"We preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles, but to those whom God has called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God." When Paul pr
Focused on the book of Hebrews, this updated commentary explores Jesus’s supremacy as the Son of God, providing preachers and Bible teachers with valuable insights into the biblical text. Part of theP
The use of the messiah in secular texts begs the question: Why does a religious trope recur in a system designed to erase religion from the public sphere? Following from this point of inquiry, this pr
In the first century, a young Roman centurion, Appius, is severly wounded in a battle against the Parthians, is sent to Galilee where he meets with members of the Jewish community, and has a life-chan
The first detailed exegetical treatment of Pauls letters from the emerging discipline of missional hermeneutics, Michael GormansBecoming the Gospel argues that Pauls letters invite Christian communiti
Galatians by George Brunk III tracks the important role that this epistle of the Apostle Paul played in Christianity’s shift from being a messianic sect within
Karin B. Neutel shows that the declaration that there is ‘neither Jew nor Greek, neither slave nor free, nor male and female’ is a reflection of first-century cosmopolitan ideals.
Did Paul teach that Jesus was divine and should be worshiped as such? How should this be viewed in relation to Jewish and Jewish-Christian monotheism? The debate over these and related questions has b
The Greek of 2 Corinthians is some of the most complex of any New Testament text, displaying Paul’s full range of rhetorical strategies. Long’s analysis of the soaring rhetoric locates Paul’s letter w
In Moses in Corinth, Paul Duff contends that the imagery focused on Moses in 2 Corinthians 3 functions as an integral part of Paul’sapologia, a defense created by the apostle to refute suspicions abou
In these chapters, a group of renowned international scholars seek to describe Paul and his work from “within Judaism,” rather than on the assumption, still current after thirty years of the “New Pers
The Practice of the Body of Christ' forges connections between two movements in today's theological disciplines. The first is the so-called "apocalyptic" interpretation of Paul and t
Paul's ways of speaking about God, Jesus, and the Spirit are intricately intertwined: talking about any one of the three, for Paul, implies reference to all of them together. However, much current Pau
A must-have for any serious Pauline scholar or student, this Festschrift to Douglas J. Moo is unique in several ways. Since Doug has been a key proponent to the Old Perspective on Paul, the reader wil
