The Bible might seem like the last place one would look for information and guidance on economics...

In this book Richard Horsley and Tom Thatcher trace the Gospel of John's portrayal of Jesus as a ...

When the team of scientists at Dennison Industries makes an unexpected discovery, they realise th...

Oral Performance, Popular Tradition, and Hidden Transcript in Q

The Bible tells the stories of many empires, and many are still considered some of the largest of...

New Perspectives on Ancient Judaism

It has become standard in modern interpretation to say that Jesus performed miracles, and even ma...

Current biblical scholarship tends to treat the nativity narratives as having little historical b...

Examining each of the major sections of 1 Corinthians, Horsley probes the disagreement Paul had w...

Judaism and Christianity both arose in times of empire, with roots in Persian, Hellenistic, and R...

Embedded in modern print culture, biblical scholars have been projecting the assumptions and conc...

CONTENTSIntroductionPART ONE: The Social-Political Context of Apocalyptic and Wisdom Texts1. Ben ...