In Biblical Interpretation and African Traditional Religion, Helen C. John juxtaposes grassroots biblical interpretations from Owamboland, Namibia, with professional interpretations of selected New Te
In this book, the author offers a proposed contextual biblical hermeneutic that takes into account the epistemic terrain of a particular geopolitically defined context and applies it through a multice
In the 2016 Radboud Prestige Lectures, published in this volume, Jörg Frey develops a new perspective on 2 Peter and the Apocalypse of Peter. The lectures are followed by eight essays that critically
In Jesus the Samaritan: Ethnic Labelling in the Gospel of John, Stewart Penwell examines how the ethnic labels “the Jews” and “Samaritans” function in the Gospel of John.
In Metaphors in the Discussion on Suffering in Job 3–31, Hanneke van Loon analyzes metaphors to describe the development of Job’s conceptualization of his suffering. The theoretical approach to metaph
Ecclesiastes is a text filled with contradictions. In Reanimating Qohelet’s Contradictory Voices, Jimyung Kim, drawing on Mikhail Bakhtin’s insights, offers a reading that embraces the contradictions
In The Plot-structure of Genesis Todd L. Patterson argues that Genesis is organized by a development from complication to dénouement. The question 'Will the righteous seed survive?' drives the narrati
To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the journal Biblical Interpretation, a diverse group of innovative scholars come together in this collection of essays to examine and evaluate the present and futu
In a new study on the Pauline adoption metaphors, Erin Heim applies a wide array of contemporary theories of metaphor in a fresh exegesis of the four instances of adoption (huiothesia) metaphors in Ga
In New Perspectives on Healing, Restoration and Reconciliation in John’s Gospel, Jacobus (Kobus) Kok offers just that: Fresh perspectives on the healing narratives that go beyond the impasse of tradit
In Reduced Laughter: Seriocomic Features and their Functions in the Book of Kings, Helen Paynter uses a hermeneutic of carnivalization and mirroring to offer a radical, satirical re-evaluation of the
Dialogue in the Book of Signs offers a polyvalent analysis of John 1:19-12:50 at the micro-, meso-, and macro-levels. With the help of several synchronic methods, including genre, narrative, rhetorica
In The Non-Israelite Nations in the Book of the Twelve Daniel Timmer surveys the nations-theme in the Minor Prophets in terms of its conceptual coherence, noting its contours in each individual book a
Infused with literary, political, art-critical, cinematic, liturgical and other interests, these essays display interpretive verve freed from the anxiety of disciplines — with closely observed interpr
In In the Name of God biblical scholars and historians begin the exciting work of deconstructing British and Spanish imperial usage of the Bible as well as the use of the Bible to counteract imperiali
In reading Job 1-11, Bakhtin’s dialogism and chronotope define each different voice as a unique and equally weighted voice and reveal its dialogical interaction with other voices to produce better que
Reading Heikki Raisanen’s hermeneutics in context, Timo Eskola explores the development of Western New Testament interpretation. Proposing sociology as the link between standard historicism and postst
In Aposynagogos and the Historical Jesus in John, Bernier argues that the Johannine expulsion passages could plausibly describe events that occurred during Jesus' lifetime.
Drawing on the popular literature of the ancient world, this book offers a fresh look at issues surrounding Markan characterisation, and also calls for scholars to think more openly and flexibly about
In The Fourth Gospel and the Manufacture of Minds, Tyler Smith offers an account of how conventions for representing minds in ancient historiography, biography, romance, and drama illuminate the cogni
In Biblical Exegesis without Authorial Intention? Interdisciplinary Approaches to Authorship and Meaning, Clarissa Breu offers contributions with a wide range of approaches to the question of the auth
This book offers a study of the meaning of the firstborn son in the New Testament paying specific attention to the concept of primogeniture in the Old Testament and Jewish literature.
In Ethics in the Gospel of John Sookgoo Shin brings out the ethical value of John’s Gospel by understanding the development of discipleship in the Gospel as moral progress and by demonstrating the tra
The twenty-six essays of Anatomies of the Gospels and Beyond are offered by internationally recognized New Testament scholars to honor the deep and broad legacy of R. Alan Culpepper by presenting a sn
In Interpreting New Testament Narratives, Eric Douglass examines how narratives function as communication from the author. After locating the text in the worldview of the intended audience, readers cr
This monograph presents important research regarding the Fourth Gospel’s use of Scripture, specifically the book of Ezekiel. It provides the first detailed comparison of the theological vocabularies o
In Speech-in-Character, Diatribe, and Romans 3:1-9, Justin King focuses on the rhetorical skill of speech-in-character to identify which voice speaks which lines in Paul’s diatribal dialogue in Romans
In this book Janice Ewurama De-Whyte offers a reading of the Hebrew Bible barrenness narratives. Barrenness was the threat to female honour and the lineage’s continuity. Therefore, the word “wom(b)an”
In Jesus and Other Men, Susanna Asikainen explores the masculinities of Jesus and other male characters and the ideal femininities in the Synoptic Gospels.
In The Function of the Speeches in the Acts of the Apostles, interrelations of the speeches are analyzed in two major groups: the group of topic speeches, and the group of structural speeches.
Jubilee in the Bible: Using the theology of Jürgen Moltmann to find a new hermeneutic combines biblical studies with modern theology and has an orientation towards the Church. This is the first book o
In Hyphenating Moses Federico Alfredo Roth challenges reductive treatments of Exodus by mainstream postcolonial scholarship. Roth’s discussion redeploys postcolonial theory to offer an alternative rea
