It is profoundly difficult, says Frances Young, "to live with our vulnerability and mortality--how we question and rebel, as we are overwhelmed by grief and distress." Offering both a realistic vie…
This book is one of the most significant in the formation of the doctrine of the church. Yet the average student of Christian doctrine rarely gets to grips with the blackground or the literature of…
Why discuss sacrifice? A good question, it may be felt. Sacrificial images are hardly those which arrest the attention of most people today. IT might well seem that the subject of this book is irre…
This book challenges conventional accounts of early Christian exegesis of the Bible by placing its interpretation in the context of the Greco-Roman world. Professor Young describes how the Jewish s…