Practice of Hope, the Hb

Nestor Miguez

• Hardcover | Engels | Paul in Critical Contexts
• In this volume, the author reads 1 Thessalonians in the context of political and economic limitations and discovers surprising practical facets to the... Lees meer

Onesimus Our Brother

Matthew V., Sr. Johnson, Demetrius K. Williams

• Hardcover | Engels | Paul in Critical Contexts
• Philemon is the shortest letter in the Pauline collection, yetbecause it has to do with a slave separated from his masterit has played an inordinate r... Lees meer

Politics of Heaven

A Joseph Marchal

• Paperback | Engels | Paul in Critical Contexts
• In this provocative study, Joseph A. Marchal argues that biblical interpretation, but most especially Pauline studies, must engage the full range of c... Lees meer

Paul and Image

Philip Erwin

• Hardcover | Engels | Paul in Critical Contexts
• In Paul and Image, Philip Erwin challenges conventional interpretations of 1 Corinthians that tend to overlook the significance of ancient Roman visua... Lees meer

Abraham Our Father

Israel Kamudzandu

• Hardcover | Engels | Paul in Critical Contexts
• Father Abraham had many sons . . . So goes the chorus that the Shona people learned from European missionaries as part of the broader experience of co... Lees meer

Reading Romans with Roman Eyes

James R Harrison

• Hardcover | Engels | Paul in Critical Contexts
• Paul's letter to the Romans has a long history in Christian dogmatic battles. But how might the letter have been heard by an audience in Neronian Rome... Lees meer

Witch Hunt in Galatia

Jeremy Wade Barrier

• Hardcover | Engels | Paul in Critical Contexts
• Approximately 2,000 years ago, some Jewish communities of Galatia in central Asia Minor believed they had fallen under a curse, argues Jeremy Wade Bar... Lees meer

Paul and the Politics of Diaspora

Ronald Charles

• Hardcover | Engels | Paul in Critical Contexts
• It is a commonplace today that Paul was a Jew of the Hellenistic Diaspora, but how does that observation help us to understand his thinking, his self-... Lees meer

That There May Be Equality

L L Welborn

• Hardcover | Engels | Paul in Critical Contexts
• In the context of growing inequality in the twenty-first century, That There May Be Equality seeks to give new audibility to Paul's appeal to the prin... Lees meer

The Arrogance of Nations, Paperback Edition

Neil Elliott

• Paperback | Engels | Paul in Critical Contexts
• Elliott offers a fresh and surprising reinterpretation of Paul's letter to the Romans in the context of Roman imperial ideology, bringing to the text ... Lees meer

Gifts and Ritual

Teresa Lee McCaskill

• Hardcover | Engels | Paul in Critical Contexts
• Paul's teaching about divine benefactions in Rom 12:6-8 extends the theme of worship that he establishes in Rom 12:1-2. Together, these passages addre... Lees meer

Paul Decentered

Arminta M Fox

• Hardcover | Engels | Paul in Critical Contexts
• This book argues that the presence of women in the Christ communities of first-century Corinth changes how 2 Corinthians should be interpreted. Using ... Lees meer

Galatians Re-Imagined

Brigitte Kahl

• Paperback | Engels | Paul in Critical Contexts
• Brigitte Kahl brings to this insightful reading of Galatians a deep knowledge of the classical world and especially of Roman imperial ideology. The fi... Lees meer

Paul in the Grip of the Philosophers

Peter Frick

• Hardcover | Engels | Paul in Critical Contexts
• One of the remarkable developments in the contemporary study of Paul is the dramatic interest in his thought amongst European philosophers. This colle... Lees meer

The Colonized Apostle

• Hardcover | Engels | Paul in Critical Contexts
• How did Roman imperial culture shape the environment in which Paul carried out his apostolate? How do the multiple legacies of modern colonialism and ... Lees meer

Apostle to the Conquered, Paperback Edition

Davina C Lopez

• Paperback | Engels | Paul in Critical Contexts
• What did Paul mean by identifying himself as "apostle to the nations"? Davina C. Lopez finds the surprising answer in the way the Roman Empire depicte... Lees meer

Paul, Community, and Discipline

Adam G White

• Hardcover | Engels | Paul in Critical Contexts
• Over the course of several years, Paul established numerous Christian communities in cities throughout the Roman Empire. Each of these small groups wa... Lees meer

Christs Body in Corinth

Yung Suk Kim

• Paperback | Engels | Paul in Critical Contexts
• Yung Suk Kim takes up the language of"body" that infuses 1 Corinthians, Paul'smost complicated letter, and the letterthat provides us the most informa... Lees meer

The Scandal of Community

Taylor M Weaver

• Hardcover | Engels | Paul in Critical Contexts
• Taylor M. Weaver offers a provocative reading of Pauline community, focusing on social and historical readings of the Pauline collection, body metapho... Lees meer

To Know All Mysteries

C Andrew Ballard

• Hardcover | Engels | Paul in Critical Contexts
• This book examines the way that Paul presents himself as a guide into mysteries, a "mystagogue," in 1-2 Corinthians. By describing himself as a type o... Lees meer