Exegesis and Hermeneutics

Biblical faith is passionately and relentlessly material in its emphasis. This claim is rooted in the conviction that the creator God loves the cre...

One of the books most central to late-antique religious life was the four-gospel codex, containing the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. A ...

Those who wish to interpret and understand the Bible face a fundamental question: How do I interpret Scripture faithfully? Theological interpretati...

The Bible took shape over the course of centuries, and today Christian groups continue to disagree over details of its contents. The differences am...

The Ethiopic version provides a window into the state of the Greek Bible as it circulated in East Africa at the end of the fourth century. It is, t...

How to read the Bible on matters of public policyChristians affirm the Bible as our standard of faith and practice. We turn to it to hear God’s voi...

Personal and communal tragedies provoke intense emotions. In Scripture such emotions were given expression in complaints or laments. Such laments a...

In Slaves, Women & Homosexuals William J. Webb tackles some of the most complex and controversial issues that have challenged the Christian chu...

In much of the scholarship on Paul, activities such as speaking in tongues, prophecy, and miracle healings are either ignored or treated as singula...

Hermeneutics defines the rules used to search out the meaning of Scripture. Throughout church history, interpreters have approached biblical interp...

Matthew is the Gospel of the kingdom. So it is appropriate that he should open with a manifesto from the lips of the King Himself. The sermon on th...

Jeannine Brown, a seasoned teacher of biblical interpretation, believes that communication is at the heart of what happens when we open the Bible. ...

In the twentieth century, the doctrine of Scripture became a particular focus of intense criticism. Some of R. C. Sproul’s most significant writing...

SCM Studyguide: Biblical Hermeneutics offers entry-level undergraduates a framework for interpreting the Bible. The book goes beyond offering guida...

The SCM Studyguide: Biblical Hermenuetics offers entry-level undergraduates a framework for interpreting the Bible. The book goes beyond offering g...

This interdisciplinary book breaks new ground by systematically examining ways in which two of the most important works of late medieval English li...

Reading Scripture with the Church is the result of years of debate and discussion among four leading scholars of biblical interpretation. In this v...

Mark Gignilliat, a veteran teacher of the Old Testament, explores the theological instincts that are necessary for reading, understanding, and comm...

Today's evangelical community faces a multitude of questions about the creation of the cosmos and the beginning of human history and-quite naturall...

Ideal for pastors and professors, this book explains how to apply Scripture to daily life. It identifies four categories of application and shows h...

The Psalms forced Martin Luther to change how he read the Bible. In Psalms of the Faithful Brian German shows us Luther's reappraisal of the plain ...

With his characteristically engaging writing style that couples detailed exegesis with philosophical meditation, professor and author T.A. Perry in...

Big Greek Idea provides all the relevant information from the Greek text for preaching and teaching the New Testament. Each New Testament book is d...

An exhaustive study of Pauline Christology by noted Pauline scholar, Gordon Fee. The author provides a detailed analysis of the letters of Paul (in...

One of the trajectories coming out of Constantine Campbell's award-winning book Paul and Union with Christ is the significance of eschatology for t...

The Bible was the essence of virtually every aspect of the life of the early churches. The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Biblical Interpretati...

Opening Israel's Scriptures is a collection of thirty-six essays on the Hebrew Bible, from Genesis to Chronicles, which gives powerful insight into...

Opening Israel's Scriptures is a collection of thirty-six essays on the Hebrew Bible, from Genesis to Chronicles, which gives powerful insight into...

Greg Lanier Presents a Simple Method for Studying Old Testament Citations in the New Testament Many Bible readers have difficulty understanding the...

R. K. Harrison was one of the leading evangelical Old Testament scholars of the twentieth century. Well known for his Introduction to the Old Testa...

Since the unexpected popularity of Bart Ehrman's bestselling Misquoting Jesus, textual criticism has become a staple of Christian apologetics.Ehrma...

Naturally influenced by the interpretive framework of each succeeding era, each depiction of Moses is different from the next. Gerhard von Rad's cl...

We rarely think about the way languages work because communicating in our native tongue comes so naturally to us. The Bible was written in ancient ...

We read about Jesus and his work all over the pages of the four Gospels in the New Testament. But we especially read about Him putting things toget...

Matthew begins his Gospel with a threefold caption introducing Jesus as the Christ, the Son of David, and the Son of Abraham. Considerable attentio...

Does medieval hermeneutics have continuing relevance in an age dominated by the historical-critical method? Ian Christopher Levy asserts that it do...

The rise of modernity, especially the European Enlightenment and its aftermath, has negatively impacted the way we understand the nature and interp...

Interpreting Jesus brings together N. T. Wright's most important articles on Jesus and the Gospels over the last three decades. Here is a rich feas...

Interpreting Galatians addresses the key issues surrounding the exegesis of Galatians and the other Pauline Epistles, exploring how literary, histo...

Renowned biblical scholar Stanley Porter offers an accessible introduction to hermeneutics to help students and pastors better interpret and unders...

Many readers find exegeting a passage from the Old Testament to be a mysterious process. How should one begin? What methods should one use? Written...

Interpreting Paul brings together N. T. Wright's most important articles on Paul and his letters since the publication of his magisterial Paul and ...

This book addresses a topic of vital concern to the church: How does the ancient biblical text speak to us today? Michael Graves, an expert in a...

Scott Gibson and Matthew Kim, both experienced preachers and teachers, have brought together four preaching experts--Bryan Chapell, Kenneth Langley...

The Gospel of Matthew is pivotal in scholarly discussion on the hermeneutical use of the Old Testament in the New. In this publication Bitrus Sarma...