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Rebekah Yurong Zhao
Early Christian Widows and their Social-economic Situation, Support, and Contribution to the Church

In the first consideration of widows in early Christianity, RebekahYurong Zhao explores the social-economic situation of widows, their means of support, and their contributions to the church. Through lite…

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Hyun Ho Park
Intergroup Conflict, Recategorization, and Identity Construction in Acts

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Hyun Ho Park employs social identity to create the first thorough analysis via such methodology of Acts 21:17-23:35, which contains one of the fiercest intergroup conflicts in Acts.Park's assessment allow…

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William B. Bowes
John's Interpretation of Mark

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William B. Bowes investigates the Fourth Gospel as a creative reworking of Mark, situating John within the vibrant literary culture of late Second Temple Judaism. Rather than treating John as an isolated …

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Karen J. Wenell
Locating the Kingdom of God

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This book offers a new, multidisciplinary way of thinking about the Kingdom of God which fully recognises its sociological and spatial significance in performing boundaries of the sacred. Though spatial-c…

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Jenny Read-Heimerdinger
Luke's Characters in their Jewish World

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Jenny Read-Heimerdinger explores the characters of Luke-Acts in order to situate them in the Jewish world to which they belong. Through a close reading of the Greek text, she argues that Luke emerges as a…

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David Anthony Basham
Paul, the Temple, and Building a Metaphor

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David Anthony Basham argues that Paul and the Corinthians share a "system of associated commonplaces" about the Jerusalem temple. Basham proposes that when Paul applies temple language to the Co…

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Timothy B. Tse
Priesthood and Temple in John's Apocalypse

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Timothy B. Tse argues that, while John uses language drawn from the Hebrew Bible's descriptions of YHWH's dwelling place, scholarship has overlooked the importance of his spatial transformation of that la…

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Reading Hebrews and 1 Peter from Majority World Perspectives

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The contributors to this volume offer a bold re-reading of Hebrews and 1 Peter from the perspective of the Global South. The chapters provide enriching new hermeneutical and theological insights, revealin…

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Jerry D. Breen
Resolving the Tension of Jesus's Mission in Matthew's Ancient Biography

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Jerry D. Breen argues that reading Matthew, and all the Gospels, as ancient biography is the necessary next step for Gospel studies. In particular, Breen contends that more specific comparisons should be …

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Josep Rius-Camps, Jenny Read-Heimerdinger
The Message of Acts in Codex Bezae

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The third volume in the four-volume commentary on the Book of Acts, this work presents a fresh look at the text of Codex Bezae and compares its message with that of the more familiar Alexandrian text of w…

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Josep Rius-Camps, Jenny Read-Heimerdinger
The Message of Acts in Codex Bezae

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A comparison of the message of Acts transmitted by Codez Bezae with that of the more familiar Alexandrian text, represented by Codex Vaticanus. For each section of Acts, there is a side by side translatio…

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Benjamin Sargent
The Nature and Significance of Ignatius of Antioch's use of Jewish Scripture

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Benjamin Sargent offers a detailed examination of the use of scriptural quotations and allusions in the letters of Ignatius, employing methods used in the study of the use of Scripture in the New Testamen…

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Dain Alexander Smith
The Politics of Peace in Romans

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This volume explores Paul's use of Scripture and Roman imperialism, finding hermeneutical and theoretical clarity and a fresh understanding of peace in Romans. Dain Alexander Smith interprets Romans with …

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Isaac D. Blois
The Role of Emotion in Philippians

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Isaac D. Blois demonstrates the many ways that Paul attempted to shape the emotional orientation of his friends at Philippi, thereby constructing a multifaceted Christian identity that went beyond mere do…

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