Criticism Interpretation category: 2013 books
by Edward D. Andrews
Language: English
Release Date: December 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 25, 2012
It is a daunting task for the new Bible student to walk into a store for the purpose of purchasing a Bible. Immediately, he is met with shelves upon shelves of more than 100 different English translation choices: AMP, AT, ASV, BLE, CEB, CEV, ERV, ESV, HCSB, IB, ISV, JB, KJ21, LB, MLB, NAB, NASB,...
Paul and Scripture
Studying the New Testament Use of the Old Testament
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
There are over one hundred explicit quotations of Scripture in Paul's letters and at least two hundred allusions. The coming of Jesus and the birth of the church caused Paul to look at the Scriptures with new eyes, sometimes clarifying what was written and sometimes reinterpreting it. This volume...
Palestinian Christians and the Old Testament
History, Hermeneutics, and Ideology
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
The foundation of the modern State of Israel in 1948 is commemorated by many Palestinians as a day of catastrophe. Many Palestinian Christians claim that the nakba was also spiritually catastrophic: the characters, names, events, and places of the Old Testament took on new significance with the newly...
The Original Torah
The Political Intent of the Bible's Writers
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1998
Is the Torah true? Do the five books of Moses provide an accurate historical account of the people of ancient Israel’s origins?
In The Original Torah, S. David Sperling argues that, while there is no archeological evidence to support much of the activity chronicled in the Torah, a historical reality...
Sixty-Nine Weeks of Daniel, Chapter 9
An Examination of the Proposed Dates
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2012
The Sixty-Nine Weeks of Daniel, Chapter 9 examines the positions of Sir Robert Anderson and Harold Hoehner, as well as dates suggested by Frederick Larson in his DVD titled The Star of Bethlehem, regarding the date of the command to rebuild Jerusalem and the date of Christs birth and crucifixion....
by Benjamin Dixon
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014
When a father loves his children, he speaks words of affirmation and love to them. When a husband and wife love one another, they make sure to communicate with one another honestly and frequently. If God loves human beings as his children and treasures his relationship with them as a spouse would,...
From Land to Lands, from Eden to the Renewed Earth
A Christ-Centred Biblical Theology of the Promised Land
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2015
The land is an important theme in the Bible. It is a theme through which the whole biblical history found in the Old and New Testaments can be studied and analyzed. Looking at the land in the Bible from its beginnings in the garden of Eden this publication approaches the theme from three distinct...
Wisdom's Wonder
Character, Creation, and Crisis in the Bible's Wisdom Literature
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
Wisdom's Wonder offers a fresh reading of the Hebrew Bible's wisdom literature with a unique emphasis on "wonder" as the framework for understanding biblical wisdom. William Brown argues that wonder effectively integrates biblical wisdom's emphasis on character formation and its outlook...
by Gilbert Soo Hoo, Pervaiz Sultan
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2016
Today the Asian church ministers in a multi-religious and often multi-cultural environment and faces serious challenges. Thankfully we have a resource that offers guidance and encouragement – the ancient documents known as 1, 2 and 3 John. In this commentary Dr. Gilbert Soo Hoo provides careful...
by Mr. H. Daniel Zacharias
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
H. Daniel Zacharias presents a literary-critical analysis of the Gospel of Matthew and its interaction with Davidic tradition and use of Davidic typology. Throughout the narrative, the evangelist makes pervasive use of Davidic tradition from the Old Testament in his portrayal of Jesus. This begins...
by Van Davis
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2015
The Bible translations we use are full of errors, and Christianity will overlook many of them and will often promote them. Salvation is real and this will be the very most important decision you will ever have to deal with. You will need to get this right; if you miss and get this wrong and you die--there...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
The Bible was not written and received in a historical vacuum—in fact, the social and historical context of the Bible illuminates key understandings that may have been otherwise missed. Biblical scholars use many different approaches to uncover this context, each engaging various aspects of the...
Patterns of Sin in the Hebrew Bible
Metaphor, Culture, and the Making of a Religious Concept
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2016
Sin, often defined as a violation of divine will, remains a crucial idea in contemporary moral and religious discourse. However, the apparent familiarity of the concept obscures its origins within the history of Western religious thought. Joseph Lam examines a watershed moment in the development of...
Unmanly Men
Refigurations of Masculinity in Luke-Acts
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2015
New Testament scholars typically assume that the men who pervade the pages of Luke's two volumes are models of an implied "manliness." Scholars rarely question how Lukan men measure up to ancient masculine mores, even though masculinity is increasingly becoming a topic of inquiry in the field of New...