Fortress Press

Puzzling the Parables of Jesus: Methods and Interpretation

Ruben Zimmermann (Author)

Modern scholarship on the parables has long been preoccupied with asking what Jesus himself said and what he intended to accomplish with his parables. Ruben Zimmermann moves beyond that agenda to explore the dynamics of parabolic speech in all their rich complexity. 

Christ Is King: Paul's Royal Ideology

Joshua W. Jipp (Author)

Until recently, many scholars have read Paul’s use of the word Christos as more of a proper name (“Jesus Christ”) than a title, Jesus the Messiah. 

Salvation in Continuity: Reconsidering Matthew's Soteriology

Mothy Varkey (Author)

Salvation in Continuity deals with big questions––soteriology, intertwined with Christology––of utmost significance for understanding Matthew in its first-century Jewish setting. It argues that Matthew’s understanding of salvation in continuity is to be seen as his response to the historical and theological questions of post 70 c.e. Judaism. The study employs a sequential treatment of the Gospel, which enables it to avoid the danger which characterizes many previous studies of limiting the discussion of salvation in Matthew to certain texts, where the theme of salvation is more direct and explicit.

Documents and Images for the Study of the Gospels: Third Edition

David R. Cartlidge (Author), David L. Dungan (Author)

Since its first appearance in 1980, Documents for the Study of the Gospels has been a highly regarded sourcebook for the study of the historical environment and the religious, philosophical, and literary texts comparable to aspects of the Gospels. In this third edition, David R. Cartlidge has added new discoveries...

Jesus the Jew: A Historian's Reading of the Gospels

Geza Vermes (Author)

This now classic book is a significant corrective to several recent developments in the study of the historical Jesus. In contrast to depictions of Jesus as...

The Social Setting of Jesus and the Gospels

Bruce J. Malina (Editor), Wolfgang Stegemann (Editor), Gerd Theissen (Editor)

The context of Jesus, his followers, and the early movement. What do the social sciences have to contribute to the study of Jesus and the Gospels? This is...

Jesus & Utopia: Looking for the Kingdom of God in the Roman World

Mary Ann Beavis (Author)

Scholarship on the historical Jesus and, now, on the "Jesus movement" generally divides into separate camps around two sticky questions: was Jesus an...

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...

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,...

Jesus on Trial: A Study of the Gospels, Second Edition

Gerard S. Sloyan (Author)

How did Jesus, a much-loved and highly respected Jewish teacher, get sentenced to death as a criminal? The questions of students and scholars about the actual...

Jesus: According to the Earliest Witness

James M. Robinson (Author)

Who was Jesus, really? In these pages Robinson, one of the premier scholars of the New Testament and the Sayings Gospel Q, asks what we can know of Jesus from...

Jesus at Thirty: A Psychological and Historical Portrait

John W. Miller (Author)

Jesus in Context: Power, People, and Performance

Richard A. Horsley (Author)

What difference did empire make for Jesus and his disciples? What difference did empire make for the broader social currents of which he and they were a part?...

Honor Among Christians: The Cultural Key to the Messianic Secret

David F. Watson (Author)

Readers have long puzzled over peculiar aspects of the Gospel of Mark: Jesus' attempts to conceal his deeds and his identity. William Wrede called these and...

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...

Divine Becoming: Rethinking Jesus and Incarnation

Charlene P. E. Burns (Author)

The universally human element of Jesus' incarnation Despite the feverish pace of publishing in historical Jesus studies, biblical scholars and theologians...

The Silence of Jesus: The Authentic Voice of the Historical Man

James Breech (Author)

A bold and creative synthesis of historical method, literary criticism, and philosophical and psychological insight. Includes a new Preface from the author.

Jesus and Judaism

E. P. Sanders (Author)

This work takes up two related questions with regard to Jesus: his intention and his relationship to his contemporaries in Judaism. These questions...

Hear Then the Parable: A Commentary on the Parables of Jesus

Bernard Brandon Scott (Author)

Hear Then the Parable is an innovative literary-social reading of all the parables of Jesus.

Who Is Jesus?: History in Perfect Tense

Leander E. Keck (Author)

In Who Is Jesus? Keck clarifies the difference between the way Jesus is presented in the Gospels and the way critical historians portray him. He then...