The Acts of the Apostles is not history. Acts was long thought to be a first-century document, an...

A readable and absorbing volume of annotated essays illustrating the approach of Mieke Bal to sto...

Bal (theory of literature, U. of Amsterdam) addresses basic questions in semiotics, the theory of...

Questions concerning the historical John the Baptist and Jesus are answered in this provocative a...

In Odyssey on the Sea of Faith, Nigel Leaves maps the ways in which the ideas of Don Cupitt have ...

Jesus saw the extraordinary in the ordinary. His extraordinary vision comes to us in bits and pie...

The best and most readable one-volume introduction available to the Sayings Gospel Q and the Gosp...

In this compelling study of the birth and infancy of Jesus, Robert Miller separates fact from fic...

Five major apocryphal Acts survive from the early period of the Christian church, the so-called A...

This introductory text takes a secular approach to New Testament study. The book begins with a di...

Where many scholars see an end-time prophet not well-suited to today's world, David Galston finds...

What prompted the anonymous author of Luke to edit his sources—Mark and Q—and retell the story of...