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The Challenge of Diversity

The Witness of Paul and the Gospels

By: David M. Rhoads

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The Challenge of Diversity

The Witness of Paul and the Gospels

By: David M. Rhoads

The Challenge of Diversity argues that the present diversity in the church reflects a rich variety that was integral to the early Christian movement from its very beginnings. Rhoads shows how Galatians, Mark, Matthew, Luke and John each present a fundamentally different understanding of the human condition, a different vision for life under God, and a different portrayal of our transformation.

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Fortress Press

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1451406177

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9781451406177

Reading Mark

Engaging the Gospel

By: David M. Rhoads

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Reading Mark

Engaging the Gospel

By: David M. Rhoads

One of the leading scholars on the Gospel of Mark utilizes a variety of methods to plumb the depths of this earliest story of Jesus. From new forms of literary criticism, social-scientific explorations, and reader-response criticism, Rhoads brings fresh insights to gospel studies.

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Fortress Press

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1451406193

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9781451406191

Jesus, Paul, Luke-Acts, and 1 Clement

Studies in Class, Ethnicity, Gender, and Orientation

By: David L. Balch

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Jesus, Paul, Luke-Acts, and 1 Clement

Studies in Class, Ethnicity, Gender, and Orientation

By: David L. Balch

In this book, the author draws on two original sources, on a Greek biographer, historian, and rhetorician, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, as well as on Pompeian domestic art and architecture. Generally, NT scholars read texts, but Greeks and ancient Romans loved beauty. The walls and floors of their houses were decorated with thousands of colorful frescoes and mosaics, art that two millennia later is still on display in Pompeii. Christians lived and worshipped in those typical houses; relating the art to NT texts generates many intriguing new questions! What stories/myths did Greeks and Romans see every day? What were their sports, and how violent were they? Many NT scholars know as much or more Latin than they do Greek, and they therefore cite the Latin historian Livy rather than the Greek Dionysius, who wrote a century before the first Christian historian, Luke. Dionysius' rhetoric expressed values shared across cultures, by Greeks, Romans, and Jews (e.g., by the historian--and rhetorician--Josephus), some values that Luke also shares. Dionysius makes clear that cities and ethnic groups had to praise how they treated emigrant foreigners, questions handled differently by Josephus and by Luke. This enables new interpretations of Jesus' inaugural speech in Luke 4 and of Peter's second Pentecost speech in Acts 10.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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153265958X

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9781532659584

Mark as Story

An Introduction to the Narrative of a Gospel

By: David M. Rhoads,Joanna Dewey,Donald Michie

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Mark as Story

An Introduction to the Narrative of a Gospel

By: David M. Rhoads,Joanna Dewey,Donald Michie

Mark as Story introduces the Gospel of Mark as a unified composition, laying bare the narrative thread as well as the basic motifs.--From publisher's description.

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Fortress Press

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0800631609

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9780800631604

More Life and Death Decisions

Help in Making Tough Choices about Care for the Elderly, Euthanasia, and Medical Treatment Options

By: Robert David Orr,David L. Schiedermayer,David B. Biebel

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More Life and Death Decisions

Help in Making Tough Choices about Care for the Elderly, Euthanasia, and Medical Treatment Options

By: Robert David Orr,David L. Schiedermayer,David B. Biebel

Almost everyone will have to face life and death decisions sometime in their life. In this informative guide, the authors help Christians make wise, moral choices regarding bioethical issues for themselves or their loved ones.

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Baker Publishing Group (MI)

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0801057345

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9780801057342

King David, Innocent Blood, and Bloodguilt

By: David J. Shepherd

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King David, Innocent Blood, and Bloodguilt

By: David J. Shepherd

Of all the characters bequeathed to us by the Hebrew Bible, none is more compelling or complex than David. Divinely blessed, musically gifted, brave, and eloquent, David's famous slaying of Goliath also confirms that he is a redoubtable man of war. Yet, when his son Absalom rebels, David is dogged by the accusation than he will lose his kingdom because he is not merely a man of war, but a man of 'bloods' - guilty of shedding innocent blood. In this book, for the first time, this language of 'innocent blood' and 'bloodguilt' is traced throughout David's story in the books of Samuel and 1 Kings. The theme emerges initially in Saul's pursuit of David and resurfaces regularly as David rises and men like Nabal, Saul, Ishbosheth, and Abner fall. Innocent blood and bloodguilt also turn out to be central to David's reign. This is seen in a surprising way in David's killing of Uriah, but also in the subsequent deaths of his sons, Amnon and Absalom, his general, Amasa, and even in David's encounters with Shimei. The problem rears its head again when the innocent blood of the Gibeonites shed by Saul comes back to haunt David's kingdom. Finally, the problem reappears when Solomon succeeds David and orchestrates the executions of Joab and Shimei, and the exile of Abiathar. Attending carefully to the text and drawing extensively on previous biblical scholarship, David J. Shepherd suggests that innocent blood is not only a pre-eminent concern of David, and his story in Samuel and 1 Kings, but also shapes the entirety of David's history.

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Oxford University Press

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0192579711

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9780192579713

This Poor Man Called: Stories and Songs of David (Volume 1)

By: David G. Barker

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This Poor Man Called: Stories and Songs of David (Volume 1)

By: David G. Barker

David Barker takes a unique approach in this exploration of the psalms of David. Each chapter begins with a creative retelling of the biblical narrative, setting the scene for the psalm arising out of that experience. Having grounded the psalm in the "story," Barker then goes into a verse-by-verse exposition of the psalm, and provides some explanatory notes and a statement of the key message of the psalm. At the end of each psalm exposition, Barker asks three basic questions: What do we learn about God? What do we learn about ourselves as the people of God? and What do we learn about the world? Answering these questions helps us to understand how David's experience shaped his theocentric and biblical worldview. David's theology of God is of One who is sovereign in every situation and reigns as King. All of life is lived in the presence of God, and life and the act of worship, are an interactive dynamic of despair and hope, failure and success, sin and forgiveness (with consequences). David faced all of these, and his psalms reveal how his understanding of God grew and was enriched through these experiences. It is hoped this practical look at David's psalms will deepen your understanding of God and the transforming work accomplished on the cross by his Son, Jesus Christ.

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Heritage Seminary Press

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1774840634

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Book's by David M. Rhoads

The Challenge of Diversity

The Challenge of Diversity

Reading Mark

Reading Mark

Jesus, Paul, Luke-Acts, and 1 Clement

Jesus, Paul, Luke-Acts, and 1 Clement

Mark as Story

Mark as Story

More Life and Death Decisions

More Life and Death Decisions

King David, Innocent Blood, and Bloodguilt

King David, Innocent Blood, and Bloodguilt

This Poor Man Called: Stories and Songs of David (Volume 1)

This Poor Man Called: Stories and Songs of David (Volume 1)

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