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The gospel writers state they aim to tell the story of Jesus in a clear manner, but throughout Paul McCarren’s years in ......more

Origen was the greatest intellectual in the third century church, and the most influential of all the Greek Church Fathe......more

As the most visible book to the assembly, The Book of the Gospels symbolizes the presence of Christ in the liturgical ce......more

While there exist a variety of editions of the New Testament Apocrypha in English, German, French, Spanish, and Italian,......more

This volume is the first complete English translation of the Codex Bezae version of Luke and Acts....more

While there have been various studies examining the contents of the evangelistic proclamation in Acts; and various studi......more

This work examines the effect of the use of scripture on the interpretation of the Markan passion narrative, Mark 14:1-1......more

Social memory research has complicated the relationship between past and present because it is a relationship which find......more

James D. G. Dunn has been one of the most influential New Testament scholars of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. ......more

Since Martin Buber in Two Types of Faith acknowledged Jesus as his "great brother," other Jewish writers have sought to ......more

Few New Testament topics have been discussed as often and as intensely as Q, the hypothesized second major source alongs......more

An examination of Jesus’ claims in the Gospels to be God’s equal with reference to the historical Jesus....more

This book is the first ever collection of scholarly essays in English devoted specifically to the theme of the expressio......more

Rodney Thomas addresses the question of whether the book of Revelation was written as an ’anti-magical’ polemic and expl......more

Austin Farrer has often been described as the one genius that the Church of England produced in the twentieth century. H......more

Dodson reads the dreams in the Gospel of Matthew (1:18b-25; 2:12, 13-15, 19-21, 22; 27:19) as the authorial audience. Th......more

Using a multi-level approach to Mark 15:34, and contra to the opinion of the majority of Markan scholarship, a contextua......more

Commemorative Identities represents a significantly new approach to the issue of replacement/abrogation vs. continuation......more

Embark on an illuminating journey through the New Testament with the complete eighteen-volume set of the bestselling New......more

This study explores the conversion theologies of Luke and Paul. For Luke and Paul conversion played an important role in......more

Criteria of authenticity, whose roots go back to before the pioneering work of Albert Schweitzer, have become a unifying......more

Amanda Witmer presents an investigation of exorcism in the activities of the historical Jesus, particularly the connecti......more

Explores how the Fourth Gospel’s use of Scripture contributes to its characterization of Jesus and how it functions as a......more

Michael Theophilos investigates the term ’Abomination of desolation’ in Matthew 24:15 proposing a revised model for unde......more

This work studies the literary and socio-discursive contexts of ’the Ananias and Sapphira episode’ in Acts as a narrativ......more

Reading Acts Today provides a ’state of the art’ view of study of Acts from a variety of perspectives and approaches. It......more

Kuecker uses social identity theory to examine the interface between the Holy Spirit and ethnicity in Luke-Acts...more

Examines the Fourth Gospel in reference to First-Century media culture, including issues of issues of orality, aurality ......more

In-depth assessment of the contribution that modern psychological theories can make to the study of the Historical Jesus......more

A new analysis of the ’daughters’ in the Gospel of Mark...more

The audience, and its varying levels of participation, is a vital element for the communication of a story. The stories ......more

Tribal biblical interpretation is a developing area of study that is concerned with reading the Bible through the eyes o......more

Barry D. Smith studies the salvation-historical meaning of Jesus’ death (commonly known as the atonement) in the New Tes......more

This collection of major essays by the distinguished Finnish New Testament scholar will prove an invaluable sourcebook f......more

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This volume combines some of the leading voices on the composition and collection of early Christian gospels in order to......more

Questions regarding the afterlife are many, and the Gospel of Luke and the book of Acts pay a great deal of attention to......more

The idea of writing plays a central role in John. Apart from the many references to scriptural texts, John emphasizes th......more

H. Daniel Zacharias presents a literary-critical analysis of the Gospel of Matthew and its interaction with Davidic trad......more

For two centuries scholars have sought to discover the historical Jesus. Presently such scholarship is dominated not by ......more

In Luke-Acts, Jesus can be seen to take on the attributes of the Davidic shepherd king, a representation successfully co......more

The contributors to this volume (J.D. Punch, Jennifer Knust, Tommy Wasserman, Chris Keith, Maurice Robinson, and Larry H......more

John Barton and Peter Groves present a range of chapters by leading scholarly voices from the worlds of biblical studies......more

In the Gospel of Luke, the aged Simeon foresees the future opposition which Jesus will face (2.34-35) and concludes his ......more

Focusing specifically on the issue of genre methodology in Acts, Bale’ work will have clear ramifications for the study ......more

This book explores the Matthean Posteriority Hypothesis (MPH), a largely neglected solution to the Synoptic Problem whic......more

Mark, Manuscripts, and Monotheism is organized into three parts: Mark’s Gospel, Manuscripts and Textual Criticism, and M......more

Until the mid-1960s, most commentators of the Gospel of John were aware of a polemic against ’the Jews, ’ yet they did n......more

Having established the context of mockery and shame in Ancient Mediterranean cultures, Dietmar Neufeld shows how Mark pr......more

This book seeks to establish the inadequacy of readings of the Gospel of Matthew as intended for, and a reflection of, a......more

John’s Gospel has traditionally been regarded as the least apocalyptic document in the New Testament. This exciting new ......more

This collection examines the allusions to the Elijah- Elisha narrative in the gospel of Luke. The volume presents the ca......more

In this volume Ben Cooper analyses how commitment to God is described within the Gospel of Matthew, how this is related ......more

Lynn R. Huber argues that the visionary aspect of Revelation, with its use of metaphorical thinking and language, is the......more

The Gospel of Matthew is both deliberately deceptive and emotionally compelling.Karl McDaniel explores ways in which the......more

Scholarship on the Gospel of Mark has long been convinced of the paradoxical description of two of its primary themes, c......more

How can one reconcile the political nature of Jesus with his disinclination to power? Moore’s argument comes in three st......more

Unlike literature in the modern western world, ancient documents were typically crafted for the ear rather than the eye.......more

Despite being recognized as the most ’Jewish’ Gospel, many argue that Matthew was penned by someone who sought to distan......more

This book presents a synthesis of Gerbern Oegema’s extensive research on apocalypticism and Biblical interpretation. Oeg......more

Was Jesus a prophet of the eschatological Kingdom or a teacher of wisdom? These two characterizations of Jesus appear to......more

The death of Jesus is commonly regarded as the one radically novel perspective from which the problem of suffering is vi......more

John’s Gospel is best known for its presentation of Jesus as the Word of God made flesh. But as the narrative unfolds, r......more

Employing Northrop Frye’s system of archetypal literary criticism - the use of romance, tragedy, irony and satire, and c......more

Allen Hilton examines how pagan critics ridiculed the early Christians for being uneducated, and how a few literate Chri......more

This volume contributes to the study of the identity of Jesus, focusing on how he was originally perceived both by his c......more

This book looks at the Acts of the Apostles through two lenses that highlight the two topics of masculinity and politics......more

A number of New Testament passages depict the Holy Spirit acting in conjunction with gospel preaching or other forms of ......more

Sharon Betsworth examines the narratives, parables, and teachings of and about children in the gospels and the literatur......more

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Over the last two centuries, many scholars have considered the Gospel of John off-limits for all quests for the historic......more

This unique contribution to Markan studies reads Mark’s story of Jesus from a postcolonial perspective. It proposes that......more