Product Description: This book is about creation stories in dialogue, not only between different religious views, but also between current day scientific perspectives. International specialists, like Alan Culpepper, David Christian, John Haught, Randall Zachman, Ellen van Wolde from various disciplines are reflecting on the interface between science and religion relating questions of creation and origin...read more

Product Description: Born in Pretoria, South Africa, Abraham (Abe) J. Malherbe (1930-2012) taught Theology of New Testament and Early Christianity at Abilene Christian University and was Buckingham Professor of New Testament Criticism and Literature Emeritus at Yale Divinity School...read more

Product Description: Convenient access to recent research in biblical studies The annual Review of Biblical Literature presents a selection of reviews of the most recent books in biblical studies and related fields, including topical studies, multi-author volumes, reference works, commentaries, dictionaries, bible translations, and software...read more

Product Description: Ethics is a neglected field of research in the Gospel and Letters of John. Judgments about even the presence of ethics in the Gospel are often negative, and even though ethics is regarded as one of the two major problem areas focused on in 1 John, the development of a Johannine ethics from the Letters receive relatively little attention...read more

Product Description: This collection of essays explores the variety of views on eschatology in the New Testament - analyzing it book by book - as well as in some related documents. The authors treat different aspects of eschatology, exploring the history of research, as well as the multiple dimensions of eschatological issues, the variety, depth, mystery and problematic nature thereof...read more

Product Description: This volume focuses on the interrelatedness of morality and language. Apart from explicit ethical statements, implicit NT moral language is analysed in three overlapping aspects based on the interpretation of concrete NT texts: an intratextual level (linguistic and analytic philosophical methods: syntactical form, style and logic), an textual and intertextual level (form criticism, discourse analysis) and an extratextual level (speech act analysis; rhetoric; reader-response criticism)...read more

Product Description: Salvation in the New Testament offers an analysis of the soteriological perspectives and language of the different books of the New Testament. Special attention is given to the imagery used in expressing soteriological ideas. Salvation deals with becoming part of the people of God...read more

Product Description: Nearly all metaphors in the Gospel according to John relate to ancient family imagery. Thus, the disciples are "born of the Father"; the Father "provides them with bread and drink" (water); He "educates" them and "protects" them and a "dwelling" is prepared for them, and so on...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)