History of Furniture

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Francis Watson

Antiques & Collectibles

Gardners Books

A Concise History of India

Surveys the centuries-old history of the sub-continent, from the lost Indus civilization to the modern independent state of India

A concise history of India

History

Asia

Thames and Hudson

Text and Truth: Redefining Biblical Theology

Shows that there is an interdisciplinary way, drawing on the traditional disciplines of Old and New Testament studies and systematic theology, for the true interpretation of the Bible.

T. & T. Clark Publishers

This groundbreaking approach to the study of the fourfold gospel offers a challenging alternative to prevailing assumptions about the creation of the gospels and their portraits of Jesus. How and why does it matter that we have these four gospels? Why were they placed alongside one another as four parallel yet diverse retellings of the same story? Francis Watson, widely regarded as one of the foremost New Testament scholars of our time, explains that the four gospels were chosen to give a portrait of Jesus. He explores the significance of the fourfold gospel's plural form for those who constructed it and for later Christian communities, showing that in its plurality it bears definitive witness to what God has done in Jesus Christ. Watson focuses on reading the gospels as a group rather than in isolation and explains that the fourfold gospel is greater than, and other than, the sum of its individual parts. Interweaving historical, exegetical, and theological perspectives, this book is accessibly written for students and pastors but is also of interest to professors and scholars.

The Fourfold Gospel: A Theological Reading of the New Testament Portraits of Jesus

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

Baker Academic

The disciplines of biblical studies and systematic theology have lately been practiced in relative isolation from one another. Francis Watson argues that the separate development of Old and New Testament studies and systematic theology impoverishes all three disciplines and distorts the object of their study. / In the past, a “biblical theology” that took seriously the theological responsibilities of the biblical interpreter was criticized by some scholars as detrimental to the practice of both the exegetical and theological disciplines. But Watson argues for more theological involvement with exegesis and hermeneutics rather than less: biblical theology, he contends, must be practiced in an interdisciplinary approach that can draw freely on the resources and perspectives of the two exegetical disciplines and of systematic theology. / / The first part of the book examines particular themes in theological hermeneutics. Contemporary hermeneutical debates — such as the relationship of history writing and fiction, textual indeterminacy, and interpretative pluralism — are engaged from an explicitly theological point of view. The second part analyzes Christian theological use of the Old Testament. It advocates an approach to Old Testament interpretation in which the retrospective Christian rereading of Jewish scripture as preparing the way for the coming of Christ is once again taken seriously. / Text and Truth builds on Watson's previous book Text, Church and World: Biblical Interpretation in Theological Perspective (Eerdmans, 1994) in advocating an approach in which biblical interpretation seeks to contribute directly to the work of Christian theological construction. It is only through this interdisciplinary approach, Watson contends, that the Bible will be interpreted in a manner consistent with its status as the holy scripture of the Christian community.

Wm. B. Eerdmans-Lightning Source

In this new, completely rewritten edition of his major 1986 book, Francis Watson extends, updates, and clarifies his response to E.??P. Sanders??'s view of Paul, in order to point the way beyond the polarization of "new" and "old" perspectives on the apostle. 
The Paul who comes to light in these pages is agent and thinker, apostle and theologian. He is a highly contextual figure, yet his account of Christian identity continues to shape the church's life to this day. He is the founder of mainly Gentile, Christ-believing communities, separated from the synagogue; and yet he can see this distinctive existence as an authentic response to Jewish scripture and tradition, as fulfilled in Christ. He is a many-sided figure, transcending all our attempts to categorize him or to co-opt him for our own favored causes.

Paul, Judaism, and the Gentiles: Beyond the New Perspective

Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.

The three Garima Gospels are the earliest surviving Ethiopian gospel books. They provide glimpses of lost late antique luxury gospel books and art of the fifth to seventh centuries, in the Aksumite kingdom of Ethiopia as well as in the Christian East. As this work shows, their artwork is closely related to Syriac, Armenian, Greek, and Georgian gospel books and to the art of late antique (Coptic) Egypt, Nubia, and Himyar (Yemen). Like most gospel manuscripts, the Garima Gospels contain ornately decorated canon tables which function as concordances of the different versions of the same material in the gospels. Analysis of these tables of numbered parallel passages, devised by Eusebius of Caesarea, contributes significantly to our understanding of the early development of the canonical four gospel collection. The origins and meanings of the decorated frames, portraits of the evangelists, Alexandrian circular pavilion, and unique image of the Jerusalem Temple are elucidated. The Garima texts and decoration demonstrate how a distinctive Christian culture developed in Aksumite Ethiopia, while also belonging to the mainstream late antique Mediterranean world. Lavishly illustrated in colour, this volume presents all of the Garima illuminated pages for the first time and extensive comparative material. It will be an essential resource for those studying late antique art and history, Ethiopia, eastern Christianity, New Testament textual criticism, and illuminated books.

The Garima Gospels: Early Illuminated Gospel Books from Ethiopia

Arts & Photography

Judith S McKenzie

History & Criticism

Manar al-Athar

Still in many ways the most important biographical study in English of the great general of the Thirty Years War, tracing his life from indigent nobleman through glory and prestige, to his tragic assassination. The book provides an exhaustive account of the Thirty Years War, its background, the roles of such figures as Duke Maximilian, Tilly, Gustavus Adolphus, Richelieu, and Waldstein, the battles, the objectives, the politics involved, and the events after Wallenstein's death. Reprint of the 1938 publication. 2006: 460 pages. Softcover. Illustrations, fold-out maps. Index. 1 OVERSIZE MAP ON CD. (Scholar's Bookshelf)

Wallenstein; Soldier Under Saturn

Military

Scholar's Bookshelf

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