Writing The Eyes Are Sunlight not only allowed Shirley Koers to work through the grief of a deep, personal loss, it provided a “faith experience in which I confronted the demands of God in the depths of my soul." The experience resulted in a superbly written and soothing reflection on the death of her husband and her own grieving process. “However,” she explains, “the story is incidenta…
For too long students have had to resort to nineteenth-century works for scholarly, evangelical studies of Jesus' parables. At last they can turn to a contemporary analysis of the parables by an acknowledged New Testament scholar. While the exposition is in non-technical language, the footnotes are laden with references to scholarly monographs and discussions of technical matters. Each of th…
When Turnabout was first published in 1978, to discuss the woman alcoholic separately and to see that her needs in recovery differed significantly from those of the male alcoholic were totally new concepts. Even more startling was the suggestion that the woman alcoholic should have a self-help program just for her. Prior this, most professionals believed that the program of Alcoholics Anonymous…
The Word Biblical Commentary delivers the best in biblical scholarship, from the leading scholars of our day who share a commitment to Scripture as divine revelation. This series emphasizes a thorough analysis of textual, linguistic, structural, and theological evidence. The result is judicious and balanced insight into the meanings of the text in the framework of biblical theology. These widel…
This small volume was written as a refutation of the Bishop of Birmingham's claims attacking the traditional views about the life of Christ and the beginnings of the Christian Church.