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  • What Have They Done with Jesus?

    Beyond Strange Theories and Bad History—Why We Can Trust the Bible

    Strange theories about Jesus seem to ooze from our culture with increasing regularity. Ben Witherington, one of the top Jesus scholars, will have none of it. There were no secret Gnostic teachings in the first century. With leading scholars and popular purveyors of bad history in his crosshairs, Witherington reveals what we can—and cannot—claim to know about the real Jesus. The Bible, not outside ... Read more

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  • The Denouement

    A Collection of Poems

    Metaphysical poetry is poetry that ponders some of the more profound aspects of Christian theology ranging from the relationship of human beings created in God’s image to the rest of creation, to the nature and purpose of what God has called human beings to both be and do. In this, now the sixth collection of Ben Witherington’s poems written mostly in the twenty-first century, the focus is on the ... Read more

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  • The Letters to Philemon, the Colossians, and the Ephesians

    A Socio-Rhetorical Commentary on the Captivity Epistles

    This volume completes Ben Witherington's contributions to the set of Eerdmans socio-rhetorical commentaries on the New Testament.In addition to the usual features of these commentaries, Witherington offers an innovative way of looking at Colossians, Ephesians, and Philemon as interrelated documents written at different levels of moral discourse. Colossians is first-order moral discourse (the ... Read more

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  • Paul of Arabia

    The Hidden Years of the Apostle to the Gentiles

    What does a person do when his life has just taken a complete U-turn? This was the question Paul faced after his conversion on Damascus Road. In the end, he decided to go to Petran Arabia, where he stayed for more than two years. In this exercise in reconstructing what Paul's time in Petra would have been like, Ben Witherington recreates the scene of various interesting possible episodes in Paul's ... Read more

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  • Grace in Galatia

    A Commentary on Paul's Letter to the Galatians

    Grace in Galatia is an innovative socio-rhetorical study of Paul's most polemical letter. Ben Witherington breaks new ground by analyzing the whole of Galatians as a deliberative discourse meant to forestall the Galatians from submitting to circumcision and the Jewish law.The commentary features the latest discussion of major problems in Pauline studies, including Paul's view of the law and the ... Read more

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  • Letters and Homilies for Jewish Christians

    A Socio-Rhetorical Commentary on Hebrews, James and Jude

    In this commentary on Hebrews, James and Jude, Ben Witherington III applies his socio-rhetorical method to elucidate these letters within their primarily Jewish context, probing the social setting of the readers and the rhetorical strategies of the authors of the letters. ... Read more

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  • Rethinking Biblical and Systematic Theology

    In this volume Ben Witherington seeks to clarify the differences between biblical and systematic theology and deal with the many factors that have to be taken into account to do either of these forms of theology well. He points out the problems with abstracting ideas or concepts from the narrative thought world that exists in the Bible, which results in ignoring or distorting the original ... Read more

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  • The Gospel of Mark

    A Socio-Rhetorical Commentary

    This book offers the first sustained attempt to read the Gospel of Mark both as an ancient biography and as a form of ancient rhetoric. Ben Witherington applies to Mark the socio-rhetorical approach for which he is well known, opening a fresh new perspective on the earliest Gospel.Written when the fledging Christian faith was experiencing a major crisis during the Jewish war, Mark provides us with ... Read more

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  • The Rest of Life

    Rest, Play, Eating, Studying, Sex from a Kingdom Perspective

    When was the last time you heard a sermon on the theological importance of play? What do rest, eating, studying -- and sex -- have to do with the Kingdom of God? Strangely, although these activities together take up much of our time, they seldom receive much discussion from a biblical point of view.In The Rest of Life Ben Witherington explores these subjects in the light of biblical teaching about ... Read more

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  • Work

    A Kingdom Perspective on Labor

    Most Christians spend most of their waking hours working, yet many regard work as at best a necessary evil — just one more unfortunate by-product of humanity's fall from grace. Not so, says Ben Witherington III, and in Work: A Kingdom Perspective on Labor, he considers work as neither the curse nor the cure of human life but, rather, as something good that God has given us to do. In this brief ... Read more

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  • Paul's Letter to the Romans

    A Socio-Rhetorical Commentary

    While Paul's letter to the Romans is the most studied and commented-on document from the biblical period, the major exegetical books on Romans from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries have been overwhelmingly shaped by the Reformed tradition. Through a careful survey of work on Romans by both ancient Church Fathers and modern exegetical scholars, Ben Witherington III here argues that the ... Read more

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  • Who God Is

    Meditations on the Character of Our God

    Do you know the character of our God--do you know who God is?What does it mean to say that God is love, light, life, and spirit? In Who God Is, world-renowned New Testament scholar Ben Witherington III explores the nature and character of the God of the Bible by focusing specifically on the nouns used to describe who God is. This rich exploration has its foundation in a deep reading of the ... Read more

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