Discourses of empire

By Hans Leander

This inventive work explores Mark's Gospel within the contexts of the empires of Rome and Europe. In a unique dual analysis, the book highlights how empire is not only part of the past but also of...

Feminist biblical studies in the 20th century

By Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza

The Bible in Arabic

By Sidney Harrison Griffith

"From the first centuries of Islam to well into the Middle Ages, Jews and Christians produced hundreds of manuscripts containing portions of the Bible in Arabic. Until recently, however, these tran...

Gospel writing

By Francis Watson

That there are four canonical versions of the one gospel story is often seen as a problem for Christian faith: where gospels multiply, so too do apparent contradictions that may seem to undermine t...

The book of Job

By Gray John

From the margins 1

By Peter S. Hawkins, Lesleigh Cushing Stahlberg

Women in the Pentateuch

By Sarah Shectman

"For the first time, literary source criticism and feminist biblical interpretation are here brought together systematically. Taking into account recent trends in Pentateuchal source criticism, Sar...

The Book of Isaiah

By Ulrich Berges

"Study of the book of Isaiah has in recent times been strongly marked by a tension between synchronic and diachronic approaches. The first is favored mainly by English-speaking, the second by Germa...

The gospel according to Luke

By Greg Carey

Encountering violence in the Bible

By Hallvard Hagelia, Markus Philipp Zehnder

Our world is full of violence, with repeated acts of terrorism and generally rising rates of violent criminal acts as the most obvious forms of the phenomenon in the Western world. It even reached...