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  • Following Luke
    William Loader
    Need a quick summary of the best insights from today’s Gospel scholarship? These commentaries on the Gospels by William Loader, a leading international scholar, seek to provide just that, offering a careful contemporary translation and a concise, informed commentary, as a resource for preachers, for people wanting an intelligent faith, and for group study and discussion. Follow...
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    25,90 €

  • Following Matthew
    William Loader
    What are the main things one needs to be aware of in order to take Matthew seriously as a witness to faith? This commentary seeks to read Matthew in the context of its world without glossing over the challenges that such an open and positive critical engagement presents. It provides a careful contemporary translation and a concise, informed commentary designed as a practical re...
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    25,92 €

  • Following John
    William Loader
    This is an alternative commentary, concise, up-to-date, readable, and engaging the biblical text as a cross-cultural encounter. It both acknowledges the distance and difference of John’s Gospel from our contemporary world as well as highlighting its proximity and relevance. The commentary explores John’s special emphases, imagery, and distinctive creativity in portraying Jesus’...
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    20,59 €

  • Following Mark
    William Loader
    This book offers an alternative commentary--concise, up-to-date, readable, engaging the text as a cross-cultural encounter, acknowledging distance and difference from our contemporary world as well as highlighting proximity and relevance. It is written by a leading international New Testament scholar and designed for individual and group use. The commentary looks at Mark’s spec...
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    19,71 €

  • St. Patrick and the Helicopter
    William Loader
    This book comes from the playground of imagination. It is the work of a leading international specialist in New Testament studies with a passion for making the findings of New Testament research accessible for a wide readership. From children’s stories to liturgies, poems to subversively provocative fantasies, it invites the reader to play, to reflect, and to be confronted. Thi...
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    25,50 €

  • Myths on the Margins
    William Loader
    Can myths be true? Hiding behind their unreality is often deep meaning waiting to be uncovered. This book explores four myths first found on the margins of Israel’s faith. Over time these myths became major resources for understanding and articulating faith. They began as stories of wicked angels, kings claiming to be gods, and women whom men should fear. They then developed to...
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    17,94 €

  • Sex, Then and Now
    William Loader
    How did the biblical authors and the people of their time view sex and sexual issues? This book takes the reader into their world. It offers a careful reading of these ancient texts and how they would have been understood in the context of their time. Did they see sex positively or as something dangerous? How did they view marriage? How do their views of marriage relate to the ...
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    19,75 €

  • What Can Love Hope For?
    William Loader
    This book raises thorny questions about the themes of faith, hope, and love. Is God really like Jesus or was Jesus a temporary exception to the way God usually is? Was there forgiveness before the cross? Will God one day stop loving? What do we do with the fact that the hopes they had for change were not fulfilled? What happened to good news for the poor? Why did some replace i...
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    18,75 €

  • Jesus in John’s Gospel
    William Loader
     The culmination of a lifetime of work on the Gospel of John, William Loader's Jesus in John's Gospel explores the Fourth Gospel with a focus on ways in which attention to the structure of Christology in John allows for greater understanding of Johannine themes and helps resolve long-standing interpretive impasses. Following an introductory examination of Rudolf Bultman...
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    54,30 €

  • Sexuality in the New Testament
    William Loader
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    25,50 €

  • Making Sense of Sex
    William Loader
    This book is about listening to what writers were saying about sex in early Judaism and Christianity -- ancient words surprisingly relevant for today. It functions as both a summary and a conclusion to William Loader’s five previous books on sexuality in a form accessible to those who may not have a background knowledge of early Judaism and Christianity. It also contains a usef...
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    31,60 €

  • The New Testament on Sexuality
    William Loader
    This is the fifth and final installment of William Loader’s authoritative, acclaimed series on attitudes toward sexuality in the ancient world.Sexual themes are never far beneath the surface where there are human beings. This was certainly the case for Christians in the first-century world. Some began in a strongly Jewish context and worked out their faith in dialogue with thei...
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    77,22 €

  • Philo, Josephus, and the Testaments on Sexuality
    William Loader
    Philo, Josephus, and the Testaments on Sexuality is the fourth of five volumes by William Loader exploring attitudes toward sexuality in Judaism and Christianity during the Greco-Roman era. In this volume Loader examines three substantial and historically important sets of documents the writings of Philo of Alexandria, the histories of Josephus, and the Testaments of the Twelve...
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    77,57 €

  • The Pseudepigrapha on Sexuality
    William Loader
    The Pseudepigrapha on Sexuality is the third of five volumes by William Loader exploring attitudes toward sexuality in Judaism and Christianity during the Greco-Roman era. In this volume Loader investigates in detail a large, diverse collection of more than forty Jewish apocryphal and pseudepigraphal writings and fragments composed between the third century b.c.e. and the end o...
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    74,90 €

  • The Dead Sea Scrolls on Sexuality
    William Loader
    The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls brought to light the richest collection of early Jewish writings ever retrieved from the ancient world, including copies of biblical writings centuries older than other surviving manuscripts. Their gradual publication unleashed a flurry of research and considerable speculation. One such area of speculation concerns the understanding of sexu...
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    51,22 €

  • Enoch, Levi, and Jubilees on Sexuality
    William Loader
    Enoch, Levi, and Jubilees on Sexuality marks a first stage in William Loader's research on attitudes toward sexuality in Judaism and Christianity of the Hellenistic Greco-Roman era. Loader first discusses the early Enoch literature relevant to the theme, focusing on the impact of an ancient myth on the writings and examining how sexual deeds are not here concerned with sexu...
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    49,28 €

  • The New Testament with Imagination
    William Loader
    The dynamic teachings of the New Testament are often lost in the dryness and formality of academic study. In The New Testament with Imagination William Loader seeks to solve this conundrum. He brings imagination into play to enter the world of the New Testament and carefully reads key sample passages to go right to the heart of its message. This book offers a unique new way of...
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    26,82 €

  • Sexuality and the Jesus Tradition
    William Loader
    Discourse related to sex excites passion and debate, partly because sexuality is a central aspect of what it means to be human. Following up on his recent book on sexuality in the Septuagint, William Loader here explores what the Christian Gospels and related writings have to say about sexuality, how they reflect the faith and social values of their day, and what impact they’ve...
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    40,13 €

  • The Septuagint, Sexuality, and the New Testament
    William Loader
    In this groundbreaking book William Loader shows how the Greek translation of the Hebrew Scriptures created new slants and emphases on sexuality that would leave their mark on the writings of Philo and the New Testament--and ultimately on Christian thought itself. According to Loader, "Some things are lost in translation, others gained." The making of the Septuagint could not h...
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    24,69 €

  • Jesus and the Fundamentalism of His Day
    William Loader
    This is a print on demand book and is therefore non- returnable. ...
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    24,73 €