Who is the Jesus behind the gospel narratives? How would he have been understood by his contemporaries? These are the questions being asked by a new generation of investigators of the man behind th…
This book pursues two important ends simultaneously. On the one hand, it adds yet another essential dimensions to the emerging comprehensive portrait of Jesus that is being brought to light by the …
It is a common belief that Paul's letters are not stories but rather theological ideas and practical advice. Ben Witherington III thinks otherwise. He is convinced that all of Paul's ideas, argumen…
The portrayal of Jesus in the fourth gospel is remarkably dissimilar to the Jesus found in the synoptic gospels. The author places the gospel of John within its proper literary, historical, social …
Witherington offers an innovative way of looking at Colossians, Ephesians, and Philemon as interrelated documents written at different levels of moral discourse. Colossians is first-order moral dis…
In this volume, Ben Witherington wrestles with some of the big ideas of these major traditional theological systems (sin, God s sovereignty, prophecy, grace, and the Holy Spirit), asking tough ques…
Increasingly scholars are realizing that prophetic traditions, expressions and experiences stand at the heart of most religions in the ancient Mediterranean context in an attempt to better understa…
This book examines the roles and functions that women assumed in the early Christian communities from AD 33 to the Council of Nicaea. It surveys, too, the views about women held by various New Test…
This volume draws together select sermons from twenty-five years of Ben Witherington's preaching life. A tireless scholar, Witherington is passionate about using his scholarship to deliver life-giv…
Ben Witherington applies to Mark the socio-rhetorical approach for which he is well known, opening a fresh new perspective on the earliest Gospel. Written when the fledging Christian faith was expe…