Fortress Press

Judges 1: A Commentary on Judges 1:1 – 10:5

Mark S. Smith (Author), Elizabeth M. Bloch-Smith (Author)

This groundbreaking volume presents a new translation and detailed interpretation of the book of Judges, drawing on archaeology and iconography, textual versions, biblical parallels, and extrabiblical texts, as well as a thorough review of modern scholarship. Full literary and redactional analyses are included. Notably, archaeology is used to show how a story of the Iron II period employed visible ruins to narrate supposedly early events from the so-called "period of the Judges."

Liberating Luther: A Lutheran Theology from Latin America

Vitor Westhelle (Author), Robert Butterfield (Translator)

Until his untimely death, Vitor Westhelle's incisive scholarship shaped a generation. As a continuation of that legacy, presented here for the first time in English is a collection of Westhelle's Portuguese-language essays.

In this collection, he addresses the most important issues of our day, including the cross and death, the ecological crisis, the ecumenical movement, the church's misuse of power, Luther's law-gospel dialectic, and the role of European theology in the conquest of the Americas.

Moral Formation and the Virtuous Life

Paul M. Blowers (Editor)

In Moral Formation and the Virtuous Life, volume editor Paul M. Blowers has translated and gathered several key texts from early Christian sources to explore the broad themes of moral conscience and ethics. This volume is part of Ad Fontes: Early Christian Sources, a series designed to present ancient Christian texts essential to an understanding of Christian theology, ecclesiology, and practice. The series aims to provide volumes that are relevant for a variety of courses.

The Bible: An Introduction, Third Edition

Jerry L. Sumney (Author)

Without presuming either prior knowledge of the Bible or a particular attitude toward it, Jerry L. Sumney uses straightforward language to lead the reader on an exploration of the Bible, showing how critical methods help readers understand the text and history. Filled with maps, charts, illustrations, and four-color photographs to enhance the student's experience with the text. This third edition offers a number of revisions and a new section on the deuterocanonical books.

How to Think Theologically: Fourth Edition

Howard W. Stone (Author), James O. Duke (Author)

Decades of use and refinement have confirmed How to Think Theologically as a guide for theology students realizing their call to be theologians. Focusing not on thinkers or thoughts, but on thinking, Stone and Duke induct readers into habits of mind that allow understanding of all things social, cultural, and personal in relation to God.

Women and the Christian Story: A Global History

Jennifer Hornyak Wojciechowski (Author)

For most of its history, Christianity has told its stories from the perspective of men. Jennifer Hornyak Wojciechowski foregrounds the story of Christian women for a new era. Be they powerful or nameless, saintly or flawed, women across two millennia and six continents are allowed to speak fully to their part in the spread of a global faith.

The Art of Living for A Technological Age

Ashley John Moyse (Editor), Scott A. Kirkland (Editor)

The Art of Living for A Technological Age sketches the crisis of our late modern age, where persons are enamored by the promises of progress and disciplined to form by the power of technology--the ontology of our age. Yet, it also offers a response, attending to those performative activities, educative and transformative social practices that might allow us to live humanly and bear witness to human being (becoming) for a technological age.

A Short Introduction to the Hebrew Bible, Third Edition

John J. Collins (Author)

John J. Collins's A Short Introduction to the Hebrew Bible has become a popular option for college and seminary classrooms. Enriched by decades of classroom teaching, it is aimed explicitly at motivated students, regardless of their previous exposure to the Bible. This more compact version of Collins's renowned Introduction to the Hebrew Bible is combined with even more student-friendly features.

The third edition is presented in a new and engaging format with new maps and images. An index has been added to the volume for the first time.

The Historical Writings: Introducing Israel's Historical Literature

Mark A. Leuchter (Author), David T. Lamb (Author)

The Historical Writings introduces students to the character of the Deuteronomistic History and other historical writings (Ezra, Nehemiah, and 1 and 2 Chronicles); to the different roles history-writing plays throughout the Hebrew Bible; and to the key historical questions and methods shaping contemporary scholarly debate.

Introduction to World Religions, Third Edition

Tim Dowley (Editor), Christopher Partridge (General Editor)

Exploring the world's religions This leading textbook for world religion is designed to help students in their study and research of the world's religious traditions....

How to Read Paul: A Brief Introduction to His Theology, Writings, and World

Yung Suk Kim (Author)

How to Read Paul provides an incisive, yet brief, examination of Paul as a writer and theologian steeped in the cultural, intellectual, and religious crossroads of the ancient world. Yung Suk Kim explores and explains Paul's key theological concepts and situates them in their proper cultural context. How to Read Paul is an ideal textbook for both undergraduate and seminary classrooms and a helpful guide for professors, clergy, and lay readers.

The Emergence of Judaism: Classical Traditions in Contemporary Perspective

Christine Hayes (Author)

This brief survey text tells the story of Judaism. Through the lens of modern biblical scholarship, Christine Hayes explores the shifting cultural contexts--the...

The Large Catechism of Dr. Martin Luther, 1529: The Annotated Luther Study Edition

Kirsi I. Stjerna (Editor)

With great detail, Kirsi I. Stjerna introduces and annotates Luther's Large Catechism, in which the reformer set out to offer a new compass for religious life. He believed all Christian people—laity and clergy—needed a guide to comprehend the basic biblical, creedal, and sacramental teachings.

Luther's Outlaw God, Volume 3: Sacraments and God's Attack on the Promise

Steven D. Paulson (Author)

In this third of three volumes addressing Luther's outlaw God, Steven D. Paulson invites readers to embark on the deepest, hardest, most glorious of all God's ways of hiding: God hiding a third time in the preached word or sacraments. Paulson's grasp of historical, theological, and hermeneutical scholarship is on full display in this volume, but always in service of proclamation of the gospel. Readers and proclaimers: prepare to be provoked, enlightened, and inspired.

Fortress Commentary on the Bible: The New Testament

Margaret Aymer (Editor), Cynthia Briggs Kittredge (Editor), David A. Sánchez (Editor)

This commentary on the New Testament presents a balanced synthesis of current scholarship, enabling readers to interpret Scripture for a complex and pluralistic world. The result is a commentary that is comprehensive and useful for preaching, teaching, and research.

The Annotated Luther, Volume 5: Christian Life in the World

Hans J. Hillerbrand (Volume Editor)

Volume 5 of The Annotated Luther series features Luther's writings that intersect church and state, faith, and life lived as a follower of Christ. 

The Annotated Luther, Volume 3: Church and Sacraments

Paul W. Robinson (Editor)

Volume 3 of The Annotated Luther series presents five key writings that focus on Martin Luther's understanding of the gospel as it relates to church, sacraments, and worship. Included in the volume are: The Babylonian Captivity of the Church (1520); The German Mass and Order of the Liturgy (1526); That These Words of Christ, "This is my Body," etc., Still Stand Firm Against the Fanatics (1527); Concerning Rebaptism (1528), and On the Councils and the Church (1539).

Enfleshing Freedom: Body, Race, and Being, Second Edition

M. Shawn Copeland (Author)

M. Shawn Copeland demonstrates how Black women's historical experience casts a different light on our theological ideas about being human. This new edition incorporates recent theological, historical, and political scholarship; engages with current social movements like #BlackLivesMatter and #MeToo; and presents a new chapter on the body.

The Annotated Luther, Volume 6: The Interpretation of Scripture

Euan K. Cameron (Editor)

This volume features Martin Luther the exegete and Bible teacher. His vast exegetical writings and lectures on Scripture are introduced through important examples from both...

Luke's Jesus: Between Incarnation and Crucifixion

Joseph Blenkinsopp (Author)

In Luke's Jesus, Joseph Blenkinsopp provides a chronological reading of the Jesus of Luke's Gospel, beginning with Jesus's close relations with John the Baptist, turning upon Jesus's decision to leave Galilee and travel to Jerusalem, and extending to the narrative of Jesus's crucifixion, death, resurrection, and ascension. Blenkinsopp's study of Jesus focuses upon Jesus's humanity, his interaction with others, and his teaching on poverty and wealth. Blenkinsopp provides a fresh rendering of Luke's powerful and fascinating story, one that reveals a vivid portrait of Jesus.