This study investigates the issues of the origin and purpose of the Gospel of Mark. The author argues that Mark's Gospel was written in Galilee some time after the Jewish Revolt in 70 A.D. for a Chris
Skeat (1907-2003) spent his working life at the British Museum, his final decade before retiring in 1972 as Keeper, Department of Manuscripts and Egerton Librarian. The 23 essays here were originally
In order to challenge some implicit and explicit presuppositions in the reading of the Gospel of John, particularly relating to the choice of perspective in the historical evaluation of the Johannine
A text-critical, literary, and theological investigation of Paul's use of Isaiah in his letter to the Romans. It situates Paul's reading of scripture within the milieu of early Jewish interpretive pra
This volume discusses the development of disunity in the Philippian church as the occasion for Paul's response in his letter.The first part of the book examines references and allusions to strife amon
Arguing that crowds in the Gospel of Matthew serve as a theological entity that represent the people of Israel (as opposed to their leaders), Cousland (classical, Near Eastern, and religious studies,
Epp (emeritus biblical literature, Case Western Reserve U., Ohio) presents 24 essays, most originating as papers read before the Society of Biblical Literature over the past four decades. Among his to
This volume contains a series of studies on aspects of Mark's distinctive Greek. C.H. Turner's pioneering articles on Mark's usage form the basis of the book. Other comparable articles by those influe
The Scriptures of Israel in Jewish and Christian Tradition is a collection of studies in honour of Professor Maarten J.J. Menken (Tilburg) and addresses questions of textual form, Jewish and Christian
In The Gospel of John: More Light from Philo, Paul and Archaeology Peder Borgen uncovers John's expository character, defines its place within gospel traditions, relates archaeological findings and
Between 1973 and 1983 three volumes of collected essays by Van Unnik appeared under the title Sparsa Collecta. All the essays in these volumes had been published between 1930 and 1970. The editors of
Law and order found widespread support in the world of the first Christians – and, perhaps surprisingly, also trenchant critiques. Justice was not by any means always seen to be done. Acceptance and d
Nine essays grace the fourth and final volume celebrating the centennial of the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome, which was founded in 1909 to keep up with Protestant scholarship and to counter t
In The Lawsuit Motif in John’s Gospel from New Perspectives Per Jarle Bekken sheds fresh light on aspects of the lawsuit motif in John from the background of Diaspora-Jewish and Greco-Roman data and p
In "Contested Issues in Christian Origins and the New Testament," Luke Timothy Johnson offers a series of independent studies on a range of critical questions from the historical Jesus to sexuality an
The striving of Hellenistic Judaism to lay claim to its own epoch and the struggle of early Christianity to ground its pluriform beliefs in that same world represent the governing themes of this volum
In God, Grace, and Righteousness in Wisdom of Solomon and Paul's Letter to the Romans, Jonathan A. Linebaugh places the Wisdom of Solomon and the Letter to the Romans in conversation.
