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God, Gender, and Family Trauma: How Rereading Genesis Can Be a Revelation
Driver uses trauma-informed scholarship and Jewish midrash to invite readers into new understandings of Genesis. Viewing figures such as Sarah, Joseph, Tamar, and Dinah through this lens sheds valuable light on what the Bible can teach us about gender and family trauma. These ancient stories have implications for our own lives in ministry.
$29.00
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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.
$49.00
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1 Samuel: A Conceptual Feminist Interpretation
Susanne Scholz here offers a new interpretation of the historical narrative in 1 Samuel in ways that sharply illuminate its archaeological, historical, and exegetical dimensions and its treatment of women, men, the monarchy, and the ethnic and national rivalries that drive the narrative.
$39.00
Available November 4, 2025
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The Repentance of YHWH: Mark's Gospel of Universal Inclusion
The Repentance of YHWH reads the Gospel of Mark as understanding itself to be the latest installment in a long, complex, multivolume story, complete with atmosphere, setting, genealogies, ancient friends and foes, and all the other facets normal and natural to such epic tales. Mark believes he wrote the next chapter of a true, mythological history.
$34.00
Available July 1, 2025
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The Africana Bible, Second Edition: Reading Israel's Scriptures from Africa and the African Diaspora
The second edition features an updated commentary on each book of the Hebrew Bible that is authoritative for African and African-diaspora communities worldwide. It highlights issues of the Black community (such as globalization and the colonial legacy) and the distinctive norms of interpretation in African and African-diaspora settings.
$59.00
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Song of Songs: A Commentary
Berlin approaches the Song of Songs as a Jewish-Hellenistic work of love poetry. She notes Greek ideas throughout the book and shows how they have been adjusted into Jewish thought and literary forms. Going beyond previous studies, this volume emphasizes that the Song's blending of the Jewish and the Greek is part of its literary virtuosity.
$89.00
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Gospel as Letter: A Commentary on 1 Thessalonians
This reading of 1 Thessalonians--quite possibly the earliest text in the Christian canon--tracks the "media revolution" when the gospel moved from oral to written form. The commentary pays careful attention to ethics (how the gospel translates into Christian living) and theology (how the gospel resolves some of the basic fears of life).
$79.00
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Lost in Translation: Recovering the Origins of Familiar Biblical Words
Two millennia of time, translation, and interpretation mean that what we read and understand in English today is often very different from what the Hebrew would have meant to the Bible's authors and earliest readers. This book recovers those original meanings and explores their relevance for today.
$28.00
Available August 19, 2025
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Quiet Voices: Silence in the Hebrew Bible
Silence occurs between words during conversation and between musical notes in a composition, and is an indicator of mood and emotion. Examining silence in the context of the Bible gives the reader the opportunity to ask significant questions about why silence occurs, its value to life, and how it relates to our understanding of God.
$39.00
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Capernaum: Jews and Christians in the Ancient Village from the Time of Jesus to the Emergence of Islam
The book meets the needs of scholars and students of New Testament Studies, Rabbinics, Patristics/Byzantine Studies, and Galilean Studies for information on the localized historical development of Jewish-Christian interaction in the town of Capernaum through the integration of archaeological and literary sources.
$49.00
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Reading Christian Apocrypha: Tradition, Interpretation, Practice
Reading Christian Apocrypha provides a fresh approach to the functions of apocryphal texts in the history of Christianity. The apocryphal writings reveal that Christianity, from the very beginning, developed a variety of theological perspectives within diverse linguistic traditions and geographical areas.
$39.00
Available September 16, 2025
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The Hypothesis of the Gospels: Narrative Traditions in Hellenistic Reading Culture
The gospels were not the only books in antiquity to retell a traditional story. Readers of the gospels drew on an existing model for pluriform literature to make sense of the different versions of Jesus's life. This paradigm explains the compositional behavior of the evangelists and early traditions about gospel origins.
$32.00
Available November 4, 2025
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Under the Shade Tree: Reading the Bible in Africa
Under the Shade Tree investigates how the Bible was and is read in Africa and by Africans. It proposes a synthesis that resists the way the Bible is used in Africa to support forms of deception and fraud. It argues for critical study of the Bible, not only for biblical scholarship, but also for ordinary people's reading of the Bible.
$39.00
Available September 23, 2025
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The Proverbial Woman: Class, Gender, and Power in Hebrew Poetry
The Proverbial Woman offers a narrative and dialogical approach to the text of Proverbs 31 that unearths the poetry's social, sexual, and political silences and silencings. Chase excavates the power dynamics that promote elite ideologies even as gaps, ambiguities, and contradictions enable marginalized perspectives within the text to resist them.
$35.00
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Lady Eclecte: The Lost Woman of the New Testament
The address in 2 John 1 to "an elect lady" has long puzzled commentators and so is widely held to be a metaphorical personification for a Christian church. This study demonstrates that the Greek text underlying the address has been corrupted, and that the letter is actually addressed to a named woman.
$48.00
Available November 11, 2025
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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
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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.
$36.00
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Wrestling with Paul: The Apostle, His Readers, and the Fate of the Jews
Wrestling with Paul shows that scholars in a post-Holocaust world have often sanitized Paul's ethnocentric exclusivism in order to make him ahistorically "good" for modern Jews and Judaism. It also shows that readers of Paul have for millenia made sense of Paul in light of contemporaneous attitudes toward Jews and Judaism.
$32.00
Available November 4, 2025
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Paul within Paganism: Restoring the Mediterranean Context to the Apostle
Leading and rising scholars introduce a burgeoning new approach to the study of Paul, which situates the Jewish apostle to gentiles within the wider world of ancient Mediterranean religion.
$32.00
Available November 4, 2025
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The Lord's Words: The Hermeneutics and Theology of Memory in John’s Gospel
In The Lord's Words, Michael Theboald argues that the Johannine discourses are literary masterpieces. Theobald demonstrates how the evangelist developed the speeches from "core words" -- the "sayings" of Johannine communities -- and reveals the hermeneutic framework that guided the process of development.
$52.00
Available November 11, 2025
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