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Honour and Conflict in the Ancient World: 1 Corinthians in Its Greco-Roman Social Setting
Mark T. Finney
T. & T. Clark

The Power of Children: The Construction of Christian Families in the Greco-Roman World
Margaret Y. MacDonald
Baylor University Press

The Greek Article: A Functional Grammar of ὁ-items in the Greek New Testament with Special Emphasis on the Greek Article
Ronald D. Peters
Brill

Salty Wives, Spirited Mothers, and Savvy Widows: Capable Women of Purpose and Persistence in Luke’s Gospel
F. Scott Spencer
Eerdmans

Right Kingdom, Wrong Stories: A Backward Reading of Matthew’s Parables
Sam Tsang
Wipf & Stock

Reading Koine Greek
Rodney J. Decker
Baker Academic

Acts: An Exegetical Commentary. Volume 3:15:1–23:35
Craig S. Keener
Baker Academic

The Human Being: A Theological Anthropology
Hans Schwarz
Eerdmans

Aposynagogos and the Historical Jesus in John: Rethinking the Historicity of the Johannine Expulsion
Jonathan Bernier
Brill

Confessing Christ for the Church and the World: Studies in Modern Theology
Kimlyn J. Bender
IVP Academic

The Gospel of the Lord: How the Early Church Wrote the Story of Jesus
Michael F. Bird
Eerdmans

A Companion to Women in the Ancient World
Sharon L. James and Sheila Dillon
Wiley-Blackwell

Earliest Christian History: History, Literature, and Theology. Essays from the Tyndale Fellowship in Honor of Martin Hengel
Michael F. Bird and Jason Maston
Mohr Siebeck

Mark (Teach the Text Series)
Grant R. Osborne
Baker Books

Handbook on the New Testament Use of the Old Testament: Exegesis and Interpretation
G. K. Beale
Baker Academic

The Life and Witness of Peter
Larry R. Helyer
IVP Academic

The Pseudepigrapha on Sexuality: Attitudes towards Sexuality in Apocalypses, Testaments, Legends, Wisdom, and Related Literature
William Loader, Ibolya Balla
Eerdmans

Philo, Josephus, and the Testaments on Sexuality: Attitudes towards Sexuality in the Writings of Philo and Josephus and in the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs
William Loader
Eerdmans

Paul through Mediterranean Eyes: Cultural Studies in 1 Corinthians
Kenneth E. Bailey
IVP Academic

Jonathan Edwards and the Psalms: A Redemptive-Historical Vision of Scripture
David P. Barshinger
Oxford University Press

The Theological Role of Paradox in the Gospel of Mark
Laura C. Sweat
Bloomsbury T&T Clark

The Son of God in the Roman World: Divine Sonship in Its Social and Political Context
Michael Peppard
Oxford University Press

Revisioning, Renewing, Rediscovering the Triune Center: Essays in Honor of Stanley J. Grenz
Derek J. Tidhall, Brian S. Harris, and Jason S. Sexton
Cascade Books

The Evangelism Study Bible
R. Larry Moyer
Kregel Publications
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