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Product Description: John's Revelation has led to countless diverse and divergent interpretations. Readers' cryptic notions of violent end-time scenarios, strict prophetic truths, and encouragement for the faithful have undeniably colored the book's reception through the centuries...read more

Product Description: From the awe-inspiring story of the Creation to the defeats and triumphs of the Children of Israel and the life, death, and Resurrection of Jesus, here are the greatest accounts from the greatest book ever written, presented in an accessible form for contemporary readers...read more

The value and significance of the targums―translations of the Hebrew Bible into Aramaic, the language of Palestinian Jews for centuries following the Babylonian Exile―lie in their approach to translation: within a typically literal rendering of a text, they incorporate extensive exegetical material, additions, and paraphrases. These alterations reveal important information about Second Temple Judaism, its interpretation of its bible, and its beliefs.This remarkable survey introduces critical knowledge and insights that have emerged over the past forty years, including targum manuscripts discovered this century and targums known in Aramaic but only recently translated into English. Prolific scholars Flesher and Chilton guide readers in understanding the development of the targums, their relationship to the Hebrew Bible, their dates, their language, their place in the history of Christianity and Judaism, and their theologies and methods of interpretation.

Product Description: The way of Jesus means that despite our tears and scars, we can become vessels of divine light. A young man loses his wife while their baby escapes without injury. In abject grief he reaches out to a friend for solace.  What words of comfort are even possible? How can Jesus repair and renew these lives in this world?      Author Bruce Chilton begins in the everyday...read more

Product Description: This handbook addresses the Judaic context of the Gospel according to Mark. Mark's text is compared to distinct categories of writings, Pseudepigrapha (together with Philo and Josephus), discoveries related to Qumran, Rabbinic Literature (as well as the Targumim), and examples of Aramaic language that reflect first-century usage...read more

Product Description: The Golden Rule: treat others as you would like to be treated. This ethical dictum is a part of most of the world's religions and has been considered by numerous religious figures and philosophers over the centuries. This new collection contains specially commissioned essays which take a fresh look at this guiding principle from a comparative perspective...read more

Product Description: The Golden Rule―'do to others as you would have them do to you', 'what is hateful to you to your fellow don't do', to take the two most familiar formulations―defines a meeting place for many fields of learning. There the study of comparative religion, philosophy and ethics, anthropology and sociology, and the whole range of cross-cultural studies carried on in the social sciences and the humanities intersect...read more

Looks at the significance and implications of Abraham's near-sacrifice of his son Isaac to shed new light on religious conflicts in the modern world, analyzing the impact of the story on the beliefs and teachings of Judaism, Islam, and Christianity, especially in relation to Islamic suicide bombings, militant Zionism, and graphic depictions of Christ's crucifixion. 35,000 first printing.

A lively re-interpretation of the life and times of one of the Bible's most misunderstood figures describes Mary Magdalene's key role in the ministry of Jesus and the development of early Christianity, tracing the changing images of Mary and the legends surrounding her and exploring why the Church sought to marginalize her significance. Reprint. 12,500 first printing.

A portrait of Saint Paul identifies his crucial role in the formation of Christianity, citing the impact of his interpretations on the life and teachings of Jesus while considering how beliefs about Paul's character have transformed him from a premiere apostle into a doctrine-promoting antifeminist and homophobe. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

Product Description: The Missions of James, Peter, and Paul comprises studies that investigate in what ways the missions of the three most important interpreters of Jesus agreed or differed in matters of ideology, theology, and practice. Of great importance is the question of how closely aligned these figures were to the Jewish matrix out of which their faith and theology emerged...read more

This sourcebook provides the critical texts and underpinnings on which TRADING PLACES (authored work)is built.

This book shows how the private and communal Christianity traded places with the public and political Rabbinic Judaism as well as how they exchanged values, teleology, and understandings of history.

Product Description: How can Jesus be said to be missing ? The Church has consistently referred itself to conceptions of Jesus during its history, and the world of scholarship has seen a renaissance in the study of Jesus over the past twenty years. In fact, Jesus place in popular culture has been surprisingly prominent as a result of recent historical study...read more

Product Description: If Moses, Jesus and the Prophet Muhammad were to meet, what would they tell one another about Judaism, Christianity and Islam? Three of today's leading scholars explore the topics such a conversation might entail in this comparative study of the three monotheistic faiths...read more

This volume reviews the criteria, assumptions, and methods involved in critical Jesus research. Its purpose is to clarify the procedures necessary to distinguish tradition that stems from Jesus from tradition and interpretation that stem from later tradents and evangelists. This publication has also been published in paperback, please click here for details. (view table of contents)

Product Description: "Redeeming Time "addresses the temporal imbalance and disorientation that is widely reported in the post-industrial West. The essay evolves by analyzing the philosophical and aesthetic contexts, first of our own experience of time, then of the Judaic context within which the Gospels developed, and finally of the Gospels themselves...read more

A biblical scholar offers a close-up look at the religious and cultural forces that shaped the life and teachings of Jesus Christ, drawing on recent archaeological discoveries to furnish a vivid account of the political forces, social customs, and religious beliefs and practices of the period and analyzing ancient texts to examine Jesus's early life. Reprint. (view table of contents)