E Randolph Richards – författare

Det som var självklart när Bibelns böcker skrevs är inte lika självklart för en västerländsk läsare på 2000-talet. Utan att vara medvetna om det fyller vi därför ut luckorna – det som är underförstått i texten – med värderingar och förutsättningar som gäller i vår kultur i dag. I Utan västerländska glasögon visar teologerna Brandon J O’Brien och E Randolph Richards vad som händer om vi försöker bortse från vår kulturella förförståelse för att i stället se vad Bibelns författare egentligen tänkte om bland annat relationer, tid, pengar, rätt och fel, sedvänjor och dygder. Med utgångspunkt från sina egna interkulturella erfarenheter förklarar de hur en ökad självmedvetenhet och insikt om kulturella skillnader kan hjälpa oss att läsa Bibeln på ett helt nytt sätt.

Ancient Literature for New Testament Studies is a multivolume series that seeks to introduce key ancient texts that form the cultural, historical, and literary context for the study of the New Testament.Each volume will feature introductory essays to the corpus, followed by articles on the relevant texts. Each article will address introductory matters, provenance, summary of content, interpretive issues, key passages for New Testament studies and their significance.Neither too technical to be used by students nor too thin on interpretive information to be useful for serious study of the New Testament, this series provides a much-needed resource for understanding the New Testament in its first-century Jewish and Greco-Roman context. Produced by an international team of leading experts in each corpus, Ancient Literature for New Testament Studies stands to become the standard resource for both scholars and students. Volumes include:Apocrypha and the SeptuagintOld Testament PseudepigraphaThe Dead Sea ScrollsThe Apostolic FathersPhilo and JosephusGreco-Roman LiteratureTargums and Early Rabbinic LiteratureGnostic LiteratureNew Testament Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha

The Bible was written within collectivist cultures. When Westerners, immersed in individualism, read the Bible, it''s easy to misinterpret important elements—or miss them altogether. In any culture, the most important things usually go without being said. So to read Scripture well we benefit when we uncover the unspoken social structures and values of its world. We need to recalibrate our vision.Combining the expertise of a biblical scholar and a missionary practitioner, Misreading Scripture with Individualist Eyes is an essential guidebook to the cultural background of the Bible and how it should inform our reading. E. Randolph Richards and Richard James explore deep social structures of the ancient Mediterranean—kinship, patronage, and brokerage—along with their key social tools—honor, shame, and boundaries—that the biblical authors lived in and lie below the surface of each text. From Abraham, Sarah, and Hagar to Peter''s instructions to elders, theauthors strip away individualist assumptions and bring the world of the biblical writers to life.Expanding on the popular Misreading Scripture with Western Eyes, this book makes clear how understanding collectivism will help us better understand the Bible, which in turn will help us live more faithfully in an increasingly globalized world.

Readers'' Choice Awards Honorable MentionOne of Nijay Gupta''s Best Academic New Testament BooksWho is your Jesus? Matthew''s teacher? John''s Word made flesh? Hebrews'' great high priest? What if it turned out that your Jesus is a composite of your favorite selections from the New Testament buffet, garnished with some Hollywood and Americana?Rediscovering Jesus takes us on a gallery tour of biblical portraits of Jesus, from Matthew through Revelation. Our expert guides point out the background and highlights of each New Testament image of Jesus. Then we hit the streets to visit other houses of worship and their scriptures, examining the Jesus of the Book of Mormon and the Qur''an. Popping into a bookstore, we browse the latest on the Gnostic and the historical Jesus. Then we''re off on a walking tour of Jesus in America, followed by a film festival of Jesus movies.All along the way our tour guides describe and interpret, but also raise questions: How is this Jesus different from other portraits? If this were our only portrait of Jesus, what would our faith be like?Rediscovering Jesus is an enjoyable, informative and challenging look at how we encounter Jesus in Scripture and our culture. With ample sidebars exploring contexts and the "so what?" questions, it takes us beyond other surveys by probing how our understanding of Jesus can make a difference for faith and life. From the authors of Rediscovering Paul, this is a textbook introduction to Jesus that guides us in our pilgrimage toward seeing Jesus truly.