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J.","isbn":"0804231370","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"John Knox Press"},"datePublished":"1985","inLanguage":"English","description":"Published in: Atlanta : J\n\nPhysical description: viii, 244 pages ; 24 cm.","bookEdition":null,"offers":{"@type":"Offer","availability":"https:\/\/schema.org\/OutOfStock"}}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":4,"item":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"Book","name":"The central message of the New Testament","author":"Jeremias, J.","isbn":"0800616189","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Fortress Press"},"datePublished":"1965","inLanguage":"English","description":"Published in: Philadelphia ; New York\n\nPhysical description: 95 pages ; 18 cm","bookEdition":null,"offers":{"@type":"Offer","availability":"https:\/\/schema.org\/OutOfStock"}}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":5,"item":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"Book","name":"The good news according to Luke","author":"Schweizer, E.","isbn":"0804202494","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"John Knox Press"},"datePublished":"1984","inLanguage":"English","description":"Published in: Atlanta : J\n\nPhysical description: xv, 392 pages ; 21 cm","bookEdition":null,"offers":{"@type":"Offer","availability":"https:\/\/schema.org\/OutOfStock"}}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":6,"item":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"Book","name":"The Gospel according to Mark : an introduction and commentary","author":"Cole, R. A.","isbn":"0802804810","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Inter-Varsity Press"},"datePublished":"1989","inLanguage":"English","description":"Published in: Leicester, England ; Downers G\n\nPhysical description: 340 pages ; 20 cm.","bookEdition":null,"offers":{"@type":"Offer","availability":"https:\/\/schema.org\/OutOfStock"}}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":7,"item":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"Book","name":"The gospel in parable : metaphor, narrative, and theology in the Synoptic Gospels \/ John R. Donahue.","author":"Donahue, J. R.","isbn":"0800624807","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Fortress Press"},"datePublished":"1988","inLanguage":"English","description":"Contents:\t1. How does a parable mean? -- Introduction -- The parable as text -- The parable as narrative -- The parable as context -- 2. The parables of Mark -- Introduction -- Parables and the mystery of the kingdom: Mark 4 -- The drama of salvation history in Mark 12 -- Community life \"between the times\": the parables of Mark 13 -- 3. The parables of Matthew -- Introduction -- Ethics and discipleship: Matthew's redaction of Mark 4 -- The justice of the kingdom in Matthew -- Matthew's debate with \"the synagogue across the street\" -- The eschatological crisis and the parables of Matthew 24 and 25 -- 4. The parables of Luke -- Introduction -- Luke's theological program: The Good Samaritan in context -- Table fellowship with the marginal and Luke's gospel in parable -- A \"gospel within a gospel\": The parables of Luke 15 -- The parables of Luke 16 and rich and poor in Luke's gospel -- Trial by prayer: the parables of the widow and the judge and the Pharisee and the tax collector -- 5.The gospel in parable -- The Gospel of Mark: Christology and discipleship in parable -- Eschatology, ethics, and the Good News of the Kingdom: Matthew's gospel in parable -- Parables and paradigms for a community in mission: Luke's gospel in parable -- Proclaiming the gospel in parable. \r\n\r\nOther Notes:        \tIncludes bibliographical references (pages 220-233). Includes indexes.\n\nPublished in: Philadelphia ; New York\n\nPhysical description: xi, 254 pages ; 22 cm.","bookEdition":null,"offers":{"@type":"Offer","availability":"https:\/\/schema.org\/OutOfStock"}}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":8,"item":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"Book","name":"The heart of evangelism","author":"Barrs, J..","isbn":"1581341539","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Crossway Books"},"datePublished":"2001","inLanguage":"English","description":"Published in: Wheaton\n\nPhysical description: 287 pages ; 22 cm","bookEdition":null,"offers":{"@type":"Offer","availability":"https:\/\/schema.org\/OutOfStock"}}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":9,"item":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"Book","name":"The IVP Bible background commentary : New Testament","author":"Keener, C. S.","isbn":"0830814051","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"InterVarsity Press"},"datePublished":"1993","inLanguage":"English","description":"Published in: Downers Grove, Ill\n\nPhysical description: 831 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm","bookEdition":null,"offers":{"@type":"Offer","availability":"https:\/\/schema.org\/OutOfStock"}}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":10,"item":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"Book","name":"The Jesus quest : the third search for the Jew of Nazareth \/ Ben Witherington III.","author":"Witherington, B.","isbn":"0830815449","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"InterVarsity Press"},"datePublished":"1995","inLanguage":"English","description":"Contents:\tPreface : the first two quests -- Galilee & the Galilean : Jesus in his social setting -- Jesus the talking head : the Jesus of the Jesus Seminar -- Jesus the itinerant cynic philosopher : the works of John Dominic Crossan, Burton Mack and F. Gerald Downing -- Jesus, man of the Spirit : the works of Marcus Borg, Geza Vermes and Graham H. Twelftree -- Jesus the eschatological prophet : the works of E.P. Sanders and Maurice Casey -- Jesus the prophet of social change : the works of Gerd Theissen, Richard A. Horsley and R. David Kaylor -- Jesus the sage : the wisdom of God : the works of Elisabeth Schu\u0308ssler Fiorenza and Ben Witherington -- Jesus : marginal Jew or Jewish Messiah? : the works of John P. Meier, Peter Stulmacher, James D.G. Dunn, Marinus de Jonge, Markus Bockmuehl and N.T. Wright -- The journey's end : synopsis, conclusions, conjectures -- The death of the Messiah : the work of Raymond E. Brown. \r\n\r\nAbstract:\t\"Who is the Jesus behind the Gospel narratives? How would he have been understood by his contemporaries? Did the church transform a charismatic rabbi or a peasant-philosopher into its heavenly, incarnate Lord? Does the key to Jesus' real identity actually lie in the Gospel of Thomas, the Gospel of Peter or other noncanonical Jesus literature suppressed by the ancient orthodox church? What do the sects, parties and movements of Jewish Palestine tell us about the real Jesus, his words, his actions and his intentions?\" \"These are the questions being asked by a new generation of investigators of the man behind the origin of Christianity. Dubbed the Third Quest of the historical Jesus, this renewed effort is a transformation of the first quest, memorialized and chronicled by Albert Schweitzer, and the second quest, carried out in the 1950s and 1960s in the wake of extreme Bultmannian skepticism. Now in the 1990s, with the time, place and social setting of Jesus newly illumined by renewed and vigorous investigation of the Dead Sea Scrolls and other Jewish and Hellenistic sources, there has appeared a surge of scholarly books on Jesus within his Jewish and Mediterranean environment.\" \"The controversial works of John Dominic Crossan, Marcus Borg and Burton Mack, and the results of the Jesus Seminar have been thrust upon the public by publicists and media as the voices of learned consensus. Meanwhile, at the center of the scholarly investigation of Jesus, a less celebrated but certainly no less informed majority rejects many of the methods and conclusions of those who have captured the limelight.\"--Jacket.\r\n\r\nOther Notes\tIncludes bibliographical references (pages 288-294) and indexes.\n\nPublished in: Downers Grove, Ill.\n\nPhysical description: 304 pages ; 24 cm.","bookEdition":null,"offers":{"@type":"Offer","availability":"https:\/\/schema.org\/OutOfStock"}}}]}