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Abraham: Trials of Family and Faith
Terence E. Fretheim guides readers through the intricacies of Abraham's story in Genesis, examines his family, and assesses the significant roles this family plays across Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Fretheim frames the narrative as rooted in the trials of family and faith that define Abraham as the father of three religions.
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Qoheleth: The Ironic Wink
James L. Crenshaw examines the mysteries of Ecclesiastes: the speaker's identity, his emphasis on hidden truths, and his argument of insubstantiality and futility. While exploring Ecclesiastes and its enigmatic author, Crenshaw joins the debate over the lasting relevance of Qoheleth's teachings and Ecclesiastes' place in the biblical canon.
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Ezekiel: The Prophet and His Message
This volume is a literary and theological analysis of a biblical document left behind by a prophet known as Ezekiel. His message about judgment and hope came at a critical moment of Israel's history. Ralph W. Klein analyzes the shape of the book, deciphers its imagery, comments on its technical vocabulary, and relates its parts to one another.
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God Trauma and Wisdom Therapy: A Commentary on Job
This volume challenges readers to recognize an alternative interpretation of the book of Job that is based on wisdom and not covenant. In doing so, it provides a basis to explore the role of trauma and its healing.
$30.00
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Priestly Presence: A Church for the World’s Sake
Priestly Presence explores five dimensions of priestly service as a model for church-world relations. Nugent explores the meaning of each dimension and fleshes out practical implications for local congregations. In so doing, he provides a compelling approach to church-world relations that today's fractured church desperately needs.
$34.00
Available May 21, 2024
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The Emancipation of God: Postmarks on Cultural Prophecy
Understanding the gospel as emancipation has been central to Walter Brueggemann's biblical interpretation. This book illustrates the theme's centrality, addressing the emancipation of God from our attempts to control, the emancipation of the church to be the people of an emancipated God, and the emancipation of the gospel to be a cultural prophecy.
$28.00
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Jeremiah: The World and the Wound of God
Jeremiah exposes the corruption of religious commitments, addresses national trauma and uncertainty, and proclaims the requirements of true lament and resolve. Daniel Berrigan's fiery, spiritual reading of the prophet Jeremiah evokes social action, religious courage, and personal witness.
$29.00
Available June 4, 2024
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2 Maccabees: A Critical Commentary
The second-century B.C.E. Maccabean revolt against Seleucid oppression was a watershed event in early Jewish history and Second Maccabees is an important...
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Job: Understanding the Biblical Archetype of Patience
In Job: Understanding the Biblical Archetype of Patience, Samuel E. Balentine examines the rich and varied history of interpretation of Job by focusing on the principal characters in the story. Comparing the different interpretations from various time periods and cultures reveals a compelling understanding about the story of Job.
$39.00
Available July 16, 2024
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Solomon: Israel’s Icon of Human Achievement
Through Solomon and his place in the larger consciousness of Israel, Walter Brueggemann considers what narratives reveal about the ideals of the ancient Israelite people. Paying attention to nuances of the biblical text, he exposes the competing voices that claim to offer a reliable rendering of Solomon and invites critique of accepted beliefs.
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Available July 16, 2024
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2 Chronicles: A Commentary
Ralph W. Klein's magisterial commentary on 1 and 2 Chronicles is now complete. Klein brings to lively expression the unique theological voice of the Chronicler...
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Vast as the Sea: Hebrew Poetry and the Human Condition
The poetry of the Old Testament articulates the painful experiences of being human. Vast as the Sea shows how texts like Job, Jeremiah, and the Psalms provide honest and healing expressions for life's struggles. This book is a rich resource for scholars and readers of the Bible, as well as for psychologists and pastoral counselors.
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Experiencing Gospel: The History and Creativity of Martin Luther's 1534 Bible Project
Jensen's analysis of the 1534 Luther Bible uncovers a central truth of Luther's translation: his commitment to producing this object was founded in his desire that receiving the gospel might become a lived experience. Jensen demonstrates how the seven words and phrases Luther highlighted in his edition summarize his entire theological message.
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The Odes of Solomon
Known until the 18th century only from fragmentary quotations and references in patristic literature, more recent discoveries of Greek, Coptic, and Syriac...
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Unspoiled Endings: Reclaiming the Book of Revelation from Misuse and Neglect
Unspoiled Endings offers a historical, literary, and theological reading that explains how and why Revelation relates to the life of faith. It serves as a corrective to understandings of Revelation shaped more by the Left Behind series than by the book itself, and as an invitation to those who would otherwise never think to read or study the book.
$35.00
Available August 27, 2024
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True to Our Native Land, Second Edition: An African American New Testament Commentary
True to Our Native Land is a pioneering commentary of the New Testament that sets biblical interpretation firmly in the context of African American experience and concern. The second edition includes updated commentaries and essays.
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Available October 22, 2024
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Reading the Margins: Encounters with the Bible in Literature
Reading the Margins engages with literature to offer a kind of commentary on biblical ethics. Using Matthew's Beatitudes and sheep and goats parable as an organizing principle, Gilmour argues there is much to learn about Jesus's "peacemakers" and the call to feed the hungry from aspirational fiction and poetry.
$39.00
Available September 24, 2024
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Early High Christology: John among the New Testament Writers
Over the past forty years, scholarship on John's Gospel has explored its theological vision and literary coherence. Marianne Meye Thompson's scholarship has contributed richly to this field of study. Here, some of today's top scholars advance our understanding of the Fourth Gospel by studying its relationships to other biblical texts.
$55.00
Available October 1, 2024
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Good Book: How White Evangelicals Save the Bible to Save Themselves
Good Book shows how white evangelicals in the US make the Bible the "Good Book". As social norms change, evangelicals confront interpretive challenges as they render the Bible ever benevolent. Good Book shows the negotiations that Bible-benevolence projects demand, as evangelicals seek to maintain moral authority in a diverse religious landscape.
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Renewing New Testament Christology
This book redefines "New Testament Christology" as content and as the discipline explaining that content. Behind this dual redefinition stands one conviction: instead of perpetuating the view of Christology as a theologically informed history of early ideas about Christ.
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