Explores fifteen images of hope in each of the following: Matthew’s Gospel , Paul’s Letter to the Romans , and the Book of Revelation . This work includes a prayerful…

In this volume a leading biblical scholar helps readers rediscover the ancient books of the Old Testament Apocrypha. Invitation to the Apocrypha provides a clear, basic introduction to these important-but…

Jesus Ben Sira combines secular wisdom from Near Eastern wisdom sources and divine revelations from the Hebrew Bible to create the Book of Sirach. By applying from criticism to Ben…

Eighteen prominent scholars have been asked to honor the lifelong academic accomplishments of two great Jesuit biblical scholars, Richard J. Clifford and Daniel J. Harrington. All contributors have a personal…

How can one read the Bible both critically and religiously? To answer that question, The Bible and the Believer enlists one Jewish, one Catholic, and one Protestant biblical scholar who…

Was Jesus a feminist? Who really killed Jesus? Did all those miracles actually happen? How do we know who Jesus is? How are we supposed to know what Jesus really…

The Ten Commandments and the Beatitudes brings together biblical studies and ethics to help students gain a fuller understanding of these two important biblical passages-both what the text meant historically…

Representing a diverse array of health concerns ranging across chronic and infectious diseases and including research employing varied qualitative and quantitative methodologies, this book illustrates how geographic concepts and approaches…