Dale C. Allison Jr.

An Introduction to the Bible

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“This comprehensive, thoroughly informed, and lavishly illustrated volume, produced by the collaboration of two experts — one Protestant, one Catholic — achieves that to which it aspires: it is clarity itself. This is the perfect introduction for undergraduates.”

Beginning from Jerusalem

History & Biography

“Mastery of the primary and secondary sources, creativity balanced by sound judgment, and breadth of treatment based upon thorough attention to the details: this is what we have come to expect from James Dunn, and this is what we have in this book. A magnificent review and evaluation of all the major critical issues regarding the first forty years of the Christian religion.”

Divine Wrath and Salvation in Matthew

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“Anders Runesson's creative effort to read Matthew in its first-century Jewish context, without anachronistic assumptions and prejudices, is most welcome. Divine Wrath and Salvation in Matthew is a major contribution that is historically well-informed, theologically thoughtful, and hermeneutically perceptive.”

Embedded Genres in the New Testament

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“Brown’s book, although learned, is accessible and engaging. It is an invitation to the art of noticing, a call to sit and ruminate that will move readers of the New Testament to realize that, all too often, they have been seeing without seeing.”

Getting "Saved"

Theology

“A balanced collection that brings clarity and critical nuance to the complex issue of New Testament soteriology. The essays offer a number of fresh -- and mostly convincing -- readings of important biblical books and outline some new approaches to several important topics.”

Gospel as Work of Art

Theology

“This is a big book with big ideas. It is also at points profound. Anyone interested in Christian theology—in what it has been and what it might become—must ponder Brown’s wide-ranging, historically learned, beautifully illustrated, thought-provoking pages. Even the most erudite will find an education here.”

Gospel Writing

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“The scope of this major contribution is breathtaking. Watson expertly moves from Augustine to Lessing to Q to Thomas to the synoptic problem to the sources of John's Gospel to the Gospel of Peter to the emergence of the fourfold gospel canon to Origen to early Christian art and liturgy. The upshot is a slew of new observations and intriguing proposals that open up fresh lines of inquiry. Required reading for all students of the gospel tradition.”

Into God's Presence

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“A splendid collection of essays by a distinguished group of scholars. It is without doubt the best survey of its subject now available.”

Jesus and Divine Christology

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“Too many attempts to explain the advent of early high Christology pay insufficient attention to the historical Jesus. This, as Pitre rightly recognizes, is a huge blunder. The error not only leaves much about early Christianity unexplained but overlooks much in the Synoptics that should count as history. Even if one disagrees with some of his answers, Pitre is asking the right questions and pushing the guild in the right direction.”

Jesus and His Promised Second Coming

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

Foreword

“This volume is a brilliant model of what the critical study of Jesus should involve—careful exegesis, methodological savvy, provocative suggestions, sober judgment, historical imagination, mastery of the secondary literature, plus knowledge of the history of the discipline and its place within larger cultural developments. Jesus and His Promised Second Coming is, without question, one of the best and most important books on Jesus in the last quarter century.”

Jesus and the Last Supper

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“Brant Pitre's contribution is provocative in the best sense of the word. At every turn readers will find new observations worth pondering and new arguments worth weighing.”

Jesus Remembered

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“This is not just one more book on Jesus but rather an esteemed scholar's wide-ranging presentation of conclusions arrived at over a lifetime of informed, critical reflection. It is full of good sense and much learning. As always, James Dunn's work is characterized not only by a genuine familiarity with Jesus' first-century Jewish world but also by an unsurpassed knowledge of the vast secondary literature. Especially suggestive is the consistent appeal to continuing oral tradition, which often appears justified.”

Jesus, Contradicted

Apologetics

“While we disagree over the nature of Scripture, Licona and I concur 100 percent on the importance of comparing like with like. And carefully comparing the canonical gospels with Greco-Roman biographies, which they resemble in so many important ways, generates a plethora of insights. At every turn readers will experience new and improved ideas supplanting old and inferior ones.”

Jesus, People, Pharisees

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“It’s about time the crowds around Jesus received their due! McKnight, prudently paying as much attention to power dynamics as to theological ideas, helps us better to understand “Jesus the troublemaker,” the head of a popular movement who said what people wanted to be said and who did what they wanted to be done. Jesus, People, Pharisees is a much-needed contribution that enlarges our sense of Jesus’s immediate historical environment.”

John the Baptizer and Prophet

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“This meticulous investigation has established itself as one of the standard works on John the Baptist. Particularly notable for its rich material on ablutions and for its detailed exegesis of sayings attributed to John, it is a significant contribution to our understanding of early Judaism and of the immediate religious environment from which Jesus of Nazareth emerged.”

Making Room for Mystery

“Christianity without real mystery and anomalous events is not only blind to the facts but just not that interesting—unlike Holley’s book, which is more than interesting. Thought-provoking and open-minded—yet at the same time critical—this is a truly welcome addition to the literature on religious and metanormal experiences. Do yourself a favor: Buy it and then read it attentively.”

Making Sense of the Bible

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“This is a superb introduction to the Bible and its various literary types. Marshall Johnson is a sure and careful guide whose splendid clarity helpfully exposes both the diversity of the biblical documents as well as their common emphases. Readers will find this brief but wide-ranging book full of wise, practical advice.”

Meeting Jesus the Christ Again

Theology

“Although this conciliatory volume covers a lot of ground, it will hold the reader's attention from start to finish. Chesnut's thoughtful, informed, and well-reasoned chapters are the product of a lifetime of active ministry and (refreshingly) self-critical reflection, and they are the perfect antidote to a host of false antitheses that haunt the contemporary Christian landscape. One sincerely hopes that Meeting Jesus the Christ Again will win a wide readership.”

Metánoia (Repentance): A Major Theme of the Gospel of Matthew

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“Sometimes we all miss the obvious, and Lee contends that scholars have missed the crucial significance of the theme of repentance in Matthew. He effectively establishes that metánoia is indeed a key idea in the First Gospel, and that much may be profitably subsumed under it.”

Once Loved Always Loved

Theology

“Heartfelt yet rational, critical yet fair-minded, Andrew Hronich’s exegetical and theological contribution is a splendid, reliable, up-to-date guide through the maze of knotty issues that attend discussion of the crucial—indeed, all-important—issue of universalism.”