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Reveals the connection between John and the Synoptics with a focus on "John" 6.1-15. This book analyzes the Matthean and Lukan redaction of Mark in their versions of the feeding of the five thousand and their influence on the Johannine narrative, as well as how John's narrative can be understood as a thorough rewriting of the Synoptic accounts.

Anti-Roman Cryptograms in the New Testament

An interpreter of Paul must understand his metaphors in order to arrive at a complete understanding of the Pauline pneumatological perspective. This title examines how the Pauline Spirit metaphors express the intangible Spirit's tangible presence in the life of the Christian.

The story of Rahab ("Joshua 2") has traditionally been interpreted as the account of a foreign woman and prostitute who changes the course of her life when she converts to Yahweh. In this book, the author's readings of the biblical narratives from a perspective of resolviendo offer insights into the struggle for survival many Cubans face today.

Demonstrates that the evolution of the New Testament text, which began in the earlier centuries, continued into the Middle Ages. In this title, the author undertakes a study of this mixed phenomenon by studying 407 Greek manuscripts of the "Catholic Epistles".

The Visions of Amram (4Q543-547), five copies of an Aramaic text found among the Dead Sea Scrolls, stems from the pre-Hasmonean period and provides evidence of a highly variegated society in early Judaism. In this book, the author concludes that 4Q543-547 was written by a disenfranchised group of priests who resided in Hebron.

The metaphors in Hosea are rich and varied, comprising both gendered and non-gendered image fields. This book examines the use of metaphor in Hosea through the lens of masculinity studies, which provides a means to elucidate connections between the images and to analyze their cumulative rhetorical effect.

Illustrates how traditions and hermeneutics have significantly determined people's valuations of the relationship between the Old and New Covenants in "Hebrews". This book offers an epistemological lens from Exodus to identify the correct view of the relationship between the Old and New Covenants.

Assesses Tertullian's varying interpretive principles and also considers the effects of Montanism on his interpretive procedures. This title demonstrates that "Pastoral Epistles", "Hebrews", and "1 Peter" provided Tertullian with significant material for his theological controversies.

A Hermeneutic on Dislocation as Experience

A Postcolonial Reading of the Acts of the Apostles

Evolutionary Creation in Biblical and Theological Perspective

Examines the five dream passages of "Matthew 1:18-2:23" to demonstrate that "Matthew" employed dream narratives to defend allegations concerning Jesus' birth and to provide etiological reasons both for why Jesus went to Egypt and how Jesus happened to live in Nazareth.

The author examines Second Samuel 16:5-14, which is an important text for defining the character of both King David and Yahweh, the God of Israel.

This book is a reading of the text of the Gospel of John in light of a tradition of Johannine authorship represented by the Muratorian Fragment, Papias of Hierapolis, and the Anti-Marcionite Prologue, all which are taken to reflect the influence of a common tradition represented by Jerome, Clement of Alexandria, and Victorinus of Pettau.

This book argues that the sanctuary mentioned in Exod. 15:17 does not refer to Solomon's temple or to any other "man-made" structure but to an eschatological sanctuary distinctively established by divine hands. Such an understanding of this sanctuary impacts the theology of the Pentateuch and provides a reference point for predictions of an eschatological temple in the Prophets and the Writings.

Mother Zion in Deutero-Isaiah is an invaluable resource in courses that deal with issues in Isaiah, biblical interpretation, and feminist hermeneutics, especially regarding the feminine personification of Zion and the maternal imagery of God.

The Textual World of the Bible explores the patterns of figuration in biblical composition and the way in which these patterns are read within the Bible (inner-biblical exegesis). This book is an excellent choice for courses in biblical theology and hermeneutics.

Worship and the Risen Jesus in the Pauline Letters approaches the subject of Christian worship in respect to its origins from the perspective of the earliest New Testament writer: Paul. This book seeks to address the relative absence in scholarship of a full treatment of worship in the Pauline Letters.

The Concept of Divine Love in the Context of the God-World Relationship addresses the significant and far-reaching theological conflict over the nature of God's love, which is deeply rooted in broader conflicts regarding divine ontology and the nature of the God-world relationship.

In this thought-provoking study, Dan Lioy asserts that a Christocentric and Christotelic perspective is an unmistakable feature of Paul's discourse.

Reading Green: Tactical Considerations for Reading the Bible Ecologically operates on the premise that the Bible itself does not directly address the current ecological crisis and that expecting it to do so is anachronistic, for there was no ecological crisis on the agendas of biblical authors as they penned their works.

Ancient Indian Kavya Sastra (Poetics) and its modern rendering Narratology supplies a variety of poetical tools and devices with which the vast miscellany of biblical narratives can be approached and appreciated.

This book pays special attention to the hermeneutical location where the fig-tree story appears in Mark 11.

Ccompares the moral system in the Epistle of James with other Greco-Roman and Judaic texts. In this analysis, the author's systemic comparison of texts reveals how the author's vision of a distinctive way of community life was both part of and distinct from the moral and religious systems among which it emerged.

The central aim of Water as an Image of the Spirit in the Johannine Literature is to propose two sets of indicators that can be used to assess the symbolic reference of water imagery in the Johannine literature. The validity of these indicators is demonstrated by applying them to six disputed water passages.