Ivp imprint: 1197 books
Letters and Homilies for Hellenized Christians
A Socio-Rhetorical Commentary on 1-2 Peter
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2010
Letters and Homilies for Hellenized Christians, Volume 2
Letters and Homilies for Jewish Christians
A Socio-Rhetorical Commentary on Hebrews, James and Jude
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2010
In this commentary on Hebrews, James and Jude, Ben Witherington III applies his socio-rhetorical method to elucidate these letters within their primarily Jewish context, probing the social setting of the readers and the rhetorical strategies of the authors of the letters.
by Ben Witherington III
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2016
All too often, argues Ben Witherington, the theology of the New Testament has been divorced from its ethics, leaving as isolated abstractions what are fully integrated, dynamic elements within the New Testament itself. As Witherington stresses, "behavior affects and reinforces or undoes belief."...
Letters and Homilies for Hellenized Christians
A Socio-Rhetorical Commentary on Titus, 1-2 Timothy and 1-3 John
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2010
Letters and Homilies for Hellenized Christians
Exploring the New Testament
A Guide to the Gospels and Acts
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2011
Especially suited for introductory courses that focus on Jesus and the Gospels or the Gospels and Acts, Exploring the New Testament, Volume One introduces students to Jewish and Greco-Roman background literary genres and forms debated issues such as authorship, date and setting content and major themes...
Exploring the Old Testament
A Guide to the Psalms & Wisdom Literature
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2014
Israel's poets and sages left a scriptural legacy that has powerfully shaped the worship, thoughts and actions of the people of God. In the highs and lows and crossroads of life, we instinctively turn to their poetry, proverbs and discourses for the language we do not possess and the wisdom we desperately...
Old Testament Theology for Chr
From Ancient Context to Enduring Belief
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
Modern readers of the Bible often find the Old Testament difficult and even disturbing. What are we to do with obscure prophecies of long expired nations? Why should we read and study ancient laws that even the New Testament says are eclipsed by Christ? How can we reconcile Jesus’ Sermon on the...
Righteous By Promise
A Biblical Theology of Circumcision
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Given the foundational importance of circumcision in the Old Testament and its prevalence in numerous debates in the New Testament, it is surprising that so little detailed work has been done on establishing a biblical theology of circumcision. This lack is even more surprising given that circumcision...
by R. Alan Cole
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2016
Exodus, Cole says, is "the centre of the Old Testament." It recounts the supreme Old Testament example of the saving acts of God, narrates the instituting of Passover and enshrines the giving of God's law. It portrays Moses, the prototype of all Israel's prophets, and Aaron, the first high...
Saving Calvinism
Expanding the Reformed Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2016
**Is there hope for Calvinism beyond TULIP?**Saving Calvinism
Exploring the Old Testament
A Guide to the Pentateuch
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2015
Exploring the Old Testament: A Guide to the Pentateuch offers a clear overview of the "five books of Moses," as well as an introduction to the historical and textual questions that modern scholarship has posed and the answers it has proposed. This critically informed, textually sensitive...
by Derek Kidner
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2016
"The chequered story of the Kings, a matter of nearly five centuries, had ended disastrously in 587 B.C. with the sack of Jerusalem, the fall of the monarchy and the removal to Babylonia of all that made Judah politically viable. It was a death to make way for a rebirth." So begins Derek...
by Joyce G. Baldwin
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2015
Recipient of a 1990 Christianity Today Critics' Choice Award! The stories of Samuel, Saul and David are among the most memorable in the Old Testament. Yet the lives of these individuals are wound up in the larger story of God's purpose for his people. Looking beyond the well-known surface of these...
by Edward J. Woods
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2016
A dramatic address delivered on the verge of IsraelÂ’s entry into the land of Canaan, Deuteronomy has been described as a book "on the boundary." Ted Woods expounds its all-encompassing vision and shows how the Israelites were exhorted to make its words the interpreter of their life's story...