Hebrews (Paideia: Commentaries on the New Testament)

Hebrews (Paideia: Commentaries on the New Testament)
Author: James W. Thompson
Publisher: Baker Academic
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2008-12-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1441205152

Hebrews, the second of eighteen volumes in the Paideia commentary series, brings the insight of a veteran teacher and writer to bear on a New Testament book whose rich imagery and memorable phrases have long shaped Christian discourse. The Paideia series approaches each text in its final, canonical form, proceeding by sense units rather than word-by-word or verse-by-verse. Each sense unit is explored in three sections: (1) introductory matters, (2) tracing the train of thought, (3) key hermeneutical and theological questions. The commentaries shed fresh light on the text while avoiding idiosyncratic readings, attend to theological meaning without presuming a specific theological stance in the reader, and show how the text uses narrative and rhetorical strategies from the ancient educational context to form and shape the reader.

James and Jude (Paideia: Commentaries on the New Testament)

James and Jude (Paideia: Commentaries on the New Testament)
Author: John Painter
Publisher: Baker Books
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2012-11-15
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1441240381

In this addition to the well-received Paideia series, two respected New Testament scholars offer a practical commentary on James and Jude that is conversant with contemporary scholarship, draws on ancient backgrounds, and attends to the theological nature of the texts. This commentary, like each in the projected eighteen-volume series, proceeds by sense units rather than word-by-word or verse-by-verse. Paideia commentaries explore how New Testament texts form Christian readers by • attending to the ancient narrative and rhetorical strategies the text employs • showing how the text shapes theological convictions and moral habits • commenting on the final, canonical form of each New Testament book • focusing on the cultural, literary, and theological settings of the text • making judicious use of maps, photos, and sidebars in a reader-friendly format Students, pastors, and other readers will appreciate the historical, literary, and theological insight that John Painter and David deSilva offer in interpreting James and Jude.

First and Second Peter (Paideia: Commentaries on the New Testament)

First and Second Peter (Paideia: Commentaries on the New Testament)
Author: Duane F. Watson
Publisher: Baker Books
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2012-08-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1441238662

In this addition to the well-received Paideia series, New Testament scholars Duane Watson and Terrance Callan examine cultural context and theological meaning in First and Second Peter. Paideia commentaries explore how New Testament texts form Christian readers by • attending to the ancient narrative and rhetorical strategies the text employs • showing how the text shapes theological convictions and moral habits • commenting on the final, canonical form of each New Testament book • focusing on the cultural, literary, and theological settings of the text • making judicious use of maps, photos, and sidebars in a reader-friendly format This commentary, like each in the projected eighteen-volume series, proceeds by sense units rather than word-by-word or verse-by-verse. Students, pastors, and other readers will appreciate the historical, literary, and theological insight Watson and Callan offer in interpreting First and Second Peter.

Galatians

Galatians
Author: Martinus C. de Boer
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Total Pages: 498
Release: 2011-07-29
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1611643627

This new commentary in the New Testament Library series is not a systematic study of Pauline theology; rather, the aim of this study is to trace Paul's theology as it unfolds in his letter to the church at Galatia, and to attempt to illuminate, as far as possible, how the Galatians likely comprehended it, at the time they received it. The author asks readers to imagine themselves as silent witnesses to Paul's dictation of the letter and to observe, through a historical perspective, how the Galatian Christians might have understood Paul's words.

Philippians and Philemon (Paideia: Commentaries on the New Testament)

Philippians and Philemon (Paideia: Commentaries on the New Testament)
Author: James W. Thompson
Publisher: Baker Academic
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2016-08-16
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 149340427X

New in the Acclaimed Paideia Commentary Series Two respected senior New Testament scholars examine cultural context and theological meaning in Philippians and Philemon in this addition to the well-received Paideia series. Paideia commentaries explore how New Testament texts form Christian readers by attending to the ancient narrative and rhetorical strategies the text employs, showing how the text shapes theological convictions and moral habits, and making judicious use of maps, photos, and sidebars in a reader-friendly format. Students, pastors, and other readers will appreciate the historical, literary, and theological insight offered in this practical commentary.

Philippians

Philippians
Author: Stephen E. Fowl
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2005-11-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1467423750

In this fine new commentary on Paul's letter to the Philippians, Stephen Fowl notes that for the great premodern commentators of the Christian tradition, the literal sense of Scripture is always regulated by theological concerns. Thus, unlike commentaries that simply append theology to historical criticism, Fowl's volume displays disciplined attention to the text of Philippians in ways that enhance rather than frustrate theological inquiry. While Fowl engages the great scholars of the past, John Chrysostom and Thomas Aquinas among them, he also draws a novel theology of friendship from Paul's letter and unpacks how the teachings of Philippians might be embodied today by Christians in the West.

Acts

Acts
Author: Willie James Jennings
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2017-05-05
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 161164805X

In this new commentary for the Belief series, award-winning author and theologian Willie James Jennings explores the relevance of the book of Acts for the struggles of today. While some see Acts as the story of the founding of the Christian church, Jennings argues that it is so much more, depicting revolutionlife in the disrupting presence of the Spirit of God. According to Jennings, Acts is like Genesis, revealing a God who is moving over the land, "putting into place a holy repetition that speaks of the willingness of God to invade our every day and our every moment." He reminds us that Acts took place in a time of Empire, when the people were caught between diaspora Israel and the Empire of Rome. The spirit of God intervened, offering new life to both. Jennings shows that Acts teaches how people of faith can yield to the Spirit to overcome the divisions of our present world.

Literary Structure and Rhetorical Strategies in The Hebrew Bible

Literary Structure and Rhetorical Strategies in The Hebrew Bible
Author: L.J. de Regt
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2023-08-14
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 900466324X

Analysis of text structures has been a dominant feature in Biblical studies for quite some time. More recently, scholars have focused on rhetorical strategies that have been employed in Biblical texts. In this volume, rhetorical as well as structural approaches to the Hebrew Bible have been brought together. It contains studies on a range of topics and on a good many texts and textual corpuses. Interpretation culminates in translation. The contributors to this volume have discussed the implications of their findings for Bible translators. Many of these translational implications have been put together in an epilogue. The volume thus not only intends to show the present state of our knowledge of literary and rhetorical techniques employed in the Bible; on these points it aims to be a selective guide to translators as well. The volume has been edited by Lenart de Regt, Jan de Waard (both of the Free University of Amsterdam), and Jan Fokkelman (Leiden University).

Matthew

Matthew
Author: Charles H. Talbert
Publisher: Baker Academic
Total Pages: 400
Release: 2010-08
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0801031923

This readable commentary exposes theological meaning in Matthew by tracing its use of rhetorical strategies from the ancient cultural and educational context.

The Twelve Religions of the Bible

The Twelve Religions of the Bible
Author: Rolland Wolfe
Publisher: New York : E. Mellen Press
Total Pages: 448
Release: 1982
Genre: Religion
ISBN:

Asserts that the Bible is a succession of twelve relatively separate religions, eight in the Old Testament and four in the New: the SumeroAkkadian religion of Genesis 1-11; the Aramaean religion of the patriarchal nomads; the EgyptoMidianite religion of Moses; Joshua's religion of genocide; the Canaanite-Hebrew religion of the Judges and Kings; the revolutionary religion of Israel's prophets; Judaism; the humanistic religion of poets and scholars; the Mandaean religion of John the Baptist; the spiritual religion of Jesus; Paul's mystical religion of the indwelling of Christ; and the apocalyptic religion of the Revelator.