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  • Exploring Jewish Literature of the Second Temple Period: A Guide for New Testament Students, By Larry R. Helyer
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    Exploring Jewish Literature of the Second Temple Period

    A Guide for New Testament Students

    by Larry R. Helyer

    From the crisis of the Babylonian exile to the rise of rabbinic Judaism--a span of over six hundred years--the Jewish people produced a wealth of literature that lies outside the Hebrew Bible. Today it goes under names such as apocrypha and pseudepigrapha, Josephus and Philo, apocalyptic literature and the Dead Sea Scrolls, Mishnah and targums. But line by line, scroll by scroll, it represents the ...

  • 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 ...

  • Ephesians: An Introduction and Commentary, By Darrell L. Bock
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    Ephesians

    An Introduction and Commentary

    Tyndale New Testament Commentaries

    by Darrell L. Bock
    Series edited by Eckhard J. Schnabel
    Consulting Editor Nicholas Perrin

    Biblical Foundations Award Finalist

    Unlike Paul's letters to the Galatians or the Corinthians, the letter to the Ephesians contains almost no clues about the situation and issues its recipients faced. Nevertheless, the letter vividly depicts how God's will revealed in Christ reorients believers' lives toward unity, mutual respect, submission, and love—in short, new life in ...

  • 2 Corinthians, Edited by Scott M. Manetsch
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    2 Corinthians

    New Testament Volume 9B

    Reformation Commentary on Scripture

    Edited by Scott M. Manetsch

    "Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come."

    When the Reformers of the sixteenth century turned to this biblical text, originally written by Paul to the first-century church in Corinth, they found truths that apply to Christians regardless of their historical context. For example, Reformed theologian Wolfgang ...

  • Romans 1-8, By Gwenfair Walters Adams
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    Romans 1-8

    New Testament Volume 7

    Reformation Commentary on Scripture

    by Gwenfair Walters Adams

    "If we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his." (Rom. 6:5) With its themes of grace, sin, justification, and salvation through Christ alone, Paul's letter to the early church in Rome has been a primary focus of Christian reflection throughout church history. Sixteenth-century reformer Martin Luther reflected ...

  • 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 ...

  • The New Friars: The Emerging Movement Serving the World's Poor, By Scott A. Bessenecker
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    The New Friars

    The Emerging Movement Serving the World's Poor

    by Scott A. Bessenecker

    Finalist, Fourth Annual Outreach Resource of the Year

    Vows—exclusive promises or commitments—are almost unheard of these days. They're considered a quaint relic of times past when open options were not such highly regarded virtues. But many people in this commitment-averse culture are begging for someone to set the bar higher, to call them to higher levels of devotion.

    Across ...

  • The New Parish: How Neighborhood Churches Are Transforming Mission, Discipleship and Community, By Paul Sparks and Tim Soerens and Dwight J. Friesen
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    The New Parish

    How Neighborhood Churches Are Transforming Mission, Discipleship and Community

    by Paul Sparks, Tim Soerens, and Dwight J. Friesen

    Christianity Today Award of Merit

    Readers' Choice Awards Honorable Mention

    Best Books About the Church from Byron Borger, Hearts and Minds Bookstore

    "When . . . faith communities begin connecting together, in and for the neighborhood, they learn to depend on God for strength to love, forgive and show grace like never before. ...

  • Jesus and the Rise of Early Christianity: A History of New Testament Times, By Paul Barnett
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    Jesus and the Rise of Early Christianity

    A History of New Testament Times

    by Paul W. Barnett

    The pathway to understanding the New Testament leads through the vibrant landscape of the first-century Greco-Roman world. The New Testament is rooted in the concrete historical events of that world.In Jesus the Rise of Early Christianity Paul Barnett not only places the New Testament within that world of caesars and Herods, proconsuls and Pharisees, Sadducees and revolutionaries, but argues ...