Biblical Studies


Better Ways to Read the Bible: Transforming a Weapon of Harm Into a Tool of Healing
Finding the Right Hills to Die on: The Case for Theological Triage
God: An Anatomy
Heaven and Hell: A History of the Afterlife
Reading While Black: African American Biblical Interpretation as an Exercise in Hope
Jesus through the Eyes of Women: How the First Female Disciples Help Us Know and Love the Lord
Being God's Image: Why Creation Still Matters
Armageddon: What the Bible Really Says about the End
You're Only Human: How Your Limits Reflect God’s Design and Why That’s Good News
Men and Women in the Church: A Short, Biblical, Practical Introduction
How (Not) to Read the Bible: Making Sense of the Anti-Women, Anti-Science, Pro-Violence, Pro-Slavery and Other Crazy-Sounding Parts of Scripture
Blessed: Experiencing the Promise of the Book of Revelation
Tell Her Story: How Women Led, Taught, and Ministered in the Early Church
Biblical Critical Theory: How the Bible's Unfolding Story Makes Sense of Modern Life and Culture
Reading Genesis
How to Read the Bible for All Its Worth
The New Testament and the People of God (Christian Origins and the Question of God, #1)
The Lost World of Genesis One: Ancient Cosmology and the Origins Debate (Volume 2) (The Lost World Series)
Exegetical Fallacies
The Resurrection of the Son of God (Christian Origins and the Question of God, #3)
The Art of Biblical Narrative
Jesus and the Victory of God (Christian Origins and the Question of God, #2)
Jesus and the Eyewitnesses: The Gospels as Eyewitness Testimony
Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why
The Prophetic Imagination
The Unseen Realm
An Introduction to the New Testament
Jesus Through Middle Eastern Eyes: Cultural Studies in the Gospels
The Lost World of Adam and Eve: Genesis 2–3 and the Human Origins Debate
Scripture and the Authority of God: How to Read the Bible Today

[T]he creativity of the human creature is such that genuinely new realities are regularly brought into being.
Terence E. Fretheim, God and World in the Old Testament: A Relational Theology of Creation

Walter Brueggemann
In the end, ethical interpretation of the Bible means to think critically about how our practices of textual engagement might help us to become both more human and more humane. We are constantly crafting and recrafting ourselves, and the goal is to do so in such a way that we contribute, even if only incrementally, more to the good in the world than to the bad. We think of the point made by Tim Beal (2011, 184), who notes that the etymological root of the word “religion” is typically taken to be ...more
Walter Brueggemann, An Introduction to the Old Testament: The Canon and Christian Imagination

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