The Library of New Testament Studies

A Critical and Exegetical Commentary

Stuart Weeks, Durham University, UK This new volume in the ICC brings together all the relevant aids to exegesis – linguistic, textual, archaeological, historical, literary and theological – to enable scholars to have a complete knowledge and understanding of this Old Testament book. Stuart D. Weeks incorporates new evidence available in the field, surveys the wealth of secondary literature and provides an extensive introduction to Ecclesiastes as a whole.

UK December 2021 • US December 2021 • 848 pages HB 9780567666543 • £75.00 / $100.00 ePdf 9780567666550 • £67.50 / $88.59 Series: International Critical Commentary • T&T Clark

Chris Keith, St. Mary's University College, Twickenham, UK

The Concept of Canon in the Reception of the Epistle to the Hebrews

David Young, Eastern Nazarene College, USA David Young traces the reception of the Epistle to the Hebrews in early Christianity through its reproduction in collections of Paul’s letters, quotations of the epistle by Christian theologians, and its treatment in early catalogues of scriptures. Young argues that Hebrews’ reception in early Christianity was influenced by a number of factors which had little to do with debates about an authoritative canon of Christian writings, and more with Hebrews’ relevance to their own theological arguments and the principles of ancient editorial practice.

UK November 2021 • US November 2021 • 192 pages • 11 bw illus HB 9780567701343 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9780567701374 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9780567701350 • £76.50 / $100.32 Series: The Library of New Testament Studies • T&T Clark

The Impact of Bodily Experience on Paul’s Resurrection Theology

Kai-Hsuan Chang, China Evangelical Seminary, Taiwan This volume engages with the longstanding scholarly debate concerning the development of Paul’s resurrection theology, by investigating the correlation between his bodily experiences and his diverse articulations about resurrection. Drawing on insights from cognitive linguistics, Chang considers Paul’s ideas about resurrection as fundamentally grounded in recurrent patterns of bodily experience, arguing that such experience of some religious activities in Paul’s time—death rites, spirit possession, and baptism—contributed to the formation and development of his resurrection theology.

UK October 2021 • US October 2021 • 192 pages HB 9780567700919 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9780567700940 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9780567700926 • £76.50 / $100.32 Series: The Library of New Testament Studies • T&T Clark The Old Testament: Its Authority and Canonicity

Lee Martin McDonald, Acadia Divinity College, Canada In this comprehensive overview of the process of canon formation. Lee Martin McDonald reexamines issues of canon formation once considered settled, and sets the range of texts that make up the Hebrew Bible in their broader context. Each individual text is discussed at length, as are the cultural, political and historical situations surrounding them.

UK April 2021 • US April 2021 • 584 pages HB 9780567668769 • £130.00 / $175.00 ePdf 9780567668776 • £117.00 / $153.74 T&T Clark

Sin, the Human Predicament, and Salvation in the Gospel of John

Mathew E. Sousa, Fuller Theological Seminary, USA Mathew E. Sousa demonstrates that in certain respects, John’s doctrine of salvation fails to align with its customary depiction in Johannine scholarship. Sousa posits that, according to John, the human predicament is not merely “unbelief” or a lack of mental perception, and Jesus’s mission consists not merely of “revelation” and/or a purely forensic “atonement.” Rather, Jesus is (for John) the one who makes true and everlasting life an accomplished fact for humanity, and in doing so, Jesus reveals the true nature of the predicament from which he saves.

UK September 2021 • US September 2021 • 144 pages HB 9780567699190 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9780567699220 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9780567699206 • £76.50 / $100.32 Series: The Library of New Testament Studies • T&T Clark

The New Testament in Comparison

Validity, Method, and Purpose in Comparing Traditions

Edited by John M.G. Barclay, University of Durham & Benjamin G. White, The King College, USA Scholars including Dale Martin, Francis Watson and Margaret Mitchell examine the methods of comparison frequently deployed in the study of early Christian texts. Raising and reflecting upon deep questions regarding the possibility and validity of such comparative exercise, the contributors examine the methods that are most effective and intellectually defensible, the purpose of such comparison, and the perils and pitfalls in these practices. Addressing these queries at both a theoretical, hermeneutical level, including case studies, this book provides a much needed and up-to-date methodological resource for New Testament studies.

UK September 2021 • US September 2021 • 216 pages PB 9780567702159 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9780567684783 ePub 9780567684813 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9780567684790 • £76.50 / $100.32 Series: The Library of New Testament Studies • T&T Clark

Davidic Messianism and Paul’s Worldwide Interpretation of the Abrahamic Land Promise in Galatians

Esau McCaulley, Roberts Wesleyan College, USA This book explores the link between Paul’s belief that Jesus is Israel’s Messiah, and his interpretation of the promise made to Abraham in Galatians. Countering claims that Paul replaces the Promised Land with the gift of the Spirit or salvation, Esau McCauley argues that Paul expands this inheritance to include the whole earth due to the saint's own belief that, as the seed of Abraham and David, Jesus is entitled to the entire earth as his inheritance and kingdom.

UK May 2021 • US May 2021 • 240 pages PB 9780567700292 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9780567685926 ePub 9780567685957 • £26.09 / $35.17 ePdf 9780567685933 • £26.09 / $35.17 Series: The Library of New Testament Studies • T&T Clark

The Figure of Abraham in John 8

Text and Intertext

Ruth Sheridan, University of Newcastle, Australia Using methods derived from modern and postmodern literary criticism Ruth Sheridan examines textual allusions to the biblical figures of Cain and Abraham in John 8:1-59. She pays particular attention to how these allusions give shape to the Gospel's alleged and infamous anti-Judaism (exemplified in John 8:44). Moreover, Sheridan uniquely studies the subsequent reception in the Patristic and Rabbinic literature. Sheridan shows how these figures are linked in Christian and Jewish imagination in the formative centuries in which the two religions came into definition.

UK September 2021 • US September 2021 • 472 pages PB 9780567702111 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9780567238061 ePub 9780567692856 • £81.00 / $106.83 ePdf 9780567424020 • £81.00 / $106.83 Series: The Library of New Testament Studies • T&T Clark Studies on Jewish Scripture in the Fourth Gospel

Michael A. Daise, College of William and Mary, USA

Michael A. Daise identifies literary features found in six quotations in the Fourth Gospel, suggesting they should be revisited as clusters rather than as discrete units. Three quotations are the only ones whose introductory formulae explicitly ascribe them to Isaiah; three are the only ones cast as being ‘remembered’ by Jesus’ disciples; and each of these groupings forms an inclusio within the Book of Signs which, when combined with the other, produces a chiasmus to Jesus’ public ministry. Daise argues that this carries ramifications for an array of motifs in the Fourth Gospel’s theological taxonomy.

UK August 2021 • US August 2021 • 264 pages PB 9780567702104 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9780567681799 ePub 9780567681836 • £81.00 / $106.83 ePdf 9780567681805 • £81.00 / $106.83 Series: The Library of New Testament Studies • T&T Clark

Gospel Women and the Long Ending of Mark

Kara Lyons-Pardue, Point Loma Nazarene University, USA Kara Lyons-Pardue examines the issue of the ending of the gospel of Mark, showing how the later additions to the text function as early receptions of the original gospel tradition, providing an ancient “fix” to the problem of the ending in which the women flee the tomb in terror and silence. Lyons-Pardue suggests that the long ending functions canonically, smoothing out the “problem” of 16:8 in ways that support the nascent four-gospel canon.

UK September 2021 • US September 2021 • 200 pages PB 9780567702135 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9780567692405 ePub 9780567692436 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9780567692412 • £76.50 / $100.32 Series: The Library of New Testament Studies • T&T Clark

The Lord's Prayer and the Sermon on the Mount in Matthew's Gospel

Charles Nathan Ridlehoover, North Raleigh Christian Academy, USA Ridlehoover examines the Lord’s Prayer in Matthew’s gospel, focusing on its centrality and showing how this centrality affects our reading of both the Sermon on the Mount and the prayer itself. Ridlehoover argues that the Lord’s Prayer is structurally, lexically, and thematically central to the Sermon on the Mount and the means through which disciples of Jesus are empowered to live out the kingdom of righteousness it defines. In turn, the Sermon on the Mount clarifies what the answer to the petitions of the Lord’s Prayer might look like in the life of the disciple of Jesus.

UK August 2021 • US August 2021 • 256 pages PB 9780567702081 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9780567692320 ePub 9780567692351 • £81.00 / $106.83 ePdf 9780567692337 • £81.00 / $106.83 Series: The Library of New Testament Studies • T&T Clark