Most Read This Week In Biblical Studies


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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
God's Homecoming: The Forgotten Promise of Future Renewal
You're Only Human: How Your Limits Reflect God’s Design and Why That’s Good News
Armageddon: What the Bible Really Says about the End
Tell Her Story: How Women Led, Taught, and Ministered in the Early Church
Rejoice and Tremble: The Surprising Good News of the Fear of the Lord
Paul for the World: A Grounded Vision for Finding Meaning in This Life―Not Just the Next
The Vision of Ephesians: The Task of the Church and the Glory of God
Becoming God's Family: Why the Church Still Matters
Curveball: When Your Faith Takes Turns You Never Saw Coming (or How I Stumbled and Tripped My Way to Finding a Bigger God) – A Biblical Scholar's Guide to Faith Growing Through Doubt
Reading Genesis
The Bible vs. Biblical Womanhood: How God's Word Consistently Affirms Gender Equality
Jesus through the Eyes of Women: How the First Female Disciples Help Us Know and Love the Lord
Blessed: Experiencing the Promise of the Book of Revelation
Hope in Times of Fear: The Resurrection and the Meaning of Easter
Men and Women in the Church: A Short, Biblical, Practical Introduction
The Royal Priesthood and the Glory of God (Short Studies in Biblical Theology)
The Widening of God's Mercy: Sexuality Within the Biblical Story
Herod the Great: Jewish King in a Roman World (Jewish Lives)
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
Finding Phoebe: What New Testament Women Were Really Like
Revelation for the Rest of Us: A Prophetic Call to Follow Jesus as a Dissident Disciple
Confronting Jesus: 9 Encounters with the Hero of the Gospels
Biblical Critical Theory: How the Bible's Unfolding Story Makes Sense of Modern Life and Culture
This Hallelujah Banquet: How the End of What We Were Reveals Who We Can Be
Four Views on Heaven (Counterpoints: Bible and Theology)
Beyond the Salvation Wars: Why Both Protestants and Catholics Must Reimagine How We Are Saved
Boy Jesus: Growing Up Judean in Turbulent Times
The Evil Creator: Origins of an Early Christian Idea
Hitchhiking with Prophets: A Ride Through the Salvation Story of the Old Testament
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
Why the Bible Began: An Alternative History of Scripture and its Origins
The Origins of Judaism: An Archaeological-Historical Reappraisal (The Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library)
Being God's Image: Why Creation Still Matters
Tell Me the Stories of Jesus: The Explosive Power of Jesus’ Parables
15 New Testament Words of Life: A New Testament Theology for Real Life
Union with the Resurrected Christ: Eschatological New Creation and New Testament Biblical Theology
The Great Story and the Great Commission: Participating in the Biblical Drama of Mission (Acadia Studies in Bible and Theology)
People of the Screen: How Evangelicals Created the Digital Bible and How It Shapes Their Reading of Scripture
Rethinking the Atonement
Women and the Gender of God
You Need a Better Gospel: Reclaiming the Good News of Participation with Christ
The Herods: Murder, Politics, and the Art of Succession
Five Things Theologians Wish Biblical Scholars Knew
David's Crown: Sounding the Psalms
Seven Things I Wish Christians Knew About the Bible
Typology-Understanding the Bible's Promise-Shaped Patterns: How Old Testament Expectations are Fulfilled in Christ
Five Views on the Exodus: Historicity, Chronology, and Theological Implications (Counterpoints: Bible and Theology)
Foretaste of the Future: Reading Revelation in Light of God's Mission

God works creatively with already existing realities to bring about newness. This understanding also entails the idea that the present (and future) is not wholly determined by the past; God does bring the "new" into existence. [...] God also creates in and through creaturely activity. ...more
Terence E. Fretheim, God and World in the Old Testament: A Relational Theology of Creation

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

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