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New New Testament Theology

In his letter to the Galatians, Paul sets out an astute vision of what God has done in Christ against the backdrop of a world out of joint, a world engulfed in identity-distorting domination systems. Theologically profound and prophetically challenging, Galatians showcases God’s initiative to empower liberation from those systems and their relational toxicity. For Paul, the union of Christ with his followers fosters flourishing forms of relational life that testify to the sovereign power of God over all competing forces. In The Theology of the Letter to the Galatians, respected New Testament scholar Bruce W. Longenecker cuts through the complexity of a notoriously opaque text, disentangling and interpreting Paul’s discourse to reveal its multifaceted cosmology, its comprehensive coherence, and its penetrating analysis of humanity and the divine. Offering a new interpretation of Galatians, his volume synthesizes the best of four main interpretative alternatives, finding new solutions to scholarly gridlock.

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Bruce W. Longenecker is the Melton Chair of Religion at Baylor University. He is the author of In Stone and Story: Early Christianity in the Roman World, coeditor (with David Wilhite) of The Cambridge History of Ancient Christianity, and editor of The New Cambridge Companion to St. Paul and Greco-Roman Associations, Deities, and Early Christianity.

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Theological Imagination

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Beth Singler is Assistant Professor in Digital Religion(s) at the University of Zurich. She is a fellow of the International Society for Science and Religion, an associate fellow of Homerton College, University of Cambridge, an associate professor at the Digital Society Initiative, the University of Zurich, and a member of the Human Augmentation Research Network.

Fraser Watts is a former senior scientist at the UK Medical Research Council’s Applied Psychology Unit in Cambridge and has served as President of the British Psychological Society.

He is currently Visiting Professor in Psychology of Religion at the University of Lincoln.

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RELIGION

“This collected volume demarcates a new departure in the study of the formidable orator and enormously prolific Bishop Augustine of Hippo. It assembles a rich variety of perspectives on his still understudied body of sermons. This collection is a must for any serious student of Augustine who wants to learn more about the intricate interplay of his powerful rhetoric, of his tireless exploration of a wide array of facets of the faith, and of his desire to entice his audience to put faith into action.”

Professor Karla Pollmann, President, University of Tübingen Augustine of Hippo is known for some of the greatest theological masterpieces in Christian history, such as his Confessions, The Trinity, and The City of God. We also have over 900 of his sermons, a treasure trove of his insights into God, Scripture, and humanity.

Given the wide dissemination of many of these texts over the past 1600 years, Augustine is arguably the most influential preacher since the time of the apostles. In recent decades, scholars have paid more attention to his sermons, including those newly discovered, with the result that Augustine’s preaching has become increasingly accessible to nonspecialists. The Cambridge Companion to Augustine’s Sermons furthers this work by offering essays from an international team of experts as a reliable guide for students of early Christian biblical exegesis, liturgy, doctrine, social practices, and homiletics, as well as for those dedicated to the retrieval of early preaching for the Church today.

Andrew Hofer, OP, is Ordinary Professor at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, DC. He authored Christ in the Life and Teaching of Gregory of Nazianzus (Oxford University Press, 2013) and The Power of Patristic Preaching: The Word in Our Flesh (Catholic University of America Press, 2023).

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BIBLICAL NARRATIVE

This Cambridge Companion explores the fields of religion and AI comprehensively and provides an authoritative guide to their symbiotic relationship. It examines established topics, such as transhumanism, together with new and emerging fields, notably, computer simulations of religion. Specific chapters are devoted to Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism and Buddhism, while others demonstrate that entanglements between religion and AI are not always encapsulated through such a paradigm. Collectively, the volume addresses issues that AI raises for religions and contributions that AI has made to religious studies, especially the conceptual and philosophical issues inherent in the concept of an intelligent machine, and social-cultural work on attitudes to AI and its impact on contemporary life. The diverse perspectives in this Companion demonstrate how all religions are now interacting with AI.

The Theology of the Letter to the Galatians

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Keith Bodner is Professor of Religious Studies at Crandall University in New Brunswick. Previous publications include 1 Samuel: A Narrative Commentary (Sheffield Phoenix, 2008), After the Invasion: A Reading of Jeremiah 40–44 (Oxford University Press, 2015), and The Theology of the Book of Kings (Cambridge University Press, 2019). Along with Brent A. Strawn, he is the author of “Solomon and 666 (Revelation 13.18)” in the journal New Testament Studies; he also served as co-editor for a three-volume collection that includes Characters and Characterization in the Book of Judges with Benjamin J. M. Johnson. Recent books are The Psalms (Oxford University Press, 2024) and The Economy of Grace in the Parables of Jesus (Baker Academic, 2025).

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Reading Biblical Greek

The Cambridge Companion to Biblical Narrative offers an overview and a concise introduction to an exciting field within literary interpretation of the Hebrew Scriptures and the New Testament.

Analysis of biblical narrative has enjoyed a resurgence in recent decades, and this volume features essays that explore many of the artistic techniques that readers encounter in an array of texts. Specially commissioned for this volume, the chapters analyze various scenes in Genesis, Exodus and the wilderness wanderings, Israel’s experience in the land and royal experiment in Kings and Chronicles, along with short stories like Ruth, Jonah, Esther, and Daniel. New Testament essays examine each of the four Gospels, the book of Acts, stories from the letters of Paul, and reading for the plot in the book of Revelation. Designed for use in undergraduate and graduate courses, this Companion will serve as an excellent resource for instructors and students interested in understanding and interpreting biblical narrative.

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Alicia D. Myers is Associate Professor of New Testament at Baylor University and Research Fellow at the University of the Free State (Bloemfontein, South Africa). She publishes frequently on the Gospel and 1–3 John, including Reading John and 1, 2, 3 John (2019), and is a member of the Colloquium Ioanneum. She is also author of An Introduction to the Gospels and Acts (2022) and Blessed Among Women? Mothers and Motherhood in the New Testament (2017).

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The Theology of the Gospel of John

In this volume, Alicia D. Myers applies a narrative approach to the theology of the Gospel of John, which presents Jesus’s coming as the climactic and transformative revelation of God in the world. Placing her study in the context of past and current approaches to John’s theology, she explores theological themes with an eye toward the rhetorical categories and aims of the Gospel. These themes include: John’s use of Scripture in its presentation of God, Jesus’s characterization as the unique one who reveals God’s will, the presentation of the world as in need of rescue through purification and exorcism, and the ongoing work of the Holy Spirit among the community of believers.

Myers argues that John reframes other Gospel traditions and provided important fodder for early Christian debates.

Contemporary readers inherit John’s complicated legacy, including its apocalyptic view of liberation that relies on and undermines Jewish perspectives that do not recognize Jesus as God’s Son and Christ.

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COPTIC GOSPEL S A N D ASSOCI ATED TEXTS OLD TESTAMENT THEOLOGY

M. DAVID LITWA is the author of more than fifteen scholarly books in the fields of Early Christianity, Gnostic and Nag Hammadi Studies, and the Greco-Roman world. He is founder of the Gnosis Academy and runs an online database, the Gnostic Archive.

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In this volume, David Litwa offers a fresh introduction to the “gnostic Bible,” arguably the most significant and widely read of all gnostic Christian texts ever written. Providing a fresh introduction to a particular version of the Secret Book of John, namely the shorter version that is found in Nag Hammadi Codex III, his study includes a new translation of this text and a full discussion in which he introduces the notable features of this codex and interrogates whether the Secret Book emerged from an actual gnostic community. Litwa also posits solutions to many questions related to this text, notably its date and find spot, its relationship to the treatise known and summarized by Irenaeus in the late second century, its interpretation and re-creation of the book of Genesis for Christian readers, its novel interpretation of Greco-Roman philosophy, its foundations in apostolic authority, and the reception of the Secret Book of John in late antiquity, well into the fifth century ce.

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General Editors: Brent A. Strawn, Stephen B. Chapman, and Patrick D. Miller† This series aims to remedy the deficiency of available published material on the theological concerns of the Old Testament books. Here, specialists explore the theological richness of a given book at greater length than is usually possible in the introductions to commentaries or as part of other Old Testament theologies.

They are also able to investigate the theological themes and issues of their chosen books without being tied to a commentary format or to a thematic structure provided from elsewhere. When complete, the series will cover all the Old Testament writings and will thus provide an attractive, and timely, range of short texts around which courses can be developed.

Leviticus is often considered to be one of the most challenging books of the Bible because of its focus on blood sacrifice, infectious diseases, and complicated dietary restrictions. Moreover, scholarly approaches have primarily focused on divisions in the text without considering its overarching theological message. In this volume, Mark W. Scarlata analyzes Leviticus’ theology, establishing the connection between God’s divine presence and Israel’s life. Exploring the symbols and rituals of ancient Israel, he traces how Leviticus develops a theology of holiness in space and time, one that weaves together the homes of the Israelites with the home of God. Seen through this theological lens, Leviticus’ text profoundly demonstrates how to live in the fullness of God’s holy presence and in harmony with one another and the land. Its theological vision also offers insights into how we might live today in a re-sacralized world that cherishes human dignity and cares for creation.

Mark W. Scarlata is Senior Lecturer in Old Testament at St. Mellitus College, London. He also serves as the vicar-chaplain at St. Edward, King and Martyr, Cambridge, and as the director of the St. Edward’s Institute for Christian Thought.

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The Gospel of Truth is an early Christian homily in which an anonymous and independent-minded teacher communicates his understanding of the core Christian message to his own immediate circle and a wider audience elsewhere. For this author, the gospel is the good news that in the person of Jesus, the divine Father has made himself known to his elect, calling them out of a nightmare-like existence in ignorance and illusion into the knowledge of himself. In this volume, Francis Watson provides a new and accessible translation of this text, along with a thorough analysis of it, both in its own terms and in its reception by later readers. He argues that its closest aff inities lie with New Testament texts such as the Gospel of John and the Pauline letters.

Watson also demonstrates how The Gospel of Truth is a work of literary quality and theological originality and why it deserves the attention of all students and scholars of early Christianity.

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Masooda Bano is Professor of Development Studies at the University of Oxford and a Senior Golding Fellow at Brasenose College, Oxford. She has held numerous prestigious research awards, including European Research Council Starting and Advance grants. Bano is the author of Female Islamic Education Movements: The Re-Democratisation of Islamic Knowledge (2017) and has edited several volumes on Islamic educational institutions in Muslim-majority countries as well as in the West.

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The Cambridge Companion to Women and Islam provides a comprehensive overview of a timely topic that encompasses the fields of Islamic feminist scholarship, anthropology, history, and sociology. Divided into three parts, it makes several key contributions. The volume offers a detailed analysis of textual debates on gender and Islam, highlighting the logic of classical reasoning and its enduring appeal, while emphasizing alternative readings proposed by Islamic feminists. It considers the agency that Muslim women exhibit in relation to their faith as reflected in women’s piety movements. Moreover, the volume documents how Muslim women shape sociopolitical life, presenting real-world examples from across the Muslim world and diaspora communities.

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