Bernard Brandon Scott's Books

An accomplished biblical scholar here juxtaposes movies and New Testament themes to uncover the mythic dimensions of each and to explore the primary conflicts in American society.

Thecla is one of the strangest characters from Christianity's past. She falls in love with the apostle Paul's teaching on continence, twice faces martyrdom, fights with beasts in the arena, cuts her hair, cross-dresses, baptizes herself, and becomes a preacher. Tertullian tried to silence her story and the Pastoral Epistles warned about women like her. The Acts of Paul and Thecla was widespread and popular but then was hidden away in the Apocrypha. In recent years, Thecla has come out of the shadows. Her story reframes conventional views of second-century Jesus communities. Out of the Shadows offers a vibrant and accessible modern translation and commentary.

Hear Then the Parable is an innovative literary-social reading of all the parables of Jesus.

In the ancient world, writings were read aloud, heard, and remembered. But modern exegesis assumes a silent text. According to Margaret Lee & Brandon Scott, the disjuncture between ancient and modern approaches to literature obscures the beauty and meaning in writings such as the New Testament. Further, the structure of an ancient Greek composition derives first from its sounds and not from the meaning of its words. They argue that sound analysis, analysis of the signifier and its audible dimension, is crucial to interpretation. Sound Mapping the New Testament explores writing technology in the Greco-Roman world, then turns to ancient Greek literary criticism for descriptions of grammar as a science of sound and literary composition as a woven fabric of speech. Based on these perspectives and a close analysis of writings from the four gospels, Paul, and Q, Sound Mapping the New Testament advances a theory of sound analysis that will enable modern readers to hear the New Testament afresh. The second edition reprints the first edition with a new introduction that reviews a decade of sound mapping scholarship and argues for the continued necessity of sound mapping for New Testament interpretation.

An accomplished biblical scholar here juxtaposes movies and New Testament themes to uncover the mythic dimensions of each and to explore the primary conflicts in American society.

Discusses appointed lessons for 1st through 4th Sundays in Advent; the Nativity of Our Lord; Christmas Day; 1st and 2nd Sundays after Christmas; and the Name of Jesus (Jan. 1).

Book's by Bernard Brandon Scott

Hollywood Dreams and Biblical Stories

Hollywood Dreams and Biblical Stories

Out of the Shadows, the Acts of Paul and Thecla

Out of the Shadows, the Acts of Paul and Thecla

Hear Then the Parable

Hear Then the Parable

Hear Then the Parable

Hear Then the Parable

Sound Mapping the New Testament, Second Edition

Sound Mapping the New Testament, Second Edition

Hollywood Dreams and Biblical Stories

Hollywood Dreams and Biblical Stories

Out of the Shadows, the Acts of Paul and Thecla

Out of the Shadows, the Acts of Paul and Thecla

Proclamation Five

Proclamation Five

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