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…
Outline: In this volume in a widely used series, a respected Biblical scholar has gathered excerpts of the best that has been written about the literary dimension of the New Testament. From Origen and Augustine to such writers and critics as Gerard Manley Hopkins, Northrop Frye, and Eric Auerbach, among others of our own period, there is a fine array of excerpts reflecting many perspectives. T…
Outline: What is necessary for the church's life and growth? Perhaps it's more dynamic fellowship. Or holistic small groups. Or adequate parking. Or adequate parking. Or attractive programs. Or passionate spiritually. Or gift-oriented ministry. Or visionary leadership. Or high-impact worship. Or missional living. Or ... the list is endless. But the author has noticed that Jesus said only one th…
Outline: This book is a comprehensive resource for understanding modern political issues in light of Scripture. A virtual source - book for anyone who takes the Bible seriously, it provides a thoughtful, carefully reasoned analysis of over fity specific topics, including the following: - Protection of life - Marriage - Family and children - Economic issues & taxation - The Environment - …
Overview: This comprehensive, controversial book is for everyone who wants to understand and apply the Bible -- and the New Testament in particular -- in a responsible, well-informed, and God-glorifying way. The author is an able guide, walking readers through a carefully field-tested twelve-stage interpretive process that pastors, scholars, teachers, and laypeople can use with benefit. - Move…
Outline: This book is for everyone who wants to learn how to observe carefully, understand accurately, evaluate fairly, feel appropriately, act rightly, and express faithfully God's revealed Word, especially as embodied in the Old Testament. - Follow an extensively field-tested twelve-step process to deepen understanding and shape theology (biblical, systematic, and practical). - Engage with…
Outline: This updated edition of the author's highly successful book includes a new chapter on exegesis of the original biblical texts. Illustrated with numerous examples, this chapter makes the book even more valuable as a guide to exegesis and an aid to sermon preparation. This revised edition also includes an up-to-date bibliography, an analytical table of contents, and indexes of scriptual …
Outline: The author provides a Christian understanding of the science of biblical hermeneutics; the inspiration and authority of Scripture, the role of the canon, the historical nature of Scripture, current discussion of revelation and criticism, etc. Citing the importance of the subject the author says, "Against longstanding and still virulent tendencies of modernity we must speak confidently …
Outline: In this unique work the author uses the ancient story of Philemon and Onesimus as a compelling entry into modern theological reflection on the unbelivable reach of the grace and forgiveness of the Father whose Son died without disciples, rose to reconcile and transform them, and then scattered them around the world as men and women who were now also able to love those who loved them no…
Outline: The Bible - "lost word" or "last word"? Although noting that both Bible study and biblical knowledge have increased tremendously, the author still declares, "Our churches suffer from a widespread 'famine of hearing the words of the Lord.'" He blames this, in part, on our so-called "scientific" and "rasionalistic" approach to biblical criticism. He points out that holding "critical" …
Outline: Penulis memperlihatkan suatu hal yang hampir tidak pernah diungkapkan para penafsir Alkitab tentang penyebab kemalangan Ayub. Ia mengangkat suatu unsur baru yang mesti dikembangkan dalam kitab Ayub yakni objek keluhan Ayub. Di dalam kitab itu Ayub sebenarnya sudah dengan amat jelas mengungkapkan penyebab penderitaanya yakni bahwa ia disingkirkan dan dianiaya oleh komunitas masyarakat d…
Outline: In two volumes the author provides a masterful interpretation of and lucid commentary on these sorely neglected yet profound books of the Old Testament. This volume of 2 Chronicles continues to build on the groundwork laid by its companion on 1 Chronicles.
Outline: This commentary by the author provides an excellent exposition of John's letters for teachers and pastors working at all levels of Christian ministry, at the same time it offers students and general readers clear insight into the meaning of these Scriptures for the contemporary Christian life. In the author treatment of introductory matters related to 1, 2, and 3 John, the author discu…
Overview: This book is the first in a series of integrated Hebrew language resources (see below) produced by Zondervan in collaboration with the authors. These products have been designed specificaly for use by the beginning student. There is no other collection of resources like it. Feature of this book text: - Combines both inductive and deductive approaches - Uses actual examples from th…
Outline: In this stimulating study, the author examines Jeremiah's use of word language; the prophet's formation as an embodiment of the Word of God; his covenant preaching ad the crisis it precipitates concerning the recognition of true prophecy; and, in the 'oracles of hope', how the power of the Word of God is finally made manifest. The author, then brings this reading of Jeremiah to bear on…
Outline: As are all the books in the Reformed Expository Commentary series, this exposition of 1 Samuel is accessible to both pastors and lay readers. Each volume in the series provides exposition that gives careful attention to the biblican text, is doctrinally Reformed, focuses on Christ through the lens of redemptive history, and applies the Bible to our contemporary setting.
Outline: From worship and prayer to family and the use of money, the book of 1 Timothy is full of implications for life in the local church. But beyond these practical truths for all believers, the author writes, "Paul's purpose in 1 Timothy is to help his spiritual son remain true." Thus the book has special application to those in gospel ministry. These truths that helped Timothy in his day a…