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Product Description: This book provides the most thorough and systematic analysis of early Jewish interpretations of Adam currently available. With detailed exegesis Levison demonstrates that each early Jewish author painted a unique portrait of Adam by utilizing Adam to express a particular, preconceived theological Tendenz...read more

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9781474230315 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, January 29, 2015, cover price $128.00 | About this edition: This book provides the most thorough and systematic analysis of early Jewish interpretations of Adam currently available.

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Product Description: Early Christian claims to the Holy Spirit arose in a vibrant cultural matrix that included Stoicism, Jewish mysticism, the Dead Sea Scrolls, Greco-Roman medicine, and the perspectives of Plutarch. In a range of articles, this multidisciplinary volume discovers in these texts rich cultural connections related to inspiration and the Holy Spirit...read more
By John R. Levison (editor)

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9783110310177 | Walter De Gruyter Inc, October 31, 2014, cover price $182.00 | About this edition: Early Christian claims to the Holy Spirit arose in a vibrant cultural matrix that included Stoicism, Jewish mysticism, the Dead Sea Scrolls, Greco-Roman medicine, and the perspectives of Plutarch.

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Product Description: Eugene Peterson calls Jack Levison ‘the clearest writer on the Holy Spirit that I have known.’ In this book Levison speaks a fresh prophetic word to the church, championing a unique blend of serious Bible study and Christian spirituality...read more

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9780802867889 | Eerdmans Pub Co, December 13, 2013, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: Eugene Peterson calls Jack Levison ‘the clearest writer on the Holy Spirit that I have known.

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Product Description: Should women be priests? Should women submit to their husbands? Is premarital sex okay? Inflammatory questions such as these have splintered Christianity and polarized the church. In Sex, Gender, and Christianity, a cadre of seasoned college professors offers the modest proposal that honest, fruitful conversations about these questions will take place only if we develop the ability to deal with sex, gender, and the Christian faith with the academic rigor and perspectives of our various disciplines...read more
By John R. Levison (editor)

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9781620320150 | Wipf & Stock Pub, October 8, 2012, cover price $29.00 | About this edition: Should women be priests?

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9780802863720 | Eerdmans Pub Co, October 6, 2009, cover price $46.00

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Product Description: The Spirit in First Century Judaism lays a cornerstone in the foundation of pneumatological studies by scouring ancient writings like Plato and Plutarch, Daniel and the Dead Sea Scrolls, as well as those of Philo of Alexandria and Flavius Josephus...read more

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9789004107397 | Brill Academic Pub, December 1, 1997, cover price $170.00 | About this edition: Conceptions of the divine spirit underwent complex metamorphoses in Jewish biblical interpretation during the Greco-Roman era.

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9780391041318, titled "The Spirit in First-Century Judaism" | Brill Academic Pub, September 1, 2002, cover price $72.00 | About this edition: The Spirit in First Century Judaism lays a cornerstone in the foundation of pneumatological studies by scouring ancient writings like Plato and Plutarch, Daniel and the Dead Sea Scrolls, as well as those of Philo of Alexandria and Flavius Josephus.

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Product Description: How does the spirit work through prophets? Early Jewish writers were themselves of two minds on this question. One answer—the "first mind"—was that the prophet is overcome by the spirit and becomes unconscious in the spirit’s presence...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780941037747 | D & F Scott Pub Inc, June 1, 2000, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: How does the spirit work through prophets?

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By John R. Levison (editor) and Priscilla Pope-Levison (editor)

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9780664258238 | Westminster John Knox Pr, July 1, 1999, cover price $30.00

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Product Description: Liberator, ancestor, cosmic Christ, and Black Messiah: these are just some of the ways that Jesus is viewed in the world. This rare book provides a global tour of the Christologies emerging in Latin America, Asia, and Africa, and those of North American feminist and African American theologies...read more

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9780664251659 | Westminster John Knox Pr, October 1, 1992, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Liberator, ancestor, cosmic Christ, and Black Messiah: these are just some of the ways that Jesus is viewed in the world.

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