This book examines how Christian teachings on love and enmity shape group identity and conflict, with scripture and theology used both to justify violence and call for reconciliation. It explores interdisciplinary perspectives that combine socio-sci...Loe edasi...
Ancient Bible Interpretation and its Legacies: Politics, Literature, and Heresy offers a sweeping exploration of the evolving role of Bible interpretation from ancient times to modernity, revealing its profound impact on religious, political, litera...Loe edasi...
This book critically examines the relationship between prophetic practices in the Bible and contemporary prophetism in African Christianity....Loe edasi...
Bringing together scholars from across the world, this publication shows Christians and Muslims individually or together reading the canonical Gospels of the New Testament in conversation with Islamic texts and contexts....Loe edasi...
Psychoanalysis and the Wisdom of Ecclesiastes looks at one of the most profound books in the Hebrew Bible - Ecclesiastes, known as Koheleth in Hebrew - through a psychoanalytic lens....Loe edasi...
By examining its history, traditions, symbols, and representation in the arts through the lens of three major schools of depth psychology, Kendrick L. Norris, a Jungian Analyst and minister, shows how better understanding of the promise of Christmas...Loe edasi...
This book is an accessible overview of the Bibles complex and evolving reception in popular culture. Drawing on biblical interpretations in TV, film, and music, it demonstrates the enduring diversity of the Bibles reception history, and is an engagi...Loe edasi...
This book bridges the gap between gendered and geopolitical analyses by interrogating both the sexual and ethnic violence embedded in the Book of Esther, and invites interpreters to consider the larger frameworks of ethnicity and racialization withi...Loe edasi...
This volume explores the connections between John McDowells philosophy and the hermeneutic tradition. The contributions not only explore the hermeneutical aspects of McDowells thought, but also asks how this reading of McDowell can inform the hermen...Loe edasi...
The significance of this work is monumental, both with regard to New Testament studies and with regard to our understanding of the Shroud of Turin!...Loe edasi...
This book explores Martin Luthers attitudes towards Jews and Judaism, considering his approach in the historical, religious, theological, and cultural context of late Middle Ages Europe. It will be of interest to scholars of religion, theology , his...Loe edasi...
This book discusses 20th and 21st century literary retellings of biblical texts, focusing on how fiction and poetry fill the extant narrative gaps present in the often sparse biblical accounts and align the narratives with theological and/or cultura...Loe edasi...
This book analyses Whites Christology, Incarnational model, and views of the Godhead and of what (could have) happened at the cross, cutting new paths in the comprehension of Gods love while challenging conventional theological paradigms....Loe edasi...
George Smith argues that modern humanity suffers from a late-stage, pre-fatal addiction to scientific-technological thinking. Like most pre-fatal addictions, this one will most likely result in one of three ways: misery, extinction, or human transfo...Loe edasi...
This book introduces the Bible as one of the greatest works of world literature. Ferretter provides a comprehensive history of the field, alongside detailed readings of the Bible and the most influential theories in the area. It is essential reading...Loe edasi...
Christology and Myth in the New Testament (1956) enquires into the extent and origin of the mythological language and ideas underlying the Christology of the New Testament. It examines the demythologizing principles, and considers that the mythical...Loe edasi...
Democracy and Civilization (1947) is concerned with philosophy, theology and politics, with the nature of history and civilization and politics, using the approach of Christian thinking. It closely allies the political theory of democracy with the C...Loe edasi...
This volume by the late Bernd J. Diebner presents an anthology of studies previously published only in German from 1971 to 2020 on a range of topics in biblical studies. Of interest to Anglophone scholars of biblical and ancient Near Eastern studies...Loe edasi...
This book delves into the critical question of how counseling can help individuals navigate and resolve these struggles. It prioritizes the true experts in this domainthe strugglers themselvesand provides an in-depth examination of their experiences...Loe edasi...
This book studies the composition or structure of Srat Maryam the 19th sra of the Quran according to the principles of Semitic rhetoric....Loe edasi...
Faith, Spirituality, and Praxis: Exploring Dynamics in African Grassroots Theologies and Churches investigates topics such as black theology movements, African Initiated Churches, and the ecclesiologies that emerge from the experiences and struggles...Loe edasi...
This book describes some of the major psychological processes that underpin various biblical stories and some of the theological speculation to which they have given rise....Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1952, this book discusses the relevant historical facts and the main theories of the different theological schools on the literature of the New Testament. The early chapters of the book deal with the background of Christianit...Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1933, from the volume one preface: This is an attempt to combine reading the Bible with learning to understand it. Of particular relevance to those interested in religious studies, today it can be read in its historical cont...Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1933, from the preface: ... This is an attempt to combine reading the Bible with learning to understand it. Of particular relevance to those interested in religious studies, today it can be read in its historical context....Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1933, from the preface in volume one: ... This is an attempt to combine reading the Bible with learning to understand it. Of particular relevance to those interested in religious studies, today it can be read in its historica...Loe edasi...
First published in 1978, Quran and Bible attempts to delve deeper, to solve some persistent puzzles, and to explore the common culture from which the Holy Books spring. Hebrew and Arabic, the original languages of the Bible and Quran are of the sam...Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1958, this book gives an account of the canonical prophets. After chapters on the prophetic literature, the historical background and the archaeological discoveries of the prophetic period, the rise of prophecy and the forms...Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1963, this work is a study of the Old Testament books known as The Writings (Ketuvim). Introductory chapters supply the necessary background material and are followed by separate chapters on the books themselves, their origin...Loe edasi...
First Published in 1990, The Bible as Rhetoric explores the ways in which the persuasive strategies employed in the biblical texts to their preoccupations with religious and historical truth....Loe edasi...
This book explores figurative images of the womb and the simile of a woman in labor from the Hebrew Bible, problematizing previous interpretations that present these as disparate images and showing how their interconnectivity embodies relationship w...Loe edasi...
This book extends scholarly debate beyond the analysis of pure historical debates and concerns to focus on the associations between Acts and the diverse contemporaneous texts, writers, and broader cultural phenomena in the second-century world of Ch...Loe edasi...
This book moves beyond the debate on wisdom literature, ongoing in Biblical Studies, demonstrating the productivity of wisdom as a literary category. Featuring work by scholars of Egyptology, Classics, Biblical and Near Eastern Studies, it offers fr...Loe edasi...
A comprehensive guide to the contents, historical settings, and social context of the Bible. This new edition is updated with several new chapters as well as a new section on biblical interpretation....Loe edasi...
This book explores the ways in which the origins of time, of the gods, and processes associated with time were conceptualised in antiquity, examining a variety of ancient sources from across the ancient world and addressing issues surrounding the so...Loe edasi...
This book offers a philosophical analysis of the environmental crisis in the Sundarbans, drawing upon phenomenological narratives and place-making narratives to consider the root cause of the crisis. Of appeal to academics, research students and pra...Loe edasi...
This book addresses the ecological crisis the world is facing and what the Bible can teach us about sustainable living, attempting to push the discussion beyond intellectual perspectives and help students and researchers apply biblical wisdom to the...Loe edasi...
Genesis Myth in Beowulf and Old English Biblical Poetry explores the adaptation of antediluvian Genesis and related myth in Genesis A, Genesis B, and Beowulf, exploring the manner whereby the texts adapt biblical myth with reference to the Christian...Loe edasi...
Biblical narratives include some of the most important and influential narratives in human history, shaping human understanding of the most basic questions of human life as lived individually or in social association with others....Loe edasi...
Ritual in Deuteronomy explores the symbolic world of Deuteronomys ritual covenant and curses through a lens of religious studies and anthropology, drawing on previously unexamined Mesopotamian material....Loe edasi...
Literature, Interpretation, and Ethics argues for the centrality of hermeneutics in the context of ongoing debates about the value of literature, and about the role and ethics of literary study....Loe edasi...
This book is the first major study to investigate Jesus resurrection using a memory approach. New Testament scholars and students will want to take note of how this work advances the discussion in historical Jesus studies....Loe edasi...
This book presents the first detailed treatment of Gadamers account of the nature of meaning. It argues both that this account is philosophically valuable in its own right and that understanding it sheds new light on his wider hermeneutical project....Loe edasi...
First published in 1955, The Life of Jesus Christ gives a lucid factual account of Christs life and examines His claim to be the Messiah whose life in time and space can only be understood in the light of the eternal purposes of God....Loe edasi...
First published in 1928, The Development of Sacramentalism traces the history of the fundamental presuppositions upon which the doctrine of sacraments....Loe edasi...
First published in 1964, Cosmic Theology introduces a work, little known to English readers, which has influenced theological and mystical writing for at least fourteen hundred years. It is a synthesis of Christian teaching, in which science and rel...Loe edasi...
This book puts a creative new reading of Hans-Georg Gadamers philosophical hermeneutics and literary genre theory to work on the problem of Scripture....Loe edasi...
