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paperbackA Week in the Life of Corinth
A Week in the Life Series
by Ben Witherington III
Ben Witherington III attempts to reenchant our reading of Paul in this creative reconstruction of ancient Corinth. Following a fictitious Corinthian man named Nicanor through an eventful week of business dealings and conflict, you will encounter life at various levels of Roman society--eventually meeting Paul himself and gaining entrance into the Christian community there. The result is an unforgettable ...
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paperbackExploring the Old Testament
A Guide to the Prophets
Exploring the Bible Series
by J. Gordon McConville
Exploring the Old Testament: A Guide to the Prophets considers the often misunderstood prophetic books of the Old Testament, including an exploration of their historical context, their artful use of language and their place within the chorus of Old Testament voices. This critically informed and theologically sensitive introduction to the Prophets introduces students to
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paperbackCreating the Canon
Composition, Controversy, and the Authority of the New Testament
by Benjamin Paul Laird
ECPA Top Shelf Book Cover Award
Unraveling the Origins of the New Testament Canon
Despite the profound influence of the New Testament, a variety of questions related to its background and history remain common. Contemporary readers often find the subject of the canon’s origin and formation to be complicated and confusing, while scholars continue to struggle ...
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paperbackTo Gaze upon God
The Beatific Vision in Doctrine, Tradition, and Practice
by Samuel Parkison
Today, the doctrine of the beatific vision has been woefully forgotten within the church and its theology.
Yet, throughout history Christians have always held that the blessed hope of heaven lies in seeing and being in the presence of God, of beholding the beatific vision. With lucidity and breadth, Parkison reintroduces the beatific vision and affirms its centrality for the ...
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paperbackTouch the Earth
Poems on The Way
by Drew Edward Jackson
Foreword by Pádraig Ó TuamaGather it from memory.
Let it touch the earth.In Touch the Earth, Drew Jackson continues the project he began in God Speaks Through Wombs, reflecting on the Gospel of Luke through poetry. Touch the Earth picks up in chapter nine and continues through the end of Luke's Gospel. Part protest poetry, part biblical commentary, Jackson presents the ...
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paperbackPocket Dictionary for the Study of New Testament Greek
The IVP Pocket Reference Series
by Matthew S. DeMoss
If you are beginning your study of New Testament Greek or Greek exegesis, this book is for you!
From ablative to zeugma, it defines the tangled terms that infest Greek textbooks, grammars and lexicons.
Here is the book to deliver you from late-night ponderings of the predicate and frantic fumings over the fricative. It is the indispensable lexicon to that third language ...
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paperbackPaul & the Law
A Contextual Approach
by Frank Thielman
No issue in contemporary Pauline studies is more contested than Paul's view of the law. Headline proponents of the "new perspective" on Paul, such as E.P. Sanders and J.D.G. Dunn, have maintained that the Reformational readings of Paul have led todistorted understandings of first-century Judaism, of Paul and particularly of Paul's diagnosis of the Jewish situation under the law. Others have responded ...
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paperbackPursuing Moral Faithfulness
Ethics and Christian Discipleship
by Gary Tyra
Christianity is in a state of moral crisis.Even though people make moral decisions every day, many Christians lack both the ability to evaluate these decisions and a community of discipleship to help inspire a morally faithful life. Compared to the people around them, there is often no discernible difference in how Christians go about making moral choices.As a biblical and practical theologian with ...
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hardcoverThe Wood Between the Worlds
A Poetic Theology of the Cross
by Brian Zahnd
Christian Book Award® Finalist—Christian Living
Experience the Kaleidoscopic Mystery of the Cross
Everything about the gospel message leads to the cross, and proceeds from the cross. In fact, within the narrative of Scripture, the crucifixion of Jesus is literally the crux of the story—the axis upon which the biblical story turns. ...
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paperbackNobody's Mother
Artemis of the Ephesians in Antiquity and the New Testament
by Sandra L Glahn
Christianity Today Book Award Finalist—Biblical Studies
Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award Finalist
How Has Misinterpreting Paul Led to the Silencing of Women?
Some Christians think Paul's reference to "saved through childbearing" in 1 Timothy 2:15 means that women are slated primarily for delivering and raising ...
