A biblical examination of the historical, geographical, cultural, and economic background of the New Testament for a 21st century understanding of the first century world. This is not theology, …
Religious communities that possess sacred documents define themselves, at least in part, by how they understand and interpret their sacred text and how those sacred texts inform the community. The …
Word and Glory challenges recent claims that Gnosticism, especially as expressed in the Nag Hammadi tractate Trimorphic Protennoia, is the most natural and illuminating background for understanding…
This book is a verse-by-verse analysis of the New Testament Gospel of Matthew. It provides a comprehensive introduction to the gospel, which describes the world of Jesus and his first followers. Th…
One of the daunting challenges facing the New Testament interpreter is achieving familiarity with the immense corpus of Greco-Roman, Jewish, and pagan primary source materials. From the Paraphrase …
Access to good, up-to-date bibliographies can make or break student research and nowhere is this more evident than in life-of-Jesus research: an annotated bibliography. This book, intended for adva…
What archealogist and historians find can also be called verisimilitude, or 'resemblance to the truth'; that is, resemblance or likeness to the way things really were. This means that the writings …
New portraits of Jesuscontinue to stir up interest and debate. The more unusual the portrait, the more it departs from the traditional view of Jesus and the more attention it receives..