The Historical Reliability of the Gospels
Apologetics
Church Leadership & Ministry
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