Author: J B GREEN Publisher: Inter-Varsity Press ISBN: 1789740266 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 1849
Book Description
The Dictionary of Jesus and the Gospels is unique among reference books on the Bible, the first volume of its kind since James Hastings published his Dictionary of Christ and the Gospels in 1909. In the more than eight decades since Hastings, our understanding of Jesus, the Evangelists and their world has grown remarkably. New interpretive methods illumined the text, the ever-changing profile of modern culture has put new questions to the Gospels, and our understanding of the Judaism of Jesus's day has advanced in ways that could not have been predicted in Hastings's day. But for many readers of the Gospels the new outlook on the Gospels remains hidden within technical journals and academic monographs. The Dictionary of Jesus and the Gospels bridges the gap between scholars and those pastors, teachers, students and lay people desiring in-depth treatment of select topics in an accessible and summary format. The topics range from cross-sectional themes (such as faith, law, Sabbath) to methods of interpretation (such as form criticism, redaction criticism, sociological approaches), from key events (such as the birth, temptation and death of Jesus) to each of the four Gospels as a whole. Some articles - such as the Dead Sea Scrolls, rabbinic traditions and revolutionary movements at the time of Jesus - provide significant background information to the Gospels. Others reflect recent and less familiar issues in Jesus and Gospel studies, such as divine man, ancient rhetoric and the chreiai. Contemporary concerns of general interest are discusses in articles covering such topics as healing, the demonic and the historical reliability of the Gospels. And for those entrusted with communicating the message of the Gospels, there is an extensive article on preaching from the Gospels. The Dictionary of Jesus and the Gospels presents the fruit of evangelical New Testament scholarship at the end of the twentieth century - committed to the authority of Scripture, utilising the best of critical methods, and maintaining dialog with contemporary scholarship and challenges facing the church.
Author: Gregory R. Lanier Publisher: B&H Publishing Group ISBN: 1430097817 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 726
Book Description
The first comprehensive analysis of non-canonical influences—Jewish, non-Jewish, and early Christian—on the formation of the New Testament writings. In Apocryphal Prophets and Athenian Poets: Noncanonical Influences on the New Testament, Gregory R. Lanier presents in one volume an overarching compendium and analysis of over five hundred relevant instances of non-Old-Testament influence on the New Testament across three categories—Jewish, non-Jewish (mostly Greco-Roman), and early Christian (pre-canonical). The abundance of non-canonical influences on the New Testament testifies to the breadth of apostolic cultural engagement and the scope and pace of information exchange in the early Christian circles. This comprehensive work will allow scholars and students to give closer attention to the sheer complexity of the crisscrossing lines of direct and indirect influences on the New Testament Scriptures.
Author: Gregory R. Lanier Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 0567681068 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 314
Book Description
Extensive scholarship has been devoted to Jesus' depiction in the Gospels, and how such depiction is influenced by the Old Testament. Gregory R. Lanier presents a newcase for the importance of conceptual metaphor, arguing that the Gospel of Luke employs certain metaphors reflected in Israel's traditions-such as “horn of salvation,” “dawn from on high,” “mother bird gathering Jerusalem's children,” and “crushing stone”-in order to portray the identity of Jesus as both an agent of salvation and, more provocatively, the one God of Israel. Setting his argument at the intersection of three sub-fields of New Testament scholarship-early Christology, the use of Israel's Scriptures in the New Testament, and contemporary metaphor theory-Lanier suggests ways to overcome the “low”-“high ”binary and perceive the Gospel's Christology as multi-faceted. Applying metaphor theory to the influence of the Old Testament metaphors on Luke's Christology, Lanier adds methodological rigor to the tracing of such influences in cases where standard criteria for quotations and allusions/echoes are stretched thin.
Author: José Tolentino Mendonça Publisher: Paulist Press ISBN: 1587686643 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 226
Book Description
Delves into the story in Luke 7:36–50, about the sinful woman who goes into the hostile environment of a Pharisee’s home to anoint Jesus, bringing out the levels of meaning and what it tells us about who Jesus was and how this affects our relationship with him.
Author: José Enrique Aguilar Chiu Publisher: St. Martin's Press ISBN: 9788876531651 Category : Bibles Languages : en Pages : 642
Book Description
I trentasei studi sul Nuovo Testamento qui raccolti sono espressione di gratitudine al Cardinal Albert Vanhoye. S.I., esempio di una vita totalmente spesa a servizio della Chiesa di Cristo, nell'insegnamento competente della sacra Scrittura, nella ricerca instancabile e nella zelante predicazione del Verbo di Dio, nonche nella sua attivita di consigliere saggio e discreto presso vari dicasteri della Curia Romana. E un omaggio ad un uomo di fede, che ha infaticabilmente indagato la Sacra Scrittura, sia per trovarvi il fondamento della propria esistenza che per annunziare agli altri la parola di vita (Fil 2.16). Il libro intende essere uno strumento per proseguirne la medesima indagine e lo stesso annuncio.
Author: Raymond Edward Brown Publisher: ISBN: Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 756
Book Description
The truth behind the Gospel accounts of the Nativity, updated to include the latest research--a classic by a renowned scholar, hailed as "masterly" and "definitive" in the original edition.
Author: François Bovon Publisher: ISBN: Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 488
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This is the first of a three-volume commentary on the Gospel of Luke, covering the birth narratives through the Galilean ministry of Jesus. The introduction covers the text-critical questions of the Gospel, as well as its canonization, language, structure, origin, and theological profile. Bovon argues that Luke is not a direct student of Paul, but represents a specific form of the Pauline school in the third generation of the churches. The author also treats how the Gospel was used in later generations: writers from the early church, the Middle Ages, and the Reformation. He includes excursuses on "The Virgin Birth and the History of Religions," "The Devil," "The Word of God," and "Forgiveness of Sins."
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