Amos

Amos
Author: Shalom M. Paul
Publisher:
Total Pages: 448
Release: 1991
Genre: Religion
ISBN:

Makes extensive use of ancient Near Eastern sources, and employs medieval Jewish exegesis along with modern Israeli biblical scholarship.

Jeremiah

Jeremiah
Author: Leslie C. Allen
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Total Pages: 578
Release: 2008-01-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0664222234

This commentary on the book of Jeremiah understands the book as a work of religious literature, to be examined in its final form and yet with careful attention to the historical contexts of writing and development through which the present text took shape.

Hosea

Hosea
Author: Hans Walter Wolff
Publisher: Hermeneia: A Critical & Histor
Total Pages: 259
Release: 1974
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780800660048

A fascinating commentary on one of the most difficult of the Old Testament prophets.

Judith

Judith
Author: Lawrence M. Wills
Publisher: Fortress Press
Total Pages: 526
Release: 2019-11-05
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1506463827

Judith tells the story of a beautiful Jewish woman who enters the tent of an invading general, gets him drunk, and then slices off his head, thus saving her village and Jerusalem. This short novella was somewhat surprisingly included in the early Christian versions of the Old Testament and has played an important role in the Western tradition ever since. This commentary provides a detailed analysis of the text's composition and its meaning in its original historical context, and thoroughly surveys the history of Judith scholarship. Lawrence M. Wills not only considers Judith's relation to earlier biblical texts--how the author played upon previous biblical motifs and interpreted important biblical passages--but also addresses the rise of Judith and other Jewish novellas in the context of ancient Near Eastern and Greek literature, as well as their relation to cross-cultural folk motifs. Because of the popularity of Judith in art and culture, this volume also addresses the book's history of interpretation in paintings, sculpture, music, drama, and literature. A number of images of artistic depictions of Judith are included and discussed in detail.

Philippians

Philippians
Author: Paul A. Holloway
Publisher: Fortress Press
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2017-11-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1506438431

Paul‘s letter to the Philippians offers treasures to the reader--and historical and theological puzzles as well. Paul A. Holloway treats the letter as a literary unity and a letter of consolation, according to Greek and Roman understandings of that genre, written probably in Rome and thus the latest of Paul‘s letters to come down to us. Adapting the methodology of what he calls a new history of religions perspective, Holloway attends carefully to the religious topoi of Philippians, especially the metamorphic myth in chapter 2, and draws significant conclusions about Paul‘s personalism and "mysticism." With succinct and judicious treatments of pertinent exegetical and theological issues throughout, Holloway draws richly on Jewish, Greek, and Roman comparative material to present a complex understanding of the apostle as a Hellenized and Romanized Jew.

Mark

Mark
Author: Adela Yarbro Collins
Publisher:
Total Pages: 894
Release: 2007
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0800660781

* A new and distinctive take on the earliest Gospel * Thoroughly gounded in traditional disciplines---but also archaeology and the social sciences

First Isaiah

First Isaiah
Author: Jimmy Jack McBee Roberts
Publisher:
Total Pages: 524
Release: 2015
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781506402901

The eighth century BCE Isaiah of Jerusalem, the so-called First Isaiah, is one of the most important theological voices in the Bible. J. J. M. Roberts takes a classical historical-critical approach to his interpretation of this material, making good use of his broad comparative knowledge of ancient Near Eastern historical and religious sources. In light of Isaiah’s very long prophetic ministry of at least thirty-eight years, and perhaps as long as fifty-three years, Roberts also suggests Isaiah often reedited older oracles from early in his ministry to address new, though somewhat analogous situations, albeit with different players, later in his ministry, without erasing telltale signs of the material’s earlier origin. In many cases, this suggestion provides a better explanation for glaring inconsistencies in an apparently connected text than the common fragmentation of the text that attributes such inconsistencies to later editors who either misunderstood or intentionally altered Isaiah’s message for their own purposes.

Daniel

Daniel
Author: John Joseph Collins
Publisher:
Total Pages: 548
Release: 1993
Genre: Religion
ISBN:

The most comprehensive English-language commentary on Daniel in 65 years. Collins situates the Old Testament in its historical context and offers a full explanation of the text, especially its religious imagery.

The Epistle to the Hebrews

The Epistle to the Hebrews
Author: Harold W. Attridge
Publisher:
Total Pages: 480
Release: 1989
Genre: Religion
ISBN:

The first major and comprehensive English- language commentary on Hebrews in over fifty years. Presents a balanced and richly documented interpretation.