The New Testament in its Ritual World

By Richard DeMaris

What was life like among the first Christians? For the last thirty years, scholars have explored the historical and social contexts of the New Testament...

Published March 10th 2008 by Routledge.

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Dictionary of Biblical Criticism and Interpretation

By Stanley E. Porter

Compiling the results from contemporary and exciting areas of research into one single important volume, this book stands ahead of its field in providing a...

Published December 19th 2006 by Routledge.

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The Many Deaths of Judas Iscariot

A Meditation on Suicide

By Aaron Maurice Saari

In this bold, captivating and controversial book, the author combines his own intensely moving personal accounts with incisive scriptural analysis, and challenges the reader to...

Published May 25th 2006 by Routledge.

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The Biblical World

Edited by John Barton

The Biblical World is a comprehensive guide to the contents, historical settings and social context of the Bible. It presents the fruits of years of...

Published July 29th 2004 by Routledge.

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Jerome

By Stefan Rebenich

As a scholar, writer and ascetic, Jerome was a major intellectual force in the early Church and influenced the ideals of Christian chastity and poverty...

Published September 5th 2002 by Routledge.

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Racializing Jesus

Race, Ideology and the Formation of Modern Biblical Scholarship

By Shawn Kelley

Shawn Kelley's groundbreaking study shows how the major intellectual movements of the modern world, such as Orientalism and romantic nationalism, become infused with the category...

Published May 2nd 2002 by Routledge.

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A Christian Faith for Today

By Prof W Montgomery Watt, W. Montgomery Watt

Written by one of the world's foremost religious authorities, A Christian Faith for Today provides both Christians and sceptics with a much-needed response to modernity's...

Published April 4th 2002 by Routledge.

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The Book of Judges

By Marc Zvi Brettler

The Book of Judges has typically been treated either as a historical account of the conquest of Israel and the rise of the monarch, or...

Published August 23rd 2001 by Routledge.

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Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Edited by M. Black, H.H. Rowley

Now available in paperback, this classic commentary, drawing on the expertise of over sixty scholars, gives students of the Bible a thorough grounding in the...

Published June 28th 2001 by Routledge.

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Knockin' on Heaven's Door

The Bible and Popular Culture

By Roland Boer

Knockin' On Heaven's Door offers a critically sophisticated and truly interdisciplinary analysis of the relationship between biblical studies and contemporary culture.
Specific biblical texts are examined...

Published August 12th 1999 by Routledge.

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