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Rex and Audrey Mason returned to Oxford, where they had both been undergraduates, in 1975. Rex had been appointed tutor in Hebrew and Old Testament Studies at Regent’s Park College, where he had himself trained for the Baptist ministry after r...

It is important to offer a general introduction about the Gospel of John before attending to its individual chapters and verses. Introductory remarks concerning who the author might be, why he wrote, his overall theological concerns, his audie...

Hi. I’m Robyn, a minister and biblical scholar from Melbourne, Australia. This book provides a brief introduction to the last book in the Bible called the Apocalypse, or Revelation. I think of Revelation as the weird cousin in the Bible—the on...

Eschatology was long called the ‘doctrine of the last things’ or the ‘doctrine of the end’. By these last things were meant events which will one day break upon man, history and the world at the end of time. They included the return of Christ...

This volume is the result of an investigation, extending through several years, and instituted for the satisfaction of the author.   Two years of the time were spent in the Library of Congress, which is peculiarly rich in the depar...

With all due respect to the apostle Paul, there is good reason to call the book of Psalms the “Romans of the Old Testament.” Luther himself, while lecturing on the Psalter for twenty years (1513-33), found among the psalms both the theological...

When people ask me what I do for a living, sometimes I reply, “I teach people how to read.” As a pastor, I teach people how to read the Bible well. As a professor, I train students how to read well in general. Anyone who can read can get bette...

During the first half of my academic career, my research and writing focused on Russia in the eighteenth century. This research mainly centered on the social and economic history of the turbulent and colorful period of Empress Catherine the Gr...

The present volume is the first of a new Patrology that strives to place at the disposal of the English-reading public a solid intro- duction to Early Christian literature. So far all the manuals of Patrology in our language are translations....

On July 20, 2006, Eddie Fogarty was operating a peafrdigger in a bog in Faddan More, County Tipperary. He saw something odd fall out as he scooped up a bucket of peat. The words in mile lacrimarum—“in the valley of tears,” from Psalm 84—were j...

{1} I. Theology means first etymologically: teaching about God and divine things (Gotteslehre, doctrina de Deo, “de divinitate ratio sive sermo”). In particular, however, we mean by theology, likewise with a basis in etymology, such teaching a...

Abraham was but one man, yet he was given possession of the land,” declare the people of Jerusalem to the Babylonian exiles (Ezek. 33:24). And in many ways, the Jerusalemites were right in praising Abraham for his accomplishments despite him b...

This book seeks to enrich the encounter between the contemporary Jewish reader and his or her ancient heritage, which is rooted in the Bible.   This encounter is critical for the formation of our Zionist identity with a foundation...

The aim of Athenaze is to teach you to read ancient Greek as quickly, thoroughly, and enjoyably as possible, and to do so within the context of ancient Greek culture. This means within the context of the daily life of the ancient Greeks as it...

Jerome of Stridon (347-419/20) is to a large extent remembered for the controversies in which he was engaged. Although his role as a theologian has not been appreciated, his work as a polemicist and defender of what he considered to be orthodo...

The word prolegomenon is from the Greek verb prolegein, which means “to speak beforehand.” In literature, it refers to a brief summary of a book’s purpose and an explanation of the manner in which the author hopes to attain it.   I...

Is the Internet Changing the Way You Think? This is the title of a 2011 collection of interviews, edited by John Brockman, on the impact of the Internet on our lives. Is the Internet changing our way of thinking? The recent digital technologie...

Before we can discuss how to write the theology of the New Testament, we need to say something about the legitimacy and possibility of the enterprise.   The New Testament as an Object of Study   The most vocal contempor...

There is a great gulf today between what is popularly known as liberalism and conservatism. Each side demands that you not only disagree with but disdain the other as (at best) crazy or (at worst) evil. This is particularly true when religion...

Robert Bellah’s landmark book, Habits of the Heart, helped many people name the thing that was (and still is) eating away at the cohesiveness of our culture—“expressive individualism.” Elsewhere, Bellah argued that Americans had created a cult...

I was raised in a mainline Protestant church, but in college I went through personal and spiritual crises that led me to question my most fundamental beliefs about God, the world, and myself.   During those years I fell in with som...

After the global economic crisis began in mid-2008, there followed a tragic string of suicides of formerly wealthy and well-connected individuals. The acting chief financial officer of Freddie Mac, the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, h...

POPULAR MEDIA TOOK NOTE RECENTLY when one of film’s most recognized and celebrated stars passed away. As a successful actress since the age of three, Elizabeth Taylor had virtually defined Hollywood’s Golden Age, embodying an image of beauty f...

The fairy tale that Kierkegaard’s pseudonym Johannes Climacus begins to tell above is meant to shed light on no less an elevated theological topos than the Incarnation. It is the centerpiece of the second chapter of Philosophical Fragments, by...