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Onesimus Our Brother: Reading Religion, Race, and Culture in Philemon

Matthew V. Johnson Sr. (Editor), James A. Noel (Editor), Demetrius K. Williams (Editor)

Philemon is as important a letter from an African American perspective as Romans or Galatians has proven to be in Eurocentric interpretation. Here the editors...

Soundings in the Religion of Jesus: Perspectives and Methods in Jewish and Christian Scholarship

Bruce Chilton (Editor), Anthony Le Donne (Editor), Jacob Neusner (Editor)

Jesus was a Jew and not a Christian. That affirmation may seem obvious, but here an international cast of Jewish and Christian scholars spell out...

Common Judaism: Explorations in Second-Temple Judaism

Wayne O. McCready (Editor), Adele Reinhartz (Editor)

E. P. Sanders's monumental Judaism: Practice and Belief inaugurated vigorous debates about the extent and significance of commonality and diversity in ancient...

Divine Complexity: The Rise of Creedal Christianity

Paul R. Hinlicky (Author)

Paul Hinlicky reads the history of the early church as a genuine, centuries–long theological struggle to make sense of the confession of Jesus' life,...

Hermeneia New Testament on CD-ROM

The Hermeneia series is designed to be a critical and historical commentary to the Bible without arbitrary limits in size or scope. It will utilize the full...

Studying the New Testament: A Fortress Introduction

Bruce Chilton (Author), Deirdre J. Good (Author)

Watch Bruce Chilton and Deirdre J. Good discuss their new book, Studying the New Testament. Find more videos like this on Fortress Forum. This book...

Prejudice and Christian Beginnings: Investigating Race, Gender, and Ethnicity in Early Christianity

Laura Nasrallah (Editor), Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza (Editor)

While scholars of the New Testament and its Roman environment have recently focused attention on ethnicity, on the one hand, and gender on the other, the two...

Encounter with the New Testament: An Interdisciplinary Approach

Russell Pregeant (Author)

Click below to watch Russell Pregeant discuss his introductory textbook, Encounter with the New Testament. Find more videos like this on Encounter with...

Call and Consequences: A Womanist Reading of Mark

Raquel A. St. Clair (Author)

"The son of man must suffer," Jesus tells his disciples in the Gospel of Mark, and interpreters agree this warning is centrally important to the Gospel....

Social-Science Commentary on the Book of Acts

Bruce J. Malina (Author), John J. Pilch (Author)

Like earlier volumes in the Social Science Commentary series, this volume situates Acts squarely in the cultural matrix of the first century Mediterranean...

Paul and the Popular Philosophers

Abraham J. Malherbe (Author)

These studies continue a tradition of scholarship that flourished around the turn of the century when new editions of ancient philosophical sources were...

Social-Science Commentary on the Letters of Paul

Bruce J. Malina (Author), John J. Pilch (Author)

This latest addition to the Fortress Social-Science Commentaries on New Testament writings illuminates the values, perceptions, and social codes of the...

The Parables of Jesus

Luise Schottroff (Author), Linda M. Maloney (Translator)

In this startling work, Luise Schottroff proposes an alternative reading of Jesus' parables. Her work decries the traditional allegorizing of Jesus' stories,...

Slaves in the New Testament: Literary, Social, and Moral Dimensions

J. Albert Harrill (Author)

In this exciting new analysis of slaves and slavery in the New Testament, Harrill breaks new ground with his extensive use of Greco-Roman evidence, discussion...

Fortress Introduction to the New Testament

Gerd Theissen (Author), John Bowden (Translator)

All the main issues for reading the New Testament are covered in this exciting new introduction by one of the world's foremost biblical scholars.

Jesus in His Jewish Context

Geza Vermes (Author)

In this stimulating work, one of the most renowned scholars of ancient Judaism explores how Jesus' proclamation of the kingdom and the earliest Jesus movement...

History of New Testament Research, Vol. 2: From Jonathan Edwards to Rudolf Bultmann

William Baird (Author)

Continuing his earlier treatment in volume 1, which covered the period from the Reformation through the eighteenth century, Baird takes on the formative era...

The Quest of the Historical Jesus: The First Complete Edition

Albert Schweitzer (Author), John Bowden (Editor)

A monument in historical Jesus studies. In this revised translation and retrieval of the full text of the revised German edition, Schweitzer describes and...

The Climax of the Covenant: Christ and the Law in Pauline Theology

N. T. Wright (Author)

With an eye to recent proposals on Paul's view of the Law and his relation to his first-century context, N. T. Wright looks in detail at passages central to...

History of New Testament Research, Vol. 1: From Deism to Tubingen

William Baird (Author)

Stressing the historical and theological significance of pivotal figures and movements, William Baird guides the reader through intriguing developments and...