Recently added articles from Interpretation:
Editorial
Jan 01, 2009; ... This issue of Interpretation focuses on the book of Revelation, also known as the Apocalypse of John, and the issues faced by Christians living in the complicated religious and political environment of imperial power. Together these essays describe the enduring challenges faced by Christians who ...
Revelation's Visionary Challenge to Ordinary Empire
Jan 01, 2009; ... Revelation addresses the ordinary challenges facing Christians under Roman rule, rather than speaking only to those enduring a time of terror. Some of the readers were struggling, but others were affluent and complacent. The book's visions seek to alter the way they see the political, religious, ...
John's Ironic Empire
Jan 01, 2009; ... John's Revelation wrestles with the question of how Jesus' followers were to live under the imperial domination of Rome. While some see John as establishing an alternative imperial system, attention to the irony with which the story is told reveals a more compelling critique of ...
Accommodating "Jezebel" and Withdrawing John: Negotiating Empire in Revelation Then and Now
Jan 01, 2009; ... Revelation addresses a struggle over how followers of Jesus might negotiate the complex imperial realities of Roman rule. The call for societal distance and disengagement resists and seeks to conceal other voices that urge greater levels of societal interaction. Revelation also raises the urgent ...
Babylon Boycott: The Book of Revelation
Jan 01, 2009; ... Revelation challenges contemporary readers to escape the impending destruction of global imperialism. John of Patmos calls upon Christians to boycott the imperialist political economy that murders "all the peoples of the earth" (Rev 18:24). To be true to their conscience and to their God, those ...
Between Text & Sermon: Revelation 4:1-11
Jan 01, 2009; ... THE APOCALYPTIC VISIONARY JOHN WROTE the book of Revelation a long time ago, in a culture very different from our own. Yet even in its historical particularity, as a late first-century writing addressed to Christian congregations faced with the challenge of negotiating competing claims of ...
Between Text & Sermon: Revelation 17:1-14
Jan 01, 2009; ... MUCH OF REVELATION IS "LITERALLY SYMBOLIC." The question is what the symbolism means and meant, from literary, political, and religious standpoints. Meaningful interpretation of Rev 17 today hinges upon grasping a sense of what it meant for its original authences in late first-century Asia ...
Between Text & Sermon: Revelation 21:9-27
Jan 01, 2009; ... ACCORDING TO THE OPENING LINE OF A RECENT NEWS story, "The apocalypse came early to the Cannes Film Festival this year, filling screening rooms with snarling dogs, bursting bombs, shouting men and screaming women" (New York Times, May, 16, 2008). The story continued with descriptions of ...
A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on Isaiah 40-55, Vol. 1/A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on Isaiah 40-55, Vol. 2
Jan 01, 2009; ... A Critical and Exegetlcal Commentary on Isaiah 40-55, Vol. 1 by John Goldingay and David Payne International Critical Commentary. T & T Clark, New York, 2006. 368 pp. $120.00. ISBN 978-0-567-04461-0. A Critical and Exegetlcal Commentary on Isaiah 40-55, Vol. 2 by John Goldingay and ...
Mark: A Commentary
Jan 01, 2009; ... Mark: A Commentary by Adela Yarbro Collins Hermeneia. Fortress, Minneapolis, 2007. 894 pp. $80.00 (cloth). ISBN 978-080066-078-9. This commentary, maintaining the strict historicalcritical tradition of the Hermeneia series, represents a benchmark in the discussion of the Gospel of Mark ...
Pauline Christology: An Exegetical-Theological Study
Jan 01, 2009; ... Pauline Christology: An Exegetical-Theological Study by Gordon D. Fee Hendrickson, Peabody, Mass., 2007. 707 pp. $39.95. ISBN 978-1-59856-035-0. GORDON FEE, IN THIS MAJOR work devoted to Paul's understanding of the person of Jesus Christ, introduces it with the disarming comment: "I can ...
The Pastoral Epistles: First Timothy, Second Timothy, and Titus
Jan 01, 2009; ... The Pastoral Epistles: First Timothy, Second Timothy, and Titus by Benjamin Fiore, S.J. Sacra Pagina. Liturgical Press, Collegeville, Minn., 2007. 253 pp. $39.95. ISBN 978-0-8146-5814-7. THE CURRENT PROLIFERATION of commentaries seems out of control. Does the world need yet another on ...
Real Kids, Real Faith: Practices for Nurturing Children's Spiritual Lives
Jan 01, 2009; ... Real Kids, Real Faith: Practices for Nurturing Children's Spiritual Lives by Karen-Marie Yust Family and Faith. Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, 2004. 210 pp. $21.95. ISBN 978-0-7879-6407-8. Cover Image courtesy of John Wiley & Sons, Inc. THIS BOOK IS IMPORTANT because in families in ...
Christ and Empire: From Paul to Postcolonial Times
Jan 01, 2009; ... Christ and Empire: From Paul to Postcolonial Times by Joerg Rieger Fortress, Minneapolis, 2007. 334 pp. $20.00. ISBN 978-0-8006-2038-7. ON THE THEORY THAT pastors should always be reading at least one work that stretches the mind and spirit, this is a "must read." Joerg Rieger, Professor ...
The Power of the Word: Scripture and the Rhetoric of Empire
Jan 01, 2009; ... The Power of the Word: Scripture and the Rhetoric of Empire by Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza Fortress, Minneapolls, 2007. 280 pp. $29.00. ISBN 978-0-8006-3833-7. THIS MOST RECENT VOLUME by Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza continues her on-going development of an emancipatory-rhetorical ...
John and Empire: Initial Explorations
Jan 01, 2009; ... John and Empire: Initial Explorations by Warren Carter T & T Clark, New York, 2008. 423 pp. $39.95. ISBN 978-0-567-02840-2. "DOES JOHN'S GOSPEL have anything to do with the Roman Empire?" (p. 3). Warren Carter's book John and Empire answers this question with an emphatic "yes." ...
The Old Testament: Its Background, Growth, and Content
Jan 01, 2009; ... The Old Testament: Its Background, Growth, and Content by Stephen L. McKenzie and John Kaltner Abingdon, Nashville, 2007. 382 pp. $32.00. ISBN 978-0687-03901-2. AS THE TITLE SUGGESTS, this introduction examines the content, historical and literary background, composition and editing, and ...
The Eden Narrative: A Literary and Religio-historical Study of Genesis 2-3
Jan 01, 2009; ... The Eden Narrative: A Literary and Religio-historical Study of Genesis 2-3 by Tryggve Mettinger Eisenbrauns, Winona Lake, Ind., 2007 165 pp. $29.50 (cloth). ISBN 978-1-57506-141-2. IN HIS MOST RECENT publication, Tryggve Mettinger addresses a classic enigma of biblical exegesis: the ...
Ritual and Rhetoric in Leviticus: From Sacrifice to Scripture
Jan 01, 2009; ... Ritual and Rhetoric in Leviticus: From Sacrifice to Scripture by James W. Watts Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2007. 257 pp. $85.00 (Cloth). ISBN 978-0-521-87193-8. FOR WHATEVER REASONS, currently there seems to be a slight uptick in writing on the book of Leviticus. One of the ...
Dinah's Lament: The Biblical Legacy of Sexual Violence in Christian Interpretation
Jan 01, 2009; ... Dinah's Lament: The Biblical Legacy of Sexual Violence in Christian Interpretation by Joy A. Schroeder Fortress, Minneapolis, 2007. 317 pp. $35.00. ISBN 9780-8006-3843-6. THIS VOLUME BY CHURCH historian Joy Schroeder gathers up a range of early church, medieval, and Reformation era ...