Products in Category: Biblical Studies - Biblical History/Culture

Forms of the Old Testament Literature Series (17 volumes)
This commentary set uses form-critical analysis to study the books of the Old Testament, examining the structure, genre, setting, and intention of the biblical literature in question. Basic to this series is its attempt to study the history behind the form-critical discussion and to reveal the exegetical process in order to enable students and pastors to engage in their own analysis and interpretation of the Old Testament texts. Each volume includes thorough bibliographies and a glossary of the genres and formulas identified in the commentary.
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Worthy is the Lamb
Ray Summers interprets Revelation in alliance with the historical circumstances Christians encountered in the late first century. This concise work is clearly outlined and carefully documented to offer a balanced, constructive interpretation of Revelation in the context of the whole New Testament and in the context of its historical setting. Summers removes a lot of the end-time mystery that often confuses the modern reader of Revelation and focuses on what God intended to say to the first-century Christians and what He wanted them to understand.
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Hebrew History (3 volumes)
Three distinguished biblical scholars offer a conservative look at the history of Israel and the Old Testament, avoiding the trappings of common misconceptions while supporting the Scriptures with carefully researched facts. Ancient documents and archaeological evidence are used to help reveal historical and biblical truth. Although intended for first and second year students, these resources are excellent tools for pastors and laypeople alike. Together these books will help the reader understand the workings of God in history.
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The Journal of Biblical Literature Collection (26 volumes)
The Journal of Biblical Literature offers scholarly articles and book reviews that promote critical and academic biblical scholarship, covering contemporary issues and ideas to advance the understanding of the Bible’s role in the public arena. A quarterly periodical, first published in 1881, promoting critical and academic biblical scholarship, it brings the highest level of technical expertise to bear on the canon, cognate literature, and the historical matrix of the Bible.
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SNTW Collection (7 volumes)
The Studies of the New Testament and its World (SNTW) Collection reflects a serious examination of the concerns and topics surrounding the first-century Christians and early Christian writings. The conclusions reached by the authors are compelled by the most up-to-date resources regarding such subjects as identity formation, social settings, ideology, cosmology, and the importance of baptism.
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Old Testament Textual Criticism
Dr. Brotzman has given students of Hebrew a resource they can use to get the most out of the Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia. Readers are lead through the steps involved in using BHS and other resources to evaluate variant readings. Brotzman sheds light on the origin and nature of Hebrew texts and versions, thereby helping scholars, students, and pastors more fully understand the Old Testament.
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Qumran Biblical Dead Sea Scrolls Database
Logos is pleased to announce another first in the history of scholarly databases for biblical studies: the development of a database for the biblical Dead Sea Scrolls. This new database marks the first time that the Dead Sea Scroll manuscripts of the Hebrew Bible have been made available to the public in electronic form.
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Gorgias Press Syriac Collection (9 Volumes)
This great collection contains English translations of the New Testament from the Syriac language as well as a host of other books about the Syrian church and early church. From scholars to students, the collection offers something for anyone wishing to deepen their understanding of early church history and Syriac literature as it pertains to the Bible—including English translations of Bible texts, suitable for comparative studies!
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Jesus and the Victory of God
This major work seeks to present a comprehensive, detailed, yet highly readable assessment of the historical and theological questions surrounding the origins of Christianity. N. T. Wright offers a penetrating assessment of the major scholarly contributions to the current 'quest' for the historical Jesus.
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Baptism Collection (3 volumes)
This collection details the major controversies, histories, and theological implications of baptism. The three volumes traverse this oftentimes divisive and always important ground with the aim to exploring the common, Bible-based paths therein. Regardless of your views on the issues and perspectives that orbit baptism, you’ll find something to challenge and expand your understanding of this important institution.
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The Dictionary of Historical Theology
This valuable volume is a major reference work designed for anyone interested in the history and development of Christian theology. Featuring 314 articles on the key figures, theological movements, and significant texts that have shaped Christian thought, Dictionary of Historical Theology traces the doctrinal development of Christianity from the early church to the present. Varying in length from 500 to 15,000 words, these entries treat the intellectual antecedents and descendants of the figures or schools of thought covered as well as their influence on the wider development of the Christian tradition.
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Messianism Among Jews and Christians
William Horbury examines some relatively neglected topics bearing on messianism, including the treatment of suffering in synagogue poetry and the theology of grace in Greek Jewish poetry on the exodus. Central themes include: messianism in the Apocrypha and pseudepigrapha; the historical Jesus and the concepts of the Son of man and the Twelve; Jerusalem in Pauline hope; second-century Christology and messianism; Antichrist; and the cult of Christ and the cult of the saints in their Jewish and Christian context. The theology of ancient Judaism is discussed with special reference to debate on monotheism and Christology.
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A History of the Jewish People in the Time of Jesus Christ (5 vols)
This classic set provides a richly detailed look at the world in which Jesus and his disciples walked. It includes essays on the political and religious establishments of the day, portraits of leading figures, messianic movements, cultural details, and much more.
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The Cosmopolitan World of Jesus
Presenting a breath-taking vision of Jewish society during the Graeco-Roman period, Carsten Peter Thiede shatters the popular conception of Christ’s Palestine as an isolated backwater, depicting it instead as a highly cultured part of the Roman Empire. Thiede reconstructs the world of Jesus using an interdisciplinary approach, employing evidence from archaeologists, papyrologists, philologists and classic historians. He reveals the concrete reality of the multicultural, multireligious environment that surrounded Jesus and offers a portrayal of the daily life of the real people who populated the world in which the message of Jesus was spread.
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Historical Interpreters Collection (2 volumes)
This collection introduces you to the host of theologians who have shaped how the church has interpreted the Bible throughout the centuries. The two volumes skillfully comb church history and offer up biographical and historical information on all the major interpreters, including the context in which they worked.
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In the Shadow of the Temple
This fresh volume offers a new perspective on the development of the early church in its practice (e.g., worship, baptism, and Eucharist) and doctrine (e.g., Scripture, Christology, and pneumatology). Oskar Skarsaune begins by tracing the story of second temple Judaism from the crisis of the Jewish encounter with Hellenism in the second century B.C. through the diverse Judaisms of the first century A.D. Then, from the time of Jesus and the origins of the church up to the Constantinian revolution of the early fourth century A.D, Skarsaune offers us fascinating snapshots and analyses of the interactions, the arguments, and the shaping influences of Judaism on the life, creed, and practices of the church.
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The Canon of Scripture
Author F. F. Bruce presents a thorough reexamination of the historical evidence for acceptance of the canon, focusing on the central issues of criteria of canonicity, the idea of a canon within a canon, and canonical criticism. Adept in both Old and New Testament studies, Bruce brings a rare comprehensive perspective to his task, as well as the wisdom of a lifetime of reflection and biblical interpretation to bear in answering the questions and clearing away the confusion surrounding the Christian canon of Scripture. Winner of two 1990 Christianity Today Awards and a 1989 ECPA Gold Medallion Award, this impressive work remains a significant landmark and touchstone for further studies.
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The Making of the New Testament
The Making of the New Testament retells the New Testament’s story. This textbook study of the origin, collection, copying and canonizing of the New Testament documents answers a myriad of questions—cultural, historical, geographical, linguistic and spiritual. Arthur Patzia's textbook study of the origin, collection, copying and canonizing of the New Testament documents answers a myriad of questions—cultural, historical, geographical, linguistic and spiritual. This worthy book compiles a vast array of scholarly research into a single comprehensible volume. The author’s introduction to the literary world of the New Testament is followed by sections on the Gospels, the Pauline literature, and other New Testament material. Attention is then turned to specific textual issues.
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