Barbara Green, O.P., Editor
Interfaces is a curriculum adventure and a creative opportunity in teaching and learning. Each volume focuses on a biblical character or a pair of them. The characters are in some cases powerful and familiar, though in other cases they are minor and little-known. Each author uses one or more study methods to examine how a character interfaces with his or her historical-cultural world and other characters. In the process readers will learn how to approach the Bible with critical insight.
College undergraduate professors and students will find that these books allow concentrated and thorough study of the Bible and biblical characters. The volumes teach students how to make connections through analysis and synthesis of biblical characters and their worlds. Each volume goes beyond its own era to ask relevant questions of ours.
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Dining with Pharisees
J. Patrick Mullen
Paperback
Were the Pharisees unfairly portrayed in the New Testament? What would a wider reading of Luke's Gospel reveal? To begin dialoguing with these questions, J. Patrick Mullen focuses on Simon, the Pharisee of Luke 7:36-50, to study and "redeem" the Phar...
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ISBN: 978-0-8146-5162-9
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Four Times Peter
Portrayals of Peter in the Four Gospels and at Philippi
Richard J. Cassidy
Paperback
Because he plays such a prominent role in the New Testament and the tradition of the church, the apostle Peter has been the focus of much scholarship over the centuries. One wonders whether there can be anything more to say about Peter. Indeed, there...
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ISBN: 978-0-8146-5178-0
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Interfaces: "My Name is Legion"
The Story and Soul of the Gerasene Demoniac
Michael Willett Newheart
Paperback
Can a "legion" of demons convey a message? As Michael Willett Newheart asserts, a study of the Gerasene (Mark 5:1-20) and the demons Jesus cast from him can indeed carry an important message of faith. Although the Gerasene may have suffered from ment...
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ISBN: 978-0-8146-5885-7
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Interfaces: Ahab
The Construction of a King
Jerome T. Walsh
Paperback
Ahab, king of Israel during the ninth century B.C.E., "did evil in the sight of the Lord more than of his predecessors" and "did more to anger the Lord, the God of Israel, than any of the kings of Israel before him" (1 Kings 16:30, 33). With this les...
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ISBN: 978-0-8146-5176-6
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The Interfaces: Exile and the Prophet's Wife
The Historic Events and Marginal Perspectives
Johanna Stiebert
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Although Ezekiel's wife was a member of an elite group, she was exiled, along with her husband and other members of Jerusalem’s high society, to Babylon. By interfacing ideological and psychoanalytical biblical criticisms, Johanna Stiebert removes Ez...
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ISBN: 978-0-8146-5177-3
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Interfaces: From Earth's Creation to John’s Revelation
The Interfaces Biblical Storyline Companion
Barbara Green, OP, Carleen Mandolfo, Catherine M. Murphy
Paperback
As an introductory text and companion for the Interfaces series, From Earth's Creation to John’s Revelation gives an overview of the basic material necessary for an introductory undergraduate course in Old or New Testament. It helps readers loca...
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ISBN: 978-0-8146-5958-8
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Interfaces: Herodias
At Home in That Fox's Den
Florence Morgan Gillman
Paperback
Herodias successfully plotted the death of John the Baptist. This biographical overview studies Herodias' role in New Testament history and her life as a Jewish aristocratic woman who moved in first century C.E. Roman circles. Herodias provides allus...
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ISBN: 978-0-8146-5108-7
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Interfaces: Inquiring of Joseph
Getting to Know a Biblical Character through the Qur'an
John Kaltner
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The account of Joseph that is found in Genesis 37-50 is one of the most well-known stories in the Bible. Its classic rags-to-riches plot explores themes that have intrigued people throughout history: murder, betrayal, sibling rivalry, greed, natural ...
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ISBN: 978-0-8146-5153-7
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Interfaces: James of Jerusalem
Heir to Jesus of Nazareth
Patrick J. Hartin
Paperback
Through the world of James of Jerusalem we discover the development of Christianity and its struggle for self-definition amidst Jewish roots and a rising congregation of newly converted Gentiles. In this time of early Christianity, James' presence te...
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ISBN: 978-0-8146-5152-0
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Interfaces: Jezebel
Portraits of a Queen
Patricia Dutcher-Walls
Paperback
Powerful. Assertive. Evil. What we know of Jezebel, queen of Israel, seems pure malevolence. What we know is what ancient writers, in their attempt to shape a theological history, considered important. More than just an intriguing story, Jezebel: Por...
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ISBN: 978-0-8146-5150-6
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Interfaces: John the Baptist
Prophet of Purity for a New Age
Catherine M. Murphy
Paperback
How did Gospel authors Matthew and Luke shape the story of John the Baptist around the story of Jesus? Why was the historical Baptist so popular? In John the Baptist: Prophet of Purity for a New Age, Catherine Murphy explores the character of John th...
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ISBN: 978-0-8146-5933-5
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Interfaces: King Saul's Asking
Barbara Green, OP
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Who should lead us? Who should we, as a community, look to for guidance? These questions, as old as humankind, followed the Israelite community upon their return from the Exile: Should they return with Davidic kingship or without it? Their answer was...
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ISBN: 978-0-8146-5109-4
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Interfaces: Nameless, Blameless, and Without Shame
Two Cannibal Mothers Before a King
Gina Hens-Piazza
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Nameless, Blameless, and Without Shame is a character study of two obscure women before a king (2 Kings 6:24–33). It explores the violence encoded in the texts by the privileged powerful. The character study connects these cannibal mothers to po...
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ISBN: 978-0-8146-5961-8
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Interfaces: Pontius Pilate
Portraits of a Roman Governor
Warren Carter
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Pontius Pilate examines the portraits of this Roman governor found in the Gospels. Unlike some discussions of Pilate, this one takes Pilate's role as governor and representative of Roman imperial power seriously. It views Pilate predominantly as a st...
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ISBN: 978-0-8146-5113-1
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Interfaces: Tell It on the Mountain
The Daughter of Jephthah in Judges 11
Barbara Miller
Paperback
Tell It on the Mountain brings Jephthah’s daughter from the periphery into the center of the story using two interpretive methods to examine Judges 11-12:7. Midrashic interpretation—the "filling in" of a story’s narrative silences in order to emphasi...
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ISBN: 978-0-8146-5843-7
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Jeremiah
Preacher of Grace, Poet of Truth
Carol J. Dempsey, O.P.
Paperback
What does it mean to be deeply in love with God and, at the same time, with a person, a group, or a nation that is at odds with God? Such is the dilemma of the prophet Jeremiah, and it is an experience not unfamiliar to many in our own day. The lesso...
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ISBN: 978-0-8146-5985-4
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Jesus Ben Sira of Jerusalem
A Biblical Guide to Living Wisely
Daniel J. Harrington, S.J.
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Questions of vocation and character formation become important to students as they continue to receive higher education. Jesus Ben Sira combines secular wisdom from Near Eastern wisdom sources and divine revelations from the Hebrew Bible to create th...
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ISBN: 978-0-8146-5212-1
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Jonah’s Journeys
Barbara Green, O.P.
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The book of Jonah has been richly commented upon by centuries of Christians and Jews. Writers of prose and poetry have loved it as well as those interested in liturgy. Jonah is a small book, and yet it is placed with issues that have shown themselves...
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ISBN: 978-0-8146-5038-7
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