Fourteen members of The Context Group honor Bruce J. Malina and his scholarship in this volume by following his consistent example of developing or using explic

How the earliest churches understood healing.

Analyzes sixty-three subjects from the Bible from a cross-cultural perspective.

This two-volume set is part of a growing body of literature concerned with the history of biblical interpretation. The ample introduction first situates key pla

Contributions by internationally known scholars from the United States, Germany, Scotland, Spain, and Canada move beyond many of the impasses in historical Jesu