Criticism Interpretation category: 2013 books
The Breaking of Bread and the Breaking of Boundaries
A Study of the Metaphor of Bread in the Gospel of Matthew
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2015
This book investigates the Matthean use of bread and the breaking of bread in light of cognitive conceptual metaphor, which are not only intertwined within Matthew’s narrative plots but also function to represent Matthew’s communal identity and ideological vision. The metaphor of bread and its...
The Nathan-David Confrontation (2 Sam 12:1-15a)
A slap in the face of the Deuteronomistic hero?
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2015
The study discusses the Old Testament's parable of Nathan and the subsequent condemnation of King David. The intriguing episode of the Prophet Nathan pronouncing judgment on the erring King David has always attracted the interest of the exegete and various researchers have used different methods to...
What Your Preacher Didn’T Tell You
That You Really Ought to Know
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2011
What your preacher didnt tell you is this: Christianity was a Medieval invention that contradicts what Jesus taught. He didnt believe that he was divine or that anybody was bound for heaven. Winsor quotes the Bible itself to explain how preachers obfuscate its meaning.
Followers are deceived...
by Yahweh's Restoration Ministry
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
Surprisingly, Christian history is very candid about the origin of Easter. The ancient records clearly show that it originated from paganism and that it was substituted for the Passover and the Days of Unleavened Bread observances. Let’s take a look at some of the verifying evidence...
by Dr Clement T DeWall
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2014
Your spiritual path is yours alone. Your signposts are Jesus’ teaching, which never made it into the creed. Little of biblical studies has escaped university classrooms. Jesus taught a message open to all, in or out of the pews. This book questions old answers and asks new questions, putting Jesus...
by Clayton N. Jefford
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2006
The apostolic fathers were authors of nonbiblical church writings of the first and early second centuries. These works are important because their authors, Clement I, Hermas, Ignatius of Antioch, Polycarp, and the author of the Epistle of Barnabas, were contemporaries of the biblical writers. Expressing...
Opnieuw gelezen
Hedendaagse schrijvers over de parabels
Language: Dutch
Release Date: January 18, 2018
Aan ruim 25 bekende filosofen, theologen en schrijvers vroegen Paul van Tongeren en Rob van Woerkom zich te verdiepen in parabels uit het Nieuwe Testament. In Opnieuw gelezen adopteert iedere auteur er een. Teksten als die van de barmhartige Samaritaan of de spelende kinderen worden soms meditatief,...
The Snag of The Sword
An Exegetical Study of Luke 22:35-38
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
Lk 22:35-38 is peculiar because it is never proclaimed except on Palm Sunday in the Year C. Although it is a pragmatic instruction on mission, it puzzles us like the Apostles in the Upper Room. The Lord shortly before his arrest, asserting the importance of the teaching, mandates preparedness for...
The Invention of Religion
Faith and Covenant in the Book of Exodus
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
A groundbreaking account of how the Book of Exodus shaped fundamental aspects of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
The Book of Exodus may be the most consequential story ever told. But its spectacular moments of heaven-sent plagues and parting seas overshadow its true significance, says Jan...
by Rutherford H. Platt
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2019
The First Book of Adam and Eve details the life and times of Adam and Eve after they were expelled from the garden to the time that Cain kills his brother Abel. This book is simply a version of an account handed down by words of mouth, from generation to generation, linking the time that the first...
Iesus Deus
The Early Christian Depiction of Jesus as a Mediterranean God
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2014
What does it mean for Jesus to be “deified” in early Christian literature? Although the divinity of Jesus was a topic of profound and contested discussion in Christianity’s early centuries, believers did not simply assert that Jesus was divine; in their literature, they depicted Jesus with the...
Paul's Theology of Preaching
The Apostle's Challenge to the Art of Persuasion in Ancient Corinth
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2015
St. Paul's Theology of Proclamation
by Paul J. McCarren
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2012
The Gospel writers state they aim to tell the story of Jesus in a clear manner, but throughout Paul McCarren’s years in ministry, he has seen that these simple and important messages are too often missed. In his Simple Guides to the Gospels series, McCarren provides a new translation of each Gospel...
John and Philosophy
A New Reading of the Fourth Gospel
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
John and Philosophy: A New Reading of the Fourth Gospel offers a Stoic reading of the Fourth Gospel, especially its cosmology, epistemology, and ethics. It works through the gospel in narrative sequence providing a 'philosophical narrative reading'. In each section of the gospel Troels Engberg-Pedersen...