Interpreting America (Studies in American Biblical Hermeneutics)
by Jonathan R. Wilson
The Unknown, Remembered Gate (The New York University Annual Conference In Comparative Religion, no 2)
This study focuses on the Chronicler’s special interest in Levite singers. It takes into consideration the socio-ideological milieu of the Jerusalem temple community in the Persian period and the Mesopotamian elite professional norms and practices that nourished the singers and their music. It also explores the conception of the earthly temple as representative of its heavenly counterpart, and looks at the way in which this shaped the Chronicler’s theological frame of reference. The work is di...
The European view on history was shaken to its foundations when missionaries in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries discovered that Chinese history was older than European and Biblical history. With an analysis of the Chinese, Manchu and European sources on ancient Chinese history, this essay proposes an early case of "intercultural historiography," in which historical texts of different cultures are interwoven. It focusses on the ways Chinese and European authors interpreted stories about...
The New Testament Today
This volume offers the collective insight of eleven scholars who represent the spectrum of New Testament studies. Their expert commentaries make this book an invaluable resource for both the seasoned researcher and the beginning student.
This comprehensive exploration of the interpretive process, now available in paperback, has served as a successful textbook. It focuses on the three "worlds" of biblical interpretation--the world of the author, the world of the text, and the world of the reader--to help students develop an integrated hermeneutical strategy. The book offers clear explanations of interpretive approaches, which are supported by helpful biblical examples, and succinct synopses of various interpretive methods. Pedago...
Hermeneutical Manual Or, Introduction to the Exegetical Study of the Scriptures of the New Testament
by Patrick Fairbairn
Die Beichtinschriften Im Roemischen Kleinasien Und Der Fromme Und Gerechte Gott (Nordrhein-Westfalische Akademie Der Wissenschaften, #355)
by Georg Petzl
Not My People (Beihefte zur Zeitschrift fur die Neutestamentliche Wissenschaft, #184)
by David Ian Starling
On several occasions within the Pauline corpus, scriptural texts which seem to refer in their original contexts to the return of exiled or scattered Jews are appropriated as references to Gentile believers in Christ. This book is an investigation of four such instances (the use of Isa. 54:1 in Gal. 4:27, the catena of scriptural texts in 2 Cor. 6:16-18, Hos. 1:10 and 2:23 in Rom. 9:25-26 and Isa. 57:19 in Eph. 2:17). It offers insights into the exegesis of these particular verses and sheds light...
This new translation of Genesis is based on the presupposition that Genesis is the Royal Epic of the Davidic Monarchy.
Textual and Historical Studies in the Book of Jubilees (Harvard Semitic Monographs, #14)
by James C VanderKam