Criticism, interpretation
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Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus
The hidden kingdom
The quest for context and meaning
The narrative covenant ; transformations of genre in the growth of biblical literature
The anointed and his people
Hermeneutics, inerrancy, and the Bible
The moral teaching of the New Testament
Literary criticism of the Old Testament
The Dead Sea Scrolls
Paul and Ancient Views of Sexual Desire
Bread in the wilderness
Jesus the sage
Amos, Hosea, Micah
Le Grand écart
The first gospel
The visionary mode
Texts that linger, words that explode
The Cross That Spoke
The Bible Makes Sense
Job and Solomon
Exploring the Old Testament
The Diamond Cutter
Theology and scriptural imagination
The Atharvaveda
The Jesus Movement and the world of the early church
Enarrationes in Psalmos
Philo and Paul among the Sophists
Approaching Hoofbeats
Songs of the Servant
Images of illness in the Gospel of Luke
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