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A Cultural Handbook to the Bible

By John J. Pilch

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9780802867209 | Eerdmans Pub Co, September 30, 2012, cover price $26.00

Flights of the Soul: Visions, Heavenly Journeys, and Peak Experiences in the Biblical World

Product Description: Reports of dreams, journeys into the heavens, and other alternate states of consciousness abound in the Old and New Testaments and in extrabiblical literature. While some scholars have considered such reports to be simple literary devices, John J...read more

By John J. Pilch

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9780802865403 | Eerdmans Pub Co, April 29, 2011, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: Reports of dreams, journeys into the heavens, and other alternate states of consciousness abound in the Old and New Testaments and in extrabiblical literature.

Wellness Spirituality

By John J. Pilch

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9781556357596 | Wipf & Stock Pub, June 13, 2008, cover price $14.00

Social-science Commentary on the Book of Acts

Product Description: Like earlier volumes in the Social Science Commentary series, this volume situates Acts squarely in the cultural matrix of the first century Mediterranean world, elaborating its codes of patron and client, mediatorship, honor and shame, healing and sickening, wizardry and witchcraft accusations, and the understanding of the Spirit of God as well as deities and demons as personal causes of significant events...read more

By John J. Pilch

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9780800638450 | Fortress Pr, April 1, 2008, cover price $29.00 | About this edition: Like earlier volumes in the Social Science Commentary series, this volume situates Acts squarely in the cultural matrix of the first century Mediterranean world, elaborating its codes of patron and client, mediatorship, honor and shame, healing and sickening, wizardry and witchcraft accusations, and the understanding of the Spirit of God as well as deities and demons as personal causes of significant events.

Stephen: Paul and the Hellenist Israelites

Product Description: In this account we learn who Stephen was, what he said, and how he died--all things that made a huge impression on Paul. That experience set the stage for Paul's commissioning by the risen Jesus to evangelize Hellenists (Acts 9). In Stephen: Paul and the Hellenist Israelites, John J...read more

By John J. Pilch

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9780814652299 | Liturgical Pr, February 15, 2008, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: In this account we learn who Stephen was, what he said, and how he died--all things that made a huge impression on Paul.

Social-science Commentary on the Letters of Paul

Product Description: This latest addition to the Fortress Social-Science Commentaries on New Testament writings illuminates the values, perceptions, and social codes of the Mediterranean culture that shaped Paul and his interactions -both harmonious and conflicted - with others...read more

By Bruce J. Malina and John J. Pilch

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9780800636401 | Fortress Pr, February 1, 2006, cover price $29.00 | About this edition: This latest addition to the Fortress Social-Science Commentaries on New Testament writings illuminates the values, perceptions, and social codes of the Mediterranean culture that shaped Paul and his interactions -both harmonious and conflicted - with others.

New Proclamation, Year A, 2005: Easter Through Pentecost

Product Description: The latest volume of New Proclamation, the popular and widely used preaching resource series, helps preachers write better sermons from Easter through Pentecost. It offers first-class exegesis and homiletical advice, important observations about the liturgical season and setting, and an array of features to help spark the homiletical imagination and connect the readings to contemporary life and culture...read more

By Deirdre J. Good, Robert Kysar, John J. Pilch, Harold W. Rast (editor) and Barbara R. Rossing (editor)

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9780800642525 | Fortress Pr, December 1, 2004, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: The latest volume of New Proclamation, the popular and widely used preaching resource series, helps preachers write better sermons from Easter through Pentecost.

Visions and Healing in the Acts of the Apostles: How the Early Believers Experienced God

By John J. Pilch

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9780814627976 | Liturgical Pr, August 1, 2004, cover price $14.95

The Cultural World of the Prophets: The First Reading and Responsorial Psalm : Sunday by Sunday, Year A

By John J. Pilch

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9780814627860 | Liturgical Pr, July 1, 2004, cover price $11.95

The Cultural World of the Apostles: The Second Reading, Sunday by Sunday, Year C

By John J. Pilch

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9780814627822 | Liturgical Pr, July 1, 2003, cover price $11.95

The Cultural World of the Prophets: The First Reading and the Responsorial Psalm, Sunday by Sunday, Year C

By John J. Pilch

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9780814627884 | Liturgical Pr, July 1, 2003, cover price $11.95

The Cultural World of the Apostles: The Second Reading, Sunday by Sunday Year B

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By John J. Pilch

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9780814627815 | Liturgical Pr, August 1, 2002, cover price $11.95

Cultural Tools for Interpreting the Good News

Product Description: How can reading the Bible in its appropriate Mediterranean cultural context shed light on concerns of believers who live in Western or other cultures? In Cultural Tools for Interpreting the Good News, John J. Pilch presents a basic introduction to the ancient Middle Eastern culture in which the Bible originated...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By John J. Pilch

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9780814628263 | Liturgical Pr, August 1, 2002, cover price $6.95 | About this edition: How can reading the Bible in its appropriate Mediterranean cultural context shed light on concerns of believers who live in Western or other cultures?

The Cultural World of the Prophets: The First Reading and Responsorial Psalm, Sunday by Sunday: Year B

Product Description: Preachers and liturgy planners will find The Cultural World of the Prophets a companion to John Pilch's The Cultural World of Jesus Sunday by Sunday series and The Cultural World of the Apostles series. Each essay offers historical, literary, and Eastern Mediterranean cultural information about the first readings and responsorial psalms assigned for the liturgy of each Sunday...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By John J. Pilch

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9780814627877 | Liturgical Pr, August 1, 2002, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: Preachers and liturgy planners will find The Cultural World of the Prophets a companion to John Pilch's The Cultural World of Jesus Sunday by Sunday series and The Cultural World of the Apostles series.

The Cultural World of the Apostles: The Second Reading, Sunday by Sunday Year A

Product Description: Preachers and liturgy planners will find The Cultural World of the Apostles a complementary companion to Pilch's previous series The Cultural World of Jesus. Each essay offers brief historical and literary information on the second (or middle) reading assigned for the Sundays in the three-year lectionary cycle...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By John J. Pilch

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9780814627266 | Liturgical Pr, August 1, 2001, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Preachers and liturgy planners will find The Cultural World of the Apostles a complementary companion to Pilch's previous series The Cultural World of Jesus.

Social Scientific Models for Interpreting the Bible: Essays by the Context Group in Honor of Bruce J. Malina

Product Description: Fourteen members of The Context Group honour Bruce J. Malina and his scholarship in this volume by following his consistent example of developing or using explicit social scientific models to interpret documents from the ancient Mediterranean world...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By John J. Pilch

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9789004120563 | Brill Academic Pub, March 1, 2001, cover price $252.00 | About this edition: Fourteen members of The Context Group honour Bruce J.

The Triduum and Easter Sunday: Breaking Open the Scriptures

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By John J. Pilch

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9780814627273 | Liturgical Pr, July 1, 2000, cover price $4.95

Social Science Commentary on the Revelation

Product Description: The author of Revelation presents himself as John, the astral seer, who professes faith in the Resurrected Jesus and who belonged to the house of Israel. John writes of traveling into the sky; but this perspective of sky-visions is completely neglected in the traditional commentaries and studies on Revelation...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Bruce J. Malina and John J. Pilch

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9780800632274 | Fortress Pr, July 1, 2000, cover price $21.00 | About this edition: The author of Revelation presents himself as John, the astral seer, who professes faith in the Resurrected Jesus and who belonged to the house of Israel.

Choosing a Bible Translation

By John J. Pilch

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9780814625811 | Liturgical Pr, February 1, 2000, cover price $4.95

Healing in the New Testament: Insights from Medical and Mediterranean Anthropology

Product Description: How are we to read and understand stories of Jesus healing the lame, deaf, blind, and those with a variety of other maladies? Pilch takes us beyond the historical and literary questions to examine the social questions of how the earliest followers of Jesus and ancient Judeans understood healing, what roles healers played, and the different emphases on healing among the gospels...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By John J. Pilch

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9780800631789 | Fortress Pr, December 1, 1999, cover price $21.00 | About this edition: How are we to read and understand stories of Jesus healing the lame, deaf, blind, and those with a variety of other maladies?

The Cultural Dictionary of the Bible

Product Description: Interpreting the Bible respectfully is a cross-cultural enterprise. For those who seek to understand the Bible as a document from the ancient Mediterranean world and communicate it to people in other cultures, The Cultural Dictionary of the Bible is an ideal tool...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By John J. Pilch

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9780814625279 | Liturgical Pr, April 1, 1999, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Interpreting the Bible respectfully is a cross-cultural enterprise.

Handbook of Biblical Social Values

Product Description: Handbook of Biblical Social Values explains the values that guided behavior in biblical times. Over 100 entries cover such topics as freedom, family-centeredness, obedience, parenting, and power. These entries, written by an array of experts in the social-scientific study of the Bible, focus on culture and personal relationships in the ancient Mediterranean world...read more

By Bruce J. Malina (editor) and John J. Pilch (editor)

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9781565638785 | Hendrickson Pub, February 28, 1998, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Handbook of Biblical Social Values explains the values that guided behavior in biblical times.

9781565633551 | Revised edition (Hendrickson Pub, February 1, 1998), cover price $12.97 | About this edition: Handbook of Biblical Social Values explains the values that guided behavior in biblical times.

9780801047442 | Baker Academic, February 1, 1998, cover price $19.99

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9780801047459 | Reprint edition (Baker Academic, January 1, 2009), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Handbook of Biblical Social Values explains the values that guided behavior in biblical times.

9781598563764 | Hendrickson Pub, January 1, 1998, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Handbook of Biblical Social Values explains the values that guided behavior in biblical times.

The Cultural World of Jesus: Sunday by Sunday, Cycle C.

By John J. Pilch

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9780814622889 | Liturgical Pr, August 1, 1997, cover price $14.95

The Cultural World of Jesus: Sunday by Sunday, Cycle B

Product Description: The fifty-six essays in this book present cultural reflections on the gospel assigned for each Sunday in Cycle B of the Roman Lectionary. Each essay highlights aspects of the first-century, Eastern Mediterranean, cultrual world in which Jesus lived and suggests a cross-cultural comparison with contemporary western culture...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By John J. Pilch

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9780814622872 | Liturgical Pr, August 1, 1996, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: The fifty-six essays in this book present cultural reflections on the gospel assigned for each Sunday in Cycle B of the Roman Lectionary.

The Cultural World of Jesus: Sunday by Sunday, Cycle A

Product Description: The fifty-six essays in this book present cultural reflections on the gospel assigned for each Sunday in Cycle A of the Roman Lectionary. Each essay highlights aspects of the first-century, Eastern Mediterranean, cultrual world in which Jesus lived and suggests a cross-cultural comparison with contemporary western culture...read more

By John J. Pilch

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9780814622865 | Liturgical Pr, August 1, 1995, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: The fifty-six essays in this book present cultural reflections on the gospel assigned for each Sunday in Cycle A of the Roman Lectionary.

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