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Demonstrates the importance of social location and cultural presuppositions in the interpretation of cultic texts and acts.

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This group of feminist readings of parables about women and their work aims to fill a gap in the scholarly literature on parables. It brings to life vignettes from ancient Mediterranean women's lives, covering the place of women in the ministry of Jesus, the early church and Christian theology.

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A comparison of the message of Acts transmitted by Codez Bezae with that of the Alexandrian text, represented by Codex Vaticanus. For each section of Acts, this work provides a translation of the Bezan and Alexandrian manuscripts, followed by a critical apparatus and, a commentary that explores the differences in the message of the two texts.

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The third volume in the four-volume commentary on the "Book of Acts", this work presents a fresh look at the text of "Codex Bezae" and compares its message with that of the more familiar Alexandrian text of which Codex Vaticanus is taken as a representative.

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This work presents a fresh look at the text of Codex Bezae and compares its message with that of the more familiar Alexandrian text of which Codex Vaticanus is taken as a representative.

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This book considers Paul's life based upon Scripture and other historical sources, and also discusses his theology and relevance for today. A bibliography and index are included.

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Margaret Barker traces the veneration of the Mother of the Lord back to the Old Testament and a female deity in the first Jewish temple.

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Margaret Barker traces the veneration of the Mother of the Lord back to the Old Testament and a female deity in the first Jewish temple.

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Argues that the author of the Gospel of Matthew structures his work as a Bios or biography of Jesus, so as to encapsulate, in narrative form, the essence of his theological understanding of God's Basileia (sovereign rule), as proclaimed and taught in the teaching and healing mission of Jesus.

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Provides a translation of the early "Sayings Gospel" known as "Q". This book will guide people through their reading of the texts themselves so that readers will be able to judge the validity of other scholars' reconstructions. The author provides a commentary on each of the sayings.

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Examines the birth and development of early Christianity up to the end of the second century CE and places early Christianity in its social, cultural, political and economic context. This book provides an English translation of the Gospel of Thomas, which includes the original 'kernel' of the Gospel and the sayings.

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Provides an English translation of the entire "Gospel of Thomas", which includes the original 'kernel' of the Gospel and all the sayings. This book also includes translations to the parallels of the Gospel.

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It has long been recognized that the Greek of the Lukan infancy narrative (chapters 12) displays numerous Semitic features.

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Conversion is a main theological theme in the Lukan corpus. Since much attention has been paid to the issue in Acts, this work shows how the evangelist also conveys his theological emphasis on conversion in his gospel through material either unique to it or that Luke has edited to this purpose.

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For over one hundred years, the International Critical Commentary series has held a special place among works on the Bible. It has sought to bring together all the relevant aids to exegesis linguistic and textual no less than archaeological, historical, literary and theologicalwith a level of comprehension and quality of scholarship unmatched by any other series.

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"This book scrutinizes the Ephesians-as-Pauline development thesis of modern scholarship, arguing instead that Ephesians is well-positioned to function as the substance of the corpus Paulinum"--