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This is the thoroughly updated and expanded third edition of the successful The Formation of the Christian Biblical Canon. It represents a fresh at...

Scripture has brought us light in darkness, strength in weakness, comfort in sadness. It isn't difficult to endorse the Psalmist's experience that ...

The Bible is the most influential book in Western history. As the foundational text of Judaism and Christianity, the Bible has been interpreted and...

This Very Short Introduction offers a clear, accessible, and concise account of the apocryphal gospels - exploring their origins, their discovery, ...

In this concise and clearly written commentary, Charles H. Talbert brings to mainline Christians a fresh reading of the book of Revelation, demonst...

Richard I. Pervo provides the most complete translation of the pseudoepigraphic Acts of Paul in English, together with a detailed commentary. The r...

Jesus’ parables can’t simply be interpreted, they must be experienced. In the gospels, Jesus used parables to teach transformative lessons and c...

This outstanding Bible study course by legendary teacher E. W. Kenyon was written to lead Christians into a deeper walk with the Master. Profound s...

Understanding Biblical Hebrew poetry is a formidable task and the complexity rises exponentially when attempting translation. This collection of st...

Contained on fifteen of the cuneiform tables uncovered at the ancient Canaanite city of Ugarit are the four major oral Ugartic myths of Aqhat, The ...

This useful, concise introduction to the worlds around the New Testament focuses on seven key events in the centuries before and after Jesus. It en...

The SCM Study Guide: New Testament Interpretation, together with its companion volume The Books of the New Testament (9780334040477), offers an up-...

In Running Into the Fire, Terri Hasdorff draws from her more than twenty years in politics to reveal how people of faith can effectively influence ...

It is often observed that no historical figure has had a greater impact on the world than Jesus Christ. Why is that? And what difference does his i...

This paradigm-shifting study is the first book-length investigation into the compositional dates of the New Testament to be published in over forty...

The theme of justice pervades the Bible from Genesis to Revelation. And all Christians agree that justice is important. We often disagree, however,...

Scholars have long attempted to explain how the Pentateuch was put together. According to the predominant theory--the documentary hypothesis--the m...

Traditional views on the atonement tend to be reductive, focusing solely on Jesus's death on the cross. In his 2011 groundbreaking book Atonement a...

Narrator, characters, action, hero, quest, plot, time and space, entrances and exits--these are the essential components of all narrative literatur...

A companion to Reading Biblical Narrative, this volume provides an authoritative introduction and overview to biblical poetry. Fokkelman describes ...

Proven resources for deeper exploration of Scripture, Living Word Bible Studies provide effective guidance for groups and individuals alike. Each l...

These books of the Bible, despite their differences, all treat the phenomenon of what it means to live wisely before God. In this readable commenta...

Prominent biblical scholar and author Walter Brueggemann studies three passages from the books of Samuel, using the methods of literary criticism a...

How does the Bible shapes the perspective from which Christians view politics, the manner in which they engage in public debate, and the strategies...

Was Paul shaped by the movement that began with the teaching and activities of Jesus, or did he start something new? Attempts to answer this questi...

Paul's letters to early churches form one of the largest and most theologically rich parts of the New Testament. Walter Wilson examines each passag...

This highly readable investigation of the early church explores the revolutionary nature, dynamics, and effects of the earliest Christian communiti...

Missionary, theologian, and church leader, the apostle Paul is one of the giants of the Christian faith. He is also, Dr. Royal L. Pakhuongte sugges...

'We no longer need to separate Paul from Judaism in order to claim his Christianness,' writes Gabriele Boccaccini, adding, 'nor do we need to separ...

Erudite and authoritative, Paul's Message and Ministry in Covenant Perspective is the fruit of twenty-five years of scholarship about the theology ...

Ian E. Rock demonstrates that the Letter to the Romans may be seen as an attempt by a subordinate group to redress actual and potential issues of c...

After a review of scholarly work on the speeches in Acts, particularly Paul's Pisidian Antioch speech, Morgan-Wynne sets Paul's speech in the conte...

Rather than viewing the Apostle Paul's many references to peace and non-retaliation as generalized ethical principles drawn from Paul's background,...

IDEAL FOR USE IN THE CLASSROOM, BY CHURCH GROUPS, AND BY INDIVIDUALS, OUT OF THE DEPTHS OFFERS A FRESH READING OF THE PSALMS AND EXAMINES THEIR END...

The Christian life is built upon union and communion with God in Jesus Christ. The Bible illustrates this in terms of the most intimate of human re...

Opening Up Hosea is an easy-to-read commentary on the book of Hosea which seeks to apply in a fresh, illustrative and clear way, the message of Hos...

‘And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors’ (Matthew 6:12). Those words of our Lord Jesus may well have been on Paul’s mind wh...

The Quartodecimans were early Christians who maintained the tradition derived from Judaism, and observed Pascha at the same time that the Jews obse...

The prophets of the Old Testament include such well-known characters as Isaiah, Jeremiah, Amos, and Hosea. There are, however, many other prophets,...

For many believers, studying the Old Testament has often been left in mothballs--a tragedy that shouldn't be allowed to continue. Nathan LeMaster s...