NT Background Texts
JEWISH PSEUDEPIGRAPHA AN INTRO TO THE LITERATURE OF THE SECOND TEMPLE PERIOD
Designed with the beginning student in mind, this volume introduces the reader to the books that did not make it into the Bible or the Apocrypha but that remained popular among Jews and early Christians for centuries. These writings take various forms, such as novels, poems, apocalypses, the fictional deathbed speeches of biblical characters, and even attempts to rewrite well-known parts of Scripture. The book draws out the main religious ideas of these writings and links them to both their original historical setting and to issues of concern today.
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JOHN JESUS & THE RENEWAL OF ISRAEL
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JUDAS & THE GOSPEL OF JESUS OP!!
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LAST DAYS OF JESUS
Acclaimed New Testament scholar Francois Bovon engagingly and concisely explores the last days of Jesus. Detailing the similarities and differences in the passion narratives of the four canonical Gospels and the Gospel of Peter, he shows that these stories were not composed by objective witnesses but are reflections of the perspectives of those who wrote them. This lucid, highly readable, yet critical appraisal of Jesus' final days is a masterful example of the discipline of biblical studies.
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LATER NT WRITINGS & SCRIPTURE
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LETTERS OF PAUL 4TH ED
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Letters to the Church
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LETTERS TO THE CHURCH
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Letters to the Church Video Lectures a Survey of Hebrews & the General Epistles
Letters to the Church Video Lectures features 14 lessons (on 2 DVDs), introducing the cultural and theological background of Hebrews and the general epistles (James through Jude). A companion to the textbook Letters to the Church by respected New Testament scholar Karen H. Jobes, these lectures cover the historical background for each book focusing on authorship, genre, date, and content, as well as an exploration of the major themes in each book. The lectures address issues of historical relevance as well as unlocking these ancient Scriptural books for Christian faith and practice today.
Useful for formal students and laypeople alike, Letters to the Church Video Lectures provides an accessible study tool for anyone wanting to better understand Hebrews and the general epistles.
Session Titles and Runtimes:
1 - Introduction (4 min)
2 - Introducing Hebrews: The Book of Better Things (24 min)
3 - Famous Last Words: Divine Revelation in Hebrews (27 min)
4 - The Son Is Our Great High Priest: The Christology of Hebrews (33 min)
5 - "How Shall We Escape?": The Soteriology of Hebrews (29 min)
6 - Introducing the Letter from James: Prophet and Sage of the Kingdom of God (14 min)
7 - A Christian Letter?: Christology in James (15 min)
8 - The "Royal Law": Christian Wisdom and Ethics in James (25 min)
9 - Jude: Jesus' Brother Warns the Church (24 min)
10 - "The True Grace of God": Introducing 1 Peter (29 min)
11 - "Christ Has Left You an Example": The Christology of 1 Peter (29 min)
12 - Foreigners and Resident Aliens: The Imitatio Christi in Peter's Ethics (32 min)
13 - Second Peter: An Apostle's Last Words to the Church (26 min)
14 - First John: Reassurance for Christians in Confusing Times (32 min)
15 - Second and 3 John: Notes of Grace and Truth (14 min)
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LIGHT FROM THE ANCIENT EAST
This translation of my friend Deissman's Licht vom Osten has been made from the second edition (curiously called "second and third") of the German work (Tubingen, 1909). The genesis of the book, which was first published in May, 1908, is described in the author's Preface; its success may be judged from the shortness of the time that elapsed before a second edition was required. Arrangements for the English translation were completed before the book was three months old, and a preliminary advertisement appeared in the Athenaeum as early as October 10, 1908. It is not the fault of the publishers that the English version is ready a year later than was expected. There was a miscalculation to begin with, and the work of translation proceeded more slowly than had been estimated. Well, "a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?" The delay has brought compensations. The English reader now has the book in its revised and enlarged form, including nine illustrations that were not in the first edition (Figs. 22, 23, 25, 29, 41, 42, 43, 49, 50). These facsimiles have their value not only for the learned, who (by taking pains: see p. 362, n. 1) can spell out most of the old writing, but also for the unlearned. Everybody can gain from them, as the author says (p. 147), some idea of the inimitable individuality of each single papyrus letter. "That autograph Letter, it was once all luminous as a burning beacon, every word of it a live coal, in its time; it was once a piece of the general fire and light of Human Life, that Letter!
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LO I TELL YOU A MYSTERY
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LOST GOSPEL OF JUDAS
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