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Jesus' Defeat of Death: Persuading Mark's Early Readers by Peter G. Bolt 9780521830362
RRP: £105.00£82.41Peter Bolt explores the impact of Mark's Gospel on its early readers in the first-century Graeco-Roman world. His book focuses upon the thirteen characters in Mark who come to Jesus for healing or exorcism and, using analytical tools of narrative and... -
Jesus and Philosophy: New Essays by Paul K. Moser 9780521694865
RRP: £28.99£23.80What, if anything, does Jesus of Nazareth have to do with philosophy? This question motivates this collection of essays from leading theologians, philosophers, and biblical scholars. Part I portrays Jesus in his first-century intellectual and historical... -
The Epistle to the Hebrews: Its Background of Thought by L. D. Hurst 9780521673402
RRP: £44.99£38.14This work is a comprehensive treatment of one of the most intriguing questions of modern New Testament study: what kind of person could have produced the mysterious document known today as the Epistle to the Hebrews? While other studies of Hebrews have... -
Purpose and Cause in Pauline Exegesis: Romans 1.16-4.25 and a New Approach to the Letters by Wendy Dabourne 9780521640039
RRP: £90.00£77.09Three factors prompt this re-examination of the underlying questions that shape mainstream exegesis of Paul's letters. Hermeneutical studies have destabilized assumptions about the nature of meaning in texts; the letters are usually characterized as... -
The Strong and the Weak: Romans 14.1-15.13 in Context by Mark Reasoner 9780521633345
RRP: £104.00£87.91This 1999 book situates Romans 14.1-15.13 in the context of first-century Roman thought, using the lenses of asceticism (especially vegetarianism), superstition and obligation. It also seeks to situate this section of Romans within the letter as a whole,... -
Paul, Judaism, and Judgment According to Deeds by Kent L. Yinger 9780521632430
RRP: £96.99£82.01Why does 'judgment according to deeds' produce no discernible theological tension for Paul, the apostle of justification by faith? For students of his writings, paradox, incoherence, or eschatological tension come more readily to mind. Paul felt no such... -
Romans and the Apologetic Tradition: The Purpose, Genre and Audience of Paul's Letter by Anthony J. Guerra 9780521619837
RRP: £30.99£28.28Of all the letters in the Pauline corpus, the Letter to the Romans has attracted the greatest degree of scholarly attention. Yet surprisingly scant consideration has been given to the question of its literary genre. Taking up the comparatively brief... -
A History of the Bible as Literature: Volume 1, From Antiquity to 1700 by David Norton 9780521617000
RRP: £78.99£67.79It is regarded as a truism that the King James Bible is one of the finest pieces of English prose. Yet few people are aware that the King James Bible was generally scorned or ignored as English writing for a century and a half after its publication. The... -
Pre-Existence, Wisdom, and The Son of Man: A Study of the Idea of Pre-Existence in the New Testament by R. G. Hamerton-Kelly 9780521616003
RRP: £40.99£37.06The idea of pre-existence has a long history in early Jewish and Biblical traditions. Professor Hamerton-Kelly studies the various forms the idea takes in these traditions as they emerge in the New Testament. He pays special attention to the themes of... -
Jesus und der Taufer: Schlussel zur Theologie und Ethik des Lukas by Peter Bohlemann 9780521594219
RRP: £116.00£103.07This German language title presents a new interpretation of Luke's theology and ethics. The author demonstrates how Luke develops his theological agenda by contrasting the teaching of Jesus with that of John the Baptist. Boehlemann shows that the... -
Jesus and the Angels: Angelology and the Christology of the Apocalypse of John by Peter R. Carrell 9780521590112
RRP: £110.00£92.83This book, first published in 1997, examines the influence of angelology on the christology of the Apocalypse of John. In the Apocalypse, Jesus appears in glorious form reminiscent of angels in Jewish and Christian literature in the period between 200... -
A History of the Bible as Literature: Volume 2, From 1700 to the Present Day by David Norton 9780521617017
RRP: £65.99£56.20Early-eighteenth-century literary critics thought the King James Bible had 'all the disadvantages of an old prose translation'. But from the 1760s on criticism became increasingly favourable. In the nineteenth century it welled into a chorus of praise... -
The Pauline Churches: A Socio-Historical Study of Institutionalization in the Pauline and Deutrero-Pauline Writings by Margaret Y. MacDonald 9780521616058
RRP: £50.99£43.02The author studies the Pauline corpus in order to trace the process of institutionalisation in the Pauline communities. She claims that development can be traced since we have not only letters from Paul himself, but also the Pastoral epistles from the... -
Jesus as Healer by Harold Remus 9780521584692
RRP: £48.00£43.23This 1997 book presents in readable, non-technical language the findings of scholarship on one important aspect of 'who Jesus was' - the many reports in the New Testament and other early Christian writings that Jesus performed healings. The book paints a... -
Paul's Gift from Philippi: Conventions of Gift Exchange and Christian Giving by G.W. Peterman 9780521572200
RRP: £91.99£82.01This book is a study of Paul's response to the financial help he received from the church in Philippi whilst he was a prisoner in Rome. Philippians 4.10-20 has always puzzled commentators because of its seemingly strained and tortured mode of thanks... -
Matthew's Emmanuel: Divine Presence and God's People in the First Gospel by David D. Kupp 9780521570077
RRP: £96.99£82.01This book was first published in 1996. Matthew uniquely highlights Jesus as 'Emmanuel', but almost wholly overlooked are the deeper implications of this 'presence' motif for Matthean Christology, as well as its centripetal force on his readers. With... -
Tragedy and Biblical Narrative: Arrows of the Almighty by J. Cheryl Exum 9780521565066
RRP: £37.99£31.31Using insights about ancient and modern tragedy, this much-praised study offers challenging and provocative new readings of selected biblical narratives: the story of Israel's first king, Saul, rejected for his disobedience to God and driven to despair... -
Apocalyptic Eschatology in the Gospel of Matthew by David C. Sim 9780521553650
RRP: £90.00£81.03This 1996 study reconstructs the apocalyptic eschatology in Matthew's Gospel so that we may understand his time and concerns. Sociological analysis of apocalypticism in Judaism and early Christianity shows that such a comprehensive world view, which... -
The Paradox of Salvation: Luke's Theology of the Cross by Peter Doble 9780521552127
RRP: £110.00£97.75This study refutes the allegation that the author of Luke-Acts showed no systematic thought about the significance of Jesus's death, that is, he has no theologia crucis. Peter Doble focuses sharply on the Gospel's death scene and explores those features... -
Wrestling with Rationality in Paul: Romans 1-8 in a New Perspective by John D. Moores 9780521472234
RRP: £90.00£81.03Spanning a variety of disciplines, this 1995 enquiry focuses on one particular Pauline characteristic: the apostle's habit of making matters of faith the object of logical appraisal. A tracing of the elliptical patterns of argument in Romans 1-8... -
Jesus according to Paul by Victor Paul Furnish 9780521458245
RRP: £37.99£32.57Paul's letters are the earliest surviving Christian writings and therefore the earliest documentary evidence for what Jesus's followers knew and said about him. The present volume deals with questions frequently asked about Paul. Did he know Jesus... -
The Theology of Paul's Letter to the Romans by Klaus Haacker 9780521434805
RRP: £48.00£43.23Klaus Haacker, a respected expert on Paul's writings, presents a compelling introduction to the theology of the Letter to the Romans. This volume completes Cambridge's successful New Testament Theology series. In keeping with the series, it explores the... -
The Torn Veil: Matthew's Exposition of the Death of Jesus by Daniel M. Gurtner 9780521870641
RRP: £90.00£72.17In 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... -
The Originality of St Matthew: A Critique of the Two-Document Hypothesis by B.C. Butler 9780521233033
RRP: £37.99£31.31First published in 1951, this book forms a critique of the Two-Source Hypothesis, the theory in biblical studies that postulates the existence of a lost 'Q' Gospel. The Q theory achieved popularity through its formal completeness in explaining the... -
Jews in the Hellenistic World: Volume 1, Part 1: Josephus, Aristeas, The Sibylline Oracles, Eupolemus by John R. Bartlett 9780521285513
RRP: £25.99£21.99This book aims to introduce the work of Hellenistic Jewish writers of the period 200 BC to AD 200. Four in particular are studied. The authors of the Letter of Aristeas and the Sibylline Oracles came from second-century BC Egypt. Eupolemus wrote probably... -
Paul in Ecstasy: The Neurobiology of the Apostle's Life and Thought by Colleen Shantz 9780521866101
RRP: £93.99£80.04While many readers of Paul's letters recognize how important his experience was to his life and thought, Biblical scholars have not generally addressed this topic head-on. Colleen Shantz argues that they have been held back both by a bias against... -
Greco-Roman Culture and the Galilee of Jesus by Mark A. Chancey 9780521091442
RRP: £39.99£33.26Greco-Roman Culture and the Galilee of Jesus, a book-length investigation of this topic, challenges the conventional scholarly view that first-century Galilee was thoroughly Hellenised. Examining architecture, inscriptions, coins and art from Alexander... -
Paul, the Stoics, and the Body of Christ by Michelle V. Lee 9780521091435
RRP: £33.99£28.38At first glance, Paul's words to the Corinthians about being the body of Christ seem simple and straightforward. He compares them with a human body so that they may be encouraged to work together, each member contributing to the good of the whole... -
Christology and Discipleship in the Gospel of Mark by Suzanne Watts Henderson 9780521091398
RRP: £39.99£33.26Exploring the interrelated topics of Christology and discipleship within the apocalyptic context of Mark's Gospel, Henderson focuses on six passages: Mark 1:16-20; 3:13--15; 4:1-34; 6:7-13; 6:32-44; 6:45-52. Together, these passages indicate that the... -
The Letters of Paul to the Ephesians to the Colossians and to Philemon by G. H. P. Thompson 9780521094108
RRP: £23.99£20.37This series of commentaries on the New English Bible is designed for use in schools and colleges, and for the minister and the layman. Each volume comments on one book, or part, of the Bible. In each the text is given in full. Sections of text and... -
Letters of Paul to the Philippians and to the Thessalonians by Kenneth Grayston 9780521094092
RRP: £23.99£19.04This series of commentaries on the New English Bible is designed for use in schools and colleges, and for the minister and the layman. Each volume comments on one book, or part, of the Bible. In each the text is given in full. Sections of text and... -
A Letter to Hebrews by J. H. Davies 9780521094085
RRP: £23.99£19.04This series of commentaries on the New English Bible is designed for use in schools and colleges, and for the minister and the layman. Each volume comments on one book, or part, of the Bible. In each the text is given in full. Sections of text and... -
An Introduction to the Medieval Bible by Frans van Liere 9780521865784
RRP: £90.99£77.49The Middle Ages spanned the period between two watersheds in the history of the biblical text: Jerome's Latin translation c.405 and Gutenberg's first printed version in 1455. The Bible was arguably the most influential book during this time, affecting... -
The Bridegroom Messiah and the People of God: Marriage in the Fourth Gospel by Jocelyn McWhirter 9780521090223
RRP: £30.99£25.45Many interpreters of the Fourth Gospel detect allusions to biblical texts about marriage, but none offers a comprehensive analysis of these proposed allusions or a convincing explanation for their presence. Building on the work of Richard Hays, Donald... -
Biblical Poetics before Humanism and Reformation by Christopher Ocker 9780521089210
RRP: £39.99£33.26Biblical Poetics before Humanism and Reformation is a study of the interpretation of the Bible in the late Middle Ages. Scholastic theologians developed a distinct attitude toward textual meaning in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries which departed... -
Codex Bezae: An Early Christian Manuscript and its Text by David C. Parker 9780521072366
RRP: £44.99£38.14Codex Bezae is one of the most important primary sources in New Testament scholarship. Together with Codex Alexandrinus and Codex Vaticanus it represents one of our most significant links back to the early Church and its origins. Since its rediscovery in... -
Rhetoric and Galatians: Assessing an Approach to Paul's Epistle by Philip H. Kern 9780521048132
RRP: £36.99£30.33This monograph challenges the accepted notion that Galatians is either a sample of classical rhetoric or should be interpreted in light of Graeco-Roman rhetorical handbooks. It demonstrates that the handbooks of Aristotle, Cicero, et al. discuss a form... -
Paul and the Crucified Christ in Antioch: Maccabean Martyrdom and Galatians 1 and 2 by Stephen Anthony Cummins 9780521037174
RRP: £38.99£32.28The so-called 'Antioch Incident' - the confrontation between the apostles Peter and Paul in Galatians 2.11-21 - continues to be a source of controversy in both scholarly and popular estimations of the emergence of the early Church and the development of... -
Leadership and Lifestyle: The Portrait of Paul in the Miletus Speech and 1 Thessalonians by Steve Walton 9780521036382
RRP: £42.99£36.19This study contributes to debate about the portraits of Paul in Acts and his epistles by considering Paul's Miletus speech (Acts 20.18b-35) and identifies and compares major themes in Luke and Paul's views of Christian leadership. Comparisons with Jesus'... -
Matthew's Trilogy of Parables: The Nation, the Nations and the Reader in Matthew 21:28-22:14 by Wesley G. Olmstead 9780521036306
RRP: £38.99£32.28Wesley Olmstead examines the parables of the Two Sons, the Tenants and the Wedding Feast against the backdrop of the wider Matthean narrative. He explores Matthew's characterization of the Jewish leaders, the people and the nations, and assesses the...