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The Gospel of Matthew carries important lessons on the formation of community and of Jesus as authoritative Teacher--lessons that helped the early Matthean population relate to both the Jewish and Christian communities of which they were composed.

The Gospel According to Matthew provides Gospel text (New American Bible translation) along with Barbara E. Reid's commentary, to aid in the interpretation and use of this Gospel today. As Reid demonstrates, this Gospel continues to bring Vision and hope to Christians throughout the ages.

Reid stresses the importance of the...

When is a letter not a letter? When it is the Letter to the Hebrews. Daniel J. Harrington describes this text as the greatest Christian sermon ever preached or written" and its author as "the patron saint of preachers." The basic theological point of the sermon is that Christ is both the perfect sacrifice for sins and the priest who offers himself as a sacrifice.

The anonymous author of this work addresses Jewish Christians who had embraced Christianity with enthusiasm but were becoming discouraged and falling away in the face of suffering. The biblical text and Harrington's...

Liew is one of the most articulate, creative and sophisticated biblical scholars in North America. What Is Asian American Biblical Hermeneutics? has not caused me to question that judgment. A set of provocative questions, arguments, issues, and problems, the book opens a window onto what it means for human beings to try to negotiate a rather complex contemporary world, with evidence of increasingly blurred but also thick ideological and social-cultural boundaries and overlapping but also recognizable and isolable identity formations. That Liew does this by using and bringing together the...

Besides the Bible, John Bunyan preferred Luther's classic commentary on Galatians "before all books I have ever seen." Prized for its penetrating insights into Luther's theology, this volume brings to light the depths of Paul's meaning like no other commentary.

Luther's Commentary on Galatians is a timeless exposition of Paul's central thought in Galatians: "The just shall live by faith." All readers will benefit from Luther's doctrinally sound, verse-by-verse exposition.

Originally written in Latin, Luther's Commentary on Galatians is here translated into...

This verse-by-verse exposition on the inner spiritual meaning of the Book of Revelation provides a revealing insight into the visionary theology of Emanuel Swedenborg. Published posthumously, this version was translated from the original Latin in 1897 by John C. Ager. Volume 2 (of six volumes total) discusses Revelation 5-6.

This verse-by-verse exposition on the inner spiritual meaning of the Book of Revelation provides a revealing insight into the visionary theology of Emanuel Swedenborg. Published posthumously, this version was translated from the original Latin in 1890 by John C. Ager. Volume 3 (of six volumes total) discusses Revelation 7-10.

This verse-by-verse exposition on the inner spiritual meaning of the Book of Revelation provides a revealing insight into the visionary theology of Emanuel Swedenborg. Published posthumously, this version was translated from the original Latin in 1897 by John C. Ager. Volume 4 (of six volumes total) discusses Revelation 11-12.

This verse-by-verse exposition on the inner spiritual meaning of the Book of Revelation provides a revealing insight into the visionary theology of Emanuel Swedenborg. Published posthumously, this version was translated from the original Latin in 1897 by John C. Ager. Volume 5 (of six volumes total) discusses Revelation 13-16.

This verse-by-verse exposition on the inner spiritual meaning of the Book of Revelation provides a revealing insight into the visionary theology of Emanuel Swedenborg. Published posthumously, this version was translated from the original Latin in 1897 by John C. Ager. Volume 6 (of six volumes total) discusses Revelation 17-19. (Note that because this work was only written in draft form and never completed, there is no commentary on Revelation 20-22.)

The volume also contains three unrelated theological short works by Emanuel Swedenborg: "On Divine Love and Divine Wisdom,""Concerning the...