... introduces readers to critical perspectives and methods of biblical interpretation, with emphasis on the New Testament, in a manner that enables them to apply these perspectives and methods to their own work. The readings and essays included in this volume have been chosen to support an exegetical worksheet, which provides students with step-by-step guidance for interpreting New Testament passages."--
The first volume of a magisterial commentary for scholars, students, pastors, and interested laypersons that interprets the Gospel of Matthew in its first-century context, and The second volume of a magisterial commentary for scholars, students, pastors, and interested laypersons that interprets the Gospel of Matthew in its first-century context"--
The first volume of a magisterial commentary for scholars, students, pastors, and interested laypersons that interprets the Gospel of Matthew in its first-century context, and The second volume of a magisterial commentary for scholars, students, pastors, and interested laypersons that interprets the Gospel of Matthew in its first-century context"--
Endorsements: The Sentences of Pseudo-Phocylides, a Hellenistic Jewish didactic poem of some 230 lines probably written in Alexandria during the first century CE, is increasingly recognized as a valuable source for understanding various facts of Second Temple Judaism and early Christianity. Read one way, it appears to be a miscellany of wisdom sayings and moral exhortations that express widely held values among both Jews and pagans during the ...
Although healing constitutes both a major theme of biblical literature and a significant practice of biblical communities, healing themes and experiences are not always conspicuous in presentations of biblical theology. The author adopts an interdisciplinary approach to the healing narratives in the Gospel of Matthew.
Paul's letters to early churches form one of the largest and most theologically rich parts of the New Testament. Walter Wilson examines each passage from every one of Paul's letters--including those that some scholars believe were written by someone else--and shows how they overlap and connect with passages from a broad spectrum of ancient literature. Parallels are drawn with other Pauline letters, New Testament and Old Testament writings, ear...
This commentary on the Greek text of the Jewish-Hellenistic Sentences of Pseudo-Phocylides, a sapiential poem of the first century BCE or first century CE, offers a full treatment of its sources, structure, perspective, and purpose as well as a verse-by-verse translation and analysis. The Greek text is given as appendix. The cross-cultural nature of these moral teachings is emphasized through extensive interaction with Biblical, Hellenistic Je...
