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UK July 2026 US July 2026
232 Pages
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Catholic Environmentalism From Stewardship to Love in Laudato Si’
Mark E Graham
Contemporary Catholic environmentalism is at a crossroads, both theologically and politically While the first half of the 20th century saw only fleeting references to environmental concerns in papal encyclicals, Pope John Paul II’s 1990 New Year ’s Day address, later titled The Ecological Crisis, marked a pivotal shift His warnings about the planet’s ecological challenges galvanized the Catholic theological community, prompting numerous regional bishops’ statements that highlighted pressing environmental issues By the mid-1990s, Catholic environmentalism had evolved into a distinct theological discourse and a burgeoning political movement, attracting support from both church hierarchy and lay Catholics worldwide
Despite Pope John Paul II’s efforts to root Catholic environmental thought in the stewardship paradigm, his success in securing theological consensus was limited With the publication of Laudato Si in 2015, Pope Francis ushered in a new era of Catholic environmentalism His encyclical reaffirmed the theological and moral urgency of ecological issues while challenging humanity’s unchecked technological optimism and deep-seated anthropocentrism At the heart of his vision is the idea that all creation manifests divine love, calling Catholics to embrace a theocentric environmental ethic This book builds upon Laudato Si, offering a fresh theological framework that moves beyond stewardship toward a more expansive, love-centered approach to creation care
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UK September 2026
224 Pages
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Doing Theology in Plural Contexts
Robyn Horner, Australian Catholic University, Australia & Teresa Brown, Australian Catholic University, Australia
Catholic education is in crisis In many contexts, it is simply no longer possible to provide the same education in faith as envisaged in the past Faced with the widespread and radical forgetting of Christian tradition, this work models a fresh theological practice for teachers: recontextualisation This is process opens up the meaning of texts by engaging it within a new context, as in line with Pope Francis’ repeated calls for a dialogical theology
Horner and Brown bring this practice, most familiarly used in literary studies, sharply into the study of Christian theology In doing so, they highlight how recontextualisation enabled beliefs, symbols and practices to speak anew to successive generations
Engaging with seven challenging biblical accounts, the book shows how these texts can open onto significant issues in contemporary culture and the Church It begins with an analysis of recontextualisation and the conceptual issues it provokes for understanding revelation and tradition The authors then set out a process for undertaking theological recontextualisation: listening to and praying with a biblical text; engaging in critical dialogue; asking how the text is speaking to individuals and communities today and, finally, recording the recontextualisation and evaluating the process and results
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UK September 2026 • US September 2026
384 Pages
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Trans Life and the Catholic Church Today
Edited
by Nicolete Burbach, The London Jesuit Centre, UK & Lisa Sowle Cahill, Boston College, USA
While transgender and non-binary identities are increasingly visible, too many Christians have either maintained a fearful silence, or have attacked ‘transgenderism’ as a threat to Christian faith and practice More serious theological reflection is needed, not least of all in the Roman Catholic tradition Moreover, the Catholic context presents particular challenges that are relevant beyond the Catholic world, due to the Church’s widespread involvement in healthcare provision and education, and its traditions of thought around these activities
This volume considers the various questions to do with trans people in the life of the Church from an interdisciplinary, Catholic, ecumenical perspective, reaching out to academics, clergy and educated lay readers It brings together perspectives from a variety of disciplines to engage with these issues; and includes a number of trans contributors, making their voices present in these discussions, which are about them, but from which they are often excluded
The first three chapters illustrate the development of Catholic thinking on transgender issues in recent decades The second section of the book considers transgender identity from multiple perspectives: canon legal; legal; sociological, clinical; bioethical; and educational The last two chapters of the second section shift the focus in the direction of theology and pastoral practice, themes that are explored by emerging theological scholars in the third section of the book
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296 Pages
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Divine Wisdom in the Digital Age
Sergius Bulgakov's Sophiology and Its Relevance to AI, Cybernetics, and Life-Extension Technologies
Walter N Sisto
What role, if any, should AI technologies have in the church and to what end?
In this book, Walter Sisto contends that the sophiological perspective of Father Sergius Bulgakov (1871-1994) lays a path for the church during the rapid rise of artificial intelligence What distinguishes Bulgakov’s theology is not merely his Russian Orthodox sophiological framework, but his prophetic vision for the Church’s active engagement with modernity a vision this book seeks to extend Building upon Bulgakov’s theological thought primarily written during his Paris period, Sisto articulates an Eastern Christian response to cybernetic, life extension, and AI technologies that speaks not only to Eastern Catholics and Orthodox believers, but to all Christians confronting ethical challenges posed by technologies that threaten to redefine human identity and humanity s unique role within creation
UK April 2026 • US April 2026
330 Pages
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T&T Clark Systematic Pentecostal and Charismatic Theology
UK August 2026
• US August 2026
264 Pages
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Charles Fletcher Dole, Liberal Theology, and Reform
A Life Well Lived
Paul
T Burlin
This book offers a historical look at the life and theology of Charles Fletcher Dole.
Dole was born into what he described as an “ultra-orthodox” religious family He was unable to accept the severe, quasiCalvinist theology of his relatives, and when he attended Harvard College, he was influenced by the intellectual currents set in motion by Darwinism He then tacked off to the radical wing of Unitarian theology It was incumbent on the faithful of any religious tradition to live in ways that helped further the divine plan This moral imperative prompted Dole, as the long-term minister in the Unitarian Church to advocate for reforms not unlike those of his parents and other relatives, including temperance, women’s suffrage, improved race relations, anti-imperialism and pacifism This historical recovery and interpretation of Dole argues that while Dole’s radical theology was the source of his civic engagement, his iteration of the social gospel was to some extent also shaped and delimited by the socio-economic position he occupied
Pentecostal Liturgical Theology
On the Altar, Willed to Pentecost
Monte Lee Rice, Pastor and Theological Educator, Singapore
This book explores how Pentecostal meaning-full worship frees people into a cosmic liturgy that wills humanity to Pentecost A liturgical turn has marked recent Pentecostal studies, producing a growing body of liturgical theologies This cutting edge work analyses four theologians at its forefront: Tanya Riches, Daniela Augustine, Chris E W Green, and Wolfgang Vondey It does so through a "liturgy as primary theology" approach, which defines liturgy as "the church at prayer” Here, Rice shows how Pentecostal experience clarifies liturgy as the church at prayer on the altar
Drawing from critical discourse analysis, continental philosophy, and Aristotelian wisdom, this incisive book proceeds by narrating a healing soteriology that makes humanity willed to the common good signified by Pentecost The foremost pathway this book presents is its theology of Pentecostal meaning-full worship Through the lens of liturgy as a cosmic gift economy, Rice shows how Pentecostal meaning-full worship frees people into a cosmic liturgy that wills humanity to Pentecost Through engaging Ricoeurean/Aristotelian narrative theory, this eye-opening work thus climaxes with a briefly constructed Pentecostal theology of the altar It shows how Pentecostal meaning-full worship fosters moral formation as worshippers place themselves on the altar of sacrifice, becoming priestly partners with God; fuelling the gift economy that flourishes his household, till all creation be willed to Pentecost
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200 Pages
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T&T Clark Studies in Historical Theology
UK July 2026 • US July 2026
264 Pages
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T&T Clark Explorations in Reformed Theology
UK July 2026 • US July 2026
208 Pages
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Modern Protestant Theology
Introducing the Classics
Wesley Vander Lugt, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, USA
This essential resource provides introductions to fifteen classics of 19th and 20th-century Protestant theology, ranging from Schleiermacher ’s The Christian Faith to Dorothy Sayers’s The Mind of the Maker to Karl Barth's Church Dogmatics
Each chapter gives a sketch of the author's life, traces the main themes of their classic work, and indicates the impact of each theologian and their approach By including known works and introducing new contributions into the story, Vander Lugt expands standard notions of the theological canon and provides a refreshing retelling of how Protestant theology has developed over the last two hundred years
Students of theology and Christian leaders will find this an accessible introduction to a rich and dense theological world
The Reformation of the Literal Prophecy and the Senses of Scripture in Early Modern Europe
Erik Lundeen, Church of Gurnee, USA
What does it mean to read the Bible 'literally'? Recent debates on the Protestant reformers have focused on whether they were stridently literal interpreters or maintained a place for allegorical readings However, in this nuanced book, Lundeen argues that the question of what in fact constituted the Bible’s literal sense was also a key question in early modern debates
To make this case, Lundeen comparatively analyzes Reformation-era commentaries on the prophet Isaiah He further highlights the little-known but influential works of the Basel reformer Johannes Oecolampadius, who was the first Christian to publish commentaries on most of the biblical prophets in the sixteenth century
By placing Oecolampadius in conversation with a host of his better-known Christian and Jewish predecessors and contemporaries, this book reframes a central aspect of Reformation-era biblical exegesis, while also providing a constructive resource for those who seek to read the Bible’s ancient prophets as Christian scripture today
John Webster and Prayer
Living by Divine Generosity
Matthew Mason, Pastors' Academy, UK
Mason carefully develops a theology of prayer that builds on the dogmatic and moral theology of one of the most significant Reformed theologians of the past 50 years: John Webster
Ambitious in scope and exacting in analysis, this volume provides a creative and constructive exploration of the theology of prayer that grows out of Webster ’s theology and ethics when considered as a whole Mason offers close theological readings of Webster ’s works against the backdrop of the development of his thought and his major sources in the Christian tradition In so doing, he roots a dogmatics of prayer in various theological loci that are central to the theology of prayer and Webster ’s own writings
This book pays careful attention to the doctrines of God, creation and providence, and sin and salvation, as well as to Webster ’s sophisticated moral theology of creaturely agency Central insights from Webster – in conversation with Aquinas, Barth, Calvin and Reformed scholastic sources – are brought to bear on the major components of a theology of prayer In doing so, Mason develops a rich and detailed account of the central act of the Christian life in a way that displays the resourcefulness of Webster ’s theology and ethics
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Barbie
Theology, Religion, and Pop Culture
UK July 2026 • US July 2026
208 Pages • 13 bw illus
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and the Bible Playing with Pop Culture, Gender, and Theology
Edited by Christopher B Hays, Fuller Theological Seminary, USA & Meghan R Henning
This edited collection invites fresh readings of play and storytelling in the Barbie movie (2023) through the lens of the Bible and theology
For Christopher B Hays, Meghan R Henning, and their contributors, the Barbie movie is more than pink and mojo dojo casa houses; they argue that the film offers a nuanced reflection of Biblical and theological ideas The chapters herein analyze the cultural impact of Barbie on its own terms, critically engaging its explicit attempts to offer social critiques of capitalism, patriarchy, ableism, and racism From exploring Ruth Handler as God, Barbie as both Jesus and a jezebel, and historical Judean “doll-like” figurines, this volume’s interdisciplinary interlocutors identify how Barbie depicts the stories we tell about ourselves, society, and God
Theology, Religion, and Pop Culture
UK August 2026 • US August 2026
300 Pages
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Theology, Religion, and Dungeons & Dragons Explorations of the Sacred through Fantasy Worlds
Edited
by Scott Donahue-Martens & Brandon
Simonson
On its 50th anniversary, the tabletop role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) has found renewed popularity and a generally positive representation in popular culture Reflecting on these fifty years of development and history, and looking forward to D&D’s bright future, Theology, Religion, and Dungeons & Dragons explores the intersection of D&D with the academic disciplines of Theology and Religious Studies From Tolkien’s notion of sub-creation to pedagogical ponderings on hell, readers will uncover deeply theological and religious aspects of Dungeons & Dragons in this volume Unlike some during the so-called Satanic Panic, the authors of this volume embrace D&D as spiritually and theologically formative Discussions on alignment and campaign settings like Dark Sun and Ravenloft foreground notions of interrelating and wellbeing, and reflections on communal conceptions of canon and spiritual formation chart paths forward by understanding historical realities This volume responds to growing interest in the academic study of tabletop role-playing games in general and D&D in specific
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Theology, Religion, and Pop Culture
UK July 2026 US July 2026
304 Pages • 10 tables
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Ted Lasso and Pastoral Theology
Edited by Daniel J Cameron
This edited collection discusses the television series Ted Lasso (2020present) through a religious and theological lens
Furthering conversations on the beloved Ted Lasso, Daniel J Cameron and his collaborators locate the underlying theology in “BELIEVE” across its three current seasons Written from a theologically Christian standpoint, this collection locates the eponymous Ted Lasso as a spiritual guide, extending the show’s relevance beyond popular culture and into communities of faith Tackling subjects such as healthy masculinities, navigating trauma, and everyday peacemaking, the authors offer more than simply a discussion of a tv series, but rather create space for reflection and spiritual growth mediated through Ted Lasso Building on the series’ models of discipleship, spiritual guidance, and community-building, the essays herein juxtapose their authors’ personal journeys with those of characters from the show, exploring how to build better systems of spiritual support “the Lasso Way ” Through this volume, Cameron and his collaborators invite you to become one of the Diamond Dogs, modeling the transformative power of love one relationship at a time
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Theology, Religion, and Pop Culture
UK May 2026 US May 2026
240 Pages • 3 bw illus
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The Spirit and the Sketch Pneumatological Reflections on Visual Art
Edited by Chris E W Green & Steven Félix- Jäger
This book explores how the Spirit is represented in visual art, but also how the Spirit is at work in and through visual art, in all its forms
The volume editors and contributors engage visual art from the perspective of pneumatology to give theologies of culture fruitful new perspectives that begin with the Spirit rather than other common theological contact points The book explores the Spirit’s role in art-making, looks at how the Spirit engages culture through the arts, and shows how the church has historically engaged the Spirit through visual art Contributors ask how Christian convictions about and experiences of the Spirit might shape the way one thinks about visual art
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T&T Clark Studies in Systematic Theology
UK September 2026 • US September 2026
168 Pages
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Reconceiving Theology after the Anthropological Turn
The Doctrine of God in Friedrich Schleiermacher ’s The Christian Faith Logan Hoffman, Indiana Wesleyan University, USA
Logan R Hoffman deftly crafts a reconstruction and evaluation of the Doctrine of God in Friedrich Schleiermacher ’s primary theological work: The Christian Faith This book identifies the new-found limitations to theological speech that were contemporary in Schleiermacher ’s day before offering a distinctive interpretation of Schleiermacher ’s solution for these limitations
This work reconstructs what Schleiermacher had to say about the divine being, a subject seldom treated in book-length detail By looking closely at the theological method employed (and offering a distinctive interpretation of Schleiermacher s method among Anglophone scholars), and then tracing that method through the major sections of The Christian Faith, the book brings clarity to what exactly Schleiermacher could justifiably say about God as given in the Feeling of Absolute Dependence
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T&T Clark Studies in Systematic Theology
UK September 2026 US September 2026
228 Pages
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The Theology of Conversion
Conceiving the Christian Life With and Beyond Karl Barth Tom Dove, University of Aberdeen
Reclaims the theology of Christian conversion by integrating Karl Barth’s doctrine of conversion within a constructive theological framework
This book delivers a doctrinally rich account of Christian conversion that challenges reductive, experience-based approaches Drawing from Scripture and Barth’s Church Dogmatics, Tom Dove introduces a fourfold framework that defines conversion as inseparably connected to Christ’s person and work, purposive, a divine event, and integrated with the Christian life
He develops this framework through engaging with Barth’s doctrines of election, reconciliation, calling, baptism with the Holy Spirit, and creation Subsequently, Dove constructively extends Barth’s theology to show how the Holy Spirit’s activity across Christ’s history provides the basis for connecting conversion and the Christian life
By magnifying the work of Christ and the Spirit, this study offers a holistic theological vision that integrates conversion with the reality of Christian existence
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Religion in the Modern World
UK July 2026 • US July 2026
192 Pages
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The Idolatry of Money and Human Rights
A Theological Critique of the New Myth of Capitalism
Jung Mo Sung
A powerful theological critique of neoliberalism and contemporary capitalism and its corrosive effects on human dignity and social justice Writing from Latin America's liberationist tradition and his position as a theologian in Brazil, Sung argues that neoliberal economics has not only created unprecedented inequality, but also birthed a new cultural myth: that the market is sacred Drawing on biblical faith, Catholic social teaching, and real-world examples from around the globe, and providing lucid descriptions of contributions from key economists and liberation theologians, he challenges the modern separation between faith and economics, calling instead for a renewed commitment to human rights and the Church’s option for the poor Sung’s central claim is provocative and urgent: the worship of money in today’s world is a form of idolatry that contradicts both the gospel and reason The Church must reject neutrality, he writes, and speak prophetically on behalf of the excluded Originally published in Portuguese, this English translation brings to a wider audience a passionate, accessible, and intellectually rich argument that faith and reason demand action in the face of systemic injustice
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Emerging Perspectives in Pastoral Theology and Care
UK June 2026 US June 2026
218 Pages
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Children, Theology, and Bioethics Beyond Autonomy
Jessica Bratt Carle
This book explores the full humanity of children, inviting greater recognition of their place in the moral landscape of healthcare
Children remain at the periphery when bioethics envisions autonomous adults as normative human beings This book engages in interdisciplinary dialogue, weaving together bioethics, childhood studies, and pastoral theology, with illustrative clinical vignettes from the author's experience as a pediatric chaplain and clinical ethicist Theological insights into vulnerability, dependence, and agency summon appreciation for the experiences of pediatric patients and reveal what it means to be human at every age
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The Library of New Testament Studies
UK August 2026 • US August 2026
272 Pages
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The Library of New Testament Studies
UK September 2026 • US September 2026
256 Pages
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The Library of New Testament Studies
UK August 2026 • US August 2026
288 Pages
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Children's Lives and Deaths in 1 Thessalonians Impacts on Interpreting Context and Text
David E Bell
This volume offers new insights into 1 Thessalonians by demonstrating how children and childhood are a key part of its social setting. Around one third of this first-century Macedonian society and community would be under 15 years old: a segment easily ignored by modern scholarship but essential to interpreting the social context and so Paul’s letter itself Based on new research, David E Bell reveals how Paul transforms common ideas about early death in his response to the Thessalonian community’s bereavement, pointing to fresh explanations for his unexpected word choices, metaphors, strategies and structural elements throughout the letter
Bell introduces the reader to a rich set of contemporary evidence, especially from epitaphs and documentary papyri; drawing on, and adding to, recent scholarship on ancient childhoods He suggests that while patterns of ‘ordinary experience placed children at the heart of everyday thinking and speaking about death and bereavement; young lives are also seen to be significant for other themes in 1 Thessalonians: sexual exploitation, work and community relationships, collective identity as siblings and an ekklesia Bell places detailed discussion of the text alongside careful attention to children and childhood even where they are not explicitly mentioned, and ultimately, argues that children’s presence is not a side issue in 1 Thessalonians but integral to interpreting the whole
Glory and Glorification in the Gospel of John Jesus’ Glory Given to His Disciples
Johnson Pang, Community Christian Alliance Church, USA
Johnson Pang analyses John 17:20–23 in order to define glory and explain how its granting enables unity and witness Acknowledging that the glory given by Jesus to the disciples has received little attention in Johannine scholarship, Pang also examines and synthesizes how the Fourth Gospel uniquely characterizes the life and death of Jesus with the language of glory and glorification, in order to interpret John 17:22 in light of the entire gospel
Pang examines how John first introduces and defines Jesus’s doxa in the prologue to the gospel, providing a hermeneutical lens to interpret further occurrences of doxa in the ensuing narrative He then surveys the occurrences of doxa in Jesus's public ministry and traces how the Fourth Gospel presents and develops Jesus's doxa in the narrative Pang also examines the use of the verb doxazo and argues that John uses the the term largely (but not exclusively) to refer to Jesus' death and resurrection, and that John presents this as glory-revealing in itself, rather than simply as a waypoint towards glory Pang further examines the passages connecting discipleship with glorification, and finally proposes a specific definition of doxa given to the disciples in John 17:22; arguing that this granting of glory is what enables their unity and mission, ontologically and functionally, and reinforces the disciples’ social identity as a group vis-à-vis the world
Satan’s Fall and God’s Redemption Story in the Gospel of Luke Chakrita M Saulina, Seattle Pacific University/Seattle Pacific Seminary, USA
Chakrita M Saulina offers an extensive examination of Luke’s treatment of evil spirits and how they are related to many of Luke’s theological agendas, such as his Christology, soteriology, and eschatology Saulina offers a close reading of the Gospel within a broader view of narrative criticism, implementing a fresh method of character reconstruction to find the overall characterization and the roles of evil spirits in the Gospel
Saulina’s examination utilizes micro- and macroanalysis; the former employed to assesses each episode in Luke’s Gospel in which evil spirits emerge in three discrete phases of Jesus’ ministry the Galilean ministry, the travel narrative, and Jesus’ passion narrative and the latter used to analyse the role(s) of evil spirits vis-à-vis the elements of Luke’s overall plot Saulina demonstrates how Satan and his allies’ defeats mentioned in the Gospel is part of God’s redemptive story that has begun in Christ, and stresses that the present manifestation of the Kingdom of God is much more significant that scholars have previously argued
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Texts @ Contexts
UK September 2026
160 Pages
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The Reception of Jesus in the First Three Centuries
UK July 2026 • US July 2026
200 Pages
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UK April 2026 • US April 2026
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John, Texts @ Contexts
Edited by Nicole Wilkinson, Cape May Presbyterian Church, NJ, USA & Leticia A Guardiola-Sáenz, Seattle University, USA
The chapters in this volume present a wide-ranging conversation on the gospel of John With postcolonial readings from Asia and Africa, readings that touch on race from very different and yet very American perspectives, and feminist readings informed by Mexico, Turkey, and Botswana; these readings reflect a wide range of experiences and understandings of John’s gospel Each essay grounds its analysis both in the scholarly conversation and in the writer ’s own community and origins
Chapters include issues such as race, migration, honor, and questions around motherhood and reproduction The list of distinguished contributors is extremely diverse, featuring voices from all continents, in particular the work of African scholars
The
Staurogram
Writing a Picture of the Crucified Christ
Dieter T Roth, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Germany
Dieter T Roth presents an extensive study of the so-called “staurogram,” argued to be the earliest visual depiction of the crucifixion of Christ Roth examines the origins of this depiction in early New Testament manuscripts as a ligature or compendium of two letters in certain abbreviations of the words “cross” (stauros in Greek) or “crucify” (stauroo in Greek) in which the Greek letter rho is superimposed upon the Greek letter tau In this work, the staurogram, ultimately understood to be a simple yet powerful depiction of Jesus crucified, is analyzed and located within the framework of ancient abbreviations, the nomina sacra, and the developing Christian visual culture in order to offer, for the first time, a wide-ranging presentation of this symbol in early Christianity From the symbol’s origins within words in some of our earliest, extant New Testament manuscripts to its use as a free-standing Christogram, this volume provides important insight into how Christians, beginning with the staurogram, depicted visually their faith in a crucified Christ
The Book of Revelation and the Visual Culture of Asia Minor A Concurrence of Images
Andrew R Guffey
In this book, Andrew R Guffey argues that part of the confusion surrounding the book of Revelation stems from the fact it was first and foremost a work to be “seen,” but that few interpreters address the visuality of the book
Guffey describes a connection between rhetorical discussions of ekphrasis, visual culture, and John’s images a “concurrence of images” using theory and thick historical description His analysis situates the text and its rhetorical performativity in the context of ancient visual and rhetorical culture, arguing that Revelation is not merely a work of literary craft, but also of visual culture
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The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies
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The Library of Second Temple Studies
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Divine Masculinity in the Book of Samuel How Yhwh Models the Man
Barbara Thiede
Barbara Thiede presents an exploration of Yhwh as a complex character who models biblical masculinity by forming intimate relationships with his people Israel in the service of establishing his power and authority. Divine Masculinity in the Books of Samuel reveals that the Israelite deity’s relationships with Israel, the prophet Samuel, King Saul, and King David feature a wide-ranging emotional palette Yhwh’s intense bonds with his men produce shifting and unstable male alliances and networks, which are homoerotic and often triangular As Israel’s über-man, his character demonstrates that biblical masculinity is assertive, forceful, jealous, vulnerable, and controlling
Thiede illustrates how emotion is made to serve divine agenda and divine might is established and maintained through emotions and emotional display in the Books of Samuel Yhwh is womanless, but the men he chooses to serve him may be brought to the height of ecstasy, emotionally abused, and sexually humiliated The book demonstrates that Yhwh’s emotional and sexual life revolves around his relationships with other male characters, exposing the uncompromising hegemonic masculinity that undergirds the biblical world
The Figure of the Widow in the Hebrew Bible
Christie Gilfeather
Christie Gilfeather explores the role of the widow in the Hebrew Bible, examining the appearance and significance of widowhood in numerous biblical texts, from Job and Deuteronomy to Leviticus and Lamentations. Gilfeather argues that the patterns found in contemporary ethnographic accounts of the lives of widows have significant parallels with biblical texts; the widow is often found on the periphery of narratives which centre on powerful men, and thus their contribution has often been overlooked, making it possible for novel questions to be asked about the texts at hand With a combination of detailed exegesis and interdisciplinary investigation, Gilfeather examines biblical widowhood in a greater degree of detail than has ever been achieved before
Gilfeather first discusses themes which the reader already associates with the widow, primarily poverty and social justice Focusing on texts from Deuteronomy, Job and 1-2 Kings, she addresses issues including food poverty, advocacy and inheritance; and also explores the way in which the widow functions as a tool in books such as Job, utilised by the protagonist as a reference point for their own moral standing Gilfeather then builds on the more unexpected findings of her research, particularly sexuality, and analyses how the widow’s sexual past was understood in priest marriage laws, Ruth and Genesis 38 She finally discusses widowhood’s association with death, in particular its use as a metaphor in Lamentations and the widow's role as a public mourner
Divinised Humans in Ancient Judaism
Daniel Lam
Exploring the fluidity of divine–human boundaries in ancient Judaism, Daniel Lam challenges the assumption of a rigid divide between God and humanity Drawing on prototype theory and texts from across millennia of Jewish and Christian literature, Lam argues that divinity was conceived as a graded category rather than an absolute state, suggesting that figures such as Adam, Enoch, Moses, Elijah, and Jesus were imagined as crossing the divine threshold through immortality, metamorphosis, and exaltation By situating these traditions within their wider Mediterranean context, Lam reframes debates on monotheism, deification, and early Christology
Lam engages deeply with primary sources, including Genesis and Psalms, Wisdom of Solomon, and the Life of Adam and Eve; Enochic writings such as the Book of the Watchers and Book of Parables; and New Testament passages like Philippians 2 and Hebrews 1 In addition, he examines lesser-known materials such as the Testament of Abraham, Qumran fragments, and 2 Enoch, highlighting motifs of angelomorphism, luminous transformation, and enthronement These case studies illuminate how ancient authors negotiated divine identity and challenge the notion that divinisation was exclusively a “pagan” concept, offering a fresh methodological framework for understanding divinity as a fluid and multivalent phenomenon
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Coniectanea Biblica
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Human-ness and God-ness in Biblical and Classical Culture
That One Seems to Me a Little Less than a God
Edited by Blaženka Scheuer & Ola Wikander
This volume explores the poetic and philosophical boundaries between humanity and divinity across the Hebrew Bible, Graeco-Roman literature, and early Christian thought Inspired by Psalm 8 and the verses of Sappho and Catullus, the title evokes the ancient tension between being human and “almost divine”
Essays by leading scholars examine prophetic transmission, divine legitimization of power, asceticism, animal symbolism, and mystical emptiness tracing how ancient cultures conceptualized the divine-human interface From Mesopotamian treaties and biblical naming to Latin hymnody and Indian mysticism, the volume traverses cultural and ontological boundaries
Dedicated to Sten Hidal, whose pioneering work bridged Hebrew and Classical traditions, this collection honors his legacy by continuing the inquiry into what it means to be “a little less than a god”
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Scriptural Traces
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Babel and Bible
The Impact of Mesopotamia on Biblical Studies 1870–1924
Rannfrid I Lasine Thelle
A compelling exploration of how Mesopotamian discoveries reshaped biblical scholarship, and why their connection to the Bible made them matter From the first public reading of the Babylonian flood story in 1872 to the controversies sparked by Delitzsch’s Babel–Bible lectures, Lasine Thelle traces the formative encounters between Assyriology and biblical studies This book reveals how excavations in Assyria and Babylonia, and the decipherment of Akkadian texts, transformed the study of the Old Testament and redefined core concepts still taken for granted today
Through detailed analysis of major figures, including Wellhausen, Gunkel, and Mowinckel, Thelle shows how scholarly debates over creation myths, chronology, and cultural influence shaped modern biblical research She also uncovers the reciprocal dynamic: Mesopotamia’s appeal to Western explorers was inseparable from its perceived biblical significance
Rich in historical insight and critical reflection, this study illuminates the intertwined histories of two disciplines and offers a fresh perspective on the intellectual currents that continue to inform contemporary scholarship
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Unruly Books
Rethinking Ancient and Academic Imaginations of Religious Texts
Edited by Esther Brownsmith, Liv Ingeborg Lied & Marianne Bjelland Kartzow
This volume explores the idea of the unruly book, from books now known by their titles alone to books that subverted structures of power and gender The contributors show how these books functioned as “sticky” objects, and they examine the story of what such books signified to the people who wrote, read, discussed, yearned for, or even prohibited them The books examined are those of the first millennium of the Common Era, and the writings of Judaism, Christianity, Islam and related traditions In particular, the contributors examine the bounty of books within this period that are hard to pin down, whether extant, lost, or imagined books that challenge modern scholars to reconceptualize our notions of books (biblical or otherwise), religion, manuscript culture, and intellectual history Through the critical analyses presented in this volume, the contributors negotiate the diverse stories told by unruly books and show that by listening to the stories that books tell, we learn more about the worlds that imagined and discussed them
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Christian Fasting
Biblical
and Evangelical Perspectives
S H Mathews
Rooted in a rigorous social-scientific reading of the New Testament, S H Mathews illuminates how fasting functioned within the honor-shame, kinship-bound, and collectivist world of the first-century Mediterranean Drawing on anthropology, sociology, and historical criticism, the volume re-situates fasting not as a universal spiritual discipline but as a culturally coded practice signalling mourning, repentance, solidarity, and communal identity By positioning early Christian fasting within broader Jewish, Greek, Roman and Near Eastern contexts, Mathews demonstrates how abstention shaped boundary-making, social meaning, and the maintenance of group identity
The analysis engages closely with key biblical episodes, Moses’ and Elijah’s forty-day fasts, Esther ’s intercessory fast, Ezra’s and Nehemiah’s communal fasts, the critique of exploitative fasting in Isaiah 58, and the ritual fasts in Zechariah 7–8, before turning to the New Testament’s reframing of fasting Mathews offers detailed readings of Jesus’ forty-day wilderness fast (Matthew 4), the controversies surrounding Pharisaic fasting, Anna’s temple devotion in Luke 2, and the communal discernment fasts in Acts 13–14 The study shows how concepts such as honor, limited good, the evil eye, dyadic identity, and Mediterranean social structures shape the rhetorical force and theological function of fasting across the canon Bringing this framework into dialogue with contemporary evangelical interpretations, Mathews challenges modern assumptions that cast fasting primarily as a private or devotional practice Instead, the book presents a compelling and nuanced account of fasting as a socially embedded act
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