Sacred Texts

Preachers often struggle with preaching Old Testament poetry. They are uncertain how to preach the highly emotive poems in Psalms, the one-liners i...

What does it mean to read the Bible 'literally'? Recent debates on the Protestant reformers have focused on whether they were stridently literal in...

What does it mean to read the Bible 'literally'? Recent debates on the Protestant reformers have focused on whether they were stridently literal in...

This volume explores the idea of the unruly book, from books now known by their titles alone to books that subverted structures of power and gender...

A new account of racial logics in premodern Islamic literature.   In Black Knights, Rachel Schine reveals how the Arabic-speaking world developed a...

Walk the path of holiness, stir your faith in God, and break free from the bonds of a sinful nature with Joyce Meyer's Galatians commentary, featur...

Let the wisdom of Colossians transform relationships in every area of your life -- home, church, and even the world -- with this study guide from r...

A new account of racial logics in premodern Islamic literature.   In Black Knights, Rachel Schine reveals how the Arabic-speaking world developed a...

Reading the Sacred Scriptures: From Oral Tradition to Written Documents and their Reception examines how the scriptures came to be written and how ...

The Bible is the living word of God. More than 2,000 times in the Old Testament alone, the Bible asserts that God spoke what is recorded in its pag...

The men depicted in the Bible were not perfect by any means. We find story after story marked by scandal, failure, and intrigue. Yet we also find m...

Playing in the Dust offers a fresh and forward looking way of reading the creation stories. Here are the foundations for an adventurous, undefended...

Nine short essays exploring the Kiche Maya story of creation, the Popol Vuh.   Written during the lockdown in Chicago in the depths of the COVID-19...

This book is the second of two volumes which reflect on the trend in biblical scholarship that contrasts the vision of the historical Jesus with th...