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Galatians: A Critical and Exegetical Commentary

By Christopher M. Tuckett

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9780567139191 | T&t Clark Ltd, July 30, 2012, cover price $110.00

The Days of Miracle and Wonder: How to Be a Christian in the Twenty-first Century

Product Description: Showcasing some of his most enduring and insightful writings, including many previously unpublished works, a concise and illuminating introduction to Marcus J. Borg, the late spokesman for progressive Christianity and one of the most revered and influential theologians of our time...read more

By Marcus J. Borg

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9780062457332 | Harperone, January 17, 2017, cover price $25.99 | About this edition: Showcasing some of his most enduring and insightful writings, including many previously unpublished works, a concise and illuminating introduction to Marcus J.

Voices from the Margins: Interpreting the Bible in the Third World

Product Description: A long-anticipated revision of a classic text, shedding new light on the Biblical concerns of the traditionally underrepresented cultures and churches of a truly global Christianity.This 25th Anniversary edition of a classic text offers a significant revision of an important resource for World Christianity...read more

By R. S. Sugirtharajah (editor)

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9781626982055 | 4th edition (Orbis Books, December 15, 2016), cover price $48.00 | About this edition: A long-anticipated revision of a classic text, shedding new light on the Biblical concerns of the traditionally underrepresented cultures and churches of a truly global Christianity.

The Birth of the Trinity: Jesus, God, and Spirit in New Testament and Early Christian Interpretations of the Old Testament

Product Description: How and when did Jesus and the Spirit come to be regarded as fully God? The Birth of the Trinity offers a new historical approach by exploring the way in which first- and second-century Christians read the Old Testament in order to differentiate the one God as multiple persons...read more

By Matthew W. Bates

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9780198729563 | Oxford Univ Pr, May 12, 2015, cover price $90.00 | About this edition: How and when did Jesus and the Spirit come to be regarded as fully God?

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9780198779247 | Reprint edition (Oxford Univ Pr, November 15, 2016), cover price $27.95 | About this edition: How and when did Jesus and the Spirit come to be regarded as fully God?

Theologians on Scripture

Product Description: The movement that is known as 'theological interpretation of Scripture' reminds us that the reading and exegesis of Scripture is an indispensable part of the theologian's work, not to be reserved to biblical scholars alone. This insight that the reading of Scripture is a theological responsibility is always at risk of being eclipsed by the modern disciplinary divisions between biblical studies, historical theology, and systematic theology...read more

By Angus Paddison (editor)

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9780567182401 | T&t Clark Ltd, November 3, 2016, cover price $128.00 | About this edition: The movement that is known as 'theological interpretation of Scripture' reminds us that the reading and exegesis of Scripture is an indispensable part of the theologian's work, not to be reserved to biblical scholars alone.

And He Will Take Your Daughters: Woman Story and the Ethical Evaluation of Monarchy in the David Narrative

Product Description: April Westbrook explores the intentional inclusion of woman stories (those displaying significant female presence) within the David narrative in the books of Samuel. These stories are made prominent by the surprisingly high number of their occurrences as well as the sequentially progressive literary pattern in which they occur in the larger narrative...read more

By Claudia V. Camp (editor)

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9780567672148 | T&t Clark Ltd, October 20, 2016, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: April Westbrook explores the intentional inclusion of woman stories (those displaying significant female presence) within the David narrative in the books of Samuel.

Biblical Authority After Babel: Retrieving the Solas in the Spirit of Mere Protestant Christianity

Product Description: How the Five Solas Can Renew Biblical InterpretationIn recent years, notable scholars have argued that the Protestant Reformation unleashed interpretive anarchy on the church. Is it time to consider the Reformation to be a 500-year experiment gone wrong?World-renowned evangelical theologian Kevin Vanhoozer thinks not...read more

By Kevin J. Vanhoozer

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9781587433931 | Brazos Pr, October 18, 2016, cover price $21.99 | About this edition: How the Five Solas Can Renew Biblical InterpretationIn recent years, notable scholars have argued that the Protestant Reformation unleashed interpretive anarchy on the church.

Psalms

Product Description: Many readers are convinced that the Psalms are hopelessly “masculine,” especially given that seventy-three of the 150 psalms begin with headings linking them to King David. In this volume, Denise Dombkowski Hopkins sets stories about women in the Hebrew Bible alongside Psalms 42–89 as “intertexts” for interpretation...read more

By Denise Dombkowski Hopkins

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9780814681206 | Michael Glazier, October 15, 2016, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Many readers are convinced that the Psalms are hopelessly “masculine,” especially given that seventy-three of the 150 psalms begin with headings linking them to King David.

Philippians, Colossians, Philemon

Product Description: Philippians lends itself to a political-ideological reading. To take into account that the document is a writing from prison, and to read it from a political-religious and feminist perspective using new language, helps to re-create the letter as if it were a new document...read more

By Alicia J. Batten

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9780814682005 | Michael Glazier, October 15, 2016, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Philippians lends itself to a political-ideological reading.

1-2 Timothy, Titus

Product Description: The author of 1 Timothy, 2 Timothy, and Titus argues in favor of a “traditional” Greco-Roman gender ideology: that because men and women are biologically different, they ought to behave differently in the family and society. His gender-specific beliefs carry over into his teachings for the house churches, where only free married men are eligible to serve as leaders, teachers, and preachers, while women are expected to take up the subordinate female domestic roles of wife, mother, and household manager...read more

By Annette Bourland Huizenga

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9780814682036 | Michael Glazier, October 15, 2016, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: The author of 1 Timothy, 2 Timothy, and Titus argues in favor of a “traditional” Greco-Roman gender ideology: that because men and women are biologically different, they ought to behave differently in the family and society.

Song of Songs

Product Description: Arguably the biggest blockbuster love song ever composed, the Song of Songs holds a unique place in Jewish and Christian canons as the “holiest” book, in the minds of some readers, and the sexiest in its language and imagery. This commentary aims to interpret this vibrant Song in a contemporary feminist key, informed by close linguistic-literary and social-cultural analysis...read more

By F. Scott Spencer

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9780814681244 | Michael Glazier, October 15, 2016, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Arguably the biggest blockbuster love song ever composed, the Song of Songs holds a unique place in Jewish and Christian canons as the “holiest” book, in the minds of some readers, and the sexiest in its language and imagery.

1-2 Thessalonians

Product Description: When Paul wrote First Thessalonians shortly after the recipients had accepted the Gospel, many significant issues had already arisen among them. Of great concern was the social complexity, and even persecution, they encountered because they had “turned to God from idols” (1:9)...read more

By Hyeran Kim-cragg

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9780814682012 | Michael Glazier, October 15, 2016, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: When Paul wrote First Thessalonians shortly after the recipients had accepted the Gospel, many significant issues had already arisen among them.

Knowing Scripture

Product Description: The Bible is the written Word of God, and it is treasured by many. But it is also an ancient book about people and cultures very different than us. Thus, while we know we should read it, many of us have a hard time understanding the Bible...read more

By R. C. Sproul

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9780830844685 | Expanded edition (Ivp Books, December 4, 2016), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: The Bible is the written Word of God, and it is treasured by many.

9780830837236 | Revised edition (Ivp Books, March 1, 2009), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: The Bible is the written Word of God, and it is treasured by many.

9780877847335 | Intervarsity Pr, June 1, 1977, cover price $13.00 | About this edition: R.

Josephus' Interpretation of the Books of Samuel

Product Description: Since the seventies, no study has examined the methodologies of Josephus' rewriting of an entire biblical book as part of his Judean Antiquities. This book attempts to fill this vacuum by exploring Josephus' adaptation of the books of Samuel, penetrating the exegetical strategies he employs to modify the biblical stories for his intended audience...read more

By Lester L. Grabbe (editor)

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9780567672070 | T&t Clark Ltd, September 22, 2016, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Since the seventies, no study has examined the methodologies of Josephus' rewriting of an entire biblical book as part of his Judean Antiquities.

Hermeneutics As Apprenticeship: How the Bible Shapes Our Interpretive Habits and Practices

Product Description: A Fresh Approach to the Art of Biblical InterpretationThis book offers a fresh approach to the art of biblical interpretation, focusing on the ways Scripture itself forms its readers as wise and faithful interpreters. David Starling shows that apprenticing ourselves to the interpretive practices of the biblical writers and engaging closely with texts from all parts of the Bible help us to develop the habits and practices required to be good readers of Scripture...read more

By Peter O'Brien (foreword by) and David I. Starling

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9780801049392 | Baker Academic, September 20, 2016, cover price $24.99 | About this edition: A Fresh Approach to the Art of Biblical InterpretationThis book offers a fresh approach to the art of biblical interpretation, focusing on the ways Scripture itself forms its readers as wise and faithful interpreters.

Living With Wealth Without Losing Your Soul: A PastorÂs Journey from Guilt to Grace

Product Description: Once upon a time, a faithful, God-fearing boy fell in love with the girl of his dreams… As a young man, Pastor Steve Perry passionately followed a philosophy of non-pursuit of wealth as he moved towards a Christian life. He held the not-uncommon belief that poverty was more virtuous than prosperity and was a path to becoming closer to God...read more

By Steve Halliday (contributor)

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9780795348556, titled "Living With Wealth Without Losing Your Soul: A Pastorâs Journey from Guilt to Grace" | Rosettabooks, September 13, 2016, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Once upon a time, a faithful, God-fearing boy fell in love with the girl of his dreams… As a young man, Pastor Steve Perry passionately followed a philosophy of non-pursuit of wealth as he moved towards a Christian life.

Redeeming Gender: One Sex, One Humanity, One Christ

Product Description: Redeeming Gender argues that the problems about sexuality which continue to sap the churches' energies are really about gender. The dominant understanding of women's bodies in the Christian West has been that they are inferior versions of the superior male body...read more

By Adrian Thatcher

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9780198744757 | Oxford Univ Pr, September 9, 2016, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Redeeming Gender argues that the problems about sexuality which continue to sap the churches' energies are really about gender.

When Momma Speaks: The Bible and Motherhood from a Womanist Perspective

Product Description: Stephanie Buckhanon Crowder provides an engaging womanist reading of mother characters in the Old and New Testaments. After providing a brief history of womanist biblical interpretation, she shows how the stories of several biblical mothers—Hagar, Rizpah, Bathsheba, Mary, the Canaanite woman, and Zebedee's wife—can be powerful sources for critical reflection, identification, and empowerment...read more

By Stephanie Buckhanon Crowder

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9780664239251 | Westminster John Knox Pr, September 2, 2016, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: Stephanie Buckhanon Crowder provides an engaging womanist reading of mother characters in the Old and New Testaments.

Matthean Posteriority: An Exploration of Matthew's Use of Mark and Luke As a Solution to the Synoptic Problem

Product Description: This book explores the Matthean Posteriority Hypothesis (MPH), a largely neglected solution to the Synoptic Problem which holds that the author of the Gospel of Luke used the Gospel of Mark as a source, and that the author of the Gospel of Matthew used both the Gospel of Mark and the Gospel of Luke as sources...read more

By Chris Keith (editor)

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9780567672032 | T&t Clark Ltd, August 25, 2016, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: This book explores the Matthean Posteriority Hypothesis (MPH), a largely neglected solution to the Synoptic Problem which holds that the author of the Gospel of Luke used the Gospel of Mark as a source, and that the author of the Gospel of Matthew used both the Gospel of Mark and the Gospel of Luke as sources.

Children in Early Christian Narratives

Product Description: Sharon Betsworth examines the narratives, parables, and teachings of and about children in the gospels and the literature of Early Christianity. Betsworth begins with a discussion of the social-historical context of children and childhood in the first century before discussing the role of children in all four gospels...read more

By Chris Keith (editor)

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9780567671981 | T&t Clark Ltd, August 25, 2016, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Sharon Betsworth examines the narratives, parables, and teachings of and about children in the gospels and the literature of Early Christianity.

The Substance of Psalm 24: An Attempt to Read Scripture After Brevard S. Childs

Product Description: This book contributes to the theory and practice of Biblical interpretation by engaging in an interpretation of Psalm 24 inspired by a particular understanding of Brevard Childs' “canonical approach”: an understanding centred on the concept of “theological substance...read more

By Claudia V. Camp (editor)

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9780567671998 | T&t Clark Ltd, August 25, 2016, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: This book contributes to the theory and practice of Biblical interpretation by engaging in an interpretation of Psalm 24 inspired by a particular understanding of Brevard Childs' “canonical approach”: an understanding centred on the concept of “theological substance.

An Intertextual Analysis of Zechariah 9-10: The Earlier Restoration Expectations of Second Zechariah

Product Description: This book conducts an in-depth study on the ideas about future salvation in Zechariah 9-10. In accommodation of the allusive character of the text, Lee uses the methodology of intertextual analysis to examine the markers in the text...read more

By Claudia V. Camp (editor)

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9780567672001 | Reprint edition (T&t Clark Ltd, August 25, 2016), cover price $39.95 | About this edition: This book conducts an in-depth study on the ideas about future salvation in Zechariah 9-10.

Bible Through the Lens of Trauma

Product Description: Explore emerging trends in trauma studies and biblical interpretation In recent years there has been a surge of interest in trauma, trauma theory, and its application to the biblical text. This collection of essays explores the usefulness of employing trauma theory as a lens through which to read the biblical texts...read more

By Christopher G. Frechette (editor)

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9780884141730 | Society of Biblical Literature, August 12, 2016, cover price $48.95 | About this edition: Explore emerging trends in trauma studies and biblical interpretation In recent years there has been a surge of interest in trauma, trauma theory, and its application to the biblical text.

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9781628371451 | Reprint edition (Society of Biblical Literature, August 12, 2016), cover price $33.95 | About this edition: Explore emerging trends in trauma studies and biblical interpretation In recent years there has been a surge of interest in trauma, trauma theory, and its application to the biblical text.

Jeremiah Invented: Constructions and Deconstructions of Jeremiah

Product Description: In the first half of the 20th century there was immense scholarly interest in the biography of the prophet Jeremiah as the background for understanding the development of the book of Jeremiah. Around the turn of the century this interest disappeared, but it has now resurfaced in a transformed configuration as work seeking to analyze the creation of the literary persona, Jeremiah the prophet...read more

By Claudia V. Camp (editor)

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9780567671806 | T&t Clark Ltd, July 28, 2016, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: In the first half of the 20th century there was immense scholarly interest in the biography of the prophet Jeremiah as the background for understanding the development of the book of Jeremiah.

Re Reading Again: A Mosaic Reading of Numbers 25

Product Description: Guided by the metaphor of the art form known as a mosaic, this book advocates a pluralistic approach to biblical studies. Rees argues that the text itself can be described as a 'mosaic', with each new reading adding to the mosaic...read more

By Claudia V. Camp (editor)

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9780567671813 | T&t Clark Ltd, July 28, 2016, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Guided by the metaphor of the art form known as a mosaic, this book advocates a pluralistic approach to biblical studies.

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