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| Best Seller  | This volume brings together scholars of both the Old and New Testaments to discuss three areas of methodological interest in respect of the use of the Old Testament in the New (OT/NT). It begins with an interdisciplinary conversation into insights that... more | FREE shipping go to store |
 | Brian Abasciano continues his project examining the use of the Old Testament in Romans 9 building upon his previous two volumes and their intertextual methodology. This method incorporates into a thorough traditional exegesis a comprehensive analysis... more | $115.00 $90.85 FREE shipping go to store |
| Best Seller  | This volume seeks to demonstrate for the first time that many Jewish and Christian texts in the ancient world were written as a direct response to an earlier situation of crisis that affected the author or the intended reader. Presented here are texts... more | go to store |
 | Pauline- and Gospel-centred readings have too long provided the normative understanding of Christian identity. The chapters in this volume features evidence from other less-frequently studied texts so as to broaden perspectives on early Christian... more | FREE shipping go to store |
 | Miracle-workers and magicians are diffcult characters for contemporary readers of Greco-Roman narratives to comprehend and to distinguish. Hindered both by our modern definitions of miracle and magic we need to focus our attention on those ancient... more | FREE shipping go to store |
 | This hermeneutical case-study illustrates the complexities of using biblical materials to shed light upon present-day concerns. The specific situation addressed is the recent evangelical controversy regarding gender roles. A significant strand of this... more | $49.04 $44.95 FREE shipping go to store |
 | A distinguished array of contributors intersect with and pay tribute to the work of Graham N. Stanton. The passing of Professor Graham Stanton former Lady Margaret chair of divinity at Cambridge University in 2009 marked the passing of an era in... more | $215.22 $188.27 FREE shipping go to store |
 | Margaret Froelich examines the Gospel of Mark using political and empire-critical methodologies following postcolonial thinkers in perceiving a far more ambivalent message than previous pacifistic interpretations of the text. She argues that Mark does... more | $39.95 $32.36 go to store |
 | For two centuries scholars have sought to discover the historical Jesus. Presently such scholarship is dominated not by the question Who was Jesus? but rather How do we even go about answering the question Who was Jesus? ? With this current situation... more | FREE shipping go to store |
 | Central to debates about Jesus is the issue of whether he uniquely embodies the divine. While this discussion continues unabated both those who affirm and those who dismiss Jesus divinity regularly eclipse the reality that in many of the earliest... more | $45.14 $39.40 FREE shipping go to store |
 | Library of New Testament Studies The Elijah-Elisha Narrative in the Composition of Luke (Paperback) This collection examines the allusions to the Elijah- Elisha narrative in the gospel of Luke. The volume presents the case for a +oemaximalist+? view which holds that the Elijah-Elisha narrative had a dominant role in the composition of Luke 7 and 9... more | FREE shipping go to store |
 | Library of New Testament Studies Narcissist Universalism Book 453 (Hardcover) For several decades Paul s epistles have been right at the focus of academic and philosophic debate regarding the questions pertaining to Jewish law; love in relation to the law; the linkage between Judaism and Christianity and so on. What do Paul s... more | $163.00 $149.94 FREE shipping go to store |
 | Library of New Testament Studies Women in John s Gospel Book 676 (Hardcover) Closely examines John s portrayal of women in relation to discipleship and the theme of new creation arguing that these depictions are influenced by his apocalyptic world-view. By employing historical and literary methods of biblical interpretation to... more | $115.00 $101.27 go to store |
 | This work studies the literary and socio-discursive contexts of the Ananias and Sapphira episode in Acts as a narrative illustrating the negative-ethos of community goods. This work examines the dynamics of the Ananias and Sapphira episode in Acts and... more | $219.21 $188.46 FREE shipping go to store |
 | Cato Gulaker employs narrative criticism to explore where the depiction of Satan found in the Book of Revelation is positioned on the axis of two divergent roles. The literary character of Satan is commonly perceived to gradually evolve from the first... more | FREE shipping go to store |
 | Jennifer Bird examines the subjectivity of wives in 1 Peter with particular reference to the Haustafel (household code) section of the letter. Bird analyzes the construction of wives subjectivity in 1 Peter working primarily with that is referrre to as... more | FREE shipping go to store |
 | The first letter of Peter remains a relatively neglected corner of the New Testament: the number of monographs devoted to it is tiny compared with those on the Gospels and Pauline letters. Yet it is a text - so this book argues - that offers much... more | go to store |
 | Mathew E. Sousa demonstrates that in certain respects John s doctrine of salvation fails to align with its customary depiction in Johannine scholarship. Sousa suggests that according to John the human predicament is not merely unbelief or a lack of... more | $39.95 $31.91 go to store |
 | Amanda Witmer presents an investigation of exorcism in the activities of the historical Jesus particularly the connection between spirit possession and exorcism on the one hand and the socio-political context of first-century Galilee on the other.... more | FREE shipping go to store |
 | Library of New Testament Studies The Spirit and the Other (Hardcover) In this title Kuecker uses social identity theory to examine the interface between the Holy Spirit and ethnicity in Luke-Acts . Kuecker uses an artillery of social identity theory to demonstrate that in Luke s narrative the Spirit is the central figure... more | $219.21 $177.00 FREE shipping go to store |
 | Library of New Testament Studies: Mysticism in the Gospel of John (Hardcover) This is the first detailed study of Johannine mysticism against a Palestinian Jewish background has been previously undertaken. This book investiages whether there was a mystical practice in first-century Palestine and whether John can be better... more | FREE shipping go to store |
 | Katherine Joy Kihlstrom Timpte addresses a gap in scholarship by answering the question: how is a child supposed to be the model recipient of the kingdom of God? While most scholarship on Mark 10:13-16 agrees that children are metaphorically employed... more | $49.48 $42.52 FREE shipping go to store |
 | Paul as Missionary: Identity Activity Theology and Practice takes the view that before anything else Paul must first and foremost be identified as a missionary. Using the entire Pauline corpus the contributors to this volume assess what Paul s... more | FREE shipping go to store |
 | Nathanael Vette proposes that the Gospel of Mark like other narrative works in the Second Temple period uses the Jewish scriptures as a model to compose episodes and tell a new story. Vette compares Mark s use of scripture with roughly contemporary... more | go to store |
 | In contrast to scholarly belief that the author of the Epistle to the Hebrews envisions the transcendent heavenly world as the eschatological inheritance of God s people Jihye Lee argues that a version of an Urzeit-Endzeit eschatological framework - as... more | go to store |
 | Library of New Testament Studies A Cloud of Witnesses Book 387 (Hardcover) The book of Hebrews has often been the Cinderella of the New Testament overlooked and marginalized; and yet it is one of the most interesting and theologically significant books in the New Testament. A Cloud of Witness examines the theology of the book... more | FREE shipping go to store |
 | Joshua D. A. Bloor argues that the purification of the consciousness of sin via Jesus perpetual heavenly blood offering is a vital motif for understanding Hebrews sacrificial argumentation and vice-versa. Jesus objective earthly achievements are many... more | $115.00 $97.90 go to store |
 | Library of New Testament Studies The Spirit New Creation and Christian Identity Book 681 (Hardcover) Considering the importance of pneumatological themes for interpreting Paul s argument of Galatians Grant Buchanan explores how Paul draws from Jewish traditions of creation and the Spirit and presents a fresh cosmogony to the Galatian church. He... more | $98.53 $87.08 go to store |
 | This study explores how the Fourth Gospel s use of Scripture contributes to its characterization of Jesus. Utilizing literary-rhetorical criticism Myers approaches the Gospel in its final form paying particular attention to how Greco-Roman rhetoric can... more | go to store |
 | Library of New Testament Studies Paul and Epictetus on Law Book 405 (Paperback) Paul s relationship with covenantal nomism has long been the subject of lively discussion. In this book Niko Huttunen presents a challenging new path to complement the general scholarly picture of Paul s teaching on law. Acknowledging that Stoicism... more | $235.49 $183.88 FREE shipping go to store |
 | Library of New Testament Studies Reading Acts Theologically (Paperback) Steve Walton has consistently focused his research and scholarship upon the theological perspective of Acts while considering the book s nature and focus its portrait of the early Christian communities and their mission in the culturally varied... more | go to store |
 | Bernardo K. Cho investigates how Jewish messianism from the mid-second century BCE to the late first-century CE envisaged the proper relation between the Israelite king and the Jerusalem priests in the ideal future and then proceeds to describe how the... more | $51.99 $42.95 FREE shipping go to store |
 | Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies: The Descent from the Mountain (Paperback) This close reading of Exodus 19-40 focuses on the repetition of the encounter on the mountain . This double encounter is expressed in a narrative structure of preparatory episodes climaxed by the theophany. The tension of the narrative is linked to the... more | FREE shipping go to store |
 | Recognizing that human experience is very much influenced by inhabiting bodies the past decade has seen a surge in studies about representation of bodies in religious experience and human imaginations regarding the Divine. The understanding of... more | FREE shipping go to store |
 | The story of Samson and Delilah in Judges 16 has been studied and retold over the centuries by biblical interpreters artists musicians filmmakers and writers. Within these scholarly and cultural retellings Delilah is frequently fashioned as the... more | FREE shipping go to store |
 | One hundred years ago Bishop Colenso was excommunicated because of his liberal critical views on the inspiration and authority of the Bible. But while in South Africa he worked strenuously for social and political reform. 2003 will mark the revocation... more | FREE shipping go to store |
 | Our books are pre-loved which means they have been read before. We carefully check all our books and believe them to be in very good condition. If you re not completely satisfied please get in touch & we ll be happy to help. ISBN-10: 1850757925... more | FREE shipping go to store |
 | This is not a sociological study in the technical sense. Its aim is simply to review the internal evidence of a single Old Testament book about attitudes towards what is now universally recognized as one of the most serious problems facing the world... more | FREE shipping go to store |
 | Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies: A Blemished Perfection (Paperback) The main methodological thesis of this study is that the book of Job more than any other book in the Bible should be treated as an artistic work in which form and content cannot be separated. Hence a good acquaintance with the literary aspects of the... more | FREE shipping go to store |
 | Explores the ways in how the male and female body is constructed in Leviticus 12 and 15 and how its reception history unfolds. The so-called purity laws in Leviticus 11-15 reflect a cultic and social view on the male and female body. These texts do not... more | FREE shipping go to store |
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