Warren Carter
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Warren Carter wrote Seven Events That Shaped the New Testament World.
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Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“Reading from the perspective of a Gentile, God-fearing friend of the synagogue, Beck constructs Luke-Acts as calling this implied reader (typically a centurion) into Israel’s narrative interpreted by Jesus through Isaiah 40–66’s vision of a light to the nations. Jesus’ teaching subverts and affirms aspects of imperial culture even as Luke-Acts invites Gentiles into a distinctive discipleship.”
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“Dennis Duling's work is always engaging, always stimulating, and always insightful.”
Adventures of an Itinerant Imagination
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“What an excellent celebration of Dom Crossan’s life-long and enduring scholarly contributions on the occasion of his ninetieth birthday! Twenty-one scholars tell stories about Crossan and reflect insightfully and appreciatively on the impact of reading his work. Contributions focus on Parables and Fragments, the Historical Jesus, Violence, Empire (ancient and modern), and Civilization. This is a stimulating recognition and honoring of John Dominic Crossan’s work and legacy.”
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“Warner Bailey wrestles with the important issue of living Christian identity as an alien in one’s own native land in suffering and duress. He finds 1 Peter to offer consolation and comfort in the faithfulness of God. Bailey’s mix is rich and diverse; some of the arguments are controversial, yet the conversation is insightful and engaged with significant, contemporary challenges.”
History & Biography
“Montero examines accounts of communal economic relationships and practices--of having all things in common--among early Christian communities. While not all readers will be convinced by all of the arguments, the discussion is provocative, thoughtful, insightful, and even prophetic--all of which are good reasons to read a book.”
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“It's an age-old issue, pervasive in our literature, yet not engaged enough by contemporary biblical scholarship. With an eye on both the past and the present, as well as on Matthew's Gospel and various intertexts, Robert Beck profitably and insightfully explores the complex manifestations and interactions of violence and non-violence.”
Philosophy
“This very impressive, well-written work is a two-for-one book. It engages John Caputo’s stimulating contribution—his metanoetics and his call for transformation, to step out for justice. But it also presents Joe Bessler’s fine proposal. He walks along with Caputo ‘but not,’ magnifying a turn to rhetoric, not as rouge or decoration, but as the ‘fine and useful art of making things matter,’ as nothing less than being moved to renew the world. Compelling.”
“In this wide-ranging discussion across New Testament texts, Alan Streett locates baptism in the context of and in relation to Roman power. He argues that baptism was a believer’s sacramentum, a pledge of allegiance that sets up complex interactions with allegiance to Caesar and the imperial system. This is a significant and much-needed contribution to understandings of baptism.”
Converting Christians to the Jesus Ethic
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“Russell Pregeant is concerned that the contemporary church and its members are, in the realm of public affairs, too accommodated to dominant cultural forces opposed to the ethics of Jesus. Discussing wealth and politics, governments, expressions of violence, and 'the stranger,' Pregeant challenges readers to follow in the totality of their lives a Christ who questions contemporary cultural values and idolatries. This is a thoughtful, insightful, and challenging conversation concerning biblical ethics and contemporary sociopolitical issues.”
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“A wide-ranging and insightful discussion of Matthew's Gospel that engages contemporary interpretations as well as those from across the ages. The result is a rich tapestry of readings that elaborate this complex, tensive Gospel.”
Christian Living
“This provocative book asks hard questions of contemporary expressions of Christianity, especially [its] deep embeddedness in contemporary societal and cultural values, practices, and structures. Engaging a wide range of biblical texts, this book wrestles with and sketches some alternative ecclesial practices that are variously challenging, disruptive, scary, inviting, and freeing.”
Essential Essays for the Study of the Military in First-Century Palestine
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“In this volume Christopher Zeichmann continues to alert scholars of early Judaism and the New Testament to the significance of the Roman military in Palestine in the first centuries CE. He chooses seven essential essays written by scholars of Roman military power, contextualizes their approaches and contributions in a helpful introduction, and provides an annotated bibliography for further research. This is a valuable collection.”
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“This is a thoughtful, rich, and creative study. Abera Mengestu employs kinship-identity theories to examine the identity-forming function of Paul's use of the term 'father' and its derivatives of 'children' and 'brother and sister,' locating Paul's work in active and diverse interaction with imperial and Jewish traditions. This is an important contribution to studies of Paul's language, identity-formation work, and the understanding of Pauline communities.”
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“Daniel Stramara whirls his way through Revelation, imaginatively unfolding a complex web of intriguing possibilities to argue that Revelation draws from liturgical lections associated with the Feast of Weeks (Pentecost). Read along--it's certainly a fun ride.”
Hitler, Jesus, and Our Common Humanity
History & Biography
“Bruce Longenecker offers a moving and insightful account of the life and literary work of Rolf Gompertz. Gompertz's resistance to hatred and tyranny emerges as he sets the death-bringing love of power against the life-giving power of love, and constantly affirms against evil ideology and intolerance of difference 'our common humanity.' This is an important book.”
Counseling, Grief & Mental Health
“This theological engagement is a valuable addition to the literature on reproductive losses.”
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“In this stimulating work Richard Horsley engages the rich tradition of scholarship questing for the historical Jesus. He finds notions of strata and criteria — based in print culture — anachronistic and inadequate. Instead he utilizes an array of quite different approaches — oral performance, limited literacy, social memory, public and hidden transcripts, great and little traditions, people's history, imperial context — to understand Jesus and the early Jesus movement in their first-century world. An intriguing, insightful, and innovative study."”
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“Powell’s lifetime of study of Matthew’s Gospel culminates with this thoughtful and well-informed study. Readers will find much that is helpful in this commentary provoking many insights and further engagement with the Gospel text.”
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“The textual engagement is astute, the theological exploration is insightful, and the history of interpretation material is unmatched.”
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