Fortress Press imprint: 773 books
by Song-Mi Suzie Park
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
Hezekiah is a critical figure in the Hebrew Bible, which credits him with major political, social, and religious reforms in Judah’s history and the weathering of a major crisis in the invasion of the Assyrians under their emperor, Sennacherib. Examining the different accounts of Hezekiah’s reign...
The Social World of the Sages
An Introduction to Israelite and Jewish Wisdom Literature
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
The notion of a distinct “wisdom tradition” in ancient Israel has a long history—but does it have a basis in the evidence? Mark R. Sneed argues for a redefinition of the wisdom literature as a loosely cohering collection of books aimed at educating scribal apprentices in moral instruction and...
Threshing Floors…Ancient Israel
Their Ritual and Symbolic Significance
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Vital to an agrarian community’s survival, threshing floors are agricultural spaces where crops are threshed and winnowed. But the Hebrew Bible rarely refers to such agricultural activities taking place at such sites. Instead, biblical narratives repeatedly depict threshing floors in ancient...
Jerusalem and the One God
A Religious History
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2017
Jerusalem, with its turbulent history, is without doubt one of the best-known cities of the world. A long line of foreign powers have ruled over it, from as far back as biblical times. But the city owes its importance not to them but to the fact that it is the birthplace of the monotheistic currents...
Esther and the Politics of Negotiation
Public and Private Spaces and the Figure of the Female Royal Counselor
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Was Esther unique—an anomaly in patriarchal society? Conventionally, scholars see ancient Israelite and Jewish women as excluded from the public world, their power concentrated instead in the domestic realm and exercised through familial structures. Rebecca S. Hancock demonstrates, in contrast,...
The Historical Character of Jesus
Canonical Insights from Outside the Gospels
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
By their very nature, historical Jesus studies inevitably focus on the Gospel accounts, canonical and non-canonical alike, in the quest for the real or original Jesus behind them. Scholarly portrayals so generated may vary, but the source material tends to be restricted to Gospel texts, with the other...
The Theological and the Political
On The Weight Of The World
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2011
Mark Lewis Taylor has always worked at the intersection of the political and theological. Now, in this intense and exciting work, he explores in a systematic way how those two dimensions of human reality can be conceived anew and together.
The Pastoral Epistles, 1-2 Timothy, Titus
An Exegetical and Contextual Commentary
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
The India Commentary on the New Testament (ICNT) series aims to give a well-informed exposition of the meaning of the text and relevant reflections in everyday language from a contemporary Indian context. The intended audience is the theological seminary or bible college, both students and faculty....
Proclamation and Celebration
Preaching on Christmas, Easter, and Other Festivals
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Preaching the Principal Festivals focuses homiletically on the six primary theological festivals of the church year, sometimes described as the principal festivals: Christmas, Epiphany, Easter, Ascension, Pentecost, and Holy Trinity. Central to the complicated development of lectionaries over the...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
The Texts @ Contexts series gathers scholarly voices from diverse contexts and social locations to bring new or unfamiliar facets of biblical texts to light. Leviticus and Numbers focuses attention on practices and ideals of behavior in community, from mourning and diet to marriages licit and transgressive,...
Film as Cultural Artifact
Religious Criticism of World Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Film is popularly described as a mirror of culture. It plays a pivotal role in facilitating intercultural dialogue in our global village. World cinema helps us understand and appreciate each other’s cultural identity, and promotes harmony across different cultures in our pluralistic society. It...
Faith in a Hidden God
Luther, Kierkegaard, and the Binding of Isaac
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
The story of the binding of Isaac presents problems and opportunities for people who seek to live faithfully in relationship with a God who surpasses our understanding. This book examines how Luther and Kierkegaard read Genesis 22 in lively ways that both challenge and edify the life of faith. Luther...
In Defense of Doctine
Evangelicalism, Theology, and Scripture
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Questions surrounding the relationship of Scripture and doctrine are legion within the Protestant tradition. This study is an apologetic for the ongoing, constructive theological task in Protestant and Evangelical traditions. It suggests that doctrinal development can be explained as a hermeneutical...
Receiving the Day
Christian Practices for Opening the Gift of Time
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2019
Embrace time as a gift--not an obstacle
Receiving the Day invites us to open the gift of time, to dwell in the freedom to rest and worship that God intends for us and for all creatures. In this book, Dorothy C. Bass shows how Christian practices for rest and worship continually welcome us into...