Robert B. Coote

Beware the Evil Eye Volume 2

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“This second volume of a work decades in the making extends the merits of the first: an assiduous comprehensiveness with regard to both method and evidence; an efficient, amicable exposition; an exuberance of illustration; and a compelling sense of the curious that takes full account of the integrity of the culturally different. Here we find the evil eye not only pervasive but central in the Greco-Roman world, making its discovery in the Bible and in Jewish and Christian antiquity, to be explored in volumes three and four, no surprise at all.”

Elijah, Yahweh, and Baal

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“Written a century ago for a church audience eager to learn how the best scholarship of the day could illuminate one of the Bible's most absorbing stories, this little book shows Gunkel at the height of his powers of critical perspicuity, explanatory finesse, and reverent sensitivity, the ideal Bible study leader, at once learned, captivating, and devout. . . . Moreover, Gunkel encompasses his subject as few today could or would in such short scope, combining philological acumen, aesthetic appreciation, comparative perspective, and attention to communal folk tradition--his pioneer distinction--and constants of human religiosity. The translation includes astute notes by the editor and a helpful list of more recent resources.”

Injustice Made Legal

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“Injustice Made Legal is a well-ordered attempt to identify the self-interest of those who promulgated the biblical laws sanctioning relief for widows, the fatherless, and aliens. Placing these laws in the context of an unvarnished social history of monarchic Israel and a sweeping analysis of the social context of law, this book offers a salutary reminder of what officialdom and its rules can look like from the vantage point of the most vulnerable of their supposed beneficiaries.”

Science, Scripture, and Homosexuality

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“A crisp and lucid account of recent developments in the science of sexual orientation and the understanding of the biblical texts. . . . The book makes clear why an increasing number of people for whom the Bible remains the standard of truth no longer find in it grounds for excluding gays and lesbians from total acceptance in the church.”

Social Criticism and Social Vision in Ancient Israel

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“These buried nuggets of interpretive wisdom from earlier years, by a scholar whose intellectual career could only be described as unique, display the arresting combination of exegetical insight, hermeneutical energy, and ethical intensity long welcomed by students, pastors, and teachers alike.”

Social Justice and the Hebrew Bible, Volume One

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“Among the rare few in biblical scholarship with truly international recognition and significance, Norman Gottwald holds a distinction that is unique. As teacher, writer, editor, speaker, and organizer whose leadership spans more than six decades, he stands unmatched in the combination of innovative research, probing inquiry, eloquent clarity, popular reach, ethical engagement, and breadth of global importance marking a lifetime of achievement. This is the distinction embodied in this welcome selection of his work.”

The Melody of Theology

Theology

“I found Pelikan's thinking fascinating, elegant, informative, scholarly, and deeply personal and attractive . . . There is always some insight to gain. [Pelikan's book] provides a course in nearly the whole of Christian faith and history--in terms of just one person's journey.”