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      Sex, Wives, and Warriors: Reading Old Testament Narrative with Its Ancient Audience

      Philip Francis Esler

      A novel historical and literary analysis of the Old Testament, showing how an understanding of the cultural milieu in which the Ancient Israelites read the texts reveals new insights into…

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      Ancient Israel: The Old Testament in Its Social Context

      Philip Francis Esler

      A collection of social-scientific approaches to Old Testament studies, with the content matching the need of level two-three biblical studies undergraduates, as well as suiting seminary courses examining specific biblical…

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      Christianity for the Twenty-First Century

      As we enter the twenty-first century after Christ’s birth, does Christianity have a clear future? Does it have the resources to meet the challenges of the new millennium thrown up…

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      Community and Gospel in Luke-Acts: The Social and Political Motivations of Lucan Theology

      n this widely-acclaimed study, Dr Esler extensively uses sociology and anthropology to examine the author of Luke Acts’ theology as a response to social and political pressures upon the ancient…

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      New Testament Theology: Communion and Community

      Philip Francis Esler

      Esler’s innovative proposal features a cutting-edge combination of theology, exegesis, and social analysis. He argues for new thinking about New Testament theology in light of the early social history of…

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      Ancient Israel: the Old Testament in Its Social Context

      A collection of social-scientific approaches to Old Testament studies, with the content matching the need of level two-three biblical studies undergraduates, as well as suiting seminary courses examining specific biblical…

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      God’s Court and Courtiers in the Book of the Watchers: Re-Interpreting Heaven in 1 Enoch 1-36

      Philip Francis Esler

      First Enoch is an ancient Judean work that inaugurated the genre of apocalypse. Chapters 1-36 tell the story of the descent of angels called Watchers from heaven to earth to…

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      Sex, Wives, and Warriors: Reading Old Testament Narrative with Its Ancient Audience

      Philip Francis Esler

      A novel historical and literary analysis of the Old Testament, showing how an understanding of the cultural milieu in which the Ancient Israelites read the texts reveals new insights into…

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      God’s Court and Courtiers in the Book of the Watchers: Re-Interpreting Heaven in 1 Enoch 1-36

      Philip Francis Esler

      First Enoch is an ancient Judean work that inaugurated the genre of apocalypse. Chapters 1-36 tell the story of the descent of angels called Watchers from heaven to earth to…

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      Emerging Leadership in the Pauline Mission: A Social Identity Perspective on Local Leadership Development in Corinth and Ephesus

      Jack Barentsen

      Where did Paul find leaders for his new churches? How did he instruct and develop them? What processes took place to stabilize the churches and institute their new leadership? This…

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      Sex, Wives, and Warriors: Reading Biblical Narrative with Its Ancient Audience

      Philip Francis Esler (Principal and Professor of Biblical Interpretation, St Mary's University College, Twickenham)

      Synopsis: Why and how should we read Old Testament narrative? This book provides fresh answers to these questions. First, it models possible readers of the Bible–religious and nonreligious, professional and…

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