Patrick Gray

Judeophobia and the New Testament

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“There is no ‘one-size-fits-all’ approach to assessing the degree to which the New Testament manifests what is sometimes called ‘Judeophobia.’ The strength of this volume is the dedication of its many contributors to examining specific texts in specific contexts. Whether the desire is to condemn or to excuse or to problematize the rhetoric of early Christian writers, truth is not served by overgeneralizations.”

Seven Challenges That Shaped the New Testament

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“Jesus was a game-changer of cosmic proportions for the earliest believers, but the lines connecting his death and resurrection to their beliefs, behaviors, and forms of belonging were anything but sharp, straight, or self-evident. The New Testament documents their attempts at drawing those lines in real time and in response to unforeseen challenges. Spencer is the consummate eavesdropper on their conversations, providing commentary that enables readers to hear more clearly voices that have been muffled or distorted in the intervening centuries.”

Steward of God's Mysteries

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

Foreword

“It is much easier to make facile claims about Paul ‘founding’ Christianity, by accident or by design, or ‘inventing’ this or that aspect of Christian theology than it is to engage in close, critical, dispassionate analysis of the primary texts. The devil is in the details. Sumney will have succeeded if his examination of these details makes it more difficult to invoke pat answers that do little to illuminate the origins of Christianity and Paul’s role in it.”

The Writer

“Lots of very smart people with doctorates cannot write very well. And if you can't organize your expertise in such a form that reviewers, editors, and publishers find compelling, all the hard work that went into the PhD will be for naught in a 'publish or perish' world. No other resource contains the same kind of discipline-specific guidance, soft knowledge, and practical wisdom.”