David P. Moessner
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“Beck’s masterful sleuthing to uncover Luke’s ‘implied reader’ to be a gentile ‘fearer of God,’ attracted like a Cornelius to the one God of the Jewish synagogue, poignantly profiles Luke’s narrative agenda and rationale for his wholesale re-configuration of his narrative source Mark. . . . Beck succeeds at championing the Luke whose two volumes compose an open invitation to all who, pressed down by unbridled power to the margins of meaninglessness, desire to ‘love God’ and find new identity in the only God who ‘shows no partiality.’”
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“Mikeal Parsons has been on the forefront of reading the Lukan writings with strategies that combine the best of ancient literary criticism with social-world analyses, and socio-rhetorical expertise with biblical-theological acumen. His Acts Paideia commentary is his most recent integrative tour de force!”
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“Professor Holladay’s reputation for precision while simultaneously entertaining his audiences with spellbinding episodes from the past continues unabated in his magnificent retelling of Luke’s account of the continuation of the life-transforming events of Jesus, Lord and Christ, into the movement of his apostles from the center of Jewish faith in Jerusalem to the vortex of the nations in Rome. In his own inimitable way, Carl Holladay combines accuracy of description in summoning events and personages and cultural-classical texts critical to Luke’s telling, while at the same time extracting with magnetic-like force their importance in the much larger theological-missional intent of Luke’s interactive narrative arc. As a highly skilled historian, Holladay enables the lasting significance of Luke’s kerygmatic message to present itself from within the historical-literary-cultural contexts that he highlights so well. His new telling will soon become the commentary of choice for scholars of antiquity and people of faith.”
Acts and the Isaianic New Exodus
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“The most incisive, most complete, and most convincing demonstration of the formative influence of Isaiah upon the authors of Luke-Acts.”
History & Biography
“James Dunn’s Beginning from Jerusalem is a teacher’s dream come true. In this sequel volume to Jesus Remembered, Dunn steers his readers through a whirlwind of beginnings in the most formative period of Christianity, 30–70 CE, visiting both New Testament scenes and significant Greco-Roman sites that bring those texts to life. But unlike the usual broad-brush approach to Christianity’s origins, Dunn probes into the heartthrob of these texts such that his readers experience the historical surprises and existential mysteries of this emerging ‘faith’ as it pulsates from within Judaism and courses out into the Gentile world. Combining both Dunn’s enormous learning and his original insights, this volume will quickly become the preferred textbook of university and seminary classes alike.”
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“Here's a fresh, inviting approach to the meaning of election in Romans 9–11, famously called the 'Gordian knot' by John Calvin. Wallace takes up the challenge by unpacking the form and style of Paul's argument, proposing a prophetic lament interwoven with midrashic exegesis. The study is replete with helpful graphic displays of the Romans text and fully engaged with current research. Wallace drives home a major point: in terms of pragmatics, God's election of Israel, the 'lesser son,' teaches the church humility, a notion seldom mentioned in treatments of the subject." —Bruce Corley B. H. Carroll Theological Institute "How can Paul claim God shows no 'partiality' and yet insist 'to the Jew first' (Rom. 2:11; 1:16b)? With a deft weaving of Paul's psalmic lament over Israel with his doxological praises of God's gracious intent for all humanity in Romans 9–11, Wallace shows how God's election of 'Israel' already proves God's merciful compassion for the lesser, the weaker Jacob, such that God's grace to save through the rejection and raising of Israel's Messiah becomes a powerful demonstration of the righteousness/justice of God through weakness so that all—strong and humble alike—might be shown mercy. A new, illuminating impulse for comprehending Romans 9–11!”
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“Longenecker proposes a 'christological arc' for hearing Luke's narrative as a whole: the one who undergoes the eucatastrophic 'escape' from the enraged townsfolk of Nazareth and is 'taken up' by divine custody from his death by his nation to fill out the greater, overarching blessing to Israel and the nations. The author's wit and imagination for filling in the 'gap' of Luke 4:30 through the . . . 'arc' of Psalm 91 outsmarts even the most creative Jesus novelists . . . in making sense of Jesus' mysterious 'passing through their midst'--stimulating, provocative, a delight to read!”
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“Filled with rich interdisciplinary and intertextual insights, Luke is vintage Parsons: tersely brilliant.”
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“Professor Jipp’s uncanny ability to distill a comprehensive, in-depth knowledge of New Testament and early Christian texts, within their Greco-Roman setting, into an interpretation of Luke’s second volume means nothing but eye-opening, mind-illuminating ‘a-ha’ moments in reading Acts through the brilliance of this new light . . . As an introduction for non-biblical specialists, this ‘opening of the Scriptures’ of Acts is without equal.”
Theology
“Fleming Rutledge tells of a friend in her neighborhood who stayed away from church because she 'would have to look up at that big cross they have behind the altar with that figure of Christ hanging on it. It would upset me terribly' (Bread and Wine). Philip Jamieson hits the nail precisely on the head of this scandal of the cross that provoked such shame and outrage in the first centuries of Christianity in Greco-Roman culture. Jamieson sketches a convincing, gripping picture of contemporary American culture, which is riddled with and crippled by what he describes as the Kingdom of Shame—a society that yet remains clueless to this dominion of misery that undergirds and attends humanity's alienation from God and fellow human beings. As it turns out, Rutledge could never persuade her friend to identify the shame she felt looking at the public execution of Jesus with her own failings, weaknesses, or flaws, or dare she add, her own shame! In Jamieson's beautifully woven tapestry of God's redemption of human shame and shamelessness, this pastoral theologian shows the church how to recapture the scandal of the cross by reclaiming the face of the crucified Christ—bearing and breaking under the weight of all of humanity's shame-filled behavior, yet never turning away from the sunken faces of their godforsakenness in his solidarity with them. God was in Christ being shamed to death for humanity's sake. To look up and gaze upon this face is to become transformed by the love that not even the rupture of godforsakenness within the relations of Father–Son–Holy Spirit could finally overcome. Jamieson's The Face of Forgiveness is a godsend to a church desperately in need of the forgiving grace of this saving face!”
The New Testament and Bioethics
Science & Faith
“"In the current controversy of the American health care debate and the allocation of precious resources, Macaleer demonstrates how precarious the whole 'business' of the dispensing of medical services becomes when generalized principles of 'beneficence' or 'justice' control critical decisions regarding 'life' and the 'value of life.' This is a tour de force in redefining the priorities of the health-care debate that experts in bioethics and medical professionals alike would neglect only to the hastening of their theories' own 'dispensability.'”
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“If for the ancient world Pindar characterizes the nature of oral performance ?'aboard the Muses' chariot I beg the eloquence that this occasion needs' ? then Paul Borgman has risen to the occasion. With his 'echoing sequences,' 'spiraling repetitions,' and 'hinge points' for Luke's two-volume performance, Borgman has given us 'winged words' to imprint Luke's own literary genius indelibly into our memories. If narrative performance be judged today by the brilliance of its aural impact, then Borgman has generated a delightfully persuasive movement of Luke's own 'way' of pronouncing the Word of God and moving his audiences to new ways of viewing the story of salvation through Israel's Messiah. This is a command performance for professional and lay reader alike.”
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