Jerome H. Neyrey

A Cultural Handbook to the Bible

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“Pilch's Cultural Handbook to the Bible is so interesting that readers will find it hard to stop reading. Very accessible for a wide range of readers - college students, seminarians, theologians, laypersons. . . . Materials from this book would give lots of fizz and snap to sermons.”

A Voyage Around the Second Letter of Peter

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“Callan’s voyage about 2 Peter is most notable for the freshness of his questions about the document, his impressive knowledge of the literary world to which it belongs, and his imaginative approach to old and new issues. While not a commentary, it eventually comments on the whole of 2 Peter. Callan has written a literate book, employing a new literary imagination and method.”

Christian Origins and Cultural Anthropology

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“This is a terrific compendium of the approaches and models we need for our New Testament courses.”

Social-Science Commentary on the Letters of Paul

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“If you are tired of reading the same 'new' book on Paul over and over, this commentary on the letters of Paul is the place to go next. In addition to traditional material on rhetoric and background, this social-scientific commentary brings to the fore necessary, significant and enlightening ways of understanding the social role of Paul and his social dynamics with the churches he founded. In this it is unique; it is the only comprehensive social-science reading of Paul. The reading scenarios at the end are themselves worth the price of this book.”

The Apostle Paul Guides the Early Church

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“These articles reflect how Dahl taught. Master of ‘questions,’ he proposed fresh approaches, expecting others to expand his work. Never content with professional excellence, he settled one issue only to open the door to further questions. He thought new thoughts, such as chapters 6 and 9. These essays illustrate how a first-class mind works.”

The Gospel of Matthew in Current Study

“This book is more than the sum of its parts. It not only synthesizes the state of scholarship but also points to exciting new ways of reading the first Gospel. I have not seen so rich an assemblage of studies on one book of the Bible. This very humane piece of scholarship is sure to please teachers and students alike.”

The Letters of 2 Peter and Jude

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“A reliable and literate work ? knowledgeable without being cluttered, informed without being pedantic. As a traditional commentary, it argues introductory matters well, relies on epistolary and rhetorical insights for structural guides, and is very well informed on Israelite and Greco-Roman background. . . Balances the big canvas with smaller cameo scenes. . . Should be considered the best of a new wave of commentaries on Jude and 2 Peter.”

The Radical Jesus, the Bible, and the Great Transformation

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“Oakman brokers for us many conversations. He hears and responds to the conversations of his professional peers, who are often monochromatic in focus: only agriculture, numismatics, pottery, taxes, etc. Taking them honorably into account, he advances the conversation by drawing their data together by means of overarching social science models, thus making their data say much more. . . . Oakman never fails to engage my settled opinions with fresh data and unavoidable invitations to think again, to fill out the picture, and to take seriously scholarship speaking a different language. But Oakman is a gracious, enlightened, fair, trustworthy, and competent conversational partner, well worthy of our close reading. For traditional scholarship, this opens a new dimension.”