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...
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...
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...
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 1948, this book is of a remarkable gentleman, Alexander Stewart, who was born in Kirkaldy, Fifeshire, in 1790, and died in 1874. In middle life he wrote for his children an account of his adventurous youth. It is a remarkable...Loe edasi...
This book provides an in-depth analysis of the relationship between the sciences and the concept of divine revelation. It includes a historical overview of the notion of revelation, its role in scientific debates over the centuries, and current chal...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...
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...
First Published in 1938, The Enigma of the Fourth Gospel by Robert Eisler presents a comprehensive overview of the Fourth gospel, its author, and its writer. This is a must read for scholars and researchers of Christianity and religion....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 volume explores the creation of the collection now known as the New Testament. While it is generally accepted that it did not emerge as a collection prior to the late second century CE, a more controversial question is how it came to be....Loe edasi...
Drawing on both biblical studies scholarship and practitioner experience, this book explores the disjuncture between complementarian accounts of biblical marriage and intersections of marriage and violence in texts from Jewish and Christian Scriptur...Loe edasi...
This book offers new interpretative insight into the Gospel of John, applying a combination of critical discourse analysis, conceptual metaphor theory, and anthropological theories of ritual....Loe edasi...
This book interrogates the theological and philosophical foundations of the Quest for the historical Jesus, taking a multidisciplinary approach to historical Jesus research and making a significant, original contribution to the field. Suitable for s...Loe edasi...
This book offers a detailed analysis of the Gospel of Thomas in its historic and literary context, providing a new understanding of the genesis of the Jesus tradition...Loe edasi...
This book presents a full-scale application of social identity approach to the Johannine writings. It reconsiders a widely held scholarly assumption that the writings commonly taken to represent Johannine Christianity the Gospel of John and the Fir...Loe edasi...
Compares the Gospel of Lukes account of Johns ministry with those of Matthew, Mark and John. Using comparative test cases and a literary-critical approach, Chauchot argues that the Gospel of Luke involves a reshaping of Matthew and Mark. Adds to res...Loe edasi...
A detailed case for the plausible literary dependence of the Gospel of Mark on select letters of the apostle Paul. Contends Mark sought to anticipate Paul by constructing narrative precursors concordant with Pauls teachings. Makes a substantial con...Loe edasi...
Teaching the Historical Jesus in his Jewish context to students of varied religious backgrounds presents instructors with not only challenges, but also opportunities to sustain interfaith dialogue and foster mutual understanding and respect. This ne...Loe edasi...
Herod examines the life, work, and influence of this controversial figure, who remains the most highly visible of the Roman client kings under Augustus. Herods rule shaped the world in which Christianity arose and his influence can still be seen tod...Loe edasi...
Offering an emancipatory reading of Revelation 17-18 using Foucauldian, postcolonial and queer historiographies, this study uses the Great Whore of Babylon to set out alternative paths for identity construction in Biblical texts....Loe edasi...
The book is first critical study of the canonical gospels which is based on both Markan priority, Lukes use of Mark and Matthew, and Johns use of all three synoptic gospels. Its aim is both to provide a new critical portrait of Peter in the gospels...Loe edasi...
By placing the insights of the Galilean Jesus and the early Jesus movement into conversation with contemporary views on private property and consumer culture, the authors develop legal, philosophical and theological insights, what they describe as s...Loe edasi...
This book offers a critical evaluation of the prospects and boundaries of an updated metaphor of the Body of Christ, especially in its cosmic dimension. The body motif in particular contains starting points for current body discourses of gender-sens...Loe edasi...
This book provides commentary and analysis, from a Muslim perspective, on the writing of St. Paul. In particular it provides a close textual reading of Galatians, and discusses wider Christian theology and the New Testament whilst simultaneously ope...Loe edasi...
