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Contexts, Methods & Ministry Formation
This comprehensive New Testament introduction not only outlines historical, social, cultural, and rhetorical contexts, but it also points students pre...
Message, Context, and Significance
This comprehensive, up-to-date introduction to the Old Testament apocryphal books summarizes their context, message, and significance. The first editi...
New volume in a favorite Bible commentary series Writing a commentary on Galatians is a daunting task. Despite its relative brevity, this Pauline lett...
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In this historical novel, David deSilva paints a vivid portrait of Ephesus and brings to life the compelling struggles faced by early Christians. Supp...
Fourth Maccabees is a superbly crafted oration that presents a case for the Jewish way of life couched almost entirely in terms of Greek ethical ideal...
Spiritual Formation Through the Book of Common Prayer
As David deSilva has experienced the ancient wisdom of the Book of Common Prayer, he's been formed spiritually in deep and lasting ways. In these page...
Unlocking New Testament Culture
In this thoroughly revised and expanded edition of a milestone study, a careful explanation of four essential cultural themes offers readers a window ...
In this addition to the well-received Paideia series, two respected New Testament scholars offer a practical commentary on James and Jude that is conv...
Rhetoric, Intertexture, and Reception
Heeding Revelation's Warning
Amidst the fervor for popular apocalyptic books and unfounded "end-times" theology, New testament scholar David deSilva has written a book to help rea...
Sermons for the Christian Year
Grow in the Scriptures throughout the church year with David deSilva as your mentor. Beginning with Advent and moving through the church year, David d...
A Sri Lankan Commentary on Paul's Letter to the Galatians
Reading Scripture with a view to hearing its significance and challenge within its original, foreign context is the essence of exegesis and an anchor ...
Grace and Gratitude
The Book of Hebrews helps us see the connection between God’s grace in our lives and the call to invest ourselves in God’s mission in the world. I...
For many across the world, the books of the Apocrypha are Christian Scripture. Learn more about them as you learn more about how Jesus thought and liv...
A lot of mystery surrounds the book of Hebrews, especially regarding its authorship, date, and audience. But by asking the right kind of questions, on...
What Earliest Christianity Learned from the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha
Jews have sometimes been reluctant to claim Jesus as one of their own; Christians have often been reluctant to acknowledge the degree to which Jesus' ...
Understanding the Book of Revelation
The Book of Revelation contains passages of great beauty and comfort, as well as passages that strike the casual reader as bizarre, bewildering, and s...
This Covenant experience will guide participants in a comprehensive, in-depth study of the Bible over twenty-four weeks. Unlike the learning participa...
This volume provides a reconstruction of the history of Judea and its neighboring regions from 334 BCE, when Alexander's eastward conquests brought Ju...
A New Translation
A modern translation with introductions by David A. deSilva. The Lexham Old Testament Apocrypha includes: Tobit (Vaticanus and Sinaiticus) Judith Gree...
The Heart of Paul's Gospel
The gospel is often presented as little more than a "get out of hell free" pass. But is that all there is to it? What made it so compelling that the A...
This extract from the Eerdmans Commentary on the Bible provides Alexander and deSilva’s introduction to and concise commentary on Third and Fourth M...
A Short-Term DISCIPLE Bible Study
Explore the writings of the New Testament using the story of Jesus as the starting point. This survey of the testament looks at how the early church t...
Journey inside the pages of Scripture to meet a personal God who enters individual lives and begins a creative work from the inside out. Shaped with t...
Click here to read session one of the Participant's Book. Click here to read session one of the Leader's Guide. Invitation To The New Testament 8 sess...
The New Testament Prescription for Transformation
"In this book, David deSilva guides us through the images of the church that remind us that we are a family, a temple made of living stones, a single ...
A Visual Guide
A fundamental principle of biblical interpretation is the importance of context--historical, literary, and canonical. But an often-neglected source of...
Praying with John Wesley is based on the model for daily prayer developed by Wesley in 1733. Centered on 6 Christian virtues, it includes daily script...
A Short Term Disciple Bible Study
Click here to read session one The Leader's Guide provides process guidance for weekly group sessions and understands the role of leader as facilitato...