Product Description: Autobiography of searcher George Wesley Buchanan Like an eager hound, Buchanan could not be kept on a leash. He ran away from home before he was a year old. Before he was twenty-five he invented the toilet assembly that is still used today...read more

Product Description: Buchanan has unlocked an interesting conflict that took place in Scripture and has important ethical implications that continue until today. There are only two passages in Scripture that report something that God reckoned to anyone as righteousness...read more

Product Description: The author, who is well published in New Testament studies, has turned his attention to the historical Jesus, demonstrating the validity of the gospels and showing much historical data that has been overlooked by other scholars. As a pastor he has answered here the many questions parishioners have asked him about Jesus...read more

In contrast to all of the fanciful fabrications that have appeared in print recently, it is refreshing to see Buchanan's compelling portrait of Jesus as a master diplomat, organizer, chief executive, and statesman. Others have been led astray by some of the following invalid nineteenth century assumptions, presuming: 1) that the later church composed the gospel reports unreliably, 2) that all of the political terms in the gospels must be understood non-politically, 3) that any expression of "the end" always means the end of the world, regardless of its context, 4) that Jesus and his followers were illiterate, so the gospels were not written down until much later than the time when Jesus lived, 5) that Jesus did not speak to his own age but to ours. 6) That it does not matter what Jesus said and meant in his own day. What is important is how reading the gospels makes readers think and feel today. With all of these potential eliminations of selected historical facts about Jesus, twentieth and twenty-first century authors have moved freely to invent a Jesus to fit their own time and location, treating the gospels as if they were inkblot tests to be used to reflect the readers' own feelings and opinions. Authors have disagreed about the details, because they had different needs. For some Jesus was a peasant, a Cynic (John Dominic Crossan), or a magician (Morton Smith). For others he was probably illiterate (James Dunn). Some thought the gospel reports were inaccurately preserved from only an oral tradition (James Dunn). There has been a strong tendency to use some or all of these hypotheses as if they were computer default settings, or NO TRESPASSING territorial signs, without the observance of which authors were not authorized to write. Such techniques and procedures as these at least partially account for

Product Description: Prof. George Wesley Buchanan PhD, Litt.D, D.S.L. Recognized in academic circles for being the first for the following: 1. use of insights from the Dead Sea Scrolls to solve biblical problems. 2. discover midrash (commentary on Scripture) in the First Testament...read more

Scholar George Wesley Buchanan attempts to decipher the meaning of the Book of Daniel through detailed exegesis of the Book in Hebrew, English, and Aramaic in proximity to one another for comparison. Sections of text are broken down and explored in technical detail, followed by commentary. Buchanan argues that the Book of Daniel was not originally written as a prophecy intended to be fulfilled anytime after the second century BIA (Before International Age). Rather, the various chapters, if read as dramas rather than as tracts for hard times, should be understood in terms of festivity and celebration.

Product Description: Covering the book of Matthew, this is one of a series of volumes of biblical intertextual commentary. Professor George Buchanan's methodology of intertextuality places the biblical text opposite all of its sources, so as to provide a more comprehensive study of Scripture.

Product Description: Recognizing that Midrash in the Bible has become a topical method of research, and indeed it has now gained the title "intertextuality", this book contains examples of the way Midrash is discovered and recognized in the Hebrew Scripture and in the New Testament...read more

Product Description: Instead of opting for one of the standard explantions of eschatology, this study looks for the origin of the concept in antiquity, requiring an examination of the Hebrew Scripture, the New Testament, the Dead Sea Scrolls, rabbinic literature, the church fathers, and surrounding Greek literature and history...read more

Product Description: Examines legal concepts in the scripture and the technical implications involved. Compares in both scripture and courtroom such concepts as covenant, apostle, witnessing, prayers, calls to worship compared with court room commands, the architecture of ancient temples and that of court rooms, exegesis, rhetorical arguments in the Bible and court, incarnation, and more...read more