This book is an accessible overview of the Bibles complex and evolving reception in popular culture. Drawing on biblical interpretations in TV, film, and music, it demonstrates the enduring diversity of the Bibles reception history, and is an engagi...Daugiau...
This book bridges the gap between gendered and geopolitical analyses by interrogating both the sexual and ethnic violence embedded in the Book of Esther, and invites interpreters to consider the larger frameworks of ethnicity and racialization withi...Daugiau...
This volume explores the connections between John McDowells philosophy and the hermeneutic tradition. The contributions not only explore the hermeneutical aspects of McDowells thought, but also asks how this reading of McDowell can inform the hermen...Daugiau...
The significance of this work is monumental, both with regard to New Testament studies and with regard to our understanding of the Shroud of Turin!...Daugiau...
This book explores Martin Luthers attitudes towards Jews and Judaism, considering his approach in the historical, religious, theological, and cultural context of late Middle Ages Europe. It will be of interest to scholars of religion, theology , his...Daugiau...
This book discusses 20th and 21st century literary retellings of biblical texts, focusing on how fiction and poetry fill the extant narrative gaps present in the often sparse biblical accounts and align the narratives with theological and/or cultura...Daugiau...
This book analyses Whites Christology, Incarnational model, and views of the Godhead and of what (could have) happened at the cross, cutting new paths in the comprehension of Gods love while challenging conventional theological paradigms....Daugiau...
George Smith argues that modern humanity suffers from a late-stage, pre-fatal addiction to scientific-technological thinking. Like most pre-fatal addictions, this one will most likely result in one of three ways: misery, extinction, or human transfo...Daugiau...
This book introduces the Bible as one of the greatest works of world literature. Ferretter provides a comprehensive history of the field, alongside detailed readings of the Bible and the most influential theories in the area. It is essential reading...Daugiau...
Christology and Myth in the New Testament (1956) enquires into the extent and origin of the mythological language and ideas underlying the Christology of the New Testament. It examines the demythologizing principles, and considers that the mythical...Daugiau...
Democracy and Civilization (1947) is concerned with philosophy, theology and politics, with the nature of history and civilization and politics, using the approach of Christian thinking. It closely allies the political theory of democracy with the C...Daugiau...
This volume by the late Bernd J. Diebner presents an anthology of studies previously published only in German from 1971 to 2020 on a range of topics in biblical studies. Of interest to Anglophone scholars of biblical and ancient Near Eastern studies...Daugiau...
This book delves into the critical question of how counseling can help individuals navigate and resolve these struggles. It prioritizes the true experts in this domainthe strugglers themselvesand provides an in-depth examination of their experiences...Daugiau...
Faith, Spirituality, and Praxis: Exploring Dynamics in African Grassroots Theologies and Churches investigates topics such as black theology movements, African Initiated Churches, and the ecclesiologies that emerge from the experiences and struggles...Daugiau...
This book describes some of the major psychological processes that underpin various biblical stories and some of the theological speculation to which they have given rise....Daugiau...
Originally published in 1952, this book discusses the relevant historical facts and the main theories of the different theological schools on the literature of the New Testament. The early chapters of the book deal with the background of Christianit...Daugiau...
Originally published in 1933, from the volume one preface: This is an attempt to combine reading the Bible with learning to understand it. Of particular relevance to those interested in religious studies, today it can be read in its historical cont...Daugiau...
Originally published in 1933, from the preface: ... This is an attempt to combine reading the Bible with learning to understand it. Of particular relevance to those interested in religious studies, today it can be read in its historical context....Daugiau...
Originally published in 1933, from the preface in volume one: ... This is an attempt to combine reading the Bible with learning to understand it. Of particular relevance to those interested in religious studies, today it can be read in its historica...Daugiau...
First published in 1978, Quran and Bible attempts to delve deeper, to solve some persistent puzzles, and to explore the common culture from which the Holy Books spring. Hebrew and Arabic, the original languages of the Bible and Quran are of the sam...Daugiau...
Originally published in 1958, this book gives an account of the canonical prophets. After chapters on the prophetic literature, the historical background and the archaeological discoveries of the prophetic period, the rise of prophecy and the forms...Daugiau...
Originally published in 1963, this work is a study of the Old Testament books known as The Writings (Ketuvim). Introductory chapters supply the necessary background material and are followed by separate chapters on the books themselves, their origin...Daugiau...
First Published in 1990, The Bible as Rhetoric explores the ways in which the persuasive strategies employed in the biblical texts to their preoccupations with religious and historical truth....Daugiau...
This book explores figurative images of the womb and the simile of a woman in labor from the Hebrew Bible, problematizing previous interpretations that present these as disparate images and showing how their interconnectivity embodies relationship w...Daugiau...
This book extends scholarly debate beyond the analysis of pure historical debates and concerns to focus on the associations between Acts and the diverse contemporaneous texts, writers, and broader cultural phenomena in the second-century world of Ch...Daugiau...
This book moves beyond the debate on wisdom literature, ongoing in Biblical Studies, demonstrating the productivity of wisdom as a literary category. Featuring work by scholars of Egyptology, Classics, Biblical and Near Eastern Studies, it offers fr...Daugiau...
A comprehensive guide to the contents, historical settings, and social context of the Bible. This new edition is updated with several new chapters as well as a new section on biblical interpretation....Daugiau...
