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Challenging gnositicizing interpretations of the letter, Terry
Griffith explores how the polemic against idols was variously used
in Jewish and Christian circles to define self-identity and the
limits of community. He shows that the rhetoric of 1 John is not
polemical, but pastoral, directed at confirming Johannine
Christians in their fundamental confession of faith and preventing
further defections of Jewish Christians back to Judaism. Griffith
argues that the christological focus in 1 John concerns the
identification of Jesus as the Messiah, and that the ending of the
letter both contributes to the author's overall pastoral strategy
and sheds light on the issues of sin and christology that are
raised in this letter.>
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Opening with the prophet Elijah's ascent into heaven and closing
with the people of Judah's descent to Babylonia, 2 Kings charts the
story of the two Israelite kingdoms until their destruction. This
commentary unfolds the literary dimensions of 2 Kings, analyzes the
strategies through which its words create a world of meaning, and
examines the book's tales of prophets, political intrigue, royal
apostasy, and religious reform as components of larger
patterns.
2 Kings pays attention to the writers' methods of representing
human character and of twisting chronological time for literary
purposes. It also shows how the contests between kings and prophets
are mirrored in the competing structures of regnal synchronization
and prophecy-fulfillment. Much more than a common chronicle of
royal achievements and disasters, 2 Kings emerges as a powerful
history that creates memories and forges identities for its Jewish
readers.
"2 Kings" is divided into four parts including Part One The
Story of Elisha: 2 Kings 1:1-8:6"; Part Two "Revolutions in Aram,
Israel, and Judah: 2 Kings 8:7-13:25"; Part Three "Turmoil and
Tragedy for Israel: 2 Kings 14-17"; and Part Four "Renewal and
Catastrophe for Judah: 2 Kings 18-25."
"Robert L. Cohn is professor of religion and holds the Philip
and Muriel Berman Chair in Jewish studies at Lafayette College.
Under the auspices of the American Jewish Committee, he lectured on
Jewish interpretations of the Bible as the first American
Jewish-scholar-in-residence at four Roman Catholic seminaries in
Poland.""
A Bible Commentary on the Book of Hebrews. Sovereign grace emphasis
suitable for personal study, devotional, study groups and
sermon-help. Don Fortner is an experience Pastor and Teacher whose
writings and preached sermons are highly regarded around the world.
Professor Maurice Gilbert SJ is widely acknowledged as one of the
leading authorities on biblical wisdom literature, in particular
the Book of Ben Sira and the Wisdom of Solomon, on which he has
produced many publications. This Festschrift, the third one in his
honor, brings together twenty-four essays written by both
established scholars who are friends and colleagues of Professor
Gilbert and younger members of the field who wrote their doctoral
dissertation under his guidance at the Pontifical Biblical
Institute in Rome. There he was rector (1978-1984) and full
professor until his retirement (1975-2011). The volume is divided
into six main sections, focusing respectively on Proverbs, Job,
Qoheleth, Sirach, Wisdom of Solomon, and Psalms. Some essays
display rigorous attention to textual and linguistic issues,
whereas others deal with more theological questions (fear before
God, joy in Qoheleth, arguments for justice in Wisdom of Solomon)
or focus on the comparison between two books (for instance,
Qoheleth and Sirach, Sirach and Genesis, Sirach and Tobit).
Luke the Physician was fascinated by people - rich and poor, Jews
and Gentiles, men and women, rulers and slaves. In his Gospel he
delights to portray Jesus as the Saviour not of an elite group but
of any one, in any condition, who turns to him. Jesus is indeed the
Saviour of the world. Luke knew exactly what he was doing when he
wrote his Gospel. He tells us his goal in the opening verses: to
set forth an orderly and accurate account of what had been
accomplished by the life and teaching of Jesus Christ. In this
engaging exposition, Michael Wilcock gives special attention to
these opening words. Then, as he examines the individual deeds and
sayings of Jesus, he shows how the structure of Luke's narrative
brings out their meaning. The good news of Luke is still true
today. None of us are beyond redemption unless we choose to put
ourselves there. This message has implications not only for our
personal lives but for our churches and society as a whole.
The language, themes and imagery of the Bible have been rewritten
into texts across time. In the Revelation of John, the Hebrew Bible
echoes and is reinvented, just as in James Hogg's The Private
Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (1824) many explicit
and implicit readings and interpretations of the Bible are offered.
In Texts Reading Texts, these readings of the Bible, and the ways
in which Revelation and Hogg's Confessions have themselves been
read, are considered from the two postmodern perspectives of
marginalization and deconstruction. By reading the two seemingly
unrelated texts side by side from these perspectives, traditional
readings of them both are disturbed and challenged.
The first translation into English of all the extant Targums,
together with introductions and annotations. Each volume examines
the place of a particular Targum or group of Targums in Jewish
life, liturgy and biblical interpretation. Each Targum is evaluated
in the light of Jewish tradition and of modern linguistic and
biblical research. The notes point to parallel passages in other
Jewish and Christian biblical and liturgical texts. Each translated
Targum has its own apparatus indicating the relationship between
the English translation and the Aramaic original and every volume
has a useful bibliography.
This book examines the problem of theodicy arising from the fall of
Jerusalem (587 B.C.E.) in the book of Jeremiah. It explores the
ways in which the authors of the book of Jeremiah tried to explain
away their God's responsibility while clinging to the idea of
divine mastery over human affairs. In order to trace the
development of a particular book's understanding of God's role in
meting out punishments, this book analyzes all the passages
containing the pivotal word"> (TM) ("to provoke to anger") in
Deuteronomistic History and the book of Jeremiah.
Peng outlines a plausible structure for Romans 12.1 to 15.13. After
a brief survey of scholars' opinions about the structure of this
passage, three methodologies (structural exegesis, discourse
analysis, and rhetorical criticism) are analysed. Having
acknowledged that each of these methodologies has its own
limitations, an eclectic approach, which is analogous with 'putting
together a jigsaw puzzle without the final picture', is suggested.
Peng also includes two appendices - the first is an assessment of
the historical background of chapter 13.1 to 13.7 in light of the
analysis presented; and the second is a short assessment of
interpretations of the word 'pistis' in chapter 12.3 and 12.6, in
which the rationale behind the interpretation of this term is
discussed.
Despite the striking frequency with which the Greek word kyrios,
Lord, occurs in Luke's Gospel, this study is the first
comprehensive analysis of Luke's use of this word. The analysis
follows the use of kyrios in the Gospel from beginning to end in
order to trace narratively the complex and deliberate development
of Jesus' identity as Lord. Detailed attention to Luke's narrative
artistry and his use of Mark demonstrates that Luke has a nuanced
and sophisticated christology centered on Jesus' identity as Lord.
In Chapter 1 Paula Gooder discusses the problems of interpreting
this text and looks at the major debates of its past interpreters.
The most popular modern approach is to compare it with other texts
of ascent in the Judaeo-Christian tradition, yet even a brief
examination of these texts indicate that differences are present.
In the remainder of the book Gooder evaluates the extent and
significance of these differences. Part One consists of a detailed
consideration of a range of texts which superficially seem closest
to 2 Corinthians 12. Chapter 2 presents a history of scholarship on
heavenly ascent. Chapters 3 to 8 each examine a text of ascent from
a different period and background in the Judaeo-Christian
tradition. Chapter 9 draws out the points of similarity between
these texts. Part Two considers the text of 2 Corinthians 12:1-10
in the light of the findings of Part One. In the detailed
examination of the Pauline ascent in chapter 10, the extent of the
differences between this text and the texts examined in Part One
becomes clear. Chapter 11 proposes a new interpretation of the
account of ascent, arguing that it reports a failed ascent into
heaven. The chapter shows that this interpretation makes sense not
only of 2 Corinthians 12:1-10 itself but also of chapters 10-13
which surround it. The account is one more example of weakness from
the apostle in which he proves that weakness, not strength, is the
sign of a true apostle.
Combining three incredibly importantbooks for the teaching of the
Church, The Goldsworthy Trilogy offers acomplete and comprehensive
guide tounderstanding the gospel throughoutthe whole of Scripture.
Hugely popular, this collection is being released in thisspecial
format and will be an essentialguide to be used again and again
forthose who seek to understand the Biblein the light of who Jesus
is.Straightforward in his approach, Goldsworthy looks at how the
Bible canonly be understood through the eyesof the gospel. This
being the base ofhis interpretation, he studies the OldTestament
and its application for today, Israels wisdom literature and its
role inthe Christian life and the purpose andcontemporary relevance
of the bookof Revelation. This trilogy follows theBible
chronologically to give the readera complete overview of
evangelicalbiblical interpretation forming anessential one-stop
reference that willlast a lifetime.
Recent discussion of biblical law sees it either as a response to
socio-economic factors or as an intellectual tradition. In either
case it is viewed as the product of elites that form an
international community drawing on a common culture. This book
takes that fundamental discussion a step further by proposing that
'law' is an inappropriate term for the biblical codes, and that
they represent, rather, the 'moral advice' of scribes working
independently of the legal framework and appealing to Yahweh as
authority. Only by prolonged exegesis and through the
transformation of Judaean religion does this 'advice' take the form
of divine law binding on Jews.>
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The Psalms of Solomon, the most important early psalm book outside
the canonical psalter, reflects the turmoil of events in the last
pre-Christian century and gives an apparently eyewitness account of
the first invasions of the Romans into Jerusalem. The Psalm of
Solomon provides the most detailed expectation of the Jewish
Messiah before the New Testament. Wright's critical edition is the
first complete critical edition of the Greek texts of the Psalms of
Solomon.
The Old Testament Library provides an authoritative treatment of
every major and important aspect of the Old Testament. This
commentary on Lamentations furnishes a fresh translation and
discusses questions of historical background and literary
architecture before providing a theologically sensitive exposition
of the text.
"An overwhelming number of us are lonely," writes Marva Dawn.
"Sometimes we are lonely for a specific reason: our spouse has
recently died or left us; our children have just gone from home or
have been tragically killed; we are fighting a particular battle
against illness or suffering the ravages of chemotherapy; we are
new in the neighborhood; our values are different from those of our
work colleagues; it is a Friday night and all our other single
friends have dates. Sometimes our loneliness is a general,
pervasive alienation: we just don't feel as if we belong in our
place of work, in our community, in our family, even in our
church." Our struggle with loneliness often results in a lament
directed at God. We might say something like "How long, LORD? Will
you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me?"
When we cry out words like these, we find ourselves praying the
words of the Psalms. In My Soul Waits, Dawn guides us through
psalms that reveal the burdens of our souls to God, and in turn
reveal God's profound, intimate concern for our pain and a promise
to abide with us in it. Readers feeling the sting of loneliness
will take great comfort in this very personal book. Those who
strive to support the lonely among them will take wise counsel from
the Scriptures it expounds. All will encounter a renewed hope in
the One who lists our tears only to wipe them all away.
This wide-ranging investigation of the priestly cultic texts from
Exodus 25 onwards explores the coherence and theology of the
priestly writing, utilizing insights from anthropology and recent
biblical scholarship. Through a carefully worked out set of laws
and institutions, the priestly authors sought to order Israel's
life before God in a sustainable and satisfying way. This is a
valuable contribution to the growing number of studies concerned to
understand and recover this neglected part of the Bible.>
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