Skip to main content
Search Button
Canada Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “philip esler”
Skip side bar filters

  • Food Justice and Hospitality in Luke-Acts

    A Historical and Contemporary Interpretation

    by Gideon S. S. Paulraj ...
    Food security is a multifaceted concept and extends beyond the production of, availability of, and demand for food. This book attempts to explore the meal narrations in Luke-Acts as a source for a theology of hospitality to ascertain Luke's concern for the immigrant, the poor, the homeless, the hungry, and the outcasts. This book focuses on fifteen meal scenes in Luke-Acts and contributes to Lukan ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Babatha's Orchard

    The Yadin Papyri and an Ancient Jewish Family Tale Retold

    by Philip F. Esler ...
    In 1961 archaeologists discovered a family archive of legal papyri in a cave near the Dead Sea where their owner, the Jewish woman Babatha, had hidden them in 135 CE at the end of the Bar Kokhba revolt. Babatha's Orchard analyzes the oldest four of these papyri to argue that underlying them is a hitherto undetected and surprising train of events concerning how Babatha's father, Shim'on, purchased ... Read more

    $40.99 CAD

  • 2 Corinthians: A Social Identity Commentary

    by Philip Esler ...
    Series series T&T Clark Social Identity Commentaries on the New Testament
    Philip F. Esler provides a comprehensive coverage of the issues in 2 Corinthians from the perspective of social identity, with a focus on Paul's leadership.Esler enlists social identity theory-in critical dialogue with existing scholarship-to show how Paul sought to persuade the Corinthian Christ-followers to adopt certain views on four critical issues that had arisen in his relationship with them ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • The First Christians in Their Social Worlds

    Social-scientific approaches to New Testament Interpretation

    by Philip F. Esler ...
    An examination of how the New Testament was influenced by the social realities of the early Christian communities for whom the books were wtitten. It reveals an intimate connection between society and Gospel. ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • Galatians

    by Philip F. Esler ...
    Series series New Testament Readings
    Paul's letter to the Galatians, sometimes known as the Magna Carta of Christian liberty, is central to the understanding of the relation of Paul and the Law and is packed with crucial historical, social and theological material.Philip F. Esler provides a detailed and accessible interpretation of the text, which draws on contemporary and modern literary models. He outlines the problems often ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • The Early Christian World

    Edited by Philip Esler ...
    Series series Routledge Worlds
    Since its publication in 2000, The Early Christian World has come to be regarded by scholars, students and the general reader as one of the most informative and accessible works in English on the origins, development, character and major figures of early Christianity. In this new edition, the strengths of the first edition are retained. These include the book’s attractive architecture that ... Read more

    $102.99 CAD

  • Sex, Wives, and Warriors

    Reading Old Testament Narrative with Its Ancient Audience

    by Philip Francis Esler ...
    Why and how should we read Old Testament narrative? This book provides fresh answers to these questions. First, it models possible readers of the Bible--religious and nonreligious, professional and nonprofessional--and the reasons that might attract them to it. Second, with the aid of Mediterranean anthropology, it sets out an approach that helps us to interpret a selection of narratives with a ... Read more

    $50.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Modelling Early Christianity

    Social-Scientific Studies of the New Testament in its Context

    Edited by Philip Esler ...
    Modelling Early Christianity explores the intriguing foreign social context of first century Palestine and the Greco-Roman East, in which the Christian faith was first proclaimed and the New Testament documents were written. It demonstrates that a sophisticated analysis of the context is essential in order to understand the original meaning of the texts.The contributors examine social themes such ... Read more

    $94.99 CAD

  • Emerging Leadership in the Pauline Mission

    A Social Identity Perspective on Local Leadership Development in Corinth and Ephesus

    by Jack Barentsen ...
    Series Book 168 - Princeton Theological Monograph Series
    Where did Paul find leaders for his new churches? How did he instruct and develop them? What processes took place to stabilize the churches and institute their new leadership? This book carves a fresh trail in leadership studies by looking at leadership development from a group-dynamic, social identity perspective. Paul engages the cultural leadership patterns of his key local leaders, publicly ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

People who read these also enjoyed

  • Lost Christianities

    The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew

    by Bart D. Ehrman ...
    The early Christian Church was a chaos of contending beliefs. Some groups of Christians claimed that there was not one God but two or twelve or thirty. Some believed that the world had not been created by God but by a lesser, ignorant deity. Certain sects maintained that Jesus was human but not divine, while others said he was divine but not human. In Lost Christianities, Bart D. Ehrman offers a ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • The Birth of Christianity

    Discovering What Happened In the Years Immediately After the Execution of Jesus

    by John Dominic Crossan ...
    In this national bestseller, John Dominic Crossan, the world's leading expert on the historical Jesus, reveals how Christianity emerged in the period following Jesus' death. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, Crossan shines new light on the theological and cultural contexts from which the Christian church arose. He argues powerfully that Christianity would have happened with or without Paul and ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Jesus

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Richard Bauckham ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Two billion people today identify as Christians, with the implication that Jesus is the focus of their relationship with God, and their way of living in the world. Such followers of Jesus are now more numerous and make up a greater proportion of the world's population than ever before. Despite its decline in the West, Christianity is rapidly increasing in areas such as Africa and China. Richard ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook