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  • Paul & the Law: A Contextual Approach, By Frank Thielman
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    Paul & 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 ...

  • Spiritual Practices of Jesus: Learning Simplicity, Humility, and Prayer with Luke's Earliest Readers, By Catherine J. Wright
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    Spiritual Practices of Jesus

    Learning Simplicity, Humility, and Prayer with Luke's Earliest Readers

    by Catherine J. Wright

    Luke's Gospel was written to transform. In its original context, readers would have seen a portrait of Jesus as an ideal teacher and king, able to shape his people through exemplary leadership. They would have come to the Gospel expecting to be changed for God's purposes through the imitation of Jesus' lifestyle and adoption of his teaching. When today's readers approach the text ...

  • After nineteen years as director of production and fulfillment for InterVarsity Press, Anne Gerth will be retiring on December 8, 2017. Gerth's work will be picked up by Ben McCoy, IVP's current production manager and managing editor, and by Terumi Echols, who has been hired as director of finance and fulfillment operations, a combination of two roles vacated by retirement over the past fifteen months.

  • Do We Need the New Testament?: Letting the Old Testament Speak for Itself, By John Goldingay Do We Need the New Testament?: Letting the Old Testament Speak for Itself, By John Goldingay
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    Do We Need the New Testament?

    Letting the Old Testament Speak for Itself

    by John Goldingay

    Do we need the Old Testament? That's a familiar question, often asked. But as an Old Testament scholar, John Goldingay turns that question on its head: Do we need the New Testament? What's new about the New Testament? After all, the Old Testamentwas the only Bible Jesus and the disciples knew. Jesus affirmed it as the Word of God. Do we need anything more? And what happens when we begin to look ...

  • A Little Book for New Bible Scholars, By E. Randolph Richards and Joseph R. Dodson A Little Book for New Bible Scholars, By E. Randolph Richards and Joseph R. Dodson
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    A Little Book for New Bible Scholars

    Little Books

    by E. Randolph Richards and Joseph R. Dodson

    Many young Bible scholars are passionate for the Scriptures. But is passion enough?In A Little Book for New Bible Scholars, Randolph Richards and Joseph Dodson encourage young students of the Bible to add substance to their zeal—the kind of substance that comes from the sweat and toil of hard study. "Just as we should avoid knowledge without love," they write, "we should ...

  • New Explorations in the Lost World of Genesis: Advances in the Origins Debate, By John H. Walton New Explorations in the Lost World of Genesis: Advances in the Origins Debate, By John H. Walton
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    New Explorations in the Lost World of Genesis

    Advances in the Origins Debate

    The Lost World Series

    by John H. Walton
    Contributions by J. Harvey Walton

    Updating and expanding upon his previous work on origins, this riveting volume from John H. Walton marks the eighth entry in his bestselling Lost World Series, which has sold more than 125,000 copies.

    For over a decade, JohnWalton's books The Lost World of Genesis One and The Lost World of Adam and Eve have shaped readers' understanding of the ancient Near ...

  • Letters and Homilies for Hellenized Christians: A Socio-Rhetorical Commentary on Titus, 1-2 Timothy and 1-3 John, By Ben Witherington III
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    Letters and Homilies for Hellenized Christians

    A Socio-Rhetorical Commentary on Titus, 1-2 Timothy and 1-3 John

    Letters and Homilies Series

    by Ben Witherington III

    The study of the so-called General or Catholic Epistles has been hampered, argues Ben Witherington, by the failure to properly discern their genre. Several of these "letters" are much better understood as homilies--although, like the rest of the New Testament, they are situation specific. In this first of three volumes, Witherington extends his innovative socio-rhetorical analysis of New Testament ...