Purpose and Cause in Pauline Exegesis: Romans 1.16-4.25 and a New Approach to the Letters: (Cambridge University Press) Publisher's Comments: This book is about how to read Paul's letters as first-century epistles. A new method is worked out by studying Romans 1.16 - 4.25. The first step is to consider what Paul was aiming to say to the Romans; the second is to examine Paul's thought as we see it... Details...

Qoheleth: A Commentary on the Book of Qoheleth: (Augsburg Fortress) Publisher's Comments: Qoheleth presents a special challenge not only for professional commentators but also for 'normal' readers of the Hebrew text (or a modern translation). . . . Most people in modern Western industrial societies . . . can relate without great difficulty to th... Details...

Religion & Power: Pagans, Jews, and Christians in the Greek East: (Oxford University Press) Publisher's Comments: This book contributes to the small but growing literature on the interaction between religion and power in antiquity. Edwards focuses on the eastern "Greek" provinces in the first and second centuries A.D.--the period during which Christianity, Judaism, and... Details...

Rhetoric and Galatians: Assessing an Approach to Paul's Epistle — Series: Society for New Testament Studies in Monograph (No. 101): (Cambridge University Press) Publisher's Comments: This study discusses the relationship between the epistles of Paul and classical rhetoric by focusing on recent studies of Galatians. The argument, built on a close reading of handbook evidence, receives support from a survey of the Church Fathers' discussi... Details...

Righteousness in Matthew and his World of Thought — Series: Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series (No. 41): (Cambridge University Press) Publisher's Comments: While New Testament scholars generally agree that the concept of righteousness occupies an important place in the Gospel of Matthew, there is no scholarly consensus as to the meaning and function of this concept. The author of this study contends that this ... Details...

Romans and the Apologetic Tradition: The Purpose, Genre and Audience of Paul's Letter — Series: Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series (No. 81): (Cambridge University Press) Publisher's Comments: This study shows how classical Greek and Hellenistic philosophical and ethical traditions inform Paul's Letter to the Romans. It concentrates especially on Protreptic, a kind of literature deriving its name from the title of a lost writing of Aristotle that... Details...

Romans and the Apologetic Tradition: The Purpose, Genre, and Audience of Paul's Letter — Series: Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series (No. 81): (Cambridge University Press) Publisher's Comments: This study shows how classical Greek and Hellenistic philosophical and ethical traditions inform Paul's Letter to the Romans. It concentrates especially on Protreptic, a kind of literature deriving its name from the title of a lost writing of Aristotle that... Details...

Show Them No Mercy: 4 Views on God and Canaanite Genocide (Counterpoints): (Zondervan) Publisher's Comments: A Counterpoints book that discusses various contemporary views held by evangelicals on God’s command to the Israelites to destroy utterly the Canaanites and how each view sees the relationship between this God of the Israelites and the God and Fath... Details...

Song of Songs (New International Commentary on the Old Testament ): (Eerdmans) Publisher's Comments: In this commentary Longman unpacks what this ancient love poem reveals about the male-female relationship and about God's love for His people. Beginning with an extensive introduction to the book and its background, the author discusses Song of Songs' autho... Details...

The Apostolic Tradition: A Commentary: (Augsburg Fortress) Publisher's Comments: This Hermeneia volume provides an important contribution to New Testament research as well as the study of the patristic era. Details...