Exegesis & Hermeneutics

Politicians and pundits regularly invoke the Bible in social and political debates on a host of controversial social and political issues, including: abortion, stem-cell research, gay marriage, the death penalty, separation of church and state, family...

In Reading the Bible with Horror, Brandon R. Grafius takes the reader on a whirlwind tour through the dark corners of the Hebrew Bible. Along the way, he stops to place the monstrous Leviathan in conversation with contemporary monster theory, uses...

Bitter the Chastening Rod follows in the footsteps of the first collection of African American biblical interpretation, Stony the Road We Trod (1991). Nineteen Africana biblical scholars contribute cutting-edge essays reading Jesus, criminalization, the...

This volume contains the papers of the second meeting of the international scholarly network "The Hermeneutic of Judaism, Christianity and Islam," held in Aix-en-Provence (September 25-27, 2008). Drawing on Gérard Genette's theory of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781496427380Author Jaime FasoldFormat HardbackPage Count 528Imprint Tyndale House PublishersPublisher Tyndale House Publishers

Sodomscapes presents a fresh approach to the story of Lot's wife, as it's been read across cultures and generations. In the process, it reinterprets foundational concepts of ethics, representation, and the body. While the sudden mutation of Lot's wife in...

Babylon is a surprisingly multivalent symbol in U.S. culture and politics. Political citations of Babylon range widely, from torture at Abu Ghraib to depictions of Hollywood glamour and decadence. In political discourse, Babylon appears in conservative...

"There is always some view of language built into biblical interpretation. If we are to read Scripture to hear God's address it is vital that we attend to current debates about language and become critically conscious in this respect."Craig...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955029516Author Richard PickvanceFormat PaperbackPage Count 338Imprint Jaman Mas BooksPublisher Jaman Mas BooksWeight(grams) 380g

Come and Read introduces numerous hermeneutical approaches to biblical literature and includes examples of those approaches in action through the contributions of top scholars in the field. The book takes up three different passages throughout John's...

Biblical narratives are not simply sacred stories for religious communities: They are stories that provide transformative insight into cultural biases. By putting historical criticism and reception history into dialogue with womanist biblical...

The tale of the "zeal" of Phineas, expressed when he killed an Israelite man and a Midianite woman having sex and thus stopped a "plague" of consorting with idolatrous neighbors in the Israelite camp (Numbers 25), has long attracted both interest and...

In times of conflict, the Bible is often used as a club to beat those whose opinions differ from one's own. We recoil from such usage, yet the Bible actually represents many diverse and conflicting points of view. It is like a library, full of books that...

Does the resolute defense of their beliefs prove that the Christian proto-communities’ earliest documents about Jesus’ life did not have the discrepancies, contradictions, and conflicts which exegetes argue existed in the four Gospels? Their presence has...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783506703507Author Anthony MeyerFormat HardbackPage Count 342Imprint Brill SchoninghPublisher Brill SchoninghWeight(grams) 353g

The concept of death, particularly violent death, is prevalent throughout the writings of Paul the Apostle. His letters in the New Testament address this topic from a variety of perspectives, some of which can appear to be almost contradictory. However,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780851890517Author Robert RobertsFormat HardbackPage Count 190Imprint Christadelphian Magazine & Publishing Association LtdPublisher Christadelphian...

Sodomscapes presents a fresh approach to the story of Lot's wife, as it's been read across cultures and generations. In the process, it reinterprets foundational concepts of ethics, representation, and the body. While the sudden mutation of Lot's wife in...

This biblical interpretation textbook provides an accessible introduction to the latest approaches in evangelical hermeneutics. Having many years' experience teaching hermeneutics to undergraduates, Robbie Castleman explains complex themes in an engaging...

This book examines the relationship between divine in/activity and human agency in the five books of the Megilloth—the books of Ruth, Song of Songs, Ecclesiastes, Lamentations, and Esther. As works of literature dating to the early Second Temple period...

In Textual Criticism and Sacred Texts: A Comparative Method, Signe Cohen looks at the text-critical scholarship on sacred texts across disciplines. She traces the development of the genealogical method and discusses its role in textual criticism today...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781978710627Author Zhenya Gurina-RodriguezFormat HardbackPage Count 166Imprint Fortress AcademicPublisher Fortress AcademicWeight(grams) 152g

In six closely-reasoned chapters, Joseph Gordon presents a detailed account of a Christian doctrine of Scripture in the fullest context of systematic theology. Divine Scripture in Human Understanding addresses the confusing plurality of contemporary...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780988411234Author David R. AndersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 284Imprint Grace Theology PressPublisher Grace Theology PressWeight(grams) 421gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781589603547Author John BunyanFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Sovereign Grace PublishersPublisher Sovereign Grace PublishersWeight(grams) 177g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781684515059Author Michael YoussefFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Salem BooksPublisher Salem BooksWeight(grams) 177g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683074212Author Benjamin P LairdFormat HardbackPage Count 392Imprint Hendrickson AcademicPublisher Hendrickson AcademicWeight(grams) 816gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781978713147Author Timothy L SealsFormat HardbackPage Count 188Imprint Fortress AcademicPublisher Fortress AcademicWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683072348Author Jeffery M LeonardFormat PaperbackPage Count 275Imprint Hendrickson Publishers IncPublisher Hendrickson Publishers Inc

Theologians today are facing a crisis of identity. Are they members of the academy or the church? Is it still possible to be members of both? In God and the Teaching of Theology, Steven Harris argues a way through the impasse by encompassing both church...

What happens to the Bible when it is used in worship? What does music, choreography, the stringing together of texts, and the architectural setting itself, do to our sense of what the Bible means-and how does that influence our reading of it outside of...

Examines the use of the Bible in the early church and relates apostolic and patristic interpretation to contemporary trends in hermeneutics.Book InformationISBN 9780801030109Author David S. DockeryFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Baker Academic, Div...

The biblical and Christian traditions have long been seen to have legitimated and encouraged humanity's aggressive domination of nature. Biblical visions of the future, with destruction for the earth and rescue for the elect, have also discouraged any...

The term "feminism" conjures up the promise of resistance to the various forms of oppression women face. But feminism's ability to fulfil this promise has been undermined by its failure to deal adequately with the difference that race makes for gender...

The proliferation of work on the theological hermeneutics of Scripture in recent years has challenged and reimagined the divisions between systematic theology and biblical studies on the one hand and academy and church on the other. Also notable,...

Bitter the Chastening Rod follows in the footsteps of the first collection of African American biblical interpretation, Stony the Road We Trod (1991). Nineteen Africana biblical scholars contribute cutting-edge essays reading Jesus, criminalization, the...

Babylon is a surprisingly multivalent symbol in U.S. culture and politics. Political citations of Babylon range widely, from torture at Abu Ghraib to depictions of Hollywood glamour and decadence. In political discourse, Babylon appears in conservative...

Politicians and pundits regularly invoke the Bible in social and political debates on a host of controversial social and political issues, including: abortion, stem-cell research, gay marriage, the death penalty, separation of church and state, family...

The Liber Regularum, written by Tyconius in the Fourth Century A.D., was the first system of biblical interpretation proposed by a Latin theologian. Augustine was very interested in this work and included an extraordinary summation of it in his De...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802883933Author Michael B ShepherdFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint William B Eerdmans Publishing CoPublisher William B Eerdmans Publishing Co