Sylvia Keesmaat's Books

Paul and his Story

(Re)Interpreting the Exodus Tradition

By: Sylvia Keesmaat

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Paul and his Story

(Re)Interpreting the Exodus Tradition

By: Sylvia Keesmaat

The author discusses Paul's reading of his scriptures by exploring his intertextual echoes and allusions to exodus themes and motifs in Israel's scriptures and the literature of Second-Temple Judaism. This exploration reveals that Paul evoked the exodus narrative in a way that is both faithful to the tradition and innovative for his new situation in Christ. Paul affirms and transforms the tradition in ways that speak to the tensions present in both Galatians and Romans.

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297

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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ISBN 10

1441152873

ISBN 13

9781441152879

Colossians Remixed

Subverting the Empire

By: Brian J. Walsh,Sylvia C. Keesmaat

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Colossians Remixed

Subverting the Empire

By: Brian J. Walsh,Sylvia C. Keesmaat

Have we really heard the message of Colossians? Is this New Testament book just another religious text whose pretext is an ideological grab for dominating power? Reading Colossians in context, ancient and contemporary, can perhaps give us new ears to hear. In this innovative and refreshing book Brian J. Walsh and Sylvia C. Keesmaat explain our own sociocultural context to then help us get into the world of the New Testament and get a sense of the power of the gospel as it addressed those who lived in Colossae two thousand years ago. Their reading presents us with a radical challenge from the apostle Paul for today. Drawing together biblical scholarship with a passion for authentic lives that embody the gospel, this groundbreaking interpretation of Colossians provides us with tools to subvert the empire of our own context in a way that acknowledges the transforming power of Jesus Christ.

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258

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InterVarsity Press

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0830899936

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9780830899937

Romans Disarmed

Resisting Empire, Demanding Justice

By: Sylvia C. Keesmaat,Brian J. Walsh

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Romans Disarmed

Resisting Empire, Demanding Justice

By: Sylvia C. Keesmaat,Brian J. Walsh

Globalization. Homelessness. Ecological and economic crisis. Conflicts over sexuality. Violence. These crisis-level issues may seem unique to our times, but Paul's Letter to the Romans has something to say to all of them. Following their successful Colossians Remixed, Sylvia Keesmaat and Brian Walsh unpack the meaning of Romans for its original context and for today. The authors demonstrate how Romans disarms the political, economic, and cultural power of the Roman Empire and how this ancient letter offers hope in today's crisis-laden world. Romans Disarmed helps readers enter the world of ancient Rome and see how Paul's most radical letter transforms the lives of the marginalized then and now. Intentionally avoiding abstract debates about Paul's theology, Keesmaat and Walsh move back and forth between the present and the past as they explore themes of home, economic justice, creation care, the violence of the state, sexuality, and Indigenous reconciliation. They show how Romans engages with the lived reality of those who suffer from injustice, both in the first century and in the midst of our own imperial realities.

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