Seyoon Kim

1 and 2 Thessalonians

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“A. Das has wrought quite a feat to produce a fine scholarly commentary on 1 and 2 Thessalonians in a very compact form. He interprets the text mainly in critical interaction with other contemporary commentators while also reflecting on the comments of some theologians and church leaders from the second to the early twentieth century. This commentary is a boon especially to busy pastors.”

Colossians, Volume 44A

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“The most detailed and comprehensive commentary ever written on Colossians! With this excellent work, Clint Arnold has set a new milestone in the interpretation of the epistle.”

Empire, Economics, and the New Testament

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“Peter Oakes is one of the pioneers of the new approach to interpreting the New Testament by a serious consideration of the socioeconomic conditions of the diverse kinds of members of first-century house churches that are reconstructed according to the archaeological data. In his essays on Paul’s and other New Testament writers’ attitudes to the Roman Empire, he is also to be commended for maintaining a cool scholarly head and producing balanced and sensible interpretations.”

Hidden Criticism?

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“Counter-imperial interpretation of the NT appears to wax and wane with the flux of imperial hybris in the United States. With the inauguration of a new United States president, making Christoph Heilig’s book more widely available through this publication is to be welcomed. It will certainly stimulate scholars to devise better criteria for discerning the counter-imperial intent in Pauline texts than we have seen to date.”

His Touch on the Mouths

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“Sohn seeks to shed new light on the Lukan description of baptism of the Holy Spirit in Acts 2:3. His new approach, from the call narratives of Old Testament prophets, uncovers a layer of its meaning that has not hitherto been recognized. An interesting attempt!”

Sola Scriptura in Asia

Theology

“Serious efforts to reflect on the Reformation heritage for biblical interpretation, Christian worldview, and education in Asia today.”

The Letters of 2 Peter and Jude

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“This is an exemplary commentary, marked by the author's mature scholarship, keen theological insights, and deep pastoral concerns. His thorough exegesis, conducted with a singular combination of rhetorical and narrative analysis as well as other usual critical methods, has produced a most reliable exposition of these neglected epistles.”

The Tax Collector and the Pharisee

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“I am pleased to commend this fine book. It makes . . . significant contributions toward demonstrating the origin of the Pauline doctrine of justification from Jesus’s teachings and establishing ‘coherence’ as a more suitable criterion in the studies of Jesus tradition than the more narrowly conceived criteria that have commonly been used in the critical scholarship.”

Where is Boasting?

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“Against E. P. Sanders's notion of 'covenantal nomism,' Simon Gathercole clearly demonstrates from various Jewish sources that many Jews of the New Testament period thought that eschatological salvation depended on obedience to the Torah as well as on God's election. Then, against James D. G. Dunn's and N. T. Wright's notion of 'national righteousness,' Gathercole convincingly demonstrates that in Romans 1–5 Paul argues for justification of the ungodly by faith in contrast to the Jewish notion of justification on the basis of obedience to the Torah. The result is an important book marked by the author's firm grounding in the sources, convincing exegesis, and clear argumentation. Gathercole thus drives a big nail into the coffin of the 'New Perspective' on Paul.”