Criticism Interpretation category: 2013 books
Reading Romans through the Centuries
From the Early Church to Karl Barth
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2005
What does it mean to be saved? Did God choose who would be his followers, or was it a personal choice? These are just some of the questions Paul addresses in the sixteen challenging chapters of his letter to the Romans.
Reading Romans shows how some of the greatest minds in the history of the...
A Dual Reception
Eusebius and the Gospel of Mark
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
The ending of Mark’s Gospel is one of the great unsolved mysteries. However, interest in the Markan conclusion is not a modern phenomenon alone. Comments about the different attested endings date back to Eusebius’ Ad Marinum in the fourth century. Responding to the apparent discrepancy between...
Early Writings
Creed, Scripture, Church
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Intro by Philip McNair, These works, "The Apostles' Creed," "Theses for Debate," and "Schism and the True Church," display the heart of Martyr's theology, both pastoral and moral.
Resurrection, Hell and the Afterlife
Body and Soul in Antiquity, Judaism and Early Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2016
This book begins by arguing that early Greek reflection on the afterlife and immortality insisted on the importance of the physical body whereas a wealth of Jewish texts from the Hebrew Bible, Second Temple Judaism and early (Pauline) Christianity understood post-mortem existence to be that of the...
Simon Peter in Scripture and Memory
The New Testament Apostle in the Early Church
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
After Jesus, Peter is the most frequently mentioned individual both in the Gospels and in the New Testament as a whole. He was the leading disciple, the "rock" on which Jesus would build his church. How can we know so little about this formative figure of the early church?
World-renowned...
by SK Washburn
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2014
In company with Christ and Adam, many believe Noah was the third greatest man that ever lived! He withstood the most wicked and perverse generation ever, which was led by the Devil, who constantly sought to destroy him and the life saving ark, or "God's temple upon the waters".Noah walked...
by B. B. Warfield, A. A. Hodge
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2017
The word “inspire” and its derivatives seem to have come into Middle English from the French, and have been employed from the first (early in the 14th century) in a considerable number of significations, physical and metaphorical, secular and religious. The derivatives have been multiplied and...
Racializing Jesus
Race, Ideology and the Formation of Modern Biblical Scholarship
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2005
Shawn Kelley's groundbreaking study shows how the major intellectual movements of the modern world, such as Orientalism and romantic nationalism, become infused with the category of race. He then traces the processes through which racially-grounded thinking has influenced modern biblical scholarship.
Dynamic...
by T. S. Ackland
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2015
The History of the Creation with which the Bible commences, is not a mere incidental appendage to God's Revelation, but constitutes the foundation on which the whole of that Revelation is based. Setting forth as it does the relation in which man stands to God as his Maker, and to the world which God...
Children’s Bibles in America
A Reception History of the Story of Noah’s Ark in US Children’s Bibles
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Children's Bibles have been among the most popular and influential types of religious publications in the United States, providing many Americans with their first formative experiences of the Bible and its stories. In Children's Bibles in America, Russell W. Dalton explores the variety of ways in...
The Meaning of the Dead Sea Scrolls
Their Significance For Understanding the Bible, Judaism, Jesus, and Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
The Dead Sea Scrolls, found in caves near the Dead Sea fifteen miles east of Jerusalem from 1947 to 1956, include the oldest existing biblical manuscripts and the remarkable texts of the purist Jewish community at Qumran. The discovery of the scrolls has added dramatically to our understanding of...
Gospel of Glory
Major Themes in Johannine Theology
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
Throughout Christian history, the Gospel of John's distinctive way of presenting the life, works, teachings, death, and resurrection of Jesus have earned it labels such as "the spiritual Gospel" and "the maverick Gospel." It has been seen as the most theological of the four canonical...
The Testimony of the Beloved Disciple
Narrative, History, and Theology in the Gospel of John
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
How do historical and literary details contribute to a coherent theological witness to Jesus in the Gospel of John? A leading British evangelical New Testament scholar answers that question with studies on themes from messianism to monotheism, symbolic actions from foot-washing to fish-catching, literary...
Still Side by Side
A Concise Explanation of Biblical Equality
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Still Side by Side is an introduction to biblical equality. Each chapter is introduced with a question and brief answer, followed by a more in depth explanation. It is a valuable resource for individuals or groups who are seeking answers to the questions surrounding gender and the church.