Suggesting new ways to read Old Testament narrative and giving reasons why we should, Esler, with...

First published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Modelling Early Christianity explores the intriguing foreign social context of first century Pale...

Dr Esler extensively uses sociology and anthropology to examine the author of Luke Acts' theology.

As we enter the twenty-first century after Christ's birth, does Christianity have a clear future?...

Why and how should we read Old Testament narrative? This book provides fresh answers to these que...

The book begins by providing a brief history and overview of social scientific analysis of the Ol...

In recent decades the ancient apocalyptic work 1 Enoch has been intensively explored for its hist...

First Enoch is an ancient Judean work that inaugurated the genre of apocalypse. Chapters 1-36 tel...

Modelling Early Christianity explores the intriguing foreign social context of first century Pale...

The story of Lazarus in John 11-12 typically has been understood by scholars to act as a prototyp...

Babatha's Orchard tells a story that has gone untold for nearly two thousand years. It is a story...