Peter Oakes

A Relevant Way to Read

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“In contrast to many linguistics text books that are obscure and hard to follow, Margaret Sim makes excellent use of her many years of experience of both linguistics and teaching to provide a beautifully clear and helpful introduction to relevance theory and the ways in which it can be of considerable value for understanding the Bible.”

Artemis, Eve, and the Image of God

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“Joseph Brennan’s significant book seriously grounds Ephesians in Ephesus by relating it to extensively documented evidence about the Artemis cult in the city. The letter’s idea of the image of God in Christian marriage becomes a contrast to the image of Artemis. Brennan uses this to produce a thought-provoking new reading of the ‘household code’ as advocating loving, mutually dependent, evangelistically effective marriage relationships.”

Death and Life

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

Foreword

“Readers will find this book a very good contribution to the understanding of Galatians and of ideas about life in Paul’s theology.”

Leviticus and Its Reception in the Dead Sea Scrolls from Qumran

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“New Testament researchers wanting to understand use of Leviticus in that period will find Choi’s careful and well-organized study of the Qumran evidence a very valuable way into the topic, one that will stimulate interesting new questions about use of Leviticus in a range of early Jewish and Christian texts.”

Luke's Jesus in the Roman Empire and the Emperor in the Gospel of Luke

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“Scholars typically get sidetracked in dealing with tax collectors in the Gospels, thinking the main issue is collaboration with Rome. Pyung Soo Seo gets down to the more basic issue of unpopularity due to corrupt practices. From there he maps a more convincing route to seeing Luke interacting with the Empire. Seo shows Luke depicting Jesus as the one able to change tax collectors's corrupt practices, showing Jesus as possessing more moral auctoritas than the emperor, responsible for tax collectors but failing to rein them in.”

Now Shown Mercy

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“Mark Reasoner’s commentary is effectively a sustained argument that Romans 9–11, as Paul’s discourse about the inherent value of Israel, is ‘the beating heart of the letter.’ Full of supporting details, this book provides a powerful challenge to any who think that Paul views Israel as second-class, subordinate to the church.”

Palestine in the Time of Jesus

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“This really is a key resource. . .Anyone who ignores or discounts this treasure-house of material on the New Testament in relation to first–century society in Judaea and Galilee is doing themselves a great disservice.”

Practicing Intertextuality

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“For many years, the SBL Intertextuality in the NT Section has done great work generating progress in understanding this area. This collection of essays, mainly from the Section, is particularly welcome both in offering organized reflections on key methodological issues and in further cementing the expansion of NT intertextuality work to encompass the broad range of intertextual relations in the first-century world.”

The Ancient Mediterranean Social World

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

Foreword

“A valuable provision for biblical study, presented in a way readily accessible to every student and scholar. Whatever your approach to the biblical text, you will find that the use of this collection of texts will considerably enrich your study.”

The Crosses of Pompeii

History & Biography

“A string of recent TV programs and books have featured assertions about whether there were or were not Christians at Pompeii, without offering substantial backup. It is high time for a much fuller setting out of the evidence and arguments. Bruce Longenecker provides it in this very readable book, setting out existing cases with great erudition and adding several fascinating new arguments of his own.”

The Divine Heartset

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“Few can match Crispin Fletcher-Louis for breadth of knowledge, depth of analysis, and originality. Here he weighs into perennial debates on one of the most influential New Testament texts. His startling but substantively argued set of new proposals on Philippians 2:6–11 will be a key element in discussion of the text for years to come.”

The Gospel According to Paul

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“Is the gospel just a message? Is it even, as Twelftree has previously written, a message supported by the miraculous? In a passionately argued book, Twelftree seeks to persuade his reader that, for Paul, ‘gospel’ covers a range of ideas but is, at heart, God’s transforming encounter with people. Everyone, from church members to scholars, will find value in listening to the case Twelftree makes.”

The New Testament in Its World

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“Wright and Bird have done a great service to the church and the academy with this volume. They introduce readers to the major historical, literary, and theological themes of the New Testament in a way that is highly readable, yet they do not shy away from the difficult questions. They manage to avoid the twin dangers of excessive skepticism and uncritical pietism. It is the epitome of faith seeking understanding, and it will find a welcome home in many colleges and seminary classrooms as well pastors’ libraries.”

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The Significance of Interpersonal Forgiveness in the Gospel of Matthew

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

Foreword

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The Significance of Salvation

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“"A valuable contribution both to the interpretation of the Pastoral Epistles and to the study of ideas about salvation in the early Church. Wieland's work is characterized by great care in exegesis and by broad knowledge of primary texts and scholars. I particularly like his stress on the distinctive features of the three letters, a factor that is unduly neglected in current study.”

The Urban World and the First Christians

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“This book brings together an excellent collection of New Testament experts and historians to make fruitful inroads into a range of significant issues in the study of the urban context of early Christianity. Especially valuable is the juxtaposition of studies of particular cities and texts with studies of the idea of city among early Christians and their contemporaries. This will undoubtedly be a key resource in the field.”

Trust in Atonement

Theology

“The fruitfulness of Morgan’s decisive turning of pistis in the direction of trust is clearly seen now as she eloquently develops a new, theologically and pastorally constructive turn in understanding of Christ’s role in bringing reconciliation. Morgan very effectively combines the fruits of her classical and biblical research with insights from trauma studies and many other areas important for life today.”