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The Pentateuch: Introducing the Torah
This textbook introduces students to the contents of the Torah and orients them to the key interpretive questions and methods shaping contemporary scholarship, inviting readers into the work of interpretation today. Pedagogical features include images, maps, timelines, reading lists, and a glossary.
$80.00
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The Origin of Evil Spirits: The Reception of Genesis 6:1-4 in Early Jewish Literature, Revised Edition
How do we account for the explosion of demonic activity in the New Testament? Archie T. Wright's work traces the development of the concept of evil spirits from the Hebrew Bible through postbiblical Jewish literature.
$47.00
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The Practice of Prophetic Imagination: Preaching an Emancipating Word
Walter Brueggemann declares that the necessary character of truly prophetic preaching today is "a contestation between narratives." If the dominant narrative of our time...
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Paul: In Fresh Perspective
The letters of the Apostle Paul changed the world like no others before or since, and they continue to strike us afresh with their panoramic vision of human history and destiny.
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Judges and Method: New Approaches in Biblical Studies, Second Edition
Judges and Method provides a unique classroom resource in biblical studies. Here are state-of-the-art introductions to leading critical methods in biblical...
$34.00
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Matthew 1-7
The birth narrative, the baptism and temptation of Jesus, the beginnings of his Galilean ministry, and the Sermon on the Mount are all brilliantly illumined by...
$79.00
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Ezekiel 1: A Commentary on the Book of the Prophet Ezekiel, Chapters 1-24
This book will become one of the classic works on Ezekiel. It is so thorough that it will be most useful to the scholar and serious students.
$82.00
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The Social World of the Sages: An Introduction to Israelite and Jewish Wisdom Literature
The notion of a distinct "wisdom tradition" in ancient Israel has a long history-but does it have a basis in the evidence? Mark R. Sneed argues for a redefinition of the wisdom literature as a loosely cohering collection of books aimed at educating scribal apprentices in moral instruction and the art of living.
$44.00
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The Nonviolent Messiah: Jesus, Q, and the Enochic Tradition
Simon J. Joseph contends that missing from scholars' various conceptions of the "messiah" are the unique conceptions of an Adamic redeemer figure in the Enochic material-conceptions that informed the Q tradition and, he argues, Jesus' own self-understanding.
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Studying Paul's Letters: Contemporary Perspectives and Methods
Studying Paul's Letters provides a survey of the most relevant current methods in Paul scholarship. Joseph A. Marchal leads a group of scholars who are also experienced...
$34.00
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Biblical Theology of the Old and New Testaments: Theological Reflection on the Christian Bible
This monumental work is the first comprehensive biblical theology to appear in many years and is the culmination of Brevard Child's lifelong commitment to...
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The Reliability of the New Testament: Bart D. Ehrman and Daniel B. Wallace in Dialogue
This volume highlights points of agreement and disagreement between two leading scholars on the subject of the textual reliability of the New Testament: Bart...
$27.00
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The Peoples' Bible: New Revised Standard Version, with the Apocrypha
The Peoples' Bible highlights the role of cultures in shaping the Bible and the way people read the Bible today, relying on the best insights of historical-critical, liberationist, postmodern, and postcolonial interpretation.
$49.00
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The End Is Not Yet: Standing Firm in Apocalyptic Times
The title of this book comes from Matthew 24:6–8: “You will hear of wars and rumors of wars; see that you are not alarmed; for...
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Encounters with Jesus: The Man in His Place and Time
What was there in Jesus' person, behavior, and words that prompted not only much enthusiasm but also much hostility? This compelling portrait of the man Jesus...
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Approaches to Paul: A Student's Guide to Recent Scholarship
What distinguishes the "new perspective on Paul"—and what lies beyond it? What are scholars saying about Paul and the Roman Empire or about the...
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Social-Science Commentary on the Gospel of John
Building on the unique format and success of their Social-Science Commentary on the Synoptic Gospels, Includes illustrations and photographs. Malina and...
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Galatians: A Commentary on Paul's Letter to the Churches in Galatia
Betz exhibits a massive control of the literature on Galatians and especially of the ancient literatuer relevant for understanding it. He has a gently...
$58.00
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Telling Tales about Jesus: An Introduction to the New Testament Gospels
What are the Gospels and what does it mean to read them? Warren Carter leads the beginning student in an inductive exploration of the New Testament Gospels, asking about their genre, the view that they were written by eyewitnesses, the early church traditions about them, and how they employ Hellenistic biography.
$39.00
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Rethinking Early Christian Identity: Affect, Violence, and Belonging
Maia Kotrosits challenges the contemporary notion of "early Christian literature," showing that a number of texts usually so described are "not particularly interested" in a distinctive Christian identity. By appealing to trauma studies and diaspora theory and giving careful attention to the dynamics within these texts, she shows that this sample of writings offers complex reckonings with chaotic diasporic conditions and the transgenerational trauma of colonial violence.
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