David A. deSilva

100 Important Questions About the Bible . . . Answered!

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“Lee McDonald translates a lifetime of meticulous study into this winsomely accessible book. He breaks down complex issues related to the centuries-long process of the formation of the canons of the Old and New Testaments into bite-size, question-and-answer, easily digestible pieces. It is as informative in teaching us the questions we may never have thought to have asked as it is in rich and reliable answers.”

A Companion to the Book of Revelation

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“David Mathewson provides a solid and straightforward guide to reading Revelation as if John’s churches mattered, asking how they would have understood the book’s message and challenges. He helps us think about the landscape that those early Christians inhabited and how Revelation casts a new and piercing light upon it and upon living out a distinctively Christian witness in that landscape. . . . This is a very helpful first companion to reading a challenging book.”

A Grammar of New Testament Greek

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“This is a masterful introduction to the nuances of the Greek language. . . . I particularly appreciate the attention given to syntax at the heart of this volume, where one will find a sophisticated presentation of the middle voice and verbal aspect, richly informed by the discussions of recent decades, a clear presentation of the spectrum of senses potentially communicated by each Greek case, and many other facets of the range of usage of discrete components of the Greek language. I will be putting this into the hands of my second-semester Greek students in the future with a view to laying the foundations for their ongoing study before they leave my classroom.”

A Reader's Guide to the Bible

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“The Bible can be overwhelming for the first-time reader. There's so much to take in, so much to fill in ('Where in the story does this prophet fit in?'), and so much to coordinate (like two versions of the story of Israel's monarchy and four versions of the story of Jesus). Having devoted his career equally to the scholarly study of Scripture among academics and to the communication of its message to 'normal' people, Goldingay now offers a primer for those furthest from being at home in the pages of the Bible. This book provides a winsome overview of the story of the whole and how all the parts fit together. It's an ideal tool for the person standing at the threshold of his or her first time reading through the Bible itself.”

A Week in the Life of a Slave

Fiction

“There's no one better to take us into the daily plight and experiences of a first-century Roman slave than John Byron, who has distinguished himself as a specialist in this area through two important academic books and several articles. Here he blends expertise and imagination together in a winsome invitation into the lives of Paul, Philemon, and, most importantly, Onesimus, the slave whose coming to faith challenged Philemon to live up to his own.”

An African Commentary on the Letter of James

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“Adewuya invites us to listen with him to the Letter of James as it speaks to an African context. Readers will particularly appreciate his attention to cultural intertexture, as he sets the wisdom of James alongside and in conversation with the pithy maxims encapsulating facets of the wisdom of several African peoples, seating James at a place of honor within the local council of elders.”

Ancient Jewish and Christian Scriptures

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“It is hard to imagine assembling a finer ‘dream team’ to guide a reader through the process of canon formation and the broader use of (what would become) extracanonical literature in early Jewish and Christian circles than Collins, Evans, and McDonald. Their collaboration has produced a well-planned and coherent book that consistently pushes us beyond our obsession with the boundaries of canon and draws us into the contributions this larger body of literature—the deuterocanonicals, Pseudepigrapha, Dead Sea Scrolls, and early Christian ‘Apocrypha’—have made to the shaping of both Judaism and Christianity through the centuries.”

Being Christian After the Desolation of Gaza

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“Palestinian Christians look to the West and cry, ‘Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by?’ This collection of eye-opening, heart-rending, meticulously documented essays challenges us to look past our comfortable ideologies about the modern state of Israel and our stereotypes about the Arab ‘other’ and to see the human cost of a modern nation’s quest for security and control, and the suffering that we casually accept as justified.”

Christ Died for Our Sins

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“This book represents the culmination of a decade of research on the part of Dr. Williams into Jewish martyrology as a potentially illuminating background for Paul's understanding of the death of Jesus. Wisely avoiding either/or thinking, Dr. Williams advances the case for the contribution that Jewish reflection on its own heroic martyrs, alongside other Jewish scriptural resources, made to Paul's theology and thus to the emergence of the distinctive Christian confession.”

Christian Life in the Greco-Roman City

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

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Christianity at the Crossroads

History & Biography

“Kruger takes us into a world in which 'Christianity' is still very much at risk and up for grabs, struggling to find its identity in the midst of forces within and without seeking to define its identity or suppress its existence. His book invites us into the tensions and trajectories that would eventually give shape to what we, in distant retrospect, take for granted as Christian faith, practice, and polity. I recommend it highly, alongside the texts that have richly informed it (the apostolic fathers, the early martyrologies, and the apologists), to all those interested in learning how 'New Testament faith' found its footing and began to take root.”

Commentary on the New Testament Use of the Old Testament

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“Beale and Carson have amassed a unique reference resource, focused on an area of perpetual importance to both biblical scholars and preachers: how did the writers of the New Testament ‘read’ their Bibles. The many contributions are held together by a commitment to explore the New Testament context of the quotation, the meaning of the excerpt in its original Old Testament context, the interpretation of this same passage in Second Temple Judaism, the textual tradition (Hebrew text, Septuagint, or mixed type) of the passage, and, finally, the New Testament writer’s interpretation and application of the excerpt. As such, this volume will be of constant help as a starting point for a very specific, and very critical, facet of the exegetical task.”

Darkness Visible

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“Bordjadze wrestles with one of the central hermeneutical questions concerning the interpretation of the Hebrew Bible—especially the prophetic corpus—in the Christian church: how do we do justice to the fact that these texts came into being as ‘word of God’ to particular Judahite and Israelite communities far removed from us and, at the same time, read them as Christian Scripture? Taking the marvelous oracle pronouncing ‘Lucifer’s’ doom in Isaiah 14, Bordjadze takes us through a kaleidoscopic study of the linguistic, literary, and historical features of the text followed by a close analysis of select Christian interpretations across the millennia, bringing the historical and hermeneutical horizons together in a penetrating analysis of how the text has spoken anew as ‘word of God’ attuned to and shaped by each new context.”

Discovering Luke

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“Joel Green has crafted a remarkable invitation into the worlds of the Gospel according to Luke. Green’s career-long engagement with the literary character, theology, and ethical vision of Scripture is in evidence throughout this volume. It is a brilliant addition to this series, and it admirably fulfills its goals.”

Divine Wrath in Paul

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“It appears to be increasingly difficult for those who affirm, with the author of 1 John, that ‘God is love’ to make room for other characteristics and expressions attributed to God across the scriptural revelation. Dr. Stevens’s study focuses on what is perhaps the least popular facet of the biblical God, namely God’s capacity to feel and to express wrath, calling us to attend carefully and thoughtfully particularly to the relevant passages in Paul. He provides readers with a nuanced analysis of these statements against the broad background of convictions about divine wrath and its expression in Greco-Roman, Jewish, and other early Christian sources, carefully delineating points of agreement and points of contrast between Paul’s affirmations and those made within the various cultures of his environment. This is an important contribution to our ability to ‘see’ all that the Scriptures reveal about the God they proclaim.”

Down the Valley

Fiction

“Like its predecessor, Beyond the White Fence, this novel stands in the best tradition of Christian fiction. Instead of passing through a wardrobe into a mythical land, however, our heroes pass through time to real lands and intersect with the lives of real saints, whom to know and emulate has always been a great support to discipleship. The adventures woven together in Down the Valley are thoughtfully crafted and winsomely told by a notable scholar who is also a great artisan of words.”

Exegetical Journeys in Biblical Greek

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“Students can forget a great deal during the long summer between the end of Greek II and a fall semester exegetical course. This book provides an excellent remedy for the problem, combining regular daily exercises with exegetical observations and theological insights that will remind students of the value of persevering in order to actually master Biblical Greek. It incidentally sets in motion what could become a deeply enriching lifelong habit—that of spending just ten minutes each day in the Greek New Testament. The variety of styles and levels of difficulty in the reading selections prepares students well for their next course, whether it be the Johannine Letters or the Letter to the Hebrews.”

God's Israel and the Israel of God

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“This is an important collection of essays exploring what constitutes a faithful representation of the views and practice of Paul the apostle on the basis of his own testimony in the face of significant pressures in academic circles to affirm a two-covenant theology and make Paul a witness to the same. The principal essayists seek to nurture a response to contemporary Jews that is sensitive to the deplorable history of (Christian) violence and prejudice against them while also not withholding from them that for which Paul passionately prayed―their deliverance in the one Messiah of Jew and Gentile. There is enough here to challenge both those who have espoused the naïve and arrogant supersessionism that Paul opposes in Romans and those who have sought to deny the universal claims Paul makes on behalf of Jesus the Christ and a gospel that is ‘for the Jew first and also for the Greek.’”

Holiness in the Letters of Paul

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“In Holiness in the Letters of Paul, Adewuya underscores how important it was for Paul that trusting Jesus should lead to a transformed life. God's purposes for the world in the death of Christ and the release of the Spirit do not culminate in the awakening of mere belief, but in the realization of the 'new creation' first and foremost through people who no longer live for themselves, but rather live for the Christ who died and was raised on their behalf--through people, that is, through whom Christ lives. Working through each of the letters attributed to Paul, Adewuya makes a strong contribution that restores 'holiness' to a central place in the discussion of Paul's gospel and in the lives of those who would receive the good news.”

Honoring the Son

Theology

“Hurtado's work on this key issue--how Jesus came to be recognized as divine--is of central importance not only to students of early Christianity but indeed to all who worship Jesus, and it is with great excitement that I hold in my hand so accessible a summary of his decades of sifting through the evidence, a book I can recommend not only to my seminary students but to everyone in my congregation who ever asks the question.”