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Inventing superstition : from the Hippocratics to the Christians
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ISBN: 0674015347 9780674015340 0674024079 0674040694 Year: 2004 Publisher: Cambridge: Harvard university press,

Sex and the single Savior : gender and sexuality in biblical interpretation.
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ISBN: 0664230466 9780664230463 Year: 2006 Publisher: Louisville Westminster/John Knox Press

Inventing superstition
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ISBN: 0674040694 9780674040694 0674015347 9780674015340 9780674024076 Year: 2004 Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts

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Dale Martin provides a detailed genealogy of the idea of superstition, its history over eight centuries, from classical Greece to the Christianized Roman Empire of the fourth century C.E.


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New Testament history and literature
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ISBN: 1299464351 0300182198 9780300182194 0300180853 9780300180855 9781299464353 Year: 2012 Publisher: New Haven Yale University Press

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In this engaging introduction to the New Testament, Professor Dale B. Martin presents a historical study of the origins of Christianity by analyzing the literature of the earliest Christian movements. Focusing mainly on the New Testament, he also considers nonbiblical Christian writings of the era. Martin begins by making a powerful case for the study of the New Testament. He next sets the Greco-Roman world in historical context and explains the place of Judaism within it. In the discussion of each New Testament book that follows, the author addresses theological themes, then emphasizes the significance of the writings as ancient literature and as sources for historical study. Throughout the volume, Martin introduces various early Christian groups and highlights the surprising variations among their versions of Christianity.


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Biblical Truths : The Meaning of Scripture in the Twenty-first Century
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ISBN: 0300227914 9780300227918 9780300222838 0300222831 Year: 2017 Publisher: New Haven, CT : Yale University Press,

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A leading biblical scholar's landmark work challenges the historical realism that has dominated the discipline for more than two centuries How can a modern person, informed by science and history, continue to recite the traditional creeds and confessions of the Christian church? What does the Bible mean and how do we verify biblical truths? In this groundbreaking book, a leading biblical scholar urges readers to be more creative interpreters of biblical texts, mapping out an alternative way of reading that is not first and foremost about understanding what those texts would have meant for the original authors and readers.   Limiting our study to the ancient meaning of the text, he argues, has produced either bad history, or bad theology, or both. One cannot derive robustly orthodox Christian doctrine or theology from a mere "historical" interpretation of the Bible. Martin offers instead theological readings of the New Testament that are faithful to Christian orthodoxy as generally understood, but without attempting a "foundationalist" understanding of the meaning of the text. His provocative and ambitious book demonstrates how theology and scripture can remain vital in the twenty-first century.


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Biblical Truths : The Meaning of Scripture in the Twenty-First Century
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ISBN: 9780300222838 Year: 2017 Publisher: New Haven Yale University Press

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Inventing Superstition : From the Hippocratics to the Christians
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ISBN: 9780674040694 Year: 2022 Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press

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Jews, antiquity, and the nineteenth-century imagination
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ISBN: 1883053781 Year: 2003 Publisher: Bethesda (Md.) : University Press of Maryland,

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