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 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: 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…
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: 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: This book is a collection of essays by members of the Society for Old Testament and Modern Study (ed. H. H. Rowley). The volume is not only a record of the progress of research in these areas but also a reflection of changing perspectives in Old Testament Study and an appraisal of important changes in method and approach. All the essays are well documented and provided with short bibl…
Overview: The New Testament books of James through Jude - the General or Catholic Epistles - can be overlooked due to their brevity and location at the end of the canon. They contribute much, however, to our understanding of salvation and Christian living. In this accessible introduction to laypeople, pastors, and study group leaders, the author explains the content of these letters and thei…
Outlined: Stressing the historical and theological significance of pivotal figures and movements, the author guides the reader through intriguing developments and critical interpretation of the New Testament from its beginnings in Deism through the watershed of the Tubingen school. Familiar figures appear in a new light, and important, previously forgotten stages of the journey emerge. The a…
Outlined: This book provides a fresh approached to the question by examining the works of Plutarch, a Greek essayist who lived in the first and second centuries CE, the author discobers three-dozen periscopes narrated two or more times in Plutarch's Lives, identifies differences between the accounts, and analyzes these differences in light of compositional devices identified by classical schola…
Overview: Religious communities that possess sacred documents define themselves, at least in part, by how they understand and interpret their sacred texts and how those sacred texs inform the community. The author has brought together thirteen outstanding contributors to this book in order to explore recent understanding of the ways in which the early Jewish and Christian communities of faith…
Overview: "The New Testament does not develop a systematic doctrine of salvation," writes the author. "Instead, it presents us with a variety of pictures taken from different perspectives." Viewed from different angles salvation may look like living under God's reign, freedom from internal and external forces, or the restoration of broken relationships with God, others, creation and even one's…
Overview: This book presents eighteen commissioned articles on biblical exegesis in early Judaism, covering the period after the Hebrew Bible was written and before the beginning of rabbinic Judaism. The essays, all written by experts in the field, are arranged in seven categories: Hebrew Bible, Rewritten Bible, Qumran Literature, Apocalyptic Literature and Testaments, Wisdom Literature, Hell…
Overview: In this book, the author introduces readers to the ancient Jewish writings known as the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha and examines their formative impact on the teachings and mission of Jesus and his half-brothers, James and Jude. Knowledge of this literature, the author argues, helps to bridge the perceived gap between Jesus and Judaism when Judaism is understood only in terms of the…
Overview: The Series set out to provide a programmatic survey of the individual writings of the New Testament. It aims to remedy the deficiency of available published material which concentrates on the New Testament writer's theological concerns. New Testament specialists here write at greater length than is usually possible in the introductions to commentaries or as part of other New Testame…
Overview: The Explorations in Biblical Theology series addresses the need for quality literature that attracts believing readers to good theology and builds them up in the their faith. Each title in the series combines solid content with accessibility and readability - a valuable addition to the library of any college student, thoughtful lay reader, seminarian, or pastor. This book answers th…
Overview: This book is an indispensable tool for those seeking to understand the multiformity of interpretation used in the rabbinic midrash, a collection of commentary on the Hebrew Scriptures composed during the dynamic first six centuries of the Common Era. Because this magnificent work of ancient Jewish scholarship was composed using several methods of interpretation, it must be read with …
Overview: The author is one of the most highly regarded Old Testament scholars of our time; talk-show host Krista Tippett has even called the author "a kind of theological rock star." In this new book the author incisively probes our society-in-crisis from the ground up.
Overview: In this volume the authors open a conversation with others in the church concerning a future Catholic biblical scholarship that maintains the freedom of critical inquiry but within a living loyalty to tradition. Looking not to critize but to strengthen, the authors model the type of dialogue that is needed today. Johnson first reviews the current state of Catholic biblical scholarsh…
Overview: The essays here - taken from the inaugural conference - consider this Gospel from many angles, addressing a number of key issues that arise from a theological discussion of the text: John's dualism in our pluralist context, historicity and testimony, the treatment of Judaism, Christology, and more.
Overview: Scholar of science and theology Vern Poythress examines which of the contemporary interpretations of Genesis are most consistent with scientific evidence and careful biblical interpretation. He presents the case for young-earth creationism, mature creation, the day-age theory, the analogical-day theory, and the framework hypothesis to see which of them stand up to scrutiny. Written …
Buku ini memaparkan dan menyoroti apa dan bagaimana makna pemahaman pelayanan dalam literatur Perjanjian Baru; seperti: Surat-surat Paulus, Injil Matius, Sastra Yohanes, Injil Lukas dan Kisah Para Rasul dan Surat-surat Pastoral. Setiap pemahaman tersebut, dikaitkan dengan masa kini; bagaimana para pelayan (pejabat gereja) dan umat kristiani memahami makna pelayanannya di tengah situasi masa kin…
Part 1: Paul and his world Part 2: The mindset of the apostle This highly anticipated two-book fourth volume in N. T. Wright's magisterial series, Christian Origins and the Question of God, is destined to become the standard reference point on the subject for all serious students of the Bible and theology. The mature summation of a lifetime's study, this landmark book pays a rich tribute to…
Part 3: Paul's theology Part 4: Paul in history This highly anticipated two-book fourth volume in N. T. Wright's magisterial series, Christian Origins and the Question of God, is destined to become the standard reference point on the subject for all serious students of the Bible and theology. The mature summation of a lifetime's study, this landmark book pays a rich tribute to the breadth…
Alkitab kaya akan berbagai macam bentuk ungkapan puitis. Ada peribahasa, nyanyian kemenangan atau kekalahan, mazmur ratapan yang ditulis secara pribadi atau oleh suatu kelompok, nyanyian syukur, puisi cinta, nubuat keselamatan atau kecelakaan, dan sebagainya. Akan tetapi, betapapun syair atau puisi itu berbeda-beda, ada sejumlah aturan main yang tegas dan kesepakatan umum sastra yang dipegang o…
Methods for Matthew offers a primer on six exegetical approaches that have proved to be especially useful and popular.
"Theological interpretation of the Old Testament features key articles from the award-winning Dictionary for theological interpretation of the Bible (DTIB), providing a history of interpretation and covering major theological ideas for each book of the Old Testament. The articles, authored by leading scholars, make unique contributions to the study of theological interpretation of Scripture. Th…
Mark Gignilliat brings representative figures and their theories together to serve as windows into the critical trends of Old Testament interpretation in the modern period.