Character & scripture: moral formation, community and biblical interpretation

The following collection of essays does not provide another literary or sociohistory analysis of the Bible. The volume, rather, offers ways of reading Scripture that have been all but lost in the g…

Seeing the Psalms: a theology of metaphor

Two years ago at a small adult Sunday School class, the topic for discussion was how God Works in and through people. Near the end of the hour Curtis, a disable African American Vietnam vet who had…

Character in crisis: a fresh approach to the wis..

This study demonstrates that the aim of the Bible's wisdom literature is the formation of the moral character of both individuals and the believing community. Brown traces the theme of moral identi…

Wisdom's wonder: character, creation and crisis in..

Wisdom's Wonder offers a fresh reading of the Hebrew Bible's wisdom literature with a unique emphasis on "wonder" as the framework for understanding biblical wisdom. William Brown argues that wonde…

Obadiah through Malachi

Books in this collection assist in their study of the Bible as aguide to Christian faith and practice. Each book seeks both to explain the biblical book in its original historical context and explo…

The ethos of the cosmos: the genesis of moral imagination in the Bible

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0-8028-4539-8

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xviii,458p.; 24 cm.

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231.765 BRO e

God who creates: essays in honor of W. Sibley Towner

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0-8028-4626-2

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xx,273p.; 23 cm.

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231.765 BRO g