1 Corinthians: A Commentary on the First Epistle to the Corinthians: (Augsburg Fortress) Publisher's Comments:Will bring to serious students . . ., as well as pastors and ministers, the critical guide needed for their biblical work. Details...

1 Enoch 1: A Commentary on the Book of 1 Enoch, Chapters 1—36; 81—108: (Augsburg Fortress) Publisher's Comments: 1 Enoch is one of the most intriguing books in the Pseudepigrapha (Israelite works outside the Hebrew canon). It was originally written in Aramaic and is comprised of several smaller works, incorporating traditions from the three centuries before the Common... Details...

2 Corinthians 8 and 9: A Commentary on Two Administrative Letters of the Apostle Paul: (Augsburg Fortress) Publisher's Comments: The series [Hermenia] is designed to be critical and historical commentary to the Bible without arbitrary limits in size or scope. It will utilize the full range of philological and historical tools, including textual criticism (often slighted in modern com... Details...

A Reformation Reader, with CD-ROM: Primary Texts with Introductions: (Augsburg Fortress) Publisher's Comments: This volume, the first anthology of the most important documents of the sixteenth-century European Reformations, is now significantly augmented and improved with a CD-ROM. Usable in state university and religious settings, A Reformation Reader includes 95 pr... Details...

A Short History of Judaism: (Augsburg Fortress Publishers) Publisher's Comments: One of the world's experts on classical Jewish history and literature here offers a clear and useful interpretation of the three major periods of Jewish history from the time of the Bible up to the present. It is a view from the inside, a description of the... Details...

Acts of the Apostles: (Augsburg Fortress) Publisher's Comments:Filled with compact, almost aphoristic observations about the text, its background, and its theology. Its insight should sustain its value for a full generation. Details...

American Religious Traditions: The Shaping of Religion in the United States, with CD-ROM: (Augsburg) Publisher's Comments: In this fully revised and enhanced edition of his Religion in the New World (Fortress Press, 1990), Wentz extends and deepens his successful account of the shaping of America’s diverse religious traditions. Using religious studies categories, such a... Details...

Amos: A Commentary on the Book of Amos: (Augsburg Fortress) Publisher's Comments:Makes extensive use of ancient Near Eastern sources, and employs medieval Jewish exegesis along with modern Israeli biblical scholarship. Details...

An Introduction to the Complete Dead Sea Scrolls: (Augsburg Fortress Publishers) Publisher's Comments:This thoroughly revised and updated version of The Dead Sea Scrolls: Qumran in Perspective is useful as a textbook for courses in Dead Sea Scrolls, the Hebrew Bible, or the New Testament. It has been a standard work in the field for the past thirty years. Details...

Ancient Israel and Ancient Greece: Religion, Politics, and Culture: (Augsburg Fortress Publishers) Publisher's Comments: The Israelites and the Greeks formed “the first free societies, cultivating rain-watered fields around a fortified citadel, recording their words about the human situation in a widely-accessible alphabetic script.” With a keen eye for both comparisons a... Details...