Acts and the History of Earliest Christianity: (Wipf & Stock Publishers) Publisher's Comments: In a comprehensive and detailed survey on its remarkably widespread employment in the Roman empire, Dr. Hengel examines the way in which "the most vile death of the cross" was regarded in the Greek-speaking world and particularly in Roman-occupied Palestine. Details...

Androgynous Judaism Masculine and Feminine in the Dual Torah: (Wipf and stock Publishers) Publisher's Comments:America's foremost scholar on formative Judaism examines the issue of gender as it appears in the corpus of rabbinic literature and arrives at some provocative conclusions. While the structure of Judaism based on the dual Torah is clearly masculine in orienta... Details...

Apollinarianism An Essay on the Christology of the Early Church: (Wipf and stock Publishers) Publisher's Comments:'Apollinarianism is the prevalent heresy of today: why don't you make a study of it?' That advice given to me by one of the most revered of my teachers fifteen years ago fixed my desire to investigate the teaching of the great Greek heresiarch.... [W]hen the ... Details...

Between Jesus and Paul: Studies in the Earliest History of Christianity: (Wipf & Stock Publishers) Publisher's Comments: More happened in the period between Jesus and Paul, Professor Hengel argues, than in the whole of the next seven centuries, up to the time when the doctrine of the early church was completed. Certainly these decades are crucial to our understanding of the d... Details...

Christianity, Judaism and Other Greco-Roman Cults, Part 1 New Testament: (Wipf and stock Publishers) Publisher's Comments:"The editor hopes that these papers, on themes of interest to Morton Smith, will contribute to the critical discussion of some problems of concern to him. Since Smith is one of the great scholarly masters of this generation, it is through scholarship, and not... Details...

Christianity, Judaism and Other Greco-Roman Cults, Part 2 Early Christianity: (Wipf and stock Publishers) Publisher's Comments:"The editor hopes that these papers, on themes of interest to Morton Smith, will contribute to the critical discussion of some problems of concern to him. Since Smith is one of the great scholarly masters of this generation, it is through scholarship, and not... Details...

Christianity, Judaism and Other Greco-Roman Cults, Part 3 Judaism Before 70: (Wipf and stock Publishers) Publisher's Comments:"The editor hopes that these papers, on themes of interest to Morton Smith, will contribute to the critical discussion of some problems of concern to him. Since Smith is one of the great scholarly masters of this generation, it is through scholarship, and not... Details...

Christianity, Judaism and Other Greco-Roman Cults, Part 4 Judaism After 70 Other Greco-Roman Cults Bibliography: (Wipf and stock Publishers) Publisher's Comments:"The editor hopes that these papers, on themes of interest to Morton Smith, will contribute to the critical discussion of some problems of concern to him. Since Smith is one of the great scholarly masters of this generation, it is through scholarship, and not... Details...

Confronting Creation How Judaism Reads Genesis: (Wipf and stock Publishers) Publisher's Comments:By setting forth the book of Genesis as it is re-presented in the rabbinic statement Genesis Rabbah, Neusner demonstrates the way in which Judaism confronted creation and the Genesis story. In 'Confronting Creation', the author presents a new, analytical tran... Details...

Creation and Evolution Rethinking the Evidence from Science and the Bible: (Wipf and stock Publishers) Publisher's Comments:Even non-Christian scientists are attacking the traditional evolutionary theory still taught in many schools as fact. In 'Creation and Evolution' British physicist Dr. Alan Hayward draws evidence solely from these non-Christian researchers to discredit gradua... Details...