Böcker av Nijay K. Gupta

Volumes in New Word Biblical Themes: New Testament series offer short, accessible studies of the key themes of each book of the New Testament. Each volume offers an introduction to the book, a brief exposition of the text, a survey of its contents, and a deeper look at 3-5 key themes for understanding the book and for preaching and teaching.

The NIV Application Commentary helps readers with the vital task of bringing the ancient message of the Bible into a contemporary context. It gives preachers and teachers the tools, ideas, and insights they need to communicate God's Word with the same powerful impact it had when it was first written.

This book approaches New Testament theology through the New Testament's most important words, including gospel, life, faith, forgiveness, and others. You will learn what these important words meant to the earliest Christians and also how we can capture the transformative power of these 15 words to live faithfully for Christ in God's world.

The revised and expanded guide to the process of obtaining a doctorate in Biblical Studies and the subsequent steps towards an academic career.

This book examines Paul's use of temple, priesthood, and sacrificial metaphors from a cognitive and socio-literary perspective. The final conclusion of a number of scholars in this area of research is that Paul's cultic metaphors have the theological and rhetorical purpose of encouraging community formation and moral living. Such evaluations, however, often take place without paying sufficient attention to the complexity of Paul's cultic imagery as well as, from a methodological standpoint, what metaphors are and how they are used in thinking and communicating. Utilizing the tools and insights of conceptual metaphor theory, this study seeks to approach this topic afresh by attending to how metaphors constitute a necessary platform of cognition. Thus, they have world-constructing and perception-transforming utility. In this study, we conclude that, far from being merely about ethics or ecclesiology, Paul's cultic metaphors act as vehicles for communicating his ineffable theology and ethical perspective. By anchoring his converts' new experiences in Christ to the world of ancient cult, and its familiar set of terms and concepts, he was attempting to re-describe reality and develop a like-minded community of faith by articulating logike latreia- 'worship that makes sense'.

This accessible and balanced introduction to key questions in New Testament studies fairly presents the spectrum of viewpoints on debated topics.

This volume on 1 and 2 Thessalonians in the Zondervan Critical Introductions to the New Testament series offers a volume-length engagement with subjects that normally only receive short treatments in biblical commentaries. It addresses issues such as audience, socio-historical context, purpose, structure, history of interpretation, and much more.