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There are, to be sure, a number of scholars who argue that the members of the Qumran community are not Essenes, and these views do sometimes find favor in the broader public. However, this is largely because those who see the Qumran community...

Clearly, in these conditions there developed a tendency to believe that God is merciful not only toward the righteous, but toward the sinners as well, so if a man wishes to be like God, he too must be merciful toward all people. A similar view...

Paideia Commentaries on The New Testament   The distinctive language of the epistle signals that James develops this theme in a distinctive way, though not without significant relationship to the Jesus tradition and connec...

The New International Greek Testament Commentary   While there have been many series of commentaries on the English text of the New Testament in recent years, it is a long time since any attempt has been made to cater partic...

Biblical theology of the New Testament In this present volume we will not discuss 1, 2, and 3 John, for in style, theology, and probably historical origin they fit better with the Fourth Gospel and thus are included in "The Theolo...

The New International Commentary on the New Testament One of the chief aims of this book is to combat what I consider a fatal error made already by Luther and now in far too many modern commentaries on James: his Epistle is general...

Классика библеистики I lived the life of the twofold Law; I believed in its divine source; I had faith in a Father-God who would lift my soul into the world to come and raise my body from the dead. When my grandmother died, I, as...

A quarter century has now passed since George Lindbeck first published The Nature of Doctrine. 1 With the passage of time this slim volume has emerged as one of the most influential works of academic theology to appear in English in the l...

This is a book about God and hermeneutics. It is a plea for being hermeneutical about theology, and for being theological about hermeneutics. To be precise: it is an argument for the importance of treating the questions of God, Scripture and herme...

This is a book about everyday theology, written by everyday theologians for everyday theologians.   Everyday theology is the reflective and practical task of living each day as faithful disciples of Jesus Christ. Theology is not fo...

Мелетий Смотрицкий был одним из выдающихся церковных деятелей довольно сложного и напряжённого периода истории: конца 16 - начала 17 века. В его биографии отражаются напряженность и противоречия, характеризующие жизнь "русинов" - православных хрис...

The phrase "salvation in Christ" may well serve as the basic summation of Paul’s central concerns regarding both Christian experience and Christian theology. Paul unpacks his christological soteriology in four ways: through a consistent gramma...

The subject of the formation of the New Testament canon is of perennial interest among both students and practitioners of Christianity. While the idea of canon is a theological idea, and the postulation of a canon is not  fully supportable fro...

Word Biblical Commentary Bauckham, Richard J. Word Biblical Commentary. Vol. 50: 2 Peter, Jude Dallas: Word, Incorporated, 2002.   The launching of the Word Biblical Commentary brings to fulfillment an enterprise...

A CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL COMMENTARY A word of explanation is perhaps required with regard to the character of the translation of Romans included in this commentary. Commentators’ translations are commonly intended to brin...

Ordinarily theology has to do with a studied, reflective understanding of things divine, dealing with how the various matters we believe about God and God's ways can be put into a coherent whole. But we do not find Paul reflecting on the Holy...

Классика библеистики One of the most profoundly christological writings of the New Testament, the letter to the Hebrews, confidently  asserts, "Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever" (13:8). And yet, anyone famil...

Early in August of 1987, within a few months of when the first edition of The Historical Reliability of the Gospels rolled off the presses, I celebrated my thirty-second birthday. Our first child, a daughter, was not yet a year old. I was preparin...

Let's face it. Just the word puts some of us on edge. We are excited about learning to interpret the Bible, but the thought of exegetical method evokes a chill. Some textbooks on exegesis do nothing to overcome these apprehensions. The language is...

The road from Jerusalem to Europe is a long one, and the journey to North America is even longer. The distance increases when we think of Jerusalem as the capital of Judea in the first century a.d., called Hierosolyma by the Romans, controlled...

Ehrman's incisive analysis makes a significant contribution to our understanding of the history of early Christianity.   In a study that explores the close relationship between the social history of early Christianity and the textu...

This means, among other things, that our ideal of freedom, and of the free society, cannot be defined simply in terms of //dependence. The redemption of man to-day means his release to become, not an individual—for in independence he is power­less...

Работа Priority of John известного британского библеиста Джон А. Т. Робинсона является одной из лучших работ по вопросам авторства, датировки, исторической достоверности Евангелия от Иоанна.   Robinson John - The Priority of John  ...

It is now eight years since the first edition of this work appeared under the title The Gospel of Matthew according to a Primitive Hebrew Text (1987). As with all pioneering projects, the book contained a number of errors, typographical and ot...