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Self-designations and group identity in the New Testament
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Paul R. Trebilco |
"What terms would early 'Christians' have used when they addressed one another? What would they have called each other? Would they have said, 'Are you a Christian?' or 'Are you a disciple?' or Are yo… |
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Reading New Testament papyri in context =
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Claire Clivaz |
This volume is the publication of the acts of a conference held at the University of Lausanne (CH), in october 2009. It collects sixteen contributions on Egyptian Jewish and Christian papyri, read in… |
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Interpreting the New Testament Text
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Buist M. Fanning,Darrell L. Bock |
With the explosive increase in availability of English Bible translations, the question can easily be asked, "Why bother with the hard work of biblical exegesis?" Computers can translate foreign lang… |
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The food and feasts of Jesus
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Douglas E. Neel |
The New Testament is filled with stories of Jesus eating with people—from extravagant wedding banquets to simple meals of loaves and fishes. The Food and Feasts of Jesus offers a new perspective on l… |
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Dictionary of Jesus and the Gospels
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Joel B. Green |
Regrettably, while the general populace on both sides of the Atlantic have been exposed to the sensationalism of such projects as the Jesus Seminar and Jesus: The Evidence, no major undertaking has m… |
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When God Spoke Greek
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Timothy Michael Law |
How did the New Testament writers and the earliest Christians come to adopt the Jewish scriptures as their first Old Testament? And why are our modern Bibles related more to the Rabbinic Hebrew Bible… |
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Fearfully and wonderfully made
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Paul W. Brand,Philip Yancey |
This beautifully written, fascinatingly informative book explores the complex piece of creation called the human body, particularly as it offers insights into "one specific community of people that i… |
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A new New Testament
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Hal Taussig |
Over the past century, numerous lost scriptures have been discovered, authenticated, translated, debated, celebrated. Many of these documents were as important to shaping early Christian communities … |
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Windows on Jesus
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Wim Weren,Wilhelmus Johannes Cornelis Weren |
"The four New Testament Gospels are four "windows on Jesus." Each evangelist gives his own view of Jesus. The views are similar but deep differences are often concealed within this similarity." ""Win… |
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Recovering the scandal of the cross
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Mark D. Baker,Joel B. Green |
The cross is the defining symbol of the Christian faith. Yet the Roman cross was first and foremost an instrument of cruel, shameful and violent execution. Early Christians quickly recognized the ato… |
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Jesus, Judaism, and Christian anti-Judaism
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Paula Fredriksen,Adele Reinhartz |
Current scholarship in the study of ancient Christianity is now available to nonspecialists through this collection of essays on anti-Judaism in the New Testament and in New Testament interpretation.… |
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The Holy Spirit and Christian origins
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James D. G. Dunn,Graham Stanton,Stephen C. Barton,Bruce W. Longenecker |
"The Holy Spirit and Christian Origins comprises a selection of original essays that explore a topic that has held a prominent and distinctive place in the majority of Professor Dunn's publications. … |
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Moral education for women in the pastoral and Pythagorean letters
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Annette Bourland Huizenga |
"Huizenga examines the Greco-Roman moral-philosophical 'curriculum' for women by comparing these two epistolary collections. The analysis is organized around four elements: textual resources, teacher… |
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Birthing salvation
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Anna Rebecca Solevå̊g |
In 'Birthing Salvation' Anna Rebecca Solevåg explores the theme of childbearing in early Christian discourse. The book maps the importance of women's childbearing in Greco-Roman culture and shows how… |
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Jeremiah invented
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Else Kragelund Holt,Carolyn J. Sharp |
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… |
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Jesus and Mary reimagined in early Christian literature
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Vernon K. Robbins,Jonathan M. Potter |
These essays explore diverse storylines of Jesus, Mary, and other figures in texts from the first through third centuries. From priestly beginnings at the temple in Luke to the enigmatic figure of th… |
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Exploring Jewish Literature of the Second Temple Period
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Larry R. Helyer |
From the crisis of the Babylonian exile to the rise of rabbinic Judaism -- a span of over six hundred years -- the Jewish people produced a wealth of literature that lies outside the Hebrew Bible. To… |
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Slave of Christ
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Murray J. Harris |
The New Testament finds many ways to depict the relationship of Christians and their Lord. They are his disciples, sons, daughters and friends. But it is perhaps too little recognized that they are a… |
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What are the Gospels?
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Richard A. Burridge |
Richard Burridge's acclaimed study of the Christian Gospels is significantly updated and expanded in this second edition. Here Burridge engages the field of Gospel studies over the last hundred years… |
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The Torn Veil
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Daniel M. Gurtner |
In this 2001 text, Daniel Gurtner examines the meaning of the rending of the veil in Matthew 27:51a by considering the functions of the veil in the Old Testament and its symbolism in ancient Judaism.… |
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