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Isaiah 59 portrays a deity in armour warring against rebellious human foes. In this historical investigation, Yoder Neufeld maps the transformation of an ancient tradition into a creative new reading in which God's people put on God's armour and go to battle against God's heavenly foes, as in Ephesians 6. The Pauline recasting of the Isaianic motif, argues the author, is a bracing one.

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Re-examines the presentation, theology, and origins of Christian martyrdom up to the beginning of the Decian persecutions. However, this project argues that, far from being a deviant strand of early Christianity, radical martyrdom was a significant, and widely held idealized form of Christ-devotion in the late first to early third centuries.

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These essays explore whether Acts interacted with or resisted ancient norms and values concerning manliness and imperial loyalty.

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"Steve Walton collects several of his key essays into an expansive and coherent perspective, focusing on the theological perspective of Acts while considering the book's nature and focus, its portrait of the early Christian communities and their mission in the culturally varied first-century world, and its major theological themes"--

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A 'state of the art' view of the study of Acts from a variety of perspectives and approaches. Featuring contributions from internationally respected scholars.

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Provides a view of study of "Acts" from a variety of perspectives and approaches. This book features contributions that examine "Acts" from many different angles including historical, theological, socio-economic, literary, narrative, and exegetical approaches.

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Interprets the dreams in the "Gospel of Matthew" in the context of the social and literary character of dreams in the Greco-Roman world. This book describes the social function of dreams, noting that dreams constituted one form of divination in the ancient world, and looks at the theories and classification of dreams in the ancient world.

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Examines how Ephesians engages in social entrepreneurship (the deliberate shaping of emerging Christian Identity through provision of ideological and social paradigms for the fledgling Christian community). This book shows how the writer engages in a self-enhancing discourse that reinforces basic components of communality.

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Incorporates essays examining the impact of methodological advances in Testament studies of the letters of James, 1 and 2 Peter and Jude. This title includes rhetorical, social-scientific, socio-rhetorical, ideological and hermeneutical methods, as they contribute to understanding First Peter and its social context.

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The book provides exegetical analyses of key topics in 1 Peter and Hebrews while keeping the authors' Majority World contexts at the forefront.

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Revision of author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Drew University, 2015 under title: Dis/locating diaspora: reading Hebrews and First Peter with the African American Great Migration.

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Examines the impact of the methodological developments in New Testament studies to the letter of James. This work contains the description of the methodological approach; the application of the methodological approach to James; and, a conclusion identifying how the methodological approach contributes to an understanding of the letter.

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Includes essays, which examine the impact of methodological developments in New Testament studies to "Jude", including, for example, rhetorical, social-scientific, socio-rhetorical, ideological and hermeneutical methods, as they contribute to understanding this letter and its social context.

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These essays in honour of William S. Campbell, examine Paul's theologizing, and the way it influenced Christian identity within the context of Roman Empire. >

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