Craig S. Keener

Cover of Kingdom of Power, Power of Kingdom

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“This book offers an intriguing study of some notable narrative techniques in Mark's Gospel. In contrast to modern speculations of how Mark should have written, Starner's observations are grounded in ancient narration patterns. While noting parallels with Chariton's style, Starner is also careful to highlight some distinctive elements in Mark's account.”

La Santidad en las Cartas de Pablo

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“«En esta obra, Adewuya explora con detenimiento el tan descuidado tema de la santidad y sus conceptos relacionados, haciendo una importante contribución a la teología paulina. Expertos en la materia han elogiado el trabajo anterior de Adewuya y seguramente encontrarán lo que bien pudiera ser el estudio más completo acerca del tema».”

Leviticus

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“The Story of God Bible Commentary series invites readers to probe how the message of the text relates to our situations today. Engagingly readable, it not only explores the biblical text but offers a range of applications and interesting illustrations.”

Life in the Son

Theology

Foreword

(wrote the foreword)

Living in Color

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“This book resounds with God's love for all the peoples he has made in his image. Through the stories of his own Native American heritage and the experiences of others, Randy Woodley develops biblical themes of justice, creation and God's love, along with biblical models of contextualization and diversity. This book will interest all those committed to racial and cultural reconciliation.”

Luke among the Ancient Historians

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“Although I believe that Luke had some written as well as oral sources available, Peters has provided a detailed and masterful case by comparing Luke’s methodology with the most analogous ancient authors: historians of recent events. . . . Anyone interested in reading Luke-Acts as ancient historiography . . . needs to attend to and learn from Peters’ detailed work.”

Luke’s Legato Historiography

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“In a well-organized case, Brack models interdisciplinary competence by drawing insightfully on ancient practices to explain Luke’s use of narrative/rhetorical transitions, and on social memory theory to offer an explanation as to why this matters. This is a brilliant work deserving careful attention by scholars working in Luke-Acts.”

Making Sense of the Bible

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“Drake Williams very readably traces some crucial themes through Scripture, underlining the wonderful continuity of God's Word through history.”

Making the Gospels

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“Barnett shows that, while there are many secondary issues on which scholars differ, conspiracy theories can be safely put to rest. The historically earliest and most reliable sources tell us quite a bit about the historical Jesus, and he looks a lot more like what the ancient witnesses claimed than like what modern speculations insist. Barnett’s exploration of echoes of Jesus in other early sources is insightful.”

Mark

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

Mark’s Gospel

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“Here one of the premier Markan scholars of our generation provides, even in the first half of his work, what amounts to an eloquent, well-arranged, and up-to-date introduction to Markan studies. This may well be the best and most thorough survey of and engagement with contemporary Markan scholarship to date. Those familiar with the debates will recognize how careful, respectful, fair and nuanced are his judgments. Along the way, the reader will also find the work theologically insightful and often spiritually edifying.”

Minor Prophets I

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“Engagingly readable, it not only explores the biblical text but offers a range of applications and interesting illustrations.”

Missiology with Power

Evangelism & Missions

Foreword

(wrote the foreword)

Neither Jew nor Greek

History & Biography

“Here we have on full display the distilled fruits of decades of research and engagement by a mature scholar of the first rank. James Dunn engages a vast range of secondary and primary literature in a way that only a senior scholar can do, synthesizing the best insights, critically and meticulously evaluating all sources and hypotheses, and producing a masterpiece of erudition that will be foundational for future work on the subject. While respectfully interacting with a range of scholarship, this work also forges its own noteworthy conclusions, in the process sometimes challenging conventional assumptions from across the spectrum of scholarly opinion.”

New Testament Theology

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“Despite the array of works on New Testament theology today, Schnabel adds a distinctive voice with distinctive insights. Unrivaled in its deep historical perspective, this book also explores a range of issues arising inductively from the text that are often neglected in other New Testament theologies.”

Numbers

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“Engagingly readable, it not only explores the biblical text but offers a range of applications and interesting illustrations.”

Offer Yourselves to God

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“Drawing on Paul’s insights in a very different culture, Gordon Fee applies these insights practically and powerfully for our lives today. He makes Paul’s message easy to understand, and its challenge all the more relevant for us today.”

Patterns of Ministry among the First Christians

Church Leadership & Ministry

“With engaging and sometimes witty prose, Giles explores Scripture honestly to discern patterns of church leadership. Giles shows how Scripture challenges many assumptions about ministry in most churches today. I have learned from this work, and I find his conclusions eminently fair, balanced, and reasonable, and most of them persuasive.”

Paul and the Hope of Glory

Theology

“This enlightening and thorough study is immaculately organized and draws on the entire Pauline corpus. Moreover, rather than trying to fit all the Pauline evidence into a preexisting grid, Campbell develops Pauline theology carefully from his exegesis of the relevant Pauline passages.”

Paul Behaving Badly

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“Like Jesus Behaving Badly, this book helpfully responds to many of the misconceptions people have about a key figure in the forming of our faith. In easy-to-understand and engaging language, it explores how Paul related to the setting in which he lived and wrote.”