Introducing the Apocrypha

Introducing the ApocryphaThis comprehensive, up to date introduction to the Old Testament apocryphal books summarizes their context, message, and significance. The first edition has been very well reviewed and widely adopted. It is the most substantial introduction to the Apocrypha available and has become a standard authority on the topic. The second edition has been substantially revised and updated throughout to reflect the latest scholarship. The book includes a foreword

Resources for students include flash cards and self quizzes

It deserves a place on every undergraduate religion major's shelf

Interweaving historical

he offers critically aware and hermeneutically intelligent instruction in reading the Gospels in order to hear their witness to Christ in a way that supports Christian application and proclamation

Beale explores these facets and deliberately draws out important practical applications for everyday Christian living in the overlap of the old creation and the new

and concerns to see its beauty and wisdom

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" Deep Reading provides resources for engaging in formative and culturally subversive reading practices that teach readers how to resist vices

anticipations of modern psychotherapy by classical writers

the vine to whom his disciples are connected

The fifth edition has been updated to assess the most recently published commentaries

coauthored by Bill Arnold and Bryan Beyer