Biblical Studies


The Bible Says So: What We Get Right (and Wrong) About Scripture’s Most Controversial Issues
Better Ways to Read the Bible: Transforming a Weapon of Harm Into a Tool of Healing
Tell Her Story: How Women Led, Taught, and Ministered in the Early Church
The Vision of Ephesians: The Task of the Church and the Glory of God
Men and Women in the Church: A Short, Biblical, Practical Introduction
Being God's Image: Why Creation Still Matters
The Widening of God's Mercy: Sexuality Within the Biblical Story
Reading Genesis
Jesus and the Powers: Christian Political Witness in an Age of Totalitarian Terror and Dysfunctional Democracies
Nobody's Mother: Artemis of the Ephesians in Antiquity and the New Testament
Armageddon: What the Bible Really Says about the End
Hope in Times of Fear: The Resurrection and the Meaning of Easter
God's Ghostwriters: Enslaved Christians and the Making of the Bible
The Wood Between the Worlds: A Poetic Theology of the Cross
Strange Religion: How the First Christians Were Weird, Dangerous, and Compelling
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)
The Resurrection of the Son of God (Christian Origins and the Question of God, #3)
Exegetical Fallacies
Jesus and the Victory of God (Christian Origins and the Question of God, #2)
The Art of Biblical Narrative
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
Angels by Michael S. HeiserThe Unseen Realm by Michael S. HeiserAnswering Jewish Objections to Jesus by Michael L. BrownAnswering Jewish Objections to Jesus, Volume 3 by Michael L. BrownAnswering Jewish Objections to Jesus, vol. 2 by Michael L. Brown
Comprehensive Christianity
62 books — 8 voters
The 12 by James       CollinsThe Leper Messiah by R.M. L.Like Fire in the Bones by Walter BrueggemannThe Drama of Job by Stephen FinlanPaul and the Therapy of Desire by Nélida Naveros Córdova
Essential Reading on the Prophets
9 books — 12 voters

End Times by Charles PallaghyHow (Not) to Read the Bible Study Guide plus Streaming Video by Dan KimballDivine Claims Of Jesus Christ by Judith Vander WegeThe Drama of Job by Stephen FinlanDaniel Decoded by Leo Respinger
End Times According to Scripture
12 books — 11 voters
End Times by Charles PallaghyDivine Claims Of Jesus Christ by Judith Vander WegeDaniel Decoded by Leo RespingerThe Drama of Job by Stephen FinlanRedemption by Jocelyn Andersen
Best Books on Bible Prophecy
26 books — 14 voters

Misreading Scripture with Western Eyes by E. Randolph RichardsEnd Times by Charles PallaghyThe Blue Parakeet by Scot McKnightHow to Read the Bible for All Its Worth by Gordon D. FeeThe IVP Bible Background Commentary by John H. Walton
How to Interpret the Bible
113 books — 48 voters


The first motivation could be called political: If you can't or won't understand the Bible, others surely will interpret it for you. The second could be called cultural or literary: Within this culture you can't be fully literature or creative, artistically or rhetorically, without an acquaintance with the Bible. But now we come to the third and most personal reason: You also can't be spiritually mature or wise simply by rejecting the Bible as oppressive. The oppressive uses of the Bible are rea ...more
John A. Buehrens, Understanding the Bible: An Introduction for Skeptics, Seekers, and Religious Liberals

No one can claim to be culturally literate without an understanding of the Bible, since it has influenced, directly or indirectly, nearly all of Western literature and art.
John A. Buehrens, Understanding the Bible: An Introduction for Skeptics, Seekers, and Religious Liberals

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