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"A Hard Saying"
The Gospel and Culture
Francis J. Moloney, SDB
Paperback
Critical readings of biblical texts challenge established cultures, both secular and religious. The Christian Church, caught in a culture and history of its own making, can find the Gospel difficult to follow—"a hard saying," (John 6:60). In thi...
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ISBN: 978-0-8146-5953-3
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“You shall not kill” or “You shall not murder”?
The Assault on a Biblical Text
Wilma Ann Bailey
Paperback
Nearly all English translations of the Bible during the last third of the twentieth century have changed the wording of the sixth commandment from “kill” to “murder.” The Hebrew word that appears in the commandment has a broader semantic range than “...
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ISBN: 978-0-8146-5214-5
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A Year of Sundays
Gospel Reflections 2010
Cackie Upchurch, Editor; Clifford M. Yeary, Associate Editor
Paperback
Luke’s gospel tells us a good seed needs good soil to produce fruit (8:8). An effective way of ensuring that our hearts are that good soil is to ponder and cherish the word God plants there. By stimulating attention, touching our imagination, and enc...
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ISBN: 978-0-8146-3626-8
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A Year of Sundays
Gospel Reflections 2010
Cackie Upchurch, Editor; Clifford M. Yeary, Associate Editor
eBook
Luke’s gospel tells us a good seed needs good soil to produce fruit (8:8). An effective way of ensuring that our hearts are that good soil is to ponder and cherish the word God plants there. By stimulating attention, touching our imagination, and enc...
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ISBN: 978-0-8146-3632-9
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A Year of Sundays
Gospel Reflections 2011
Cackie Upchurch, Editor; Clifford M. Yeary, Associate Editor
Paperback
Perhaps no other evangelist better depicts the teaching aspect of Jesus' ministry than Matthew. In this gospel, Jesus is a master at pulling from his own Jewish tradition while at the same time offering new insights. And he seems to do this best when...
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ISBN: 978-0-8146-3637-4
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A Year of Sundays
Gospel Reflections 2011
Cackie Upchurch, Editor; Clifford M. Yeary, Associate Editor
eBook
Perhaps no other evangelist better depicts the teaching aspect of Jesus' ministry than Matthew. In this gospel, Jesus is a master at pulling from his own Jewish tradition while at the same time offering new insights. And he seems to do this best when...
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ISBN: 978-0-8146-3643-5
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The Acts of the Apostles
Volume 5
Dennis Hamm, SJ
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Dennis Hamm stresses the unity between the Acts of Apostles and the Gospel of Luke. His section-by-section commentary (along with New American Bible translation), based on the best of recent scholarship, will appeal to teachers, preachers and Bible s...
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ISBN: 978-0-8146-2864-5
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An Adult Christ at Christmas
Essays on the Three Biblical Christmas Stories—Matthew 2 and Luke 2
Raymond E. Brown, SS
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In this digest of his longer work, The Birth of the Messiah, Father Brown puts the adult Christ back into Christmas, treating the infancy narratives of Matthew and Luke as the entire Gospel story in miniature.
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ISBN: 978-0-8146-0997-2
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Advent of the Savior
A Commentary on the Infancy Narratives of Jesus
Stephen J. Binz
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Advent is the season in which we reread and relive the experience of ancient Israel as it longed for the coming of the Messiah. It is also a time to reflect on the infancy narratives of Jesus which have enriched the lives of believers through the cen...
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ISBN: 978-0-8146-2410-4
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All Creation Is Groaning
An Interdisciplinary Vision for Life in a Sacred Universe
Carol J. Dempsey and Russell A. Butkus, Editors and Weavers; Foreword by Walter Brueggemann
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This multi-academic perspective on contemporary environmental issues reminds us of our oneness with the natural world and what that calls us to as moral creatures. Fashioned as a series of stories based on the model of biblical narrative, these seemi...
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ISBN: 978-0-8146-5932-8
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The Apocalypse
Adela Yarbro Collins
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Misunderstanding abounds concerning this strange and complex book of the New Testament.
This interpretation is written in the conviction that the key to understanding this work is its literary form: revelatory narrative and allegorical narrative....
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ISBN: 978-0-8146-5145-2
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The Apocalypse of John
Sean P. Kealy, CSSp
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The Apocalypse has been one of the most fascinating and most frustrating books of the Bible. Interpretations abound, yet the mystery at the heart of it continues to intrigue scholars. Father Kealy's thoughts on the Apocalypse are provocative, stimula...
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ISBN: 978-0-8146-5581-8
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Apollos
Paul’s Partner or Rival?
Patrick J. Hartin
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Human beings are embedded in a set of social relations. A social network is one way of conceiving that set of relations in terms of a number of persons connected to one another by varying degrees of relatedness. In the early Jesus-group documents fea...
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ISBN: 978-0-8146-5263-3
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The Apostle Paul and the Pauline Tradition
Stephen Finlan, PhD
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Much of the popular understanding of the apostle Paul has been shaped, not by Paul's letters themselves, but by the Acts of the Apostles. This understanding, many believe, leads to misunderstanding Paul’s theology. In The Apostle Paul and the Pauline...
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ISBN: 978-0-8146-5271-8
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The Art of The Saint John's Bible
A Reader's Guide to Pentateuch, Psalms, Gospels and Acts
Susan Sink
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The Saint John’s Bible provides an opportunity for people to experience the Scriptures in a new—but at the same time ancient—way. Here are illuminations that bring the words of the Bible alive for the contemporary world. Some of the world’s top calli...
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ISBN: 978-0-8146-9062-8
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The Art of The Saint John's Bible
A Reader's Guide to Wisdom Books and Prophets
Susan Sink
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The Saint John's Bible provides an opportunity for people to experience the Scriptures in a new—but at the same time ancient—way. Here are illuminations that bring the words of the Bible alive for a contemporary audience. Some of the world’s top call...
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ISBN: 978-0-8146-9063-5
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Ascension Now
Implications of Christ's Ascension for Today's Church
Bishop Peter Atkins
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Ascension Now examines the New Testament references to the ascension and exhaltation of Jesus and looks at the theological and liturgical implications. This includes not only the description of the "event" in the Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Ap...
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ISBN: 978-0-8146-2725-9
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Bearing Fruit in Due Season
Feminist Hermeneutics and the Bible in Worship
Elizabeth J. Smith
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How is the Bible used in worship? What new liturgical forms can the Bible generate when feminist interpretations of Scripture shed fresh light on old liturgical habits? By exploring these questions, Elizabeth Smith challenges liturgical practitioners...
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ISBN: 978-0-8146-6171-0
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The Beginning of the Gospel
Introducing the Gospel According to Mark—Volume 1 (Mark 1-8:21)
Eugene LaVerdiere, SSS
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Mark was a proclaimer calling people to repentance. At a time nearly everyone felt was the end of the world, he boldly told the story of the beginning. When so many were overwhelmed by what seemed to be bad news, Mark proclaimed the story of the good...
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ISBN: 978-0-8146-2478-4
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The Beginning of the Gospel
Introducing the Gospel According to Mark: Volume 2 (Mark 8:22-16:20)
Eugene LaVerdiere, SSS
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Mark was a proclaimer calling people to repentance. At a time nearly everyone felt was the end of the world, he boldly told the story of the beginning. When so many were overwhelmed by what seemed to be bad news, Mark proclaimed the story of the good...
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ISBN: 978-0-8146-2574-3
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Believing in a Revealing God
The Basis of the Christian Life
Gabriel Moran
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What is faith? Is it a thing one has or a human activity? What is revelation? Is it a deposit of truths in the past or God’s action in the present?
These questions are addressed by renowned religious educator Gabriel Moran, who draws upon biblical a...
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ISBN: 978-0-8146-5388-3
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Berit Olam: 1 Kings
Jerome T. Walsh
Hardcover
The narratives of Solomon and Jeroboam, of Elijah and Ahab, have fascinated readers for millennia. Even apart from questions of historical authenticity, they are gripping stories of richly drawn characters caught up in the complex tale of God's deali...
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ISBN: 978-0-8146-5044-8
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Berit Olam: 1 Samuel
David Jobling
Hardcover
1 Samuel is a national autobiography of the Hebrew people. David Jobling reads 1 Samuel as a story that is complete in itself, although it is part of a much larger narrative. He examines it as a historical document in a double sense: (1) as a documen...
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ISBN: 978-0-8146-5047-9
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Berit Olam: 2 Kings
Robert L. Cohn
Hardcover
Opening with the prophet Elijah's ascent into heaven and closing with the people of Judah's descent to Babylonia, 2 Kings charts the story of the two Israelite kingdoms until their destruction. This commentary unfolds the literary dimensions of 2 Kin...
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ISBN: 978-0-8146-5054-7
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Berit Olam: Ezra and Nehemiah
Gordon F. Davies
Hardcover
Ezra-Nehemiah has been neglected in biblical studies, but it is important as one of the few windows into the Persian period of Israel's history, the setting for so much of the final shape of the Hebrew Bible. To know this period is to know what influ...
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ISBN: 978-0-8146-5049-3
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