Teresa Morgan

Bullies and Saints

History & Biography

“This is that rare thing—a book that speaks equally to Christians and sceptics. Combining gripping historical narrative with a keen critique of contemporary debates, Dickson makes one of the most honest, challenging, and compelling cases for Christianity you will ever read.”

Ethnicity and Inclusion

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“This magisterial and far-reaching book brings together New Testament and Jewish studies, the history of scholarship, social theory, and identity politics to show how biblical studies have helped to shape modern ideologies of religion and race. With vast scholarship and penetrating lucidity, Horrell shows why scholarship matters and challenges scholars to rethink the connections between the people we are and the arguments we make.”

Imitation in Early Christianity

Theology

“In this rich study Cornelis Bennema makes a major contribution to the study of Christian mimesis, exploring its theological and ethical aspects both historically and theologically. Situating Christian ideas in their Jewish, Greek, and Roman contexts, he examines how mimesis operates as a sensory, cognitive, and volitional process and reveals how Christians develop it in new ways. All students of early Christian theology, ethics, and education will want to engage with his illuminating and thought-provoking argument.”

Jewish Paideia

World Religions

“Jewish Paideia makes a major contribution to our understanding of one of the most significant fields of ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern education. Through case studies of four influential authors or texts, Jason Zurawski reveals both the diversity of Hellenistic Jewish education and its coherences while also revealing how education responded to evolving Jewish identities in a formative period and helped to shape them. Scholars and students alike will benefit from the book's incisive scholarship and fresh insights.”

Oneself in Another

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“Susan Eastman is that rare commentator whose readings of Paul are both provocative and persuasive, rigorous and humane, and as relevant to the present day as they are historically grounded and theologically subtle. Developing further some of the themes of her groundbreaking Paul and the Person and drawing on theoretical approaches from developmental psychology to theater studies, these penetrating and compassionate essays challenge us to see Paul and ourselves with new eyes.”

Reverberations of Good News

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“In this rich and wide-ranging study, George van Kooten offers a new interpretation of the origins of the Gospels, the relationships between them, and their visions of the ‘good news’ of Jesus Christ, and draws fresh insights from them for the present day. A beautifully written book which offers food for thought for scholars, students and people of faith alike.”