Gail O'Day

Gail O'Day is professor of preaching and New Testament at Candler School of Theology in Atlanta.

Articles by Gail O'Day

Books

The Power of the Word: Scripture and the Rhetoric of Empire

Elizabeth Schüssler Fiorenza

Engaging Biblical Authority: Perspectives on the Bible as Scripture

William P. Brown, ed.

The Bible Salesman: A Novel

Clyde Edgerton

At the Heart of the Gospel: Suffering in the Earliest Christian Message

L. Ann Jervis

Reading Other-wise: Socially Engaged Biblical Scholars Reading with Their Local Communities

Gerald O. West, ed.

Introduction to the Synoptic Gospels

Pheme Perkins

Our Mother Saint Paul

Beverly Roberts Gaventa

The Talking Book: African Americans and the Bible

Allen Dwight Callahan

Encounters with Jesus: Studies in the Gospel of John

Frances Taylor Gench

Take and read

Oct 21, 2008 selected by Gail O'Day
Because Brown’s collection of writers hail from a wide range of theological and cultural perspectives and address biblical authority as something vital to them both as scholars and as members of faith communities, readers will not discover here any simple answers or formulas.
Books

Speaking Conflict: Stories of a Controversial Jesus

David Buttrick

Speaking Conflict: Stories of a Controversial Jesus

Aug 12, 2008 reviewed by Gail O'Day
In 2000 David Buttrick began a project that focused on the language of Jesus and the ways in which attention to Jesus’ language can inform and shape preaching. Speaking Conflict is the final volume in that project (the first two are Speaking Parables and Speaking Jesus).