A Reformation Reader: Primary Texts with Introductions, Second Edition

by Denis R. Janz

Although deeply political, economic, and social, the European Reformations of the sixteenth century were at heart religious disputes over core Christian theological issues. Denis Janz's A Reformation Reader is unabashed in its generous selection of key theological and related texts from five distinct Reformation sites. Along with plenty on the late-medieval background, the Lutheran, Calvinist, Radical, English, and Catholic Reformations are all well-represented here.

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Palestine in the Time of Jesus: Social Structures and Social Contexts, Second Edition

by K. C. Hanson, Douglas E. Oakman

Hanson and Oakman's award-winning and illuminating volume has become a widely used and cited introduction to the social context of Jesus and the early Jesus movement. This second edition updates all the discussions in light of more recent scholarship, improves clarity and readability of diagrams and maps, provides additional diagrams and images to enhance the book for student use, and includes new classroom resources, for professors and students, on a Companion Web site.

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The Arrogance of Nations: Reading Romans in the Shadow of Empire

by Neil Elliott

Elliott offers a fresh and surprising reinterpretation of Paul's letter to the Romans in the context of Roman imperial ideology, bringing to the text the latest insights from classical studies, rhetorical criticism, postcolonial criticism, and people's history.

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Occupied with Nonviolence: A Palestinian Woman Speaks

by Jean Zaru; Edited by Diana L. Eck, Marla Schrade

Zaru vividly paints the complex realities faced by all parties in Palestine Ñ Jews and Muslims and Christians, Israelis and Palestinians, women and men. Yet even as Zaru eloquently names the common misunderstandings of the history, present situation, and current policies of the parties there, she vividly articulates an alternative: a religiously motivated nonviolent path to peace and justice in the world's most troubled region.

A Short Introduction to the Hebrew Bible by John J. Collin

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