Biblical Studies

Greco-Roman Period

OT Theology

Lynn Cohick provides an accurate and fulsome picture of the earliest Christian women by examining a wide variety of first-century Jewish and Greco-Roman documents that illuminate their lives.
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Leading scholar Goldingay continues his critically acclaimed series with a broad---and intricate---exploration of Israel's threefold vision of living with God, with one another, and with the individual self.
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Volume 1: Israel's Gospel
Volume 2: Israel's FaithMore...

Pauline Studies

Pentateuch

Hansen's approach is simple. Write a commentary that engages the original text and other critical sources, and articulate that information in a way that is specifically geared for all members of his audience, pastors, students, and scholars.
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The questions Sailhamer asks and the methodology he employs make The Meaning of the Pentateuch his definitive work. In it, he brings together his vast knowledge of the Pentateuch and his exceptional scholarly acumen to ask exegetical questions from which he builds a theological understanding. More...

NT: Studies

OT: Studies

The Gospel of John has, arguably, received more scholarly attention than any other biblical book. Yet, work on the book is far from exhausted. In an effort to see the book from new angles this volume of journal-style essays The Gospel of John in Cultural and Rhetorical Perspective seeks to treat the book through the dual lenses classical rhetoric and cultural anthropology.
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The global pandemic is overwhelming. The rich are becoming more--and more--wealthy, while the poor remain in rags and starving. David L. Baker in this book, Tight Fists or Open Hands? argues that the popular modes of theological thought dealing with poverty and wealth, are either too simplistic or deceptively manipulate biblical texts.

Canon Formation

Text Criticism

 Christopher R. Seitz presents us with the story of how the books we know as the "Prophets" came into existence. Following Childs' "canon" model, Seitz in The Goodly Fellowship of the Prophets explores the origins, arrangement, and the "achievement of association" in the prophetical books we have received today. More...

First published a decade ago, Tov's magisterial discussion of Old Testament textual criticism established itself as the definitive authority on the text and witnesses of the Hebrew Bible. Welcomed by student and scholar alike, this thorough revision gives particular attention to the shape of the original biblical text, and its transmission.More...