In Methods for Luke, four leading scholars demonstrate how different interpretive methods provide insight into the Gospel of Luke. Introducing contemporary perspectives on historical criticism, feminist criticism, narrative criticism, and Latino interpretation, they illustrate these approaches to New Testament study by examining either the Parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus (Luke 16: 19-31 ) or Jesus' warning regarding the scribes and the story of the women with two small coins (Luke 20: 45-21:4). The use of two "set texts" enables readers to understand how method makes a difference in the reading of the same text.

The only fully updated and exhaustive index to every word in the NIV Bible. Whether you're doing word or topical studies for seminary papers, sermon prep, or just for fun; this Bible concordance is essential for helping you find the Scripture passage or verse you're looking for. Features include: Complete alphabetical listing of every word in the NIV Bible, with book/chapter/verse Bible references, a line of content for each of a particular word's appearances, and the G/K number for the word translated by the NIV. Dictionary-indexes that define every Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek word in the Bible, including the possible meaning of every proper name. Frequency counts given for each biblical word, both in the original languages and in English. Special index of articles, conjunctions, particles, prepositions, and pronouns. Unique numbering system developed by Goodrick and Kohlenberger (G/K) that eliminates the inherent gaps, flaws, and inaccuracies of the old Strong's numbering system and refers the user to the Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek words that are translated by the NIV. The NIV Exhaustive Bible Concordance is the only complete concordance with every appearance of every word in the New International Version. More accurate and comprehensive than online searches and Strong's concordances, and it offers complete access to the original-language Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek words, this award-winning resource promises to make your Bible study the very best.

Paul's letters to the Corinthian church have left a mark on Christian Scripture in a way that could never have been predicted. Here the pastoral issues of a first-century Christian community in what Chrysostom identified as "still the first city in Greece" stand out in bold relief. How was a community shaped by the cross to find its expression in a city that Chrysostom knew to be "full of orators and philosophers" and that "prided itself . . . above all on its great wealth"? How was church unity to be maintained in a setting where prominent believers, bending truth and morality to their own advantage, divided the body of Christ? Here lay the challenge for the apostle Paul. And as the apostle writes, the fathers lean over his shoulder, marveling and commenting on his pastoral wisdom. Best known among these patristic commentators is Chrysostom, whose seventy-seven homilies on the two Corinthian epistles are a treasury of exposition and application. The fragmentary works of Didymus the Blind and Severian of Gabala give us samples of Greek exegesis from the Alexandrian and Antiochene schools. The partial work of Theodore of Mopsuestia, a commentator of great skill and insight, was long valued in the church. And the comments of Theodoret of Cyrus are notable for their sensitivity to the intertextuality of Scripture. Then there are Origen and Pelagius, whose names resonate with notable error, to the needless obscuring of their brilliant insights into Scripture. But pride of place goes to the unknown fourth-century commentator long mistaken for Ambrose and now dubbed "Ambrosiaster." His excellent commentary on 1 and 2 Corinthians has been unavailable in English translation, and for that reason it is excerpted more generously in this volume. This Ancient Christian Commentary on 1-2 Corinthians opens a whole new way of reading these New Testament texts. The pastoral and theological interpretation of the fathers offers spiritual and intellectual sustenance to those who would read Paul again with open minds and hearts. Here we find the Pauline wisdom of the cross generating an effective heritage of Christian interpretation.

Every single name in the Bible has a meaning. Without knowing the meanings of the names leaves any reading of the Bible incomplete. Have you ever wondered what 'Adam' means? David, Saul, Solomon? What does Jehovah and God mean? What about Jesus and Mary? Revelation: A True Translation of the Bible explains all the meanings of the Biblical names. This book answers all the mysteries of the Bible which have puzzled Biblical scholars for centuries, and it explains the meanings through language and culture which the author, Hawaa Ayoub, draws on and has personal experience with. Revelation also explores the background of the Bible and discusses cultural, geographical, and language phenomena - topics that are of interest to Biblical scholars and professors, linguists, other experts and serious readers of the Bible as well as those with a personal interest in Biblical stories. From the Biblical names of characters and places, the stories of wanderings, sacrifices at altars, warring, taking over land, punishment and reward, infertile women and miraculous pregnancies - Hawaa Ayoub explains in great detail what the Biblical stories are all about. Ideal for scholars, and those with a personal interest in the Bible, and anyone seeking an authoritative and detailed explanation of the Biblical stories, its figures and places. Ayoub not only translates the names in the Bible, but also shows who authored the Biblical stories and why they were created.

Anat Israeli presents the first feminist commentary in the series on a chapter from the "Order of Women." She discusses the last chapter of Tractate Qiddushin, devoted to "betrothals." Chapter 4 deals in general with two major topics: the first is Jewish genealogies (what parts the mother and father play in deciding who is a Jew and who can marry whom). The second topic is about forbidden seclusions between members of the opposite sex (since they can bring about promiscuity, adultery and other unwanted sexual contacts). In this study, Anat Israeli and her collaborators first analyze the Mishnah and show what its authors had considered important about these two topics, and then they show how the emphases had shifted on the way between the land of the Mishnah (Israel) and the land of the Talmud (Babylonia).