Biblical Studies

If we exclude those parts of the world where the Bible was entirely unknown before the advent of Christian missionaries, there are few aspects of culture, ancient, mediaeval and modern, European and non-European, religious and secular, that ha...

It is easy to suppose that the books that make up the Bible are set apart from all other books and that they relate only to each other. The biblical writings are typically contained within the confines of a single volume, identified as “Holy Bible...

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...

As long as I can remember I have been in love with some manifestations of Christianity (not always ones that my Christian friends would themselves love or even approve). Tennessee Ernie Ford singing on television the hymn "The Garden" moved me to...

The title of this book involves, as usual with me, a pun. On the one hand, my work has always been Talmud-centered: the Talmud, which to my mind is the greatest cultural production of the People called Jewish, is never far from my mind. I cite...

Contrary to the assumptions made by many scholars of previous generations, and regrettably still made by some of this generation, the Jewish worship to which Jesus and his followers were accustomed was not necessarily identical with that which...

It would perhaps be premature to say that a scholarly consensus is emerging, but certainly a growing number of us would now share the following conclusions: 1 That we know much, much less about the liturgical practices of the first three...

It is more than fifteen years since I wrote the above Foreword to The Birth ofthe Messiah. I was very encouraged by the reception given that work, especially on the part of those who wrote or told me that it made the Gospel infancy narratives...

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...

The Passion Narrative (henceforth PN), as it proceeds from arrest through trial to condemnation, execution, and burial (thus from Gethsemane to the grave), constitutes in each Gospel the longest consecutive action recounted of Jesus. Aesthetic...

The books of First and Second Kings constitute the great “royal history” of Israel in the Old Testament. They trace the ups and downs of kingship all the way from the death of David (962) to the destruction of Jerusalem (587), with a brief add...

Our concern is with the Bible. What are the exact melodies, harmony and counterpoint of its haunting music? To what battles do its trumpet fanfares summon us? It has been the common conviction of all Christians that their life must be lived un...

Christian doctrine focuses upon God and the way in which God grants not just life but also meaning to all other things. To turn to the doctrine of God, therefore, is to consider both a particular item of concern (namely, God or theos) and a sp...

Two thousand years have come and gone, but still his remains the unfinished story that refuses to go away. Jesus of Nazareth, a Jew from rural first-century Galilee, is without doubt the most famous and most influential human being who ever walked...

From the outside, Luther’s life passed by simply and steadily. With few exceptions, his whole life took place within the territories of Thuringia and Saxony, mostly in Wittenberg, the electoral capital at the Elbe river, and its surroundings....

Many think critically of historical criticism. Fewer think historically about historical criticism. Though now taken for granted as the foundation of modern biblical studies, reading texts with an eye to their own history once threw Europe int...

The last 200 years have seen considerable swings in the literary assessment of the earliest Christian literature, including as it does the texts which became the canonized Scriptures of the Church, but not just those. The pendulum has bee...

With the exception of several chapters of Daniel and Ezra, which are written in Aramaic, the language of the Old Testament is Hebrew. The Creation story (cf. Gen. 2: 19 ff.) and the story of the tower of Babel (Gen. 11) imply that Hebrew was t...

Формирование еврейской Библии. Новая реконструкция.   Despite significant overlap in some cases (providing ample data for any future source critic of this work), this book represents a final redaction and synthesis of the material in t...

Работа Д. Карсона  предназначена в помощь студентам и всем кто изучает Новый Завет. В ней автор даёт обзор и рекомендации относительно существующего многообразия богословских работ по изучению Нового Завета. Книга станет хорошим подспорьем тем,...

Carson, D. A.  The gagging of God: Christianity confronts pluralismIncludes bibliographical references and index.ISBN: 0-310-24286-X (Softcover)Carson, D. A. Gagging of God, The. Zondervan, 2002. Carson, D. A.  The gagging of God: Chri...

Origins are fundamental. We are each what we have become because of the way we began both genetically and socially. Often our choices are dictated because of our beginnings, even though we may be only tacitly aware (if at all) of that dimension of...

It is with great excitement that I present this volume. There has been some amazing work on the topic of children in the Bible and the ancient world. To understand children’s lives more effectively, comparative methods, and specifically histor...

The purpose of this work is to provide scholars, pastors, students, and serious Bible readers with a commentary on the variant readings in the New Testament that have significance for Bible interpretation and Bible translation—and to do so in...