An inspirational way to practice lectio divina through the person of St. Paul, the first of all Christian proclaimers of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, using the Acts of the Apostles.
Explores the Gospel of Mark with emphasis on why Mark tells the story the way he does. The author backs up his appreciation of the literary sophistication of Mark by outlining his technique and discusses the centrality of the cross to Mark's account of Jesus.
A brief and yet insightful blueprint for reading and appreciating the Gospel of Matthew that emphasizes two main points: he provides a "road map" through the Gospel by describing its structure; and he explains Matthew's focus on Jesus' teaching as the Messiah.
In this brief and insightful blueprint for reading and appreciating the Gospel of Luke, noted scripture scholar Wilfrid J. Harrington, OP, guides the reader through the major themes of the gospel, including the infancy narratives, the ministry of Jesus, and the death and resurrection appearances. The book highlights Luke's focus on Jesus as the prophet, healer, and teacher whose good news is for the poor, the sinner, and a predominantly Gentile audience. Written for a general audience, Reading L...
Questions and answers that people ask today about the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls their contents, their significance, and recent developments about them written by an expert who has worked on the scrolls from the beginning.
Surveys scholarship since 1985 on Mark's Gospel, with particular emphasis on the new methods of interpretation for which Mark has so often served as a testing ground in recent times.
Author: <span style="font-family: "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 12px;">Raymond Brown, with new Introduction by Paul N. Anderson</span>Raymond Brown
Format: E-Book
This study in Johannine ecclesiology reconstructs the history of one Christian community in the first century, a community whose life from its inception to its last hour is reflected in the Gospel and Epistles of John. It was a community that struggled with the world and eventually among its own ranks, not unlike the Church of today. Pulling together twenty-five years of Brown's research into the Johannine corpus, this book explains why Brown called Johannine thought "the most adventuresome theo...
Offers a concise summary of, and an excellent introduction to, recent Lucan scholarship. Major positions on several important subjects are clearly expressed in nontechnical language.
A brief and yet insightful blueprint for reading and appreciating the Gospel of Matthew that emphasizes two main points: he provides a "road map" through the Gospel by describing its structure; and he explains Matthew's focus on Jesus' teaching as the Messiah.
"Today, before we Christians begin to read a gospel, we already know the lines of the story. It was the same at the start. The first readers or hearers of each gospel knew the story as well as the evangelist. Each evangelist put a 'spin' on a familiar story. The reader will ask: why is he telling the story like this? One of the joys of studying the gospels is a growing appreciation of the literary sophistication of the evangelists."-From the introductionIn this popularly written, accessible book...
This book surveys some of the scholarship on the letter of James from the past thirty years, covering questions of authorship and audience, structure and rhetoric, themes, and relationship to some of the sayings attributed to Jesus.
This book briefly explores commonly asked questions and provides nontechnical answers designed to assist laypeople, ministers, and scholars with the historical books of the Bible.
Year Three returns to the experience of the Hebrew people. In particular it traces the historical events of the tumultuous time from about 750 to 400 BC. It studies the destruction of the Northern Kingdom of Israel in 722/21 BC, the destruction of the Southern Kingdom of Judah in 587/586 BC, the exile in Babylon, and finally the restoration of the people to the land after the exile. In the midst of these crucial events, the prophets spoke God's word of judgment and hope to the people. They remin...
Year four examines God's word as it resonates in the Hellenistic culture that dominated the Mediterranean world from the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC. Most of the books studied this year attempt to cope with this new situation. Students will study the Old Testament wisdom literature, then a variety of post exilic Jewish writings (including the deuterocanonical books), and finally the Gospel According to Matthew, the New Testament letters not studied in second year, and Hebrews.
A Walk Through the New Testament is a companion volume for adult Catholics as they read the New Testament, helping them apply the Catholic approach to Scripture, the contextualist approach, to their reading in order to better understand what inspired biblical authors are teaching them about their relationship with God.
A literary and historical introduction to the Bible exploring the content of both the Hebrew Scriptures and the Christian New Testament, but also introducing the reader to scholarly questions and theories about the Bible.
