Outline: The New International Biblical Commentary offers the best of contemporary scholarship in a format that both general readers and serious students can use with profit. Based on the widely used New International Version translation, the NIBC presents careful section-by-section exposition with key terms and phrases highlighted and all Hebrew transliterated. A separate section of notes a…
Outline: The Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible enlists leading theologians to read and interpret scripture creedally for the twenty-first century, just as the church fathers, the Reformers, and other orthodox Christians did for their times and places. 1 & 2 Peter, like each commentary in the series, is designed to serve the church - through aid in preaching, teaching, study groups, a…
Outline: The Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible enlists leading theologians to read and interpret scripture creedally for the twenty-first century, just as the church fathers, the Reformers, and other orthodox Christians did for their times and places. Proverbs & Ecclesiastes, like each commentary in the series, is designed to serve the church - providing a rich resource for preachers…
Outline: The Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible enlists leading theologians to read and interpret scripture creedally for the twenty-first century, just as the church fathers, the Reformers, and other orthodox Christians did for their times and places. Song of Songs, like each commentary in the series, is designed to serve the church - providing a rich resource for preachers, teachers…
Outline: The Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible enlists leading theologians to read and interpret scripture creedally for the twenty-first century, just as the church fathers, the Reformers, and other orthodox Christians did for their times and places. Psalms 1-50, like each commentary in the series, is designed to serve the church and demonstrate the continuing intellectual and pract…
Outline: The Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible enlists leading theologians to read and interpret scripture creedally for the twenty-first century, just as the church fathers, the Reformers, and other orthodox Christians did for their times and places. 2 Samuel, like each commentary in the series, is designed to serve the church and demonstrate the continuing intellectual and practica…
Outline: The Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible enlists leading theologians to read and interpret scripture creedally for the twenty-first century, just as the church fathers, the Reformers, and other orthodox Christians did for their times and places. 1 Samuel, like each commentary in the series, is designed to serve the church - providing a rich resource for preachers, teachers, stu…
Outline: The Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible enlists leading theologians to read and interpret scripture creedally for the twenty-first century, just as the church fathers, the Reformers, and other orthodox Christians did for their times and places. Genesis, like each commentary in the series, is designed to serve the church - providing a rich resource for preachers, teachers, stud…
Outline: The main topics covered are 'the great commandment', the synagogue and its function, the parable, the Sabbath, divorce and forgiveness. These topics differ not only in subject matter, but also in the type comparison offered - legal, historical, literary, theological and even contrasting themes. Reading the texts will produce questions for dialogue - some suggested questions for discu…
Outline: As in other volumes of the Cambridge Bible Commentary, there are introductions to the books dealt with, followed by the text of the New English Bible divided into sections. Each section of the text is followed by the commentary upon it. The preaching of the prophets Hagai and Zechariah gave a new impetus to the life of the 'remnant' of the Jewish people returned from the Babylonian …
Outline: The Chronicles, divided into two books purely for convenience, have long suffered from neglect; this is partly because much of their content can be found elsewhere in the Old Testament and partly because their presentation, emphasizing genealogies and ritual ceremonies, has lacked appeal for modern man over the last few hundred years. Yet these books, with their theological interpret…
Outline: This series of commentaries of the New English Bible is designed for use in schools and colleges for the minister and the layman. Each volume comments on one book, or a few short books, of the Bible and in each the text is given in full. Sections of text and commentary alternate, so that the reader does not have to keep two books open, or turn from one part of the book to the other,…
Outline: This book presents a re-reading of the stories of Old Testament women, highlighting their spirituality and exploring their experiences in the light of third-world women today. In Part One, the author discusses the stories of eight Old Testament women: Hagar, Rahab, Jephthah's daughter, Ruth and Naomi, Abigail, and the two unnamed women of 2 Kings. In her meditations of these images o…
Outline: Rebelling against a century of Old Testament scholarship, the authors persuasively argue that the first eleven chapters of Genesis are not a literary patchwork by different editors as widely supposed, but are the work of one author of extraordinary subtlety and skill. Comparing Genesis 1-11 with primeval histories from the Ancient Near East, the authors urge their readers to apprecia…
Outline: In this latest additional to the popular handbook series, the author gives teachers and students a comprehensive guide to the grammar and vocabulary of both 2 Peter and Jude. Within the text of these intertwined Catholic Epistles, the author finds rhetorical features and stylistic elements often overlooked. Used in combination with traditional commentaries, students will be guided to…
Outline: The pas fifty years have seen powerful shifts in the methods and objectives of Biblical Studies. The study of Johannine Literature, in particular, has seen a proliferation of new approaches, as well as innovative exegetical and theological conclusions. This volume surveys the emerging landscape from the perspective of scholars who have shaped the field. Written in a conversational a…
Outline: The history of Israel of the Bible remains one of the most holy contested issues in scholarship of the Hebrew Bible today. One of the clearest voices in the debate is that of the author. In the pages of this volume the author distills years of writing on the history of Israel from its beginnings up to the destruction of the First Temple of Jerusalem (586 B.C.E.). The author divides …
Outline: How did early Christians remember Jesus - and how did they develop their own Christian identities and communities? In this revelatory book, the author explores how transgression contributed to early Christian identity in the Gospels, Acts, Letters of Paul, and Revelation. Examining Jesus as a friend of sinners, challenger of purity laws, transgressor of conventional masculine values…
Outline: This book explores the historical reasons for the creation of the book of James and the implications for the creation of the Christian canon. The author makes a compelling case that James was written in the mid-second century and is, like 2 Peter, an attempt to provide a distinctive shape to the emerging New Testament. This book bolsters the claim that the Catholic Epistles not only …
Outline: Accessibly surveying the approaches to hermeneutics from the patristic period to the present day, the author's book provides and introduction to the philosophical issues underlying the development of hermeneutics as well as a theoritical basis for understanding hermeneutics in different faith traditions. Questions for reflection and discussion are included.
Outline: The authors identify the opportunities available to exegete for making Pauline/Paulinist theology intelligible as a coherent understanding of the Christian faith. In doing so, they offer constructive ways for determining the meaning of Paul's letters in the first century, in order to move toward their meaning for today. Comparing representative passages from the letters traditionally…
Outline: In this book, the author provides a Hebrew Bible textbook admirably suited to college and university courses in religious studies. At one accessible and comprehensive, this book approaches the Bible through the categories of comparative religion, carefully distinguishing the religion of ancient Israel from the religion represented in the Bible and discussing such dimensions of religio…
Outline: In this exchange from the 1995 Hein/Fry Lectures Series, the authors mount important, though divergent, anayses of the contemporary situation regarding Scripture and suggest varying strategies to meet it.
Outline: For decades, millions of Christians have discovered William Barclay's Daily Study Bible to be the ideal New Testament commentary series for both devotional reading and serious Bible study. Now, carrying forward brilliantly the pattern established by Barclay, this book has been extended into a coverage of the entire Old Testament. Invaluable for individual devotional study, for group …
Outline: The most authoritative, accessible guide of its kind, this book can be used with any major English Bible translation. It will be welcomed by preachers of all denominations, teachers, lay readers, public speakers, and others who must properly pronounce biblical words and phrases. Divided into two sections: "Biblical Terms" (both proper and common names) and "Non-biblical Terms," this …
Outline: In this theological and textual guide to the book of Revelation, leading evangelical educators combine their efforts to examine the issues that most interest and sometimes trouble twenty-first century readers. With verse-by-verse explanations and background analysis, this handbook is a tremendous aid to understanding the scope of Revelation. Topics covered include a comparison of the…
Outline: The author gives us the kind of help we need to overcome the distance between the psalmists' world and ours. He explains the various kinds of psalms, the way they were used in Hebrew worship and their relationship to the rest of the Old Testament. Then he looks at how Christians can appropriate their message and insights today. Turning to the art of Old Testament poetry, he explains…
Outline: The author equips us to see a clear redemptive-historical progression that develops across the five books of Psalms. With the aid of charts in full color, he demonstrates how an intentional structure is indicated by elements such as the placement of acrostic psalms, strategic couplings of Messianic psalms with Torah psalms, and the grouping of psalms by topics. If you love the psalm…
Outline: In this bold and compelling work, the author undertakes to reframe the central issues of Christian theodicy. By the author's estimate, theologians still draw too heavily on Augustine's response to the problem of evil. attributing pain and suffering to the mysterious "good" purposes of God. Through a close and sophisticated reading of both Old and New Testaments, the author argues tha…
Outline: Here, readers may find comfort as they look to God's ongoing presence in the midst of their own times of confusion and struggles for survival. The author believes that although the book of Esther raises questions that have no easy answers, its core issues are as important today as they were then. She identifies these issues, including prejudice, sexism, and patriarchy, and in the pro…
Outline: In debates surrounding the New Perspective on Paul, the sixteenth-century Protestant Reformers are often characterized as the apostle's misinterpreters-in-chief. In this book the author challenges that conception with a careful and nuanced reading of the Reformers' Pauline exegesis. Examining the overall contours of Reformation exegesis of Paul, the author contrasts the Reformers wit…
Outline: The author's purpose in this book is to show how different approaches to the Old Testament can be brought together into single theology. The author confronts the issues through a series of questions that jusxtapose concepts often set in opposition to one another: - Is the Bible a record of God's revelation or of human religion? - How is the "Old" Testament normative if there is also…