Uses an approach that can be expressed by two terms used in literary criticism: intratextuality and intertextuality. This intratextual and intertextual reading helps us to appreciate the literary character, its…

This introduction to Old Testament exegesis responds to the directives of the Second Vatican Council that instructs biblical interpreters to investigate the meaning the sacred writers intended to express. Thus…

The book consists of three parts: an introduction to the major topics pertaining to Jesus as a historical figure; a cross-referenced dictionary containing 400 entries on a range of topics…

The twelve essays reprinted in this volume illustrate how biblical scholars have worked in one area of research (the church in the New Testament) and furnish a record of some…

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…

This text provides a summary of what is known about Jesus and his times - Galilee, his sense of mission as an eschatological prophet and miracle worker, and the mechanics…

Brings various elements of database design together. This book consolidates both introductory and advanced topics, thereby covering the gamut of database design methodology from ER and UML techniques, to conceptual…