Augsburg Fortress

The Bible: An Introduction, Third Edition

Without presuming either prior knowledge of the Bible or a particular attitude toward it, Jerry L. Sumney uses straightforward language to lead the reader on an exploration of the Bible, showing how critical methods help readers understand the text and history. Filled with maps, charts, illustrations, and four-color photographs to enhance the student's experience with the text. This third edition offers a number of revisions and a new section on the deuterocanonical books.

Spirituality of the Psalms

Capturing the depth of the Psalms. The seasons of our lives change. Using a model of orientation—disorientation—new orientation, Brueggemann...

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The Africana Bible: Reading Israel's Scriptures from Africa and the African Diaspora

A landmark volume, The Africana Bible gathers multicultural and interdisciplinary perspectives on every book in the Hebrew Bible. It opens a critical window...

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Hear Then the Parable: A Commentary on the Parables of Jesus

Hear Then the Parable is an innovative literary-social reading of all the parables of Jesus.

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True to Our Native Land: An African American New Testament Commentary

This pioneering commentary sets biblical interpretation firmly in the context of African American experience and concern. Cutting-edge scholarship that is in...

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The Student Bible Atlas

For over twenty-five years, The Student Bible Atlas has been a trusted companion for Bible students of all ages and interests. Clear, concise, colorful, and priced for any budget, there are nearly 100,000 copies in print!

Mary Magdalene and Many Others: Women who followed Jesus

Seeking "to discover whether Jesus' message of liberation had a word to say to me as a woman," Carla Ricci found the key in Luke 8:1-3, which mentions the...

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A Beginner's Guide to Studying the Bible

Many of us would like to study the Bible, but don't know how to begin. A Beginner's Guide to Studying the Bible offers help in getting started with a book...

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Mark as Story: An Introduction to the Narrative of a Gospel, Third Edition

For thirty years, Mark as Story has introduced readers to the rhetorical and narrative skill that makes Mark so arresting and compelling a story...

Matthew: Fortress Biblical Preaching Commentaries

Wes Allen draws together the strengths of these two approaches into a new genre of homiletical and teaching resource with a focus on the Gospel according to Matthew.

Stars Beneath Us: Finding God in the Evolving Cosmos

Relying on his upbringing as a Baptist, his doctoral work in experimental nuclear physics and gamma-ray astronomy, and his ordination to the gospel ministry, Paul Wallace weaves a book unlike any other in faith-and-science literature. 

I Am . . .: Biblical Women Tell Their Own Stories

Athalya Brenner presents fictionalized "autobiographies" of a dozen women and women groups in the Hebrew Bible, and also lets them share a conversation...

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Documents and Images for the Study of the Gospels: Third Edition

Since its first appearance in 1980, Documents for the Study of the Gospels has been a highly regarded sourcebook for the study of the historical environment and the religious, philosophical, and literary texts comparable to aspects of the Gospels. In this third edition, David R. Cartlidge has added new discoveries...

The Resurrection of the Son of God: Christian Origins and the Question of God: Volume 3

Why did Christianity begin, and why did it take the shape it did? To answer this question - which any historian must face - renowned New Testament scholar...

Palestine in the Time of Jesus: Social Structures and Social Conflicts, Second Edition

Hanson and Oakman's award-winning and illuminating volume has become a widely used and cited introduction to the social context of Jesus and the early Jesus...

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Jesus and the Victory of God: Christian Origins and the Question of God: Volume 2

In this highly anticipated volume, N. T. Wright focuses directly on the historical Jesus: Who was he? What did he say? And what did he mean by it? Wright...

The Crucifixion of Jesus: History, Myth, Faith

Jesus of Nazareth died on a cross at the hands of Roman justice around the year 30 C.E. Thousands of others perished in the same way, and many people before...

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The New Testament and the People of God: Christian Origins and the Question of God: Volume 1

This first volume in the series Christian Origins and the Question of God provides a historical, theological, and literary study of first-century Judaism and...

Paul and the Faithfulness of God: Christian Origins and the Question of God: Volume 4

Wright carefully explores the whole context of Paul's thought and activity—Jewish, Greek and Roman, cultural, philosophical, religious, and imperial-and shows how the apostle's worldview and theology enabled him to engage with the many-sided complexities of first-century life that his churches were facing.

Paul: In Fresh Perspective

The letters of the Apostle Paul changed the world like no others before or since, and they continue to strike us afresh with their panoramic vision of human history and destiny.