Parallel Lives of Jesus: A Guide to the Four Gospels, by Edward Adams. Introductions to the Gospels most often underscore the individual personality of each Gospel and leave aside questions of the Gospels’ similarity. Parallel Lives of Jesus achieves both with economy and clarity.
People often assume—wrongly—that the Bible presents a single view of God and the world. In Understanding Wisdom Literature, David Penchansky shows how the Hebrew Bible’s wisdom books, Proverbs, Job and Ecclesiastes, speak differently from covenant-centered writings such as Genesis, Deuteronomy and Isaiah.
One of the most interesting shifts in Christian theology after the Shoah was in how the adjective Jewish was used. In the patristic era, to call someone’s work Jewish was to insult it: the work was too fleshly or legalistic. Since the Shoah, to call someone’s work Jewish is to praise it as appropriately this-worldly, concerned with the ordinary stuff of life, embodied.
Books
A Liturgy of Grief
A Pastoral Commentary on Lamentations
By Leslie C. Allen
Women’s Lives in Biblical Times
By Jennie R. Ebeling
You Are My People
An Introduction to Prophetic Literature
By Louis Stulman and Hyun Chul Paul Kim
The Bible, Disability, and the Church
A New Vision of the People of God
By Amos Yong
Psalms
(Interpreting Biblical Texts)
By William P. Brown
The Rise and Fall of the Bible
The Unexpected History of an Accidental Book
By Timothy Beal
Genesis
(Belief: A Theological Commentary on the Bible)
By Miguel A. De La Torre
Key Questions About Biblical Interpretation
Old Testament Answers
By John Goldingay
An Introduction to Second Temple Judaism
History and Religion of the Jews in the Time of Nehemiah, the Maccabees, Hillel, and Jesus
With his imagination in overdrive, Bruce Fisk has created a fictional character to guide readers through the Holy Land and the thickets of New Testament scholarship.
Books
Engaging the Word
The New Testament and the Christian Believer
by Jaime Clark-Soles
Galatians
A Commentary
by Martinus C. de Boer
A Hitchhiker’s Guide to Jesus
Reading the Gospels on the Ground
by Bruce N. Fisk
John in the Company of Poets
The Gospel in Literary Imagination
by Thomas Gardner
Shaping the Scriptural Imagination
Truth, Meaning, and the Theological Interpretation of the Bible
by Donald H. Juel; edited by Shane Berg and Matthew L. Skinner
Sexuality in the New Testament
Understanding the Key Texts
by William Loader
Historical Jesus
What Can We Know and How Can We Know It?
by Anthony Le Donne
Remember the Poor
Paul, Poverty, and the Greco-Roman World
by Bruce W. Longenecker
Stone and Dung, Oil and Spit
Jewish Daily Life in the Time of Jesus
by Jodi Magness
Paul, the Corinthians and the Birth of Christian Hermeneutics
Katherine Clay Bassard's book on the use of scripture by African-American women writers begins with Balaam's
ass and the Song of Songs. One is compelled to keep reading.
(RNS) Since 1985, scholars affiliated with the Jesus Seminar have been
casting doubt on the authenticity of sayings attributed to Jesus and
questioning whether he saw himself as an end-times prophet.
Books
Who Owns the Bible? Toward the Recovery of a Christian Hermeneutic
Much of the debate in the church over the issue of homosexuality has been far from edifying, and too many arguments simply rehearse points made earlier without advancing the discussion in any material way.
