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  • Shaping the Past to Define the Present

    Luke-Acts and Apologetic Historiography

    by Gregory E. Sterling ...
    **Rethinking early Christian identity with the Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles  **Shaping the Past to Define the Present comprises both new and revised essays by esteemed New Testament scholar Gregory E. Sterling on Jewish and early Christian historiography. A sequel to his seminal work, Historiography and Self-Definition, this volume expands on Sterling's reading of Luke-Acts in the ... Read more

    $44.00 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Scripture and Social Justice

    Catholic and Ecumenical Essays

    by Gina Hens-Piazza, Anathea E. Portier-Young, Gregory E. Sterling, Stephen P. Ahearne-Kroll, John J. Collins, Julia D. E. Prinz, Harold W. Attridge, Corrine Carvalho, Adela Yarbro Collins0, John R. Donahue1, John Endres2 ...
    The essays gathered here provide a panoramic view of current thinking on biblical texts that play important roles in contemporary struggles for social justice – either as inspiration or impediment. Here, from the hands of an ecumenical array of leading biblical scholars, are fresh and compelling resources for thinking biblically about what justice is and what it demands. Individual essays treat ... Read more

    $38.09 USD

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  • Forgery and Counterforgery: The Use of Literary Deceit in Early Christian Polemics

    The Use of Literary Deceit in Early Christian Polemics

    by Bart D. Ehrman ...
    "Arguably the most distinctive feature of the early Christian literature," writes Bart Ehrman, "is the degree to which it was forged." The Homilies and Recognitions of Clement; Paul's letters to and from Seneca; Gospels by Peter, Thomas, and Philip; Jesus' correspondence with Abgar, letters by Peter and Paul in the New Testament--all forgeries. To cite just a few examples. Forgery and ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • Acts: An Exegetical Commentary

    Introduction and 1:1-247

    by Craig Keener ...
    Highly respected New Testament scholar Craig Keener is known for his meticulous and comprehensive research. This commentary on Acts, his magnum opus, may be the largest and most thoroughly documented Acts commentary available. Useful not only for the study of Acts but also early Christianity, this work sets Acts in its first-century context.In this volume, the first of four, Keener introduces the ... Read more

    $57.59 USD

  • The Canon of the New Testament

    Its Origin, Development, and Significance

    by Bruce M. Metzger ...
    This book provides information from Church history concerning the recognition of the canonical status of the several books of the New Testament. Canonization was a long and gradual process of sifting among scores of gospels, epistles, and other books that enjoyed local and temporary authority - some of which have only recently come to light among the discoveries of Nag Hammadi. After discussing ... Read more

    $41.39 USD

  • Christians and Images: Early Christian Attitudes toward Images

    by Steven Bigham ...
    This book aims at combating the Hostility Theory which claims that the Christians in the pagan Roman Empire had no images and rejected them as idolatrous. Did the early Christians, during the first three centuries, 33–313, have images in their churches or places of worship and homes? If they did not, was that because they thought that all images were idols or close to being idols? Did they think ... Read more

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  • The Gospel of John

    by Craig Keener ...
    Christianity Today 2004 Award of Merit (Biblical Studies)Keener's commentary explores the Jewish and Greco-Roman settings of John more deeply than previous works, paying special attention to social-historical and rhetorical features of the Gospel. It cites about 4,000 different secondary sources and uses over 20,000 references from ancient literature. ... Read more

    $64.09 USD

  • Acts: An Exegetical Commentary

    3:1-14:28

    by Craig Keener ...
    Highly respected New Testament scholar Craig Keener is known for his meticulous and comprehensive research. This commentary on Acts, his magnum opus, may be the largest and most thoroughly documented Acts commentary available. Useful not only for the study of Acts but also early Christianity, this work sets Acts in its first-century context.In this volume, the second of four, Keener continues his ... Read more

    $57.59 USD

  • The Original Bishops

    Office and Order in the First Christian Communities

    by Alistair Stewart ...
    A Jesus Creed 2015 Book of the YearThis work provides a new starting point for studying the origins of church offices. Alistair Stewart, a leading authority on early Christianity and a meticulous scholar, provides essential groundwork for historical and theological discussions. Stewart refutes a long-held consensus that church offices emerged from collective leadership at the end of the first ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

  • Acts: An Exegetical Commentary

    15:1-23:35

    by Craig Keener ...
    Highly respected New Testament scholar Craig Keener is known for his meticulous and comprehensive research. This commentary on Acts, his magnum opus, may be the largest and most thoroughly documented Acts commentary available. Useful not only for the study of Acts but also early Christianity, this work sets Acts in its first-century context.In this volume, the third of four, Keener continues his ... Read more

    $57.59 USD

  • The Canon Debate

    Edited by Lee McDonald, James Sanders ...
    What does it mean to speak of a "canon" of scripture? How, when, and where did the canon of the Hebrew Bible come into existence? Why does it have three divisions? What canon was in use among the Jews of the Hellenistic diaspora? At Qumran? In Roman Palestine? Among the rabbis? What Bible did Jesus and his disciples know and use? How was the New Testament canon formed and closed? What role was ... Read more

    $43.19 USD

  • Origen : Scholarship in the Service of the Church

    Scholarship in the Service of the Church

    by Ronald E. Heine ...
    Series series Christian Theology in Context
    This book is about the life and thought of Origen (c.185-254 A.D.) the most important Greek-speaking Christian theologian and Biblical scholar in antiquity. His writings included works on the text of the Bible commentaries and sermons on most of the books of the Bible a major defense of the Christian faith against a philosophical skeptic and the first attempt at writing systematic theology ever ... Read more

    $33.29 USD