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Irony (as used here) is a rhetorical and literary device for revealing »what is hidden behind what is seen.» It thus offers the reader a superior ...

Recent interest in the person and work of James of Jerusalem and in the community he led has sometimes put the apostle Paul in a negative light - a...

Jerusalem, with its turbulent history, is without doubt one of the best- known cities of the world. A long line of foreign powers have ruled over i...

The name »Junia» appears in Romans 16:7, and Paul identifies her (along with Andronicus) as »prominent among the apostles.» In this important work...

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Denysenko, Nicholas E

Love in a Time of Climate Change challenges readers to develop a loving response to climate change, which disproportionately harms the poor, threat...

Kolb, Robert

Since its publication by Fortress Press in 1992, Mark and Method has been an invaluable resource for the study of Mark, and of the range of methods...

Russell, William R (Author), Lull, Timothy F (Editor)

Reformation scholar Timothy Wengert has studied Luther's catechisms for the light they shed on the maturing Reformation faith but also for the fasc...

The church struggles with media. Whether it is a denomination negotiating the 24-hour news cycle or a church evaluating how online games influence ...

The Messiah neatly surveys currents of messianic thought in the formative centuries of Judaism and Christianity, providing precision in thinking ab...

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In this award-winning text, theologian Sallie McFague challenges Christians' usual speech about God as a kind of monarch. She probes instead three ...

* A leading theologian's analysis of the root problems behind climate change * Proposes a relational, eco-friendly notion of what it is to be human...

Jean Zaru, the longtime activist and Quaker leader from Ramallah, here brings home the pain and central convictions that animate Christian nonviole...

One Hope: Re-Membering the Body of Christ is a rich ecumenical resource designed to help Catholic and Lutheran communities mark the approaching 500...

Of the world's major religions, only Christianity holds to a doctrine of original sin. Ideas are powerful, and they shape who we are and who we be...

Over 120 million American teens and adults use alcohol at one time or another. While in most situations these individuals are able to use it respo...

E. P. Sanders

In these chapters, a group of renowned international scholars seek to describe Paul and his work from “within Judaism,” rather than on the assumpti...

Power and Politics in the Book of Judges studies political culture and behavior in premonarchic Israel, focusing on the protagonists in the book of...

First published in 1983, Principles of Lutheran Theology has guided students into theological reflection on the landmarks of Christian faith as und...

Our brains are hard-wired to experience the emotion of fear. Yet »do not be afraid» is a common refrain from the Bible, used for both comfort and c...

For many people today, the Christian gospel as traditionally articulated has beomce irrelevant and meaningless. This, combined with developments in...

Perhaps no period in Christian history experienced such social tumult and upheaval as the Reformation, as it quickly became apparent that social an...

Some would argue that there is no need for yet another biography of Martin Luther. The story has been told many times, and very well at that! And ...

Maia Kotrosits challenges the contemporary notion of “early Christian literature,” showing that a number of texts usually so described - New Testam...

The devil has fallen on hard times. Surveys say that even the majority of Christians doubt Satan's existence. Burdened by doubts, skeptical believ...

In Sacred Witness, Susanne Scholz discusses the wide range of rape texts in biblical literature - some that long have troubled readers, others that...

Beneath the commonplace affirmation that Jesus “paid for our sins” lie depths of implication: Did God demand a blood sacrifice to assuage divine an...

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A leading introduction to the Hebrew Bible John J. Collins’s A Short Introduction to the Hebrew Bible is one of the most popular introductory textb...

Can faith as trusting God make a difference? Absolutely - by relieving our anxiety over self-justification and the need to scapegoat others. Sin ...

The Cross of Reality investigates Bonhoeffer's interpretation and use of Luther's theology in shaping his Christology. In this essay, H. Gaylon Ba...

Through a twist of fate, the eruption that destroyed Pompeii in 79 CE also preserved a wealth of evidence about the town, buried for centuries in v...

Christians around the world recite the “Lord's Prayer” daily, but what exactly are they praying for - and what relationship does it have with Jesus...

Although Christians have professed the God of Israel, they have often assumed a naturalistic theism that harks back to the Greeks. Doing so, says C...

Scholars of the Gospel of Mark usually discuss the merits of patristic references to the Gospel’s origin and Mark’s identity as the “interpreter” o...

This commentary on the Gospels and Acts, excerpted from the Fortress Commentary on the Bible: The New Testament, engages readers in the work of bib...

This commentary on the Historical Writings, excerpted from the Fortress Commentary on the Bible: The Old Testament and Apocrypha, engages readers i...