Eerdmans, 1983. — 447 p. This volume is a combined edition of Poet and Peasant and Through Peasant Eyes , Kenneth Bailey's intensive studies of the parables in the gospel of Luke. Bailey begins by surveying the development of allegorical, historical-eschatological, aesthetic, and existential methods of interpretation. Though figures like Julicher, Jeremias, Dodd, Jones, and Via...
Eerdmans, 1983. — 447 p. This volume is a combined edition of Poet and Peasant and Through Peasant Eyes , Kenneth Bailey's intensive studies of the parables in the gospel of Luke. Bailey begins by surveying the development of allegorical, historical-eschatological, aesthetic, and existential methods of interpretation. Though figures like Julicher, Jeremias, Dodd, Jones, and Via...
Cambridge University Press, 2006. — 300 p. The four gospels are a central part of the Christian canon of scripture. In the faith of Christians, this canon constitutes a life-giving witness to who God is and what it means to be truly human. This volume treats the gospels not just as historical sources, but also as crucial testimony to the life of God made known in Jesus Christ....
Brill, 2015. — xxii, 794 p. — (The Brill Reference Library of Judaism 46). In The Gospel of Matthew and Judaic Traditions, Herbert W. Basser, with the editorial help of Marsha Cohen, utilizes his encyclopedic knowledge of Judaism to navigate Matthew’s Gospel. This close, original reading explicates Matthew’s use of Jewish concepts and legal traditions that have not been fully...
B&H Academic, 2008. — 160 p. — (Perspectives) Because it is conspicuously absent from more than one early Greek manuscript, the final section of the gospel of Mark (16:9-20) that details Christ’s resurrection remains a constant source of debate among serious students of the New Testament.Perspectives on the Ending of Mark presents in Counterpoint form the split opinions about...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2014. - 457 p. - (Jewish and Christian Perspectives 26) The articles in this collection demonstrate that a change is taking place in New Testament studies. Throughout the twentieth century, New Testament scholarship primarily worked under the assumption that only two languages, Aramaic and Greek, were in common use in the land of Israel in the first...
T&T Clark Int'l, 2004. — 313 p. The quality of contributions in this volume reflects the eminence of Sandy Wedderburn, who taught at St Andrews before moving to Durham and finally to Munich to succeed Ferdinard Hahn. The topics addressed reflect Wedderburn's interests and include a comparison of the Lord's Supper with cultic meals in Qumran and in Hellenistic cults, glossolalia...
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2021. — 416 p. The earliest traditions around the narrative of Jesus' resurrection are considered in this landmark work by Dale C. Allison, Jr, drawing together the fruits of his decades of research into this issue at the very core of Christian identity. Allison returns to the ancient sources and earliest traditions, charting them alongside the...
Hendrickson Publishers, 1991. — 143 p. For those who believe the Scriptures are the inspired word of God with a message relevant for living today, nothing is more crucial than understanding sound principles of interpretation. Disagreement arises when people and groups differ over how one gets at that message and what that message is. In this collection of essays and lectures,...
Hendrickson Publishers, 1991. — 143 p. For those who believe the Scriptures are the inspired word of God with a message relevant for living today, nothing is more crucial than understanding sound principles of interpretation. Disagreement arises when people and groups differ over how one gets at that message and what that message is. In this collection of essays and lectures,...
Oxford University Press, 2009. — 161 p. — (Very Short Introductions). This Very Short Introduction offers a clear, accessible, and concise account of the apocryphal gospels--exploring their origins, their discovery, and discussing how the various texts have been interpreted both within and outside the Church. Looking at texts ranging from the Gospels from Nag Hammadi to the...
Eerdmans, 1997. — 955 p. — (The New International Commentary on the New Testament). This highly original commentary, part of the New International Commentary, is unique for the way it combines concerns with first-century culture in the Roman world with understanding the text of Luke as a wholistic, historical narrative.
History. — The Case for the Resurrection of Jesus. — Grand Rapids, Michigan: Kregel Publications, 2004. — 352 p. The Case for the Resurrection of Jesus, along with an interactive CD, will prepare you to make a compelling argument for the historicity of Christ's resurrection, even to those who do not accept the Bible as divinely inspired. The authors first develop principles by...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2013. — 327 p. — (Supplements to Novum Testamentum 149 ). Paul, John, and Apocalyptic Eschatology offers fresh studies by leading New Testament scholars. It considers Paul’s use of tradition, his views on Christian life in the light of mysticism and eschatology. It also discusses the identity formation of the “Johannine community” and the role of...
Brill Academic Pub, 2007. — 376 p. — (Supplements to Novum Testamentum 123). This book studies in detail the afterlife scene in the story of the rich man and Lazarus (Luke 16:19-31). The description of the afterlife is related, on the one hand, to the overall Hellenistic cultural milieu and, on the other hand, to Lukes eschatological views.
Bloomsbury Academic, 2004. — 240 p. Echoes of a Prophet examines intertextual connections to Ezekiel found in John and in Second Temple literature. The Dead Sea Scrolls contain many allusions to a number of Ezekiel's oracles, while other Second Temple works refer to only a few of Ezekiel's oracles, and those only rarely. In each case, Manning examines the evidence for the...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2016. - 180 p. - (Jewish and Christian Perspectives, 29) In The Gospels in First Century Judaea experts of Greco-Roman Judaism employ their expertise to offer fresh and innovative interpretations of gospel texts. Each study examines closely a passage from one of the four canonical gospels in order to shed light on it from various pertinent subject...
Brill. 2010. — xx, 342 p. — (Linguistic Biblical Studies). — ISBN: 978-90-04-17962-2. Drawing on frame theory from cogntive science, this book shows that as a product of oral-aural cultures the Gospel of Mark is basically a 'background knowledge'-based story; and hence it can be only properly understood by the help of frames which the speaker and audience shared.
Brill, 2018. — xxx, 492 p. — (Biblical Interpretation Series, Volume: 164) Anatomies of the Gospels and Beyond is an edited volume structured around essays that focus on one of the four canonical Gospels (and Acts) and/or theoretical issues involved in literary readings of the New Testament narrative. The volume is intended to honor the legacy of R. Alan Culpepper, Emeritus...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2011. — 239 p. — (Supplements to Novum Testamentum 138). In the fourth century C.E. some Christians paraphrased the stories about Jesus' life in the style of classical epics. Imitating the genre of centos, they stitched together lines taken either from Homer (Greek) or Virgil (Latin). They thus created new texts out of the classical epics, while they...
Mohr Siebeck , 2008. — 236 p. — (Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen Zum Neuen Testament 2. Reihe). — ISBN: 978-3161-49635-6. In this book, Adam Winn addresses the long debated question of the purpose of Mark’s gospel. After placing the composition of Mark in Rome at a time shortly after the destruction of the Jerusalem Temple, he seeks to reconstruct the historical situation...
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