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Introducing the New Testament: order inspection copies for next term!

We’ve just had a wonderful review in for Henry Wansbrough's textbook Introducing the New Testament. The Expository Times calls it "an exceptional work that deserves the place on the reading list of any first-year course on the New Testament". So if you teach a relevant course, why not request a free inspection/exam copy from us?

This comprehensive handbook covers the entire New Testament from historical and theological perspectives, whilst also focusing on inspiration and meaning. It features maps, chapter summaries, sample essay questions, chapter bibliographies and reading lists, as well as an annotated glossary of key terms.

You can order your inspection copy online simply by visiting the book’s webpage and clicking on the ‘request inspection copy’ button.

You can also preview the book here. 

And praise for the book doesn’t stop with this new review! 

“Henry Wansbrough is excellent company in this tour through the New Testament. He has an easy style, and a gift for conveying technical information with clarity.” – Frances McDonagh, Sofia

“This introduction arises out of years of reflection and teaching. This is illustrated by both the depth and the clarity of its writing. It is a joy to read and should find a place on the bookshelves of any serious student of the New Testament.” – Paula R. Gooder, Theologian in Residence, Bible Society, UK

“In this accessible and wide-ranging introduction, Henry Wansbrough shows himself to be a gifted teacher as well as a fine biblical scholar. He provides just the right amount of information to illuminate the Jewish and Greco-Roman worlds from which the New Testament writings emerge, and succinctly presents the distinctive characteristics of each book. Nor are important questions of divine inspiration and canonicity neglected. Wansbrough amply demonstrates how historical criticism still has much to contribute to contemporary biblical scholarship.” – Ian Boxall, The Catholic University of America, USA

“This is a prodigious achievement, the fruit of a lifetime spent in attentive study of the Scriptures. Henry Wansbrough has produced a really admirable introduction to the twenty-seven documents that constitute our New Testament, and to some of the issues that beset the reading of them today. This is a work that is in touch with the latest scholarship, but is nevertheless couched in happily accessible language. It can be put safely into the hands of beginners and rewardingly onto the desk of those who have gone more deeply into the subject. A wide range of readers will profit from their encounter with this remarkable volume.” – Nicholas King, Oxford University, UK

“Introducing the New Testament is at once accessible, scholarly, and theological. With Father Wansbrough as their guide, readers can be assured that they are engaging the tough questions of history even as they enrich and deepen their understanding of the meaning and world of the New Testament.” – Candida Moss, University of Notre Dame, USA

New monographs from Biblical Studies (November)

And finally, we can take a look at some of the new series monographs we published last month.

These include:

Children’s Bibles in America: A Reception History of the Story of Noah’s Ark in US Children’s Bibles

By Russell Dalton

Russell Dalton's wonderful book explores the depiction and representation of specific biblical stories in children's Bibles throughout American history. His survey reveals both the remarkable malleability of biblical narratives and also helps index America’s diverse and changing approaches to religion, childhood, and morality. As part of the Scriptural Traces series, the focus is on reception history of the Bible, and this volume perfect complements the other volumes in the series.

Buy it, and other ST volumes, here!

Composite Citations in Antiquity

edited by Sean A Adams and Seth Ehorn

After running into the editors of this fabulous new Library of New Testament Studies series volume at AAR/SBL this year, we're thrilled to post not just an image of the book cover, but the book itself being held by Sean Adams and Seth Ehorn:

The first of two volumes, this work identifies the existence and use of composite citations by Early Jewish, Greco-Roman and Early Christian authors. The essays focus on central issues and explore the rhetorical/literary impact of specific quotations in their textual locations, and whether the intended audiences would have recognised and reverse engineered the composite citations. Professor Christopher Stanley has contributed a final essay which reflects on the essays and draws them together. This volume challenges the assumption that composite citations were specifically and exclusively a Jewish literary phenomenon.

Find the table of contents, and buy it here!

Luke’s Christology of Divine Identity

by Nina Henrichs-Tarasenkova

Nina Henrichs-Tarasenkova employs a narrative approach to establish how Luke binds Jesus' identity to the divine identity of YHWH and concludes that the Lukan narrative does in fact portray Jesus as God, when it shows that Jesus shares YHWH's divine identity. She argues against a long tradition regarding how best to represent Luke's Christology.

Find it here!

Finally, we switch to the Hebrew Bible with Michael K. Snearly's

The Return of the King: Messianic Expectation in Book V of the Psalter

In this work, Michael Snearly argues that the arrangement of Book V of the Psalter witnesses to a renewed hope in the promises made to David.

'Michael Snearly has succeeded masterfully in making his case that the Psalter’s final message includes a strong affirmation of the Davidic kingship alongside the divine kingship. His knowledge of the relevant literature is encyclopedic, his methodology is careful and precise, and his writing is clear and persuasive.' -David M. Howard, Jr., Professor of Old Testament, Bethel University, USA.

 

'His focus on the shaping and purpose of Book V of the Psalter makes a major contribution to the ongoing discussion in this area and other Psalms scholars (like myself) will certainly want and need to take account of his arguments and conclusion.'

J. Clinton McCann, Eden Theological Seminary, USA

 

You can buy this gem here!

A Church of Passion and Hope published by T&T Clark

Continuing our effort to shine a spotlight on some quality publications we wouldn't want you to have missed this November (or was it just us that found SBL so preoccupying?!), here is the excellent book by Sr Gill Goulding which we published this November, and which was presented to the Pope himself, no less!

A Church of Passion and Hope:

The Formation of An Ecclesial Disposition from Ignatius Loyola to Pope Francis and the New Evangelization

Pope Francis is the first Jesuit Pope, but his appointment marks a culmination of generations of contribution to the life and theological development of the Church from the Jesuit community. Jesuits were called by Ignatius Loyola to a certain ecclesial disposition, which Gill Goulding discusses here in relation to key texts from St Ignatius's life and work. In so doing, we are brought into encounter with such key historical figures as St Pierre Favre and Mary Ward, Henri de Lubac and Avery Dulles. Goulding raises the key question of the relationship between Christ and the Church as body of Christ, and shows the importance of maintaining a Trinitarian understanding.

'a book full of wonderful insights' - Terrence Prendergast, S.J., Archbishop of Ottawa, Canada

'Goulding shows how this ecclesial disposition can offer "passion and hope" to the New Evangelization. The book enriches both Ignatian studies and ecclesiology.' - Brian O'Leary, S.J. Milltown Institute, Ireland

'One cannot read this book without feeling the call to communion in the Church.' - Fr Timothy Gallagher, O.M.V Saint Clement Eucharistic Shrine, USA

Buy this excellent book here!

Two new volumes by John Webster published by T&T Clark this November

With all of the excitement from AAR/SBL this year, you would be forgiven for thinking Bloomsbury T&T Clark publications had been quiet in the month of November. But never fear, there were plenty of exciting publications, including the two following gems from Professor Webster at St Andrews, UK:

God Without Measure: Working Papers in Christian Theology. Volume I: God and the Works of God

The first of two volumes from John Webster, these essays bring together studies in a range of topics in dogmatic and moral theology. John Webster's own theological explorations discuss the themes of God's inner being and His outer acts.

'God Without Measure is a mature work of theological revival. Many of these essays are jewels in their own right, yet when read together they reveal the working of a first-class theological mind in its prime developing a consistent conception of the task of systematics and directed at matters of first theology: God's life in itself and then towards the world.' - Kevin J. Vanhoozer, Trinity Evangelical School, USA

You can buy this volume here!

God Without Measure: Working Papers in Christian Theology: Volume 2: Virtue and Intellect

In the second volume, the two of which serve as companions to John Webster's work The Domain of the Word, the discussion progresses to topics in moral theology, and conflicted theology of created intellect. Reflections cover a range of ethical themes: the nature of human dignity, mercy, the place of sorrow in Christian existence, the nature of human courage, dying and rising with Christ and the presence of sin in human speech.

'Always in service to Jesus Christ, Webster lays our basic components of the moral life, seamlessly and astutely drawing upon the Fathers, Aquinas, Calvin, John Owen, and Barth... This is a work of a contemporary master to whom all Christians must attend.'

Matthew Levering, Mundelein Seminary, USA

'the various essays here will repay careful study and consideration.'

David Fergusson, University of Edinburgh, UK

Buy volume 2 here!