Francis Watson

An Anomalous Jew

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“Michael Bird argues persuasively that Paul did not cease to be a Jew when he became Christian—and yet his previous Jewish convictions were shaken to the core and transformed. Paul remained a Jew, but he became an anomaly to his Jewish contemporaries.”

Newly Created Children of God

Theology

“In this monograph Hyung-tae Kim asks whether Paul’s ‘adoption’ language refers primarily to Gentile inclusion in the covenant people of Israel, or to the more universal context of the new creation. Kim argues persuasively and effectively for the second view, with important implications for the fundamental shape of Pauline theology.”

Paul and the Trinity

Theology

“There has long been a consensus among New Testament scholars that the doctrine of the Trinity has little to contribute to the study of the New Testament in general and Paul in particular. Wesley Hill presents here a fundamental challenge to that consensus, making sophisticated use of resources drawn from ancient and modern trinitarian conceptuality to bring to light the pervasively relational structure of Paul’s statements about God, Christ, and the Spirit. Hill’s outstanding book should cause scholars to question -- or preferably to abandon -- conventional non-relational and un-trinitarian approaches to Pauline theological discourse.”

Paul and Union with Christ

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“Broad claims about the nature of Paul’s theology are often made with surprisingly little attention to the specific language he uses to communicate it. In this book Campbell focuses on the condensed and cryptic formulae that Paul uses over and over again (‘in Christ,’ ‘with Christ,’ ‘through Christ’) and succeeds in showing that a close reading of these prepositional phrases can shed light on Paul’s deepest theological convictions.”

Reading the Epistles of James, Peter, John & Jude as Scripture

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“In this groundbreaking book David Nienhuis and Robert Wall show that the New Testament collection called the ‘Catholic Epistles’ has a structure and a rationale that profoundly impact the way its individual texts should be read. Like the fourfold canonical Gospel, this collection represents a decisive intervention in the process of creating a well-ordered Christian scripture out of the mass of early Christian writing.”

Solving the Synoptic Puzzle

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“All too easily the Q hypothesis becomes the Q document, a genuine early Christian text that modern scholars claim to have recovered from the texts of Matthew and Luke. In this clear and compelling book, Eric Eve demonstrates both the weakness of standard arguments for Q and the plausibility of an alternative scenario: that Luke shares specific material and broader emphases with Matthew because he found them in Matthew.”

Words Are Not Enough

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“The Bible is often imagined as a kind of monument, a fixed point in an ever-changing world. In his new book, Garrick Allen argues persuasively that this model overlooks the Bible’s materiality: the Bible is always more than the sum of its texts, and—precisely because it is valued so highly—it changes constantly as its formatting and packaging changes.”