Daniel J Harrington: 18 books

These accounts of the Maccabean revolt, by which the sons of Mattathias reclaimed the temple of Jerusalem, tell an important story of the founding of the Jewish people. "The Hammerers" is the meaning of the nickname "Maccabees," given to Mattathias's sons, who lived in a time of...

A roadmap to New Testament study over the past fifty years.

Makes accessible some of the best modern scholarship on encountering Jesus in the Scriptures. With a focus wider than the historians quest, these essays try to explain not only who Jesus was in the first century but also what he might mean in the twenty-first century.

This study is the first full analysis of the Qumran wisdom texts. New translations and a full explanation of the background and context of wisdom literature introduce the reader to an important and hitherto little discussed part of the Dead Sea Scrolls. After surveying biblical and extrabiblical wisdom...