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  • Paul's Letter to the Romans

    A Socio-Rhetorical Commentary

    While Paul's letter to the Romans is the most studied and commented-on document from the biblical period, the major exegetical books on Romans from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries have been overwhelmingly shaped by the Reformed tradition. Through a careful survey of work on Romans by both ancient Church Fathers and modern exegetical scholars, Ben Witherington III here argues that the ... Read more

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  • The Acts of the Apostles

    A Socio-Rhetorical Commentary

    Like Ben Witherington's previous commentary Conflict and Community in Corinth, this commentary breaks fresh ground in providing a detailed social and rhetorical analysis of the book of Acts.Written in a readable style, with more detailed interaction with scholarly discussion found in the various excursuses, this commentary draws on the best new insights from a number of disciplines (narratological ... Read more

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  • What Have They Done with Jesus?

    Beyond Strange Theories and Bad History—Why We Can Trust the Bible

    Strange theories about Jesus seem to ooze from our culture with increasing regularity. Ben Witherington, one of the top Jesus scholars, will have none of it. There were no secret Gnostic teachings in the first century. With leading scholars and popular purveyors of bad history in his crosshairs, Witherington reveals what we can—and cannot—claim to know about the real Jesus. The Bible, not outside ... Read more

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  • Grace in Galatia

    A Commentary on Paul's Letter to the Galatians

    Grace in Galatia is an innovative socio-rhetorical study of Paul's most polemical letter. Ben Witherington breaks new ground by analyzing the whole of Galatians as a deliberative discourse meant to forestall the Galatians from submitting to circumcision and the Jewish law.The commentary features the latest discussion of major problems in Pauline studies, including Paul's view of the law and the ... Read more

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  • The Letters to Philemon, the Colossians, and the Ephesians

    A Socio-Rhetorical Commentary on the Captivity Epistles

    This volume completes Ben Witherington's contributions to the set of Eerdmans socio-rhetorical commentaries on the New Testament.In addition to the usual features of these commentaries, Witherington offers an innovative way of looking at Colossians, Ephesians, and Philemon as interrelated documents written at different levels of moral discourse. Colossians is first-order moral discourse (the ... Read more

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  • The New Testament Story

    This is a print on demand book and is therefore non- returnable.This informative, clearly written book introduces the New Testament in two main ways: (1) it explains where the New Testament came from, and (2) it examines the New Testament writings themselves.Ben Witherington first tells how and why the New Testament documents were written and collected and how they came to be known as the New ... Read more

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  • We Have Seen His Glory

    A Vision of Kingdom Worship

    Series series The Calvin Institute of Christian Worship Liturgical Studies (CICW)
    We Have Seen His Glory sounds a clarion call to worship in light of the coming Kingdom. Ben Witherington here contends that Christian worship cannot be a matter of merely continuing ancient practices; instead, we must be preparing for worship in the Kingdom of God when it comes on earth. The eight chapters in this thought-provoking book each end with questions for reflection and discussion -- ... Read more

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  • Work

    A Kingdom Perspective on Labor

    Most Christians spend most of their waking hours working, yet many regard work as at best a necessary evil — just one more unfortunate by-product of humanity's fall from grace. Not so, says Ben Witherington III, and in Work: A Kingdom Perspective on Labor, he considers work as neither the curse nor the cure of human life but, rather, as something good that God has given us to do. In this brief ... Read more

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  • The Rest of Life

    Rest, Play, Eating, Studying, Sex from a Kingdom Perspective

    When was the last time you heard a sermon on the theological importance of play? What do rest, eating, studying -- and sex -- have to do with the Kingdom of God? Strangely, although these activities together take up much of our time, they seldom receive much discussion from a biblical point of view.In The Rest of Life Ben Witherington explores these subjects in the light of biblical teaching about ... Read more

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  • Paul's Letter to the Philippians

    A Socio-Rhetorical Commentary

    Interprets Paul's letter in light of its rhetorical content and cultural contextSkeptical of the trend among many biblical scholars to analyze Paul's short, affectionate letter to the Philippians in light of Greco-Roman letter-writing conventions, Ben Witherington instead looks at Philippians as a masterful piece of long-distance oratory — an extension of Paul's oral speech, dictated to a scribe ... Read more

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  • The Gospel of Jesus

    Ben Witherington opens up the world of the four Gospels and helps us hear the story of Jesus as one seamless narrative with cultural and historical details. ... Read more

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  • 1 and 2 Thessalonians

    A Socio-Rhetorical Commentary

    Paul's two letters to the Thessalonians stand as some of the very earliest Christian documents, yet they appear well into Paul's missionary career, giving them a unique context well worth exploring. In this first full-scale socio-rhetorical commentary on 1 and 2 Thessalonians, Ben Witherington gleans fresh insight from reading Paul's text in the light of rhetorical concerns and patterns, early ... Read more

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