Additional Biblical Studies

Additional Biblical Studies

What the Bible Really Says? – John Burnett

Truth and Meaning in Scripture – Fr. John Breck

Allegory: Exegetical Method or Spiritual Vision? – Fr. John Breck

Preaching the Word of God – Anthony M. Coniaris

Hermeneutics as Apprenticeship: How the Bible Shapes Our Interpretive Habits and Practices – David I. Starling

Sola Scriptura in the Vanity of Their Minds: An Orthodox Examination of the Protestant Teaching – John Whiteford

The World of the New Testament: Cultural, Social, and Historical Contexts – eds. Joel B. Green and Lee Martin McDonald

Jesus through Middle Eastern Eyes – Kenneth E. Bailey

Paul through Middle Eastern Eyes – Kenneth E. Bailey

Apostolic Fathers and Paul – eds. Todd Still, David Wilhite

In the Footsteps of Saint Paul: An Academic Symposium – eds. Archbishop Demetrios, Fr. Deacon John Chryssavgis

Honor and Shame in the Gospel of Matthew – Jerome H. Neyrey

Semeia 68: Honor and Shame in the World of the Bible – eds. Victor H. Matthews and Don C. Benjamin

Dinah’s Lament: The Biblical Legacy of Sexual Violence in Christian Interpretation – Joy A. Schroeder

Deborah’s Daughters: Gender Politics and Biblical Interpretation – Joy A. Schroeder

And He Will Take Your Daughters….Woman Story and Ethical Evaluation of Monarchy in the David Narrative – April D. Westbrook

The Beginning of Politics: Power in the Biblical Book of Samuel – Moshe Halbertal & Stephen Holmes

God and Politics in Esther – Yoram Hazony

Now My Eye Sees You: Unveiling an Apocalyptic Job – Luke Timothy Johnson

Binding the Strong Man: A Political Reading of Mark’s Story of Jesus – Ched Myers (excerpt)

Primitive Communism in Acts? Does Acts present the Community of Goods (2:44-45; 4:32-35) as Mistaken? – Steve Wolton

Holy Community of Life and Property amongst the Poor: A Response to Steve Walton – Brian J. Copper

Bible Commentary Books – Fr. Tadros Malaty

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An Oriental Orthodox Approach to Hermeneutics – K. M. George

Scripture, the Gospel and Orthodoxy – Fr. John Behr

Recent Biblical Hermeneutics in Patristic Perspective: The Tradition of Orthodoxy – Fr. John Anthony McGuckin

The Gospel According to St. Justin the New: Justin Popovic on Scripture – Vladimir Cvetkovic, in What is the Bible? The Patristic Doctrine of Scripture – eds. Matthew Baker and Mark Mourachian (academia.edu)

Is There an Orthodox Exegesis? Engaging Contextual Hermeneutics in Orthodox Biblical Studies – Predrag Dragutinović

On Freedom, Love and Power: Expanded Edition – Jacques Ellul

On Being Rich and Poor: Christianity in a Time of Economic Globalization – Jacques Ellul

Biblical Exegesis and the Formation of Christian Culture – Francis M. Young

Orthodox Center for the Advancement of Biblical Studies

Language for God in Patristic Tradition: Wrestling with Biblical Anthropomorphism – Mark Sheridan

Yahweh in Africa: Essays on Africa and the Old Testament – Knut Holter

Israel and Empire: A Postcolonial History of Israel and Early Judaism – Leo G. Perdue and Warren Carter

Come Out, My People! God’s Call Out of Empire in the Bible and Beyond – Wes Howard-Brook

If Not Empire, What? A Survey of the Bible – Berry Frisen and John K. Stoner

Race, Racism and the Biblical Narratives – Cain Hope Felder

Old Testament Models for Emperors in Early Byzantium – Claudia Rapp (academia.edu)

The Old Testament and Monasticism – Derek Krueger

Byzantine Emperors and Old Testament – Kelsey Eldridge

The Ascetic Ideal and the New Testament – Fr. Georges Florovsky

Paul Did Not Teach ‘Stay in Slavery’ – S. Scott Bartchy

First-Century Slavery and the Interpretation of 1 Corinthians 7:21 – S. Scott Bartchy

The Manumission of Slaves in Early Christianity – James Albert Harrill

Pillars of Cloud and Fire: The Politics of Exodus in African American Biblical Interpretation – Herbert Robinson Marbury

The Genesis of Liberation: Biblical Interpretation in the Antebellum Narratives of the Enslaved – Emerson B. Powery and Rodney S. Sadler

Slave Ideology and Biblical Interpretation – Katie Geneva Cannon, in The Black Studies Reader – eds. Jacqueline Bobo and Cynthia Hudley

The Making of the New Testament: Church, Gospel and Canon – Theodore G. Stylianopoulos

The Apostolic Gospel – Theodore G. Stylianopoulos

The People of God according to Romans 9-11: An Eastern Christian Approach to the Identity of God’s Beloved Olive Tree – Dr. Daniel Ayuch (academia.edu)

Apostasy in the New Testament Communities, 3 vols. – B. J. Oropeza

Some Initial Notes for A Comparison of Orthodox Worship and Mission Today, with the Eschatological Vision of Worship in the Book of Revelation – Fr. Anthony (Spencer) Estabrooks 

Remember Thy First Love (Revelation 2:4-5): THe Three Stages of the Spiritual Life in the Theology of Elder Sophrony – Aarchimandrite Zacharias

The Abomination of Desolation (spoken of by Daniel the Prophet) – Fr. Athanasius Iskander

The Old Testament in Eastern Orthodox Tradition – Eugen J. Pentiuc

The Garma Gospels: Early Illuminated Gospels Books from Ethiopia – eds. Judith S. McKenzie and Francis Watson

The Bible in Arab Christianity – David Thomas

The Shepherd of Hermas in Ethiopia – Ted Erho (academia.edu)

The Talking Book: African Americans and the Bible – Allen Dwight Callahan

Ebed-Melech: The Un-noticed Ethiopian Eunuch (Jeremiah 37-39)

Semeia 83/84 – Slavery in Text & Interpretation – eds. Allen Dwight Callahan and Richard A. Horsley

Ancient Ethiopia and the New Testament: Ethnic (Con)texts and Racialized (Sub)texts – Gay L. Byron / They Were All Together in One Place? Toward Minority Biblical Criticism – ed. Randall C. Bailey

Reading the Bible from the Margins – Miguel A. De La Torre

Christians and Roman Rule in the New Testament: New Perspectives – Richard J. Cassidy 

Engaging Economics: New Testament Scenarios and Early Christian Reception – Bruce W. Longenecker

Christian Origins and the Ancient Economy – David A. Fiensy

The Forging of Races: Race and Scripture in the Protestant Atlantic World, 1600-2000 – Colin Kidd

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