Tom Wrights original and exciting interpretation of Ephesians offers a breath-taking vision of Gods purposes for the cosmos, and explores the vital challenges Paul offers his readers - then and now....Daugiau...
This book explores the intersection of culture, language, and religious experience, and approaches hermeneutics as a meta-perspective to address Christian religious communication. It draws on the work of scholars from diverse geographic...Daugiau...
This book offers a fresh take on Jesus Christ, connecting Christology with interreligious dialogue. It presents him as a bridgerepresenting God to humanity and humanity to Godoffering a dynamic, relational vision of faith....Daugiau...
A fresh interpretation of Revelation for the 21st century, exploring the connections between Johns visions and the terrifying prospect of an Artificial Super Intelligence that emerges to deceive the world and oppose the rule of Christ. ...Daugiau...
Ancient Near Eastern scribes from Egypt to Mesopotamia, including Israelite scribes of the Hebrew Bible, create infelicitous or symmetric elements in their textual production. By their form, these elements communicate beyond the textual and semantic...Daugiau...
The contributors to this edited volume explore creation concepts in antiquity and aspects of creation care in Jewish and Christian texts. They also ask about how these texts and topics are relevant to todays earth ethics and in particular to the cli...Daugiau...
In this study, Romulus D. Stefanut offers a contextual reading of Philos De vita contemplativa, exploring its background, genre, composition, and function beyond the so-called apologetic and historical works of Philo. Often, scholars have lost the...Daugiau...
This study takes on a historical-critical approach to the analysis of the Solomonic narrative (1 Kings 1:1-12:24) within the larger Deuteronomistic (Hi)Story (DH) by employing a postcolonial-psychoanalytic reading strategy. Sonia Wong argues that the...Daugiau...
In this study, Ole Jakob Filtvedt engages with recent scholarly discussion on ancient notions of self and self-perception, applying these concepts to the encounters between Jesus and John the Baptist, Nicodemus, the Jews and Pharisees, Peter, and Pil...Daugiau...
This book presents the first detailed treatment of Gadamers account of the nature of meaning. It argues both that this account is philosophically valuable in its own right and that understanding it sheds new light on his wider hermeneutical proje...Daugiau...
The first book-length study devoted to FromSoftware games, On Soulsring Worlds explores how the Dark Souls series and Elden Ring are able to reconcile extreme difficulty in both gameplay and narrative with broad appeal....Daugiau...
Introduces basic concepts of Systemic Functional Linguistics and examines how it applies to the study of New Testament Greek-- This volume examines and outlines a Systemic Functional Linguistic (SFL) model of discourse analysis and its r...Daugiau...
The Book of Jeremiah: Composition, Reception, and Interpretation, offers a wide-ranging view of critical study on Jeremiah, with up-to-date scholarship and fresh insights from leading scholars in the field....Daugiau...
Albert Schweitzer is principally known as a medical missionary who went to the Gabon just before the First World War and ended up winning the Nobel Peace Prize in the early 1950s. In this volume, which consists of a lengthy introductory chapter follo...Daugiau...
In recent decades the Priestly Narrative (Pg) has become the object of lively discussion, especially with regard to its actual extent, and hypotheses on the conclusion of Pg in the Sinaitic pericope (Ex 29; Ex 40; Lev 9; Lev 16) have been advanced. I...Daugiau...
This volume heralds a new era in the study of Jesuss parables, emphasizing the need to focus on the parables function within their literary context. The overall theme of the collection proposes that in their original setting, the parables primarily...Daugiau...
Samuel L. Voo examines composite allusions to the Jewish scriptures in the Gospel of John and compares these to similar phenomena in late Second Temple Jewish literature. Composite allusions are defined in this study as allusions clustered together i...Daugiau...
Drawing on current research in Classics and Roman history, Susan E. Benton analyzes inscriptional evidence about women in the leadership of Greco-Roman associations in Latin West and Greek East. She then uses the resulting profile of civically engage...Daugiau...
The Holy Land is more than a sanctified geographical space that roughly corresponds to the Roman province that has been known as Palaestina since the end of the Bar Kochba War. Instead, it is primarily an idea and imaginative space created by a compl...Daugiau...
Tanja Hidde and Tal Ilan offer a feminist commentary on the Massekhet Shevuot of the Mishnah and the Babylonian Talmud by focusing on women and gender in the texts. The tractate deals with oaths, mostly in a legal, court context. In presenting and i...Daugiau...
