Criticism Interpretation category: 2013 books
Interpreting the God-Breathed Word
How to Read and Study the Bible
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2018
This biblical interpretation textbook provides an accessible introduction to the latest approaches in evangelical hermeneutics. Having many years' experience teaching hermeneutics to undergraduates, Robbie Castleman explains complex themes in an engaging way. She addresses all the current schools...
Reading the Bible in an Age of Crisis
Political Exegesis for a New Day
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
We live in an age in which economic, ecological, and political crises are not the exception, but the rule. The Cold War polarities that shaped an earlier “political exegesis” have been replaced; Bruce Worthington argues that increasingly, crisis is the engine of a global “turbo-capitalism.”...
The Logic of Love
Discovering Paul’s “Implicit Ethics” through 1 Corinthians
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2018
The goal of the present study unfolds in the following four ways. First, in analyzing Pauline writings (primarily Paul’s First Letter to the Corinthians) it can be demonstrated that the Apostle can be described as an ethicist. The hypothesis operative here is that in the sources, despite their occasional...
The Text of the New Testament
From Manuscript to Modern Edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2008
The Text of the New Testament is a brief introduction for the lay person into the process whereby the New Testament came to be. It describes the basics of ancient writing tools, manuscripts, the work of scribes, and how to think about differences in what the various manuscripts say. This is a revised...
by Robert Alan King
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
Textual Criticism of Luke 3:22: A Response to Bart Ehrman, An Argument Supporting the Traditional Reading, by Robert Alan King is a book with over 8,800 words. This book first presents the argument of Ehrman regarding the textual variant in Luke 3:22, then discusses and defines the meaning of Psalms...
God's Word in Human Words
An Evangelical Appropriation of Critical Biblical Scholarship
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2008
The conclusions of critical biblical scholarship often pose a disconcerting challenge to traditional Christian faith. Between the two poles of uncritical embrace and outright rejection of these conclusions, is there a third way? Can evangelical believers incorporate the insights of biblical criticism...
Berit Olam: The Twelve Prophets
Volume 1: Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
There is generally no common material that binds together the works of the individual prophets that comprise the Twelve, but through Sweeney's commentary they stand together as a single, clearly defined book among the other prophetic books of the Bible.
The Book of the Twelve Prophets is a...
A Student's Guide to Understanding Jesus and the Gospels
Navigating Your Journey Through Critical Scholarship
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
A synthesis of academic and scholarly subjects that will assist students in studying Jesus and the Gospels and/or The Life of Christ. This book makes clear what others make confusing. Written by a passionate professor who wants students to learn as much as possible as quickly as possible. This guide...
Berit Olam: The Twelve Prophets
Volume 2: Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
There is generally no common material that binds together the works of the individual prophets that comprise the Twelve, but through Sweeney's commentary they stand together as a single, clearly defined book among the other prophetic books of the Bible.
The Book of the Twelve Prophets is a...
Is Scripture Still Holy?
Coming of Age with the New Testament
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2012
In this volume A. E. Harvey asks, Is the notion of "Holy Scripture" still credible? In particular, in the light of modern critical study and postmodern literary theory, does the New Testament still qualify as a "holy" book?
Arguing that the New Testament must continually...
by Professor Steve Moyise
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2013
This is an ideal introduction to modern biblical studies. Readers are introduced to questions of inspiration, canon and authority. This is followed by chapters on historical approaches to the Bible, such as source, form and redaction criticism. Comparisons with other literature, such as ancient flood...
by J. Gresham Machen
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2017
Some years ago the world of New Testament scholarship was startled by the conversion of Adolf von Harnack[1] to the traditional view of the authorship of Luke-Acts. The book of Acts, Harnack concluded, was actually written by Luke, a companion of Paul. And what is more, it was written at about A.D....
DEFENDING OLD TESTAMENT AUTHORSHIP
The Word of God Is Authentic and True
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2017
How true is the Old Testament? For over two centuries Biblical scholars have held to the so-called documentary hypothesis, namely, that Genesis-Deuteronomy was not authored by Moses, but rather by several writers, some of whom lived centuries after Moses’ time. How have many scholars questioned...
by Dirk van Miert
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2018
The Emancipation of Biblical Philology in the Dutch Republic, 1590-1670 argues that the application of tools, developed in the study of ancient Greek and Latin authors, to the Bible was aimed at stabilizing the biblical text but had the unintentional effect that the text grew more and more unstable....