The Politics of Salvation (Library of New Testament Studies)
by Timothy W Reardon
Timothy W. Reardon uncovers thesalvation narrative developed within Luke-Acts and its key themes as they develop within the Lukan presentation of time and space, while being attentive to overcoming a facile compartmentalization of religion and politics. Reardon argues that Luke-Acts offers a complete, holistic, embodied, and theopolitical soteriology, cosmic in scope, that includes both the what and how of salvation. In contrast to recent arguments for some form of vicarious expiation in Luke...
Christopher W. Skinner is associate professor of New Testament and early Christianity at Loyola University Chicago. Sherri Brown is assistant professor of New Testament at Creighton University.
Johannine Sectarianism in Perspective (Novum Testamentum, Supplements, #119)
by Kare Sigvald Fuglseth
The central aim of the investigation is to evaluate the claim that the Gospel of John was a product of a 'sectarian' milieu. Fuglseth is using methods primarily derived from sociology and the study of new religious movements today. He discusses in particular the 'cult'-model as an alternative to 'sect,' and compares the Johannine texts with texts from two contemporary milieus: Philo and the Dead Sea Scrolls. The thesis is embedded in a comprehensive survey of research and discussions of methods...
Matthew's Non-Messianic Mapping of Messianic Texts (Biblical Interpretation, #188)
by Bruce Henning
Scholars often explain Matthew's practice of applying non-messianic texts to the messiah by postulating a Christological hermeneutic. In Matthew's Non-Messianic Mapping of Messianic texts, Bruce Henning raises the question of how Matthew appliesmessianic texts to non-messianic figures. This neglected category challenges the popular view by stretching Matthew's paradigm to a broadly eschatological one in which disciples share in the mission of Jesus so as to fulfill Scriptural hopes. Using Cognit...
The ancient world believed that the universe was made up of elements both material and spiritual. These elemental forces affected human life positively or negatively and any human being who could share their energy was a person of great significance - a human agent of cosmic power. This is a significant part of the background of the life and career of Jesus of Nazareth. The present work is a reappraisal of Synoptic accounts of Jesus and his followers in the light of recent developments in the st...
Christ, the Savior of Israel (Edition Israelogie, #5)
by Michael G. Vanlaningham
In the wake of the Holocaust, a number of influential scholars argue for a bi-covenantal or two-covenant approach to Paul's view of Israel and the Gentiles. They maintain that Israel has always been right with God apart from Jesus Christ, and that the death of Jesus is salvifically relevant only for the Gentiles. Through Him the Gentiles can receive the same blessings the Jewish people possess by virtue of the Law of Moses. The Sonderweg proponents argue that the Jewish people need Jesus, but th...
The Dead Sea People's Sacred Meal & Jesus' Last Supper
by Rev Leonard F Badia
1 Peter (IVP New Testament Commentary, #17)
by Professor I Howard Marshall
Only four men in the whole of the US could have known when the shipment of ten millions dollars to the IRA was scheduled. One of those four must be responsible for the slaughter of the couriers and hijacking of the funds. Only one man is trusted by the terrorists to go after the money. Their best assassin; the man they call Jig - deft at killing, nimble at eluding capture. But hot on his trail is Frank Pagan, British counter-terrorist agent, who will hunt his prey to the ends of the earth. The p...
The Four Gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John) are arranged in one narrative to easily investigate the eyewitness accounts proving Jesus of Nazareth is the Messiah, the Son of God, and God the Son! Each reference to Jesus as Messiah is annotated with A? (Alpha-Omega). Key Greek words defined.The author compiled this book to use when teaching the life, death, and resurrection of Christ in the Gospels. The KJV text is used.
Gospel Against Parable (Bible & Literature S., #12)
by James G. Williams
