Dale C. Allison Jr.

Reading Mark in Context

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“The idea behind this volume—slice Mark into sections and introduce each via extracanonical Jewish materials—is splendid. Happily, so too is the execution. Reading Mark in Context will expand students’ horizons and motivate them to go looking for more of the same.”

Sacred Word, Broken Word

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“Incisive and honest, sophisticated yet clear, this volume will prove to be of immense value to those who wrestle with the nature of Scripture. Sparks illuminates a number of troubling and complex issues, and his readers will find their thoughts moving in new and promising directions.”

Sarah and the Garden

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“We inevitably read with imagination, and the best commentaries are those that nourish the imagination. Hayes accomplishes this with her creative efforts, above all in her attempts to fill gaps and silences in the Genesis narrative. Especially helpful is her interweaving of the themes and motifs of Gen 1–3 into its later stories.”

Saved Through Fire

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“This is a careful, informative, and convincing investigation of an important but neglected topic. Frayer-Griggs's work offers a distinctive approach to the eschatologies of John the Baptist, the historical Jesus, and Paul.”

Studies in Matthew

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“Ulrich Luz is a master exegete. He is historically very well informed, hermeneutically sophisticated, and theologically interesting. I have no doubt that these essays, together with Luz's commentary on Matthew, represent the future of Matthean studies.”

Tax Collector to Gospel Writer

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“Nothing can be the last word because scholarship never stands still. But if you want the best word so far, this is your book: a meticulous, well-informed, and creative contribution on an important, truly fascinating question: How did Matthew become the author of Matthew?”

The Beatitudes through the Ages

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

Foreword

“This volume has humbled me, leaving me cognizant of how little I really know. . . . Beyond being a boon for exegesis, this book is a treasure of sermonic possibilities. It holds much that is not on the pages of the commentaries that typically line the shelves of pastors’ offices. So if one is looking for fresh thoughts for preaching, they are here in abundance. Furthermore, interpretation and application are, for Eklund, not separate things. Here she stands in line with the misnamed precritical exegetes. The latter were consistently interested in how one might enter into the Beatitudes and bring them to life. Like them, Eklund is not a disinterested observer.”

The Biblical Mothers Deliver

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“The Biblical Mothers Deliver is a provocation. To what extent are we accountable for the history of the interpretation of the Bible? How can we responsibly utilize stories from another time and place? How should we evaluate conflicting voices within a religious canon? Klancher’s close, honest, challenging readings force these questions upon us. You will be unable, after putting down her book, to think the same old things about the texts she examines.”

The Confusion of Worlds

World Religions

“If your penchant is for the same old same old, this is not your book. If, however, you are up for a true theological adventure featuring genuinely creative, provocative, and original ideas at every turn, then read Schwenke. The Confusion of Worlds is one of those rare books that successfully reconceptualizes old issues in new ways, so that readers will have thoughts they never had before.”

The God Who Believes

Theology

“This relentlessly honest encounter with evil, which refuses to take comfort in the traditional theological bromides, finds no answers anywhere except in Jesus Christ. Written in an engagingly personal style, Kettler's heartfelt book shows how the doctrine of the vicarious humanity of Christ can function as an effective theodicy.”

The Human Faces of God

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“Christians can ignore the facts that Stark brings into the light of day only if they want to be wrong.”

The Jesus Handbook

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

Foreword

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The King Who Teaches: St. Matthew’s Royal Curriculum

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“The ideal aid for anyone who wishes to better understand what Matthew’s Gospel is and how it works. The use of open-ended questions is a sure way to open minds. Engaging and at times provocative, this wonderful tool will help students realize that they don’t know what they thought they knew.”

The Nature Miracles of Jesus

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“This truly engaging collection of essays on a fascinating subject features not only different points of view but, much more importantly, good arguments for different points of view. Every reader will come away with much to ponder.”

The Rhetoric of the Gospel, Second Edition

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“Professor Black is a conscientious reader, a judicious scholar, and a gifted writer; and this methodologically sophisticated and well-informed collection of his essays on the gospels and Acts has much to teach all of us. This is rhetorical criticism at its finest.”

The Vehement Jesus

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“This engaging work of patient and passionate scholarship is theologically productive. Neville is well-informed, fair-minded, meticulous, creative, and—above all—honest.”

Thomas and the Gospels

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“Meticulous, adroit, and closely reasoned, this work will immediately become the definitive presentation of the case that Thomas draws on the Synoptics. Those who take the contrary position truly have their work cut out for them.”