The meaning of Jesus's execution on a Roman cross is one of the most divisive issues in contemporary theological discourse because issues related to the goodness of God and the place of suffering in the Christian life are at stake. Although it is important to locate that discussion in the context of the range of New Testament perspectives on the soteriological significance of the cross, it is also important that we recover the meaning of the cross as a metaphor for discipleship. In the end, the event of Jesus’s death cannot be understood apart from the character of his life. This book will contribute to New Testament studies but also serve related discussions in theology and Christian formation.

Reframing New Testament Theology is a series that fulfills the need for brief, substantive, yet highly accessible introductions to central questions and themes raised by study of the New Testament. A significant defining question will serve as the point of departure and will frame the discussion. Students will be drawn into an active, theological engagement with the New Testament and related materials by the subsequent analysis.

La Passione è l'avvenimento culminante in ciascuno dei Vangeli. In questo volume, l'autore fa rivivere il vibrante messaggio della Passione di san Giovanni nella sua ambientazione storica. Il libro fa parte di un'opera completa di quattro volumi, ognuno dedicato a un Vangelo, nella quale Donald Senior ha racchiuso i frutti dei suoi studi biblici, teologici e storici sui racconti evangelici della Passione.

Il libro fa parte di un'opera completa di quattro volumi, ognuno dedicato a un Vangelo, nella quale Donald Senior ha racchiuso i frutti dei suoi studi biblici, teologici e storici sui racconti evangelici della Passione.

L'autore di questo volume introduce il lettore dentro il mistero della passione-morte-resurrezione del Signore secondo l'evangelista Matteo. In modo particolare si sofferma sulla Passione di Gesù come narrazione culminante di ogni Vangelo. La lettura meditata della Passione di Gesù secondo Matteo diventa quindi il modo migliore per penetrare nel cuore del messaggio contenuto nel suo Vangelo.

L'autore di questo volume, con finezza scientifica e competenza pastorale introduce il lettore nel mistero della passione-morte-risurrezione del Signore secondo l'evangelista Luca. In particolare si sofferma sulla Passione di Gesù come narrazione culminante di ogni Vangelo.

The Abingdon New Testament Commentaries series provides compact, critical commentaries on the writings of the New Testament. These commentaries are written with special attention to the needs and interests of theological students, but they will also be useful for students in upper-level college or university settings, as well as for pastors and other religious leaders. In addition to providing basic information about the New Testament texts and insights into their meanings, these commentaries are intended to exemplify the tasks and procedures of careful, critical biblical exegesis.

In this volume, Donald Senior unfolds the meaning of Matthew’s Gospel in its original context. The Gospel was written for an early Christian community caught in a moment of profound transition, striving to remain faithful to its Jewish heritage and facing a new and uncertain future in the Gentile world. Building on a lifetime of scholarship on this Gospel, Senior uses an array of methodologies to explore the literary, historical, and theological perspectives of Matthew in context. At the same time, he provides leads for the contemporary reader to note the interplay between Matthew’s Gospel and our own time and place. In the nexus between these two worlds of experiences, the message of the Gospel comes alive and takes on new meaning.

Biblical texts create worlds of meaning and invite readers to enter them. When readers enter such textual worlds, which are often strange and complex, they are confronted with theological claims. With this in mind, the purpose of the Interpreting Biblical Texts series is to help dedicated students in their experience of reading and interpreting by providing guides for their journeys into textual worlds. The controlling perspective is expressed in the operative word of the title: interpreting. The primary focus of the series is not so much on the world behind the texts or out of which the texts have arisen as on the worlds created by the texts in their engagement with readers.

In this volume, Donald Senior provides an up-to-date introduction to the Gospel of Matthew. The seven chapters of Part One focus on modern biblical scholarship and the interpretation of Matthew, discussing the sources and structure of the Gospel, its use of the Old Testament, its understanding of Jewish Law, its setting as a part of the mission of Christianity to the Gentiles, its Christology, its understanding of the nature of discipleship, and the community from which the Gospel originated. The six chapters of Part Two provide a structured guide to reading and interpreting Matthew's Gospel.

L'opera di due biblisti americani non solo viene a colmare un vuoto in questo ambito di studi, ma risponde anche a una domanda emergente nel contesto attuale della chiesa. Caroll Stuhlmuller ha curato la parte dedicata all'analisi dei fondamenti della missione nei testi del canone ebraico; Donald Senior ha condotto la ricerca nei testi del Nuovo Testamento. La sintesi finale, scritta a due mani, traccia alcuni orientamenti quanto mai attuali per la valorizzazione di un nuovo metodo che deve trovare più salde e feconde radici nella Rivelazione.