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The One who is to Come

By: Joseph A. Fitzmyer

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Messiah is one of the most popular and most contested terms in Christian reflection, with many often reading the concept back into early Old Testament texts. Joseph Fitzmyer carefully and comprehensively contradicts this misreading, tracing the emergence of messianism to a much later date - 2nd century B.C.

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0802840132

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The Semitic Background of the New Testament, Volume 1

Essays on the Semitic Background of the New Testament

By: Joseph A. Fitzmyer

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Essays on the Semitic Background of the New Testament

By: Joseph A. Fitzmyer

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What Shall We Do?

Eschatology and Ethics in Luke-Acts

By: Joseph M. Lear

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What Shall We Do?

Eschatology and Ethics in Luke-Acts

By: Joseph M. Lear

Since the 1960s, biblical scholars have noted a relationship between eschatology and ethics in Luke–Acts, but to date there has been no substantive study of the relationship between these themes. What Shall We Do? offers such a study. Lear observes and develops a logic that Luke–-Acts presents that begins with eschatological expectation and ends with a particular pattern of life, especially with regard to possessions. He makes the bold claim that Luke has not given up on eschatological expectation. The healing of the cripple (Acts 3), Cornelius’s conversion (Acts 10), and the shipwreck narrative (Acts 27–28) are figurative stories of coming eschatological salvation. In this context, Lear demonstrates that the sharing of possessions becomes the means by which a new eschatological people is formed. At the beginning of Luke’s Gospel, John the Baptist says the true children of Abraham will escape the coming judgment because they share their possessions. The logic of this claim is worked out throughout Luke’s two volumes, culminating in barbarian Maltans becoming children of Abraham because they hospitably receive the Apostle Paul.

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1532618204

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The Semitic Background of the New Testament, Volume 1

Essays on the Semitic Background of the New Testament

By: Joseph A. Fitzmyer

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By: Joseph A. Fitzmyer

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What are They Saying about Paul and the End Time?

By: Joseph Plevnik

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What are They Saying about Paul and the End Time?

By: Joseph Plevnik

Explores the realization of the ultimate salvation through the saving work of God in Christ's death and resurrection.

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Paulist Press

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The Dead Sea Scrolls

A Biography

By: John Joseph Collins

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The Dead Sea Scrolls

A Biography

By: John Joseph Collins

Chronicles the history of the Dead Sea scrolls, from their initial discovery to the current controversies surrounding them.

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Princeton University Press

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0691143676

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The Christian Case for Virtue Ethics

By: Joseph J. Kotva Jr.

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The Christian Case for Virtue Ethics

By: Joseph J. Kotva Jr.

Despite the growing interest among philosophers and theologians in virtue ethics, its proponents have done little to suggest why Christians in particular find virtue ethics attractive. Joseph J. Kotva, Jr., addresses this question in The Christian Case for Virtue Ethics, showing that virtue theory offers an ethical framework that is highly compatible with Christian morality. Kotva defines virtue ethics and demonstrates its ability to voice Christian convictions about how to live the moral life. He evaluates virtue theory in light of systematic theology and Scripture, arguing that Christian ethics could be profitably linked with neo-Aristotelian virtue ethics. Ecumenical in tone, this book provides a thorough but accessible introduction to recent philosophical accounts of virtue and offers an original, explicitly Christian adaptation of these ideas. It will be of value to students and scholars of philosophy, theology, and religion, as well as to those interested in the debates surrounding virtue ethics.

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Georgetown University Press

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Searching for Sarah in the Second Temple Era

Images in the Hebrew Bible, the Septuagint, the Genesis Apocryphon, and the Antiquities

By: Joseph McDonald

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Searching for Sarah in the Second Temple Era

Images in the Hebrew Bible, the Septuagint, the Genesis Apocryphon, and the Antiquities

By: Joseph McDonald

Seeking to build upon recent scholarship based on Biblical women, Joseph McDonald uses a character-centered literary approach to read the story of Sarah as it was told and retold in the Second Temple period. McDonald offers an alternative to the usual approaches to “rewritten Bible” narratives, which often emphasize near-context, synoptic comparison of retold stories and their scriptural precursors, arguing that examination of retold narratives as narratives reveals important aspects of their internal literary effects, that may otherwise go unnoticed. Taken together, McDonald suggests that such readings reveal one of Sarah's trans-narrative or “deep traits,” as a curious, multi-faceted resemblance to the character of Abraham. The richness of her images, however, shows that this resemblance is not the ultimate distillation of Sarah, but a symptom of the kind of restriction that she consistently faces in this literature. McDonald concludes that creative readings of the narratives featuring Sarah in the Hebrew Bible, the Septuagint, the Genesis Apocryphon, and the Jewish Antiquities of Josephus illuminate Sarah as a complex and sometimes contradictory figure, whose individuality and agency often struggle to escape limitations placed upon her – both by other characters, such as Abraham and God, and by the narrators of her tales.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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0567689131

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God Makes Me Laugh

A New Approach to Luke

By: Joseph A. Grassi

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God Makes Me Laugh

A New Approach to Luke

By: Joseph A. Grassi

God has made me Laugh and all who hear about it will laugh at me. These are the words of Sarah after she bore a child to Abraham when both were in advanced old age. Sarah named this child Isaac which means laughter. Thus believers, as descendants of Abraham and Isaac are children of laughter. Luke takes the theme of joy and laughter through his whole gospel. The angels at Jesus's birth announce good news of great joy to all the people. Jesus presents his teaching in the form of grace and surprise which prompt joy and laughter on the part of the gospel audience. Luke has before him the image of a laughing Jesus. As a climactic story, Jesus visits Jericho near the Dead Sea. The chief tax collector for Rome, Zaccheus, a most unpopular man, small in stature and character as well, climbs a tree so he can see Jesus coming in spite of the crowds. Jesus spots him with laughter, and calls out, to the dismay of the crowd, Zaccheus, hurry up and climb down, I'm going to have dinner at your house today. Luke's gospel presents Jesus as a comic contrast to many ultra-serious religious teachers by his concern for the outcast, strangers, and marginalized of society.

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The Nonviolent Messiah

Jesus, Q, and the Enochic Tradition

By: Simon J. Joseph

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The Nonviolent Messiah

Jesus, Q, and the Enochic Tradition

By: Simon J. Joseph

When scholars have set Jesus against various conceptions of the “messiah” and other redemptive figures in early Jewish expectation, those questions have been bound up with the problem of violence, whether the political violence of a militant messiah or the divine violence carried out by a heavenly or angelic figure. Missing from those discussions, Simon J. Joseph contends, are the unique conceptions of an Adamic redeemer figure in the Enochic material—conceptions that informed the Q tradition and, he argues, Jesus’ own self-understanding.

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Fortress Press

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1451484437

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A Social History of Christian Origins

The Rejected Jesus

By: Simon J. Joseph

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A Social History of Christian Origins

The Rejected Jesus

By: Simon J. Joseph

A Social History of Christian Origins explores how the theme of the Jewish rejection of Jesus – embedded in Paul’s letters and the New Testament Gospels – represents the ethnic, social, cultural, and theological conflicts that facilitated the construction of Christian identity. Readers of this book will gain a thorough understanding of how a central theme of early Christianity – the Jewish rejection of Jesus – facilitated the emergence of Christian anti-Judaism as well as the complex and multi-faceted representations of Jesus in the Gospels of the New Testament. This study systematically analyses the theme of social rejection in the Jesus tradition by surveying its historical and chronological development. Employing the social-psychological study of social rejection, social identity theory, and social memory theory, Joseph sheds new light on the inter-relationships between myth, history, and memory in the study of Christian origins and the contemporary (re)construction of the historical Jesus. A Social History of Christian Origins is primarily intended for academic specialists and students in ancient history, biblical studies, New Testament studies, Religious Studies, Classics, as well as the general reader interested in the beginnings of Christianity.

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1000822125

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The Identities of the Beast from the Sea and the Beast from the Land in Revelation 13

By: Joseph Poon

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The Identities of the Beast from the Sea and the Beast from the Land in Revelation 13

By: Joseph Poon

This book aims to identify the beast from the sea and the beast from the land in Revelation 13 by studying their unique link together with the dragon in Revelation 12: the land beast is subordinate to the sea beast, which in turn is subordinate to the dragon. The early sections of the book provide a review of previous scholarship, the influence of Daniel 7 in understanding Revelation 13, and the Leviathan-Behemoth motif in several apocalyptic writings. The core of the book, however, seeks to demonstrate that the relationship of the two beasts and the dragon fits well with the tripartite hierarchy that Georges Dumezil has discovered as one of the dominant structures of relationships in Indo-European mythological traditions. In congruence with the criteria of the three hierarchical levels in Dumezil's system, the dragon concerns the ultimate sovereignty in a supernatural sphere, while the sea beast and land beast are found, respectively, as a warlike figure in a war context and as a figure relating to the economic theme. Based on this finding, the book concludes that the two beasts represent the imperial power and the imperial cult, as most commentators believe.

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Theology of the Liturgy

The Sacramental Foundation of Christian Existence

By: Joseph Ratzinger

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Theology of the Liturgy

The Sacramental Foundation of Christian Existence

By: Joseph Ratzinger

This major volume is a collection of the writings of Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI) on the theology of the Liturgy of the Church, a subject of preeminence to him as a theologian, professor and spiritual writer. It brings together all his writings on the subject, short and long, giving his views on liturgical matters and questions over many years and from various perspectives. He chose to have his writings on the Liturgy for the first volume published of his collected works (though listed as vol. 11) because, as he says in the Introduction: "The liturgy of the Church has been for me since my childhood the central reality of my life, and it became the center of my theological efforts. I chose fundamental theology as my field because I wanted first and foremost to examine thoroughly the question: Why do we believe? But also included from the beginning in this question was the other question of the right response to God and, thus, the question of the liturgy." By starting with the theme of liturgy in this volume, Ratzinger wants to highlight God's primacy, the absolute precedence of the theme of God. Beginning with a focus on the liturgy, he said, tells us that "God is first". He quotes from the Rule of St. Benedict, "Nothing is to be preferred to the liturgy", as a way of ordering priorities for the life of the Church and of every individual. He says that the fundamental question of the man who begins to understand himself correctly is: How must I encounter God? Thus learning the right way of worshipping is the gift par excellence that is given to us by the faith. The essential purpose of his writings on the liturgy is to place the liturgy in its larger context, which he presents in three concentric circles. First, the intrinsic interrelationship of Old and New Testament; without the connection to the Old Testament heritage, the Christian liturgy is incomprehensible. The second circle is the relationship to the religions of the world. The third circle is the cosmic character of the liturgy, which is more than the coming together of a circle of people: the liturgy is celebrated in the expanse of the cosmos, encompassing creation and history at the same time.

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Ignatius Press

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1681497301

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Pilgrim Fellowship of Faith

The Church as Communion

By: Joseph Ratzinger

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Pilgrim Fellowship of Faith

The Church as Communion

By: Joseph Ratzinger

Joseph Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict XVI, has been the most visible member of the Catholic clergy in the world second only to Pope John Paul II. His status as the head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith made him one of the most discussed churchmen in recent history. On the occasion of Ratzingers's seventy-fifth birthday, his former students selected essays, lectures, letters, and conferences that Ratzinger has written in recent years- writing that they feel best represents his position on issues of theology, the modern world, secularism, non-Christian religious, and other key topics of the Catholic Church. This book, characterized by Ratzinger's concisely reasoned style, is an invaluable resource to those who wish to understand the modern Church and the thinking of Pope Benedict XVI, as well as a treasured volume for those who are students of Ratzinger's theology.

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1681493772

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Jesus, Q, and the Dead Sea Scrolls

A Judaic Approach to Q

By: Simon J. Joseph

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Jesus, Q, and the Dead Sea Scrolls

A Judaic Approach to Q

By: Simon J. Joseph

Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph.D. - Claremont) under the title: Q, the Essenes, and the Dead Sea Scrolls: a study in Christian origins.

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316152120X

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Literary Studies in Luke-Acts

Essays in Honor of Joseph B. Tyson

By: Joseph B. Tyson

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Literary Studies in Luke-Acts

Essays in Honor of Joseph B. Tyson

By: Joseph B. Tyson

Literary Studies in Luke-Acts is a collection of essays by a group of distinguished biblical scholars who use literary-ciritcal analyses in the study of Luke-Acts. The variety of literary-critical approaches to Luke-Acts, as compiled uniquely in this volume, provides a needed resource by presenting methodological options for approaching biblical narrative texts with literary questions and considerations. Contributors include: Arthur Bellinzoni, C. Clifton Black, Darrell L. Bock, John A. Darr, William Farmer, Mikeal Parsons, Vernon Robbins, Jack Sanders, Charles Talbert, Robert Tannehill, and Victor Paul Furnish.

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Patterns of Sin in the Hebrew Bible

Metaphor, Culture, and the Making of a Religious Concept

By: Joseph Lam

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Patterns of Sin in the Hebrew Bible

Metaphor, Culture, and the Making of a Religious Concept

By: Joseph Lam

Sin, often defined as a violation of divine will, remains a crucial idea in contemporary moral and religious discourse. However, the apparent familiarity of the concept obscures its origins within the history of Western religious thought. Joseph Lam examines a watershed moment in the development of sin as an idea-namely, within the language and culture of ancient Israel-by examining the primary metaphors used for sin in the Hebrew Bible. Drawing from contemporary theoretical insights coming out of linguistics and philosophy of language, this book identifies four patterns of metaphor that pervade the biblical texts: sin as burden, sin as an account, sin as path or direction, and sin as stain or impurity. In exploring the permutations of these metaphors and their development within the biblical corpus, Patterns of Sin in the Hebrew Bible offers a compelling account of how a religious and theological concept emerges out of the everyday thought-world of ancient Israel, while breaking new ground in its approach to metaphor in ancient texts. Far from being a timeless, stable concept, sin becomes intelligible only when situated in the matrix of ancient Israelite culture. In other words, sin is not as simple as it might seem.

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Oxford University Press

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0190493860

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A Transformed Mind and Heart

Becoming vulnerable and compassionate

By: Joseph Breault

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A Transformed Mind and Heart

Becoming vulnerable and compassionate

By: Joseph Breault

What should Christians expect of each other? Can a Christian judge another Christian? How should we give correction? This book draws on the wealth of insight from Scripture, Christian tradition, secular authorities, and the experience of modern Christian communities to portray an open, trusting, loyal attitude that is vulnerable and compassionate as a foundation to build strong relationships. The author's analysis includes the thought of the Desert Fathers, Thomas Aquinas, and Bernard Lonergan to understand the problems that stifle relationships.

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Joseph L Breault

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0892830573

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Studies in Qumran Law and Thought

By: Joseph M Baumgarten

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Studies in Qumran Law and Thought

By: Joseph M Baumgarten

These thirty-two studies, originally published between 1979 and 2007 by Joseph Baumgarten, a pioneer of the comparative study of Qumran and rabbinic halakhah, include both detailed studies of laws and legal texts and broader thematic discussions of the nature of Qumran religion.

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BRILL

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9004505083

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The Christian Gospel and Its Jewish Roots

A Redaction-critical Study of Mark 2:21-22 in Context

By: Joseph Mali,Joseph F. Mali

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The Christian Gospel and Its Jewish Roots

A Redaction-critical Study of Mark 2:21-22 in Context

By: Joseph Mali,Joseph F. Mali

The Christian Gospel and Its Jewish Roots goes against the tendency to interpret Scripture in ways that separate Christianity and Judaism. Through a redaction-critical analysis of the two sayings on the «new» and the «old» (Mark 2:21-22), the author argues that Mark does not leave his readers with a complete break between Jesus and his Jewish heritage. Rather, the Evangelist opens a ray of hope that the gospel and its Jewish soil are ultimately reconcilable, not fatally antagonistic. With thorough and incisive study, this work reaches the conclusion that standing at the literary center of the controversy series (Mark 2:1-3:6), the location of the two sayings on «new» and «old» (Mark 2:21-22) corresponds to their function of making a condensed statement for Mark, the Evangelist, of the meaning and impact of the whole conflict section.

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Peter Lang

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1433107023

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The Popular Handbook of Archaeology and the Bible

Discoveries That Confirm the Reliability of Scripture

By: Joseph M. Holden,Norman Geisler

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The Popular Handbook of Archaeology and the Bible

Discoveries That Confirm the Reliability of Scripture

By: Joseph M. Holden,Norman Geisler

From two leading Christian apologists, here is a fascinating survey of the most important Old and New Testament archaeological discoveries through the ages. Biblical archaeology has always stirred excitement among believers and curiosity among unbelievers. The evidence dug up with a spade can speak volumes—and serve as a powerful testimony of the reliability of Scripture. Norm Geisler and Joe Holden have put together an impressive array of finds that confirm the biblical peoples and events of ages past. In a user-friendly format written in popular style, they... examine the latest finds and explain their significance include more than 150 photographs provide an instructive chart of artifacts (along with fast facts) sample a variety of finds—papyri, inscriptions, scrolls, ossuaries, and more If readers are looking for just one book to cover this topic both concisely and comprehensively, this is it!

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Harvest House Publishers

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0736944850

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9780736944854

Marcion and Luke-Acts

A Defining Struggle

By: Joseph B. Tyson

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Marcion and Luke-Acts

A Defining Struggle

By: Joseph B. Tyson

An investigation into the motives behind writing the canonical versions of Luke and Acts Building on recent scholarship that argues for a second-century date for the book of Acts, Marcion and Luke-Acts explores the probable context for the authorship not only of Acts but also of the canonical Gospel of Luke. Noted New Testament scholar Joseph B. Tyson proposes that both Acts and the final version of the Gospel of Luke were published at the time when Marcion of Pontus was beginning to proclaim his version of the Christian gospel, in the years 120-125 c.e. He suggests that although the author was subject to various influences, a prominent motivation was the need to provide the church with writings that would serve in its fight against Marcionite Christianity. Tyson positions the controversy with Marcion as a defining struggle over the very meaning of the Christian message and the author of Luke-Acts as a major participant in that contest. Suggesting that the primary emphases in Acts are best understood as responses to the Marcionite challenge, Tyson looks particularly at the portrait of Paul as a devoted Pharisaic Jew. He contends that this portrayal appears to have been formed by the author to counter the Marcionite understanding of Paul as rejecting both the Torah and the God of Israel. Tyson also points to stories that involve Peter and the Jerusalem apostles in Acts as arguments against the Marcionite claim that Paul was the only true apostle. Tyson concludes that the author of Acts made use of an earlier version of the Gospel of Luke and produced canonical Luke by adding, among other things, birth accounts and postresurrection narratives of Jesus.

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1570036500

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To Advance the Gospel

New Testament Studies

By: Joseph A. Fitzmyer

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To Advance the Gospel

New Testament Studies

By: Joseph A. Fitzmyer

In this greatly expanded second edition of To Advance the Gospel, Joseph A. Fitzmyer has added eight new studies of important Pauline and Lucan topics not part of his original work. Together these nineteen essays consider a number of major issues in the study of the New Testament as well as in the life of the church today. Readers will find discussions of such themes as the priority of Mark and the "Q" source in Luke, crucifixion in ancient Palestine, the gospel in the theology of Paul, the ascension of Christ and Pentecost, and the resurrection of Christ according to the New Testament.

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Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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0802844251

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Christ, Our Joy

The Theological Vision of Pope Benedict XVI

By: Joseph Murphy

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Christ, Our Joy

The Theological Vision of Pope Benedict XVI

By: Joseph Murphy

Noticing how often the new Pope had the topic of "joy" as the central theme of his many addresses, Murphy delved into the vast writings of the Pope, before and after his election to the papacy, and found that the theme of joy has pervaded all of his theology. Recognizing the Pope's invitation to joy as a key to understanding his basic theological vision, Murphy develops those ideas and writings in a creative way, and helps the reader to engage personally with the original and pastoral mind of Joseph Ratzinger, professor, pastor, and now Pope Benedict XVI. This joy is nothing other than the joy of the Christian faith. Indeed, the "first word of the New Testament," says Pope Benedict XVI, "is an invitation to joy." The Gospel of Jesus Christ, he insists, is not a burdensome imposition but is truly "glad tidings" for mankind. Christianity is the key to true and lasting joy, the only joy that abides in the midst of life's anxieties and difficulties. Written in a clear and engaging style, this book argues that joy is central to all of Pope Benedict's thought. All the other great themes of the Christian faith are intimately connected with it and radiate out from it. The world is in need of hearing once again the message of joy which Jesus Christ makes known. For priests, religious and laity who are concerned with presenting the Christian message in a positive, attractive and convincing way, as well as for all who wish to delve into the rich and exciting thought of Pope Benedict XVI, one of the most inspiring Christian thinkers of recent decades, this timely book will provide insight for personal reflection, preaching and teaching.

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1586171828

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Spiritual Exercises Based on Paul's Epistle to the Romans

By: Joseph A. Fitzmyer

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Spiritual Exercises Based on Paul's Epistle to the Romans

By: Joseph A. Fitzmyer

Paul's letter to the Romans is often regarded as the most profoundly doctrinal book in the Bible. While not overlooking its complex theology, Joseph Fitzmyer here shows Romans to be also a wellspring of devotional insight, accessible and deeply rewarding to all Christians. In this book Fitzmyer recasts the text of Romans into the form of meditations for devotional reflection in spiritual retreats, Bible studies, church classrooms, small groups, and other prayerful gatherings. Styled after the famous Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius Loyola, the book includes twenty-four meditations that can be divided in a variety of ways and fit to a range of reading schedules. Accompanying each meditation are questions to encourage reflection on the passage of Romans being considered and also a colloquy in the form of a psalm or New Testament hymn that matches the sentiment of the Pauline passage. A truly fulfilling approach to spirituality, Fitzmyer's Spiritual Exercises demonstrates the role of Scripture in properly ordering the Christian life.

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0802826733

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The Dead Sea Scrolls and Christian Origins

By: Joseph A. Fitzmyer

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The Dead Sea Scrolls and Christian Origins

By: Joseph A. Fitzmyer

Originally written to appeal to both scholars and general readers interested in the Dead Sea Scrolls, all of the articles in this volume have been updated to take into account current discussions of this extraordinary archaeological find."--BOOK JACKET.

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0802846505

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A Wandering Aramean

Collected Aramaic Essays

By: Joseph A. Fitzmyer

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A Wandering Aramean

Collected Aramaic Essays

By: Joseph A. Fitzmyer

Here in One Convenient Volume are Two Works by Joseph A. Fitzmyer that have been influential in shaping the study of the New Testament during the past two decades -- Essays on the Semitic Background of the New Testament and A Wandering Aramean: Collected Aramaic Essays.

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The Greek Imperative Mood in the New Testament

A Cognitive and Communicative Approach

By: Joseph D. Fantin

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The Greek Imperative Mood in the New Testament

A Cognitive and Communicative Approach

By: Joseph D. Fantin

The imperative mood as a whole has generally been neglected by Greek grammarians. The Greek Imperative Mood in the New Testament: A Cognitive and Communicative Approach utilizes insights from modern linguistics and communication theory in order to propose an inherent (semantic) meaning for the mood and describe the way in which it is used in the New Testament (pragmatics). A linguistic theory called neuro-cognitive stratificational linguistics is used to help isolate the morphological imperative mood and focus on addressing issues directly related to this area, while principles from a communication theory called relevance theory provide a theoretical basis for describing the usages of the mood. This book also includes a survey of New Testament and select linguistic approaches to the imperative mood and proposes that the imperative mood is volitional-directive and should be classified in a multidimensional manner. Each imperative should be classified according to force, which participant (speaker or hearer) benefits from the fulfillment of the imperative, and where the imperative falls within the event sequence of the action described in the utterance. In this context, sociological factors such as the rank of participants and level of politeness are discussed together with other pragmatic-related information. The Greek Imperative Mood in the New Testament is a valuable teaching tool for intermediate and advanced Greek classes.

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Peter Lang

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0820474878

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Pro Ecclesia Vol 25-N3

A Journal of Catholic and Evangelical Theology

By: Pro Ecclesia,Joseph Mangina, Associate Professor of Theology & Director of Advanced Degree Studies, Wycliffe College, Toronto

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Pro Ecclesia Vol 25-N3

A Journal of Catholic and Evangelical Theology

By: Pro Ecclesia,Joseph Mangina, Associate Professor of Theology & Director of Advanced Degree Studies, Wycliffe College, Toronto

Pro Ecclesia is a quarterly journal of theology published by the Center for Catholic and Evangelical Theology.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1442274158

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Otherworldly and Eschatological Priesthood in the Dead Sea Scrolls

By: Joseph L. Angel

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Otherworldly and Eschatological Priesthood in the Dead Sea Scrolls

By: Joseph L. Angel

Departing from scholarship dedicated to the socio-historical realities of priesthood at Qumran, this book explores images of otherworldly and messianic/eschatological priesthood in the Dead Sea Scrolls as a reflection of the religious worldview of the Qumran community and related groups.

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BRILL

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9004181458

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9789004181458

Scripture, the Soul of Theology

By: Joseph A. Fitzmyer

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Scripture, the Soul of Theology

By: Joseph A. Fitzmyer

New Tent Architecture is the first major publication to look at the exciting possibilities of contemporary tensile building and the most interesting membrane structures created in recent years. This wide-ranging international survey begins with a substantial architectural and cultural history of the tent, considering its origins, meaning and ecological elegance. The core of the book features thirty recent projects, grouped by theme (atrium covers and fabric walls, ring roofs and convertibles, small peaks, large waves) and presented extensively through accessible text descriptions, photographs and line drawings." "At the forefront of current architectural practice and offering countless lessons for an increasingly environmentally aware profession, New Tent Architecture will be of widespread appeal and use to architecture and design professionals, engineers and students worldwide."--BOOK JACKET.

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Paulist Press

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0809135094

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Biblical and Theological Foundation of the Family

By: Joseph C. Atkinson

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Biblical and Theological Foundation of the Family

By: Joseph C. Atkinson

This ground-breaking work establishes a solid biblical and theological foundation on which a theology of the family can be constructed. It thus fills a critical lack in the current literature on the family. The wide range of sources, including Jewish, Catholic, Orthodox, and Protestant, give this work a genuine ecumenical dimension. Biblical and Theological Foundations of the Family will become indispensable for anyone wanting to engage in serious study of the structure and meaning of the family and its place in the salvific will of God.

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CUA Press

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0813221706

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Responses to 101 Questions on the Dead Sea Scrolls

By: Joseph A. Fitzmyer

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Responses to 101 Questions on the Dead Sea Scrolls

By: Joseph A. Fitzmyer

What are the Dead Sea Scrolls?' 'What is Qumran and what relation do the Dead Sea Scrolls have to it?' 'Where are the scrolls today?' 'How do the authors of the scrolls conceive of God?' 'What do these scrolls tell us about first-century Judaism?' 'Does the title 'Son of Man' occur in the scrolls?' Responses to 101 Questions on the Dead Sea Scrolls tackles these and many other questions that people ask about the discovery, contents, and significance of one of the greatest manuscript discoveries of all time.

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