New Testament

2015 Book of the Year Award, Academy of Parish Clergy Amid conflicting ideas about what the church should be and do in a post-Christian climate, the missing voice is that of Paul. The New Testament's most prolific church planter, Paul faced diverse...

This commentary offers a verse-by-verse theological interpretation of the First and Second epistles to Timothy and Titus. Bray reads the letters as authoritative scripture, moving beyond questions of whether they are pseudonymous, and of whether or...

Louise Lawrence introduces you to contextual Bible reading, which prioritizes the question 'what does the Bible mean to you in your context?'. She provides a practical resource that will enable you to initiate such readings within your own context.About...

The book is going through its biggest revolution since Gutenberg. Thanks to computer tools and electronic publication, the concept and realisation of critical editions are being rethought. As so often in the history of scholarship, editors of the New...

There have been many studies of the women in the Gospels, but this is a new kind of book on the subject. Rather than offering a general overview of the Gospel women or focusing on a single theme, Richard Bauckham studies in great depth both the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935931409Author John Christopher ThomasFormat PaperbackPage Count 238Imprint CPT PressPublisher CPT PressWeight(grams) 325gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

In comparison to Mark and Luke, the First Gospel contains a striking preponderance of economic language in passages dealing with sin, righteousness, and divine recompense. For instance, sin is described as a debt, and righteous deeds are said to earn...

Paul as Pastor demonstrates the critical nature of Paul's pastoral care to his identity and activities. Despite the fact that Paul never identifies himself as a pastor, there is much within the Pauline letters that alludes to this as a possible aspect of...

The First Edition of the New Testament is a groundbreaking book that argues that the New Testament is not the product of a centuries-long process of development. Its history, David Trobisch contends, is the history of a book--an all Greek Christian...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781606084700Author Daniel BerriganFormat PaperbackPage Count 126Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams)...

Parallel Gospels: A Synopsis of Early Christian Writing is an indispensable guide that enables readers to examine more easily how and where the early Christian gospels--Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Thomas, and Q--agree and disagree. Using his own unique...

A fascinating insight into the rival religious communities of the early Christian church.These apocryphal texts open a window to understanding the rival religious communities which coexisted with the early church. Written after the ministry of Christ and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780800625580Author Robert C. TannehillFormat PaperbackPage Count 408Imprint Augsburg FortressPublisher 1517 MediaWeight(grams) 318g

What terms did early Christians use for outsiders? How did they refer to non-members? In this book-length investigation of these questions, Paul Trebilco explores the outsider designations that the early Christians used in the New Testament. He examines...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781434767462Author Dr Warren W WiersbeFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint David C Cook Publishing CompanyPublisher David C Cook Publishing Company

The student or translator of the New Testament will often find difficulties which can only be solved by considering the syntax of the passage concerned. Professor Moule here provides a reference book which gives guidance on such problems of exegesis. It...

Women in the Ministry of Jesus is a study of both of Jesus' attitudes towards women as reflected in his words and deeds, and of the women who were part of his ministry, or who interacted with him according to the Gospel accounts. The book seeks to...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781579108243Author John KoenigFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm)...

The women in Jesus' life are a raucous and rowdy bunch, including "riotous" foremothers, "loose women," and "distressed daughters of Israel." Reading these new ways of interpreting women in the Gospels, male New Testament...

This excellent book shows how literary criticism illuminates the Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles, reclaiming them as biblical narrative. William Kurz explores literary aspects such as implied authors or readers, plot, and assumed information,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780830825219Author Michael WilcockFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint IVP AcademicPublisher IVP AcademicWeight(grams) 236gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 140mm *...

This is a series of commentaries on the New English Bible designed for use in schools and training colleges, and for the layman. It replaces the old Cambridge Bible for Schools. Each volume will comment on one book, or two or three short books, of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683591580Author RykenFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Faithlife CorporationPublisher Faithlife CorporationWeight(grams) 666gDimensions(mm) 250mm *...

Paul's teaching about divine benefactions in Rom 12:6-8 extends the theme of worship that he establishes in Rom 12:1-2. Together, these passages address a uniquely gentile dilemma that his audience faced as new Christ-followers, which was the challenge...

What if God is saving the best for last?Of all the books of the Bible, Revelation is the one that mystifies and unsettles people the most. From numerical signs to monsters, the book of apocalypse in the Bible can be difficult to wrap our minds around,...

Who is a mentor in your life? Who guides you through the ups and downs, helps you make decisions, is there when you have questions and doubts? The apostle Paul knew the importance of this kind of discipleship. He mentored Timothy, a young pastor who was...

This volume of the New Testament Library offers a thorough and careful commentary on the complicated book of Hebrews, showing its meaning within the context of ancient culture and the theological development of the early church. Written by one of the...

The expression 'Son of Man', used in the Gospels almost exclusively by Jesus, has been the object of intensive study since the Protestant Reformation, yet scholars have come to no agreement on its origin or meaning. Research in this area has been...

In this 2006 text, Daniel M. Gurtner examines the meaning of the rending of the veil at the death of Jesus in Matthew 27:51a by considering the functions of the veil in the Old Testament and its symbolism in Second Temple and Rabbinic Judaism. Gurtner...

In this clearly written introduction to the latter half of the New Testament, Lewis Donelson begins by asking, if we read this text in this way, what voices do we hear? Such a reading strategy requires historical imagination because the documents are...

This volume brings together scholars of both the Old and New Testaments to discuss three areas of methodological interest in respect of the use of the Old Testament in the New (OT/NT). It begins with an interdisciplinary conversation into insights that...

This interdisciplinary volume of text and art offers new insights into various unsolved mysteries associated with Mary Magdalene, Mary of Bethany, Mary the Mother of Jesus, and Miriam the sister of Moses. Mariamic traditions are often interconnected, as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781936760565Author Keri FolmarPage Count 150Imprint Cruciform PressPublisher Cruciform PressWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 196mm * 130mm * 13mm

Over the last twenty years there has been a great surge of interest in the healing ministry, yet this ferment of activity seems not to have been matched by an equally fresh or energetic study of healing in the New Testament, which ostensibly forms the...

This commentary brings the stimulating insights of world-renowned theologian Stanley Hauerwas to the first Gospel. This volume, like each in the Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible, is designed to serve the church--through aid in preaching,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780980224368Author Barb RavelingFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Truthway PressPublisher Truthway PressWeight(grams) 213g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781498228404Author R Alan StreettFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780800632144Author Mark D. NanosFormat PaperbackPage Count 392Imprint Augsburg FortressPublisher 1517 MediaWeight(grams) 318g

Anyone who tries to read through Paul's epistle to the Romans soon discovers it is a dense and difficult text. Some of the difficulties are concealed by modern translations, yet even those translations are likely to baffle the average reader with...