Fresh understandings concerning the Bible have not filtered down beyond specialists in university settings. This volume seeks to meet this need, with chapters describing how archeology, theology, ancient studies, literary studies, feminist studies, and other disciplines understand the Bible.
Fresh understandings concerning the Bible have not filtered down beyond specialists in university settings. This volume seeks to meet this need, with chapters describing how archeology, theology, ancient studies, literary studies, feminist studies, and other disciplines understand the Bible.
The Embodied Character of Ezekiel's Symbolic Thinking
By comparing and contrasting the pictures gained from Greek and Mesopotamian cities with Ezekiel's Jerusalem, Launderville masterfully shows how Ezekiel fosters a type of symbolic thinking focused on making the Israelites into living symbols of God. The Spirit is the reality that connects humans with the cosmic order and enables the workings of ......
The past fifty years have seen powerful shifts in the methods and objectives of Biblical Studies. The study of the Johannine Literature, in particular, has seen a proliferation of new approaches, as well as innovative exegetical and theological conclusions. This volume surveys the emerging landscape from the perspective of scholars who have shaped ......
What is the purpose of reading the Bible? This title tackles the tough question of the Bible's role in the world and how its vision can further a more just world. It shows particularly the radical power of the Word to challenge imperial ways, the humiliation of persons, and the use of religion itself to keep people down.
New Approaches in Biblical Studies, Second Edition
Provides a classroom resource in biblical studies. This book contains introductions to critical methods in biblical study, focused on a biblical book, "Judges". It features additions to original articles along with essays on Gender Criticism, Cultural Criticism, and Post-colonial Criticism.
It is difficult to overestimate the singularity of Rudolf Bultmann. Bultmann's Theology of the New Testament changed the course of New Testament interpretation and has continued to influence the field until today. As ambitious in scope as it is consistent in method, Bultmann's volume asks and provides answers to the big questions. Bultmann also ......
Examines the principal sub-disciplines of biblical studies (textual criticism, archaeology, historical criticism, literary criticism, biblical theology, and translations) in order to show how these fields are influenced by religiously motivated agendas despite claims to independence from religious premises.
Who was Jesus, really? This title asks what we can know of Jesus from what many believe was the earliest written source behind the Gospels. It also includes a translation of "Q".
