Preface Preface to First Edition Abbreviations THE SHAPE OF THE PROBLEM: THE SECRET OF JESUS' IDENTITY IN MARK The Messianic Secret: From Wrede to the Present The Messianic Secret: A Reappraisal THE SHAPE OF THE PROBLEM: CORRECTIVE CHRISTOLOGY IN MARK Corrective Christology: From Wrede to the Present ......
A collection of essays, which offers a reasoned defence of one of the most venerable ethical, scientific and philosophical traditions within Western civilisation.
Essays in Honor of David Noel Freedman in Celebration of His Sixtieth Birthday
This volume contains fifty-two essays composed in honor of David Noel Freedman and organized around the topics: Hebrew Poetry and Prophecy, The Prose of the Hebrew Bible, History and Institutions of Israel, Northwest Semitic Epigraphy, and Other Perspectives. A bibliography of the honoree is included.
The Symbol of the Egyptian Hieroglyphics in the American Renaissance
''This is major scholarship, both as it contributes to American history of ideas and as it offers a brilliant new interpretation of major nineteenth-century American writers.''--J. Hillis Miller
How do you motivate the volunteers on your staff? Are you "burning out" your best people? What can you do with the pew-sitters? Do you find it hard to ask for help? This insightful, practical book by Marlene Wilson, an international authority on volunteerism, will help you answer these and other questions about volunteers in the church. ......
John Dewey was one of the foremost social and political philosophers of the twentieth century. He worked to reorient philosophy toward the concrete problems of humankind and addressed himself to the public issues of his day. This book contains a documentary account of Dewey's political thought and activities.
The Darker Comedies. Bacchides, Casina, and Truculentus
The plays translated in this volume represent everything one would not expect either from the third-century B.C. playwright Plautus or from Roman comedy in general.A common theme in all three comedies is the triumph of women over men. In Truculentus, prostitutes snare all of the men in the play; in Bacchides, the victims include fathers and sons. ......
New Hearing for Gospel Stories of Healing and Discipleship
"Borsch helps us feel our way into the text.... We experience the healing of a dumb man from within the consciousness of the tormented victim. We climb inside the skin of Andrew and feel his smug contempt for pagans and Gentiles, and his impatience with the Syrophoenician woman. With the flick of the writer's pen, we are that desperate woman. ......
