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
In Narrative Discourse: Authors and Narrators in Literature, Film, and Art, Patrick Colm Hogan reconsiders fundamental issues of authorship and narration in light of recent research in cognitive and a
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
From the rise of Nazism to the conflict in Kashmir in 2008, nationalism has been one of the most potent forces in modern history. Yet the motivational power of nationalism is still not well understood
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
Media of Serial Narrative, edited by Frank Kelleter, is the first book-length study to address the increasingly popular topic of serial narratives—specifically, how practices and forms of serial
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
In The Metaphor of the Divine as Planter of the People Pantoja traces the emergence of the conceptual metaphor YHWH IS THE PLANTER OF THE PEOPLE in ancient Hebrew poetry and follows its development th
The book analyzes how management thinking and management practice are largely influenced by traditional approaches rooted in economics which seek to conceptualize the economy and management positivist
Suture and Narrative: Deep Intersubjectivity in Fiction and Film by George Butte offers a new phenomenological understanding of how fiction and film narratives use particular techniques to create
From Jesus to His First Followers represents the process of transformation that began after Jesus’ death. Continuity and discontinuity between the early groups of followers and Jesus are primarily exa
Authoritative Texts and Reception History: Aspects and Approaches offers a varied range of topics, concerns and approaches to reception history across the fields of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament, Pseudep
In The Language and Literature of the New Testament, a team of international scholars assemble to honour the academic career of New Testament scholar, Stanley E. Porter.
In Hearing Kyriotic Sonship Michael Whitenton approaches the characterization of Mark’s Jesus from an interdisciplinary perspective and argues that many first-century listeners probably understood him
In The Scriptural Tale in the Fourth Gospel, Ed Gerber argues that the story of Jesus has been told as a creative retelling of the story of Adam & Israel, first in the prologue, and then in the body o
In Hebrew Lexical Semantics Kurtis Peters provides a new way to incorporate linguistics in Biblical Hebrew studies, and does so applied to verbal lexemes of cooking.
The Stolen Bible analyses Southern African receptions of the Bible from its arrival in imperial Dutch ships in the mid-1600s through to the post-apartheid period of South African democracy, reflecting
In Hollow Men, Robin Baker provides a reappraisal of the Book of Judges account of Israel's Settlement of Canaan. Written under Assyrian suzerainty in Manasseh’s reign, Judges is a theological comment
In Reading the Bible Across Contexts Esa Autero offers a fresh perspective on Luke’s poverty texts. This is done through a critical dialogue between an historical reading and empirical readings by two
Paul and the Rise of the Slave offers a path to participate in messianic communities in a way that subverts the imposition of Roman power and leads toward positive identity formation for the oppressed
The imagery of brains and nerves that Thomas Hardy employed in over a half century of writing amply demonstrates that he knew the psychology of his time.Thomas Hardy’s Brains: Psychology, Neurology, a
The influential and widely respected narrative theorist, H. Porter Abbott, breaks new ground inReal Mysteries:Narrative and the Unknowable. In it, he revisits the ancient theme of what we cannot know
Under the bold banner of Narrative Theory Unbound: Queer and Feminist Interventions,editors Robyn Warhol and Susan S. Lanser gather a diverse spectrum of queer and feminist challenges to the theory an
Since Aristotle, there has been an assumption that narrative is a representation of actions or sequences of events, that this representation aims to elicit emotions, and that well-formed narratives co
Narrating Space / Spatializing Narrative: Where Narrative Theory and Geography Meet by Marie-Laure Ryan, Kenneth Foote, and Maoz Azaryahu offers a groundbreaking approach to understanding how space wo
Narrating Space / Spatializing Narrative: Where Narrative Theory and Geography Meet by Marie-Laure Ryan, Kenneth Foote, and Maoz Azaryahu offers a groundbreaking approach to understanding how space wo
A Poetics of Unnatural Narrative offers a collection of foundational essays introducing the reader to the full scope of unnatural narrative theory: its meaning, its goals, its extent, its paradoxes. T
This volume entails a collection of new ideas, themes and questions towards a phenomenon which we are used to refer to with the key term “diversity”. The aim of the book is to offer a cultural science
In The Alter-Imperial Paradigm Shane J. Wood examines the socio-historical context of Revelation from an imperial subject's perspective to offer intriguing new insights on the text of Revelation (esp.
