Texts for Preaching: A Lectionary Commentary Based on the NRSV - Year B - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0664219705 ISBN 13: 9780664219703

Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press, 1993

Synopsis

Based on the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible, this unique and comprehensive resource--the first in a series of three volumes--provides resources for an entire year of sermons and offers practical help to preachers and others involved using the Revised Common Lectionary. Beginning with Advent, it deals with the texts for Year B. Each of the four texts--the Old Testament, Psalter, Gospel, and Epistle--are treated in relation to each Sunday and important festival day, including Christmas, Ash Wednesday, and Good Friday. A brief introduction gives the general thrust of the texts and the relationship among them with emphasis upon interpretation of the texts. Suggestions concerning the implications for life today are also included.

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About the Authors

Walter Brueggemann is William Marcellus McPheeters Professor Emeritus of Old Testament at Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur, Georgia. He is the world's leading interpreter of the Old Testament, and is the author of numerous books, including Introduction to the Old Testament: The Canon and Christian Imagination and Reverberations of Faith: A Theological Handbook of Old Testament Themes.

Charles B. Cousar is Professor Emeritus of New Testament at Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur, Georgia. He is the author of numerous books, including Galatians in the Interpretation commentary series. He is also coauthor of the three volumes of Texts for Preaching.

Beverly Roberts Gaventa is Helen H. P. Manson Professor of New Testament Literature and Exegesis at Princeton Theological Seminary in Princeton, New Jersey. She has published a number of books including Mary: Glimpses of the Mother of Jesus, one of the few books written about Mary by a Protestant woman.

James D. Newsome Jr. is Professor Emeritus of Old Testament at Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur, Georgia. He is the author of The Hebrew Prophets.

Edition details

• Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
• Publication date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0664219705
• ISBN 13: 9780664219703
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 616
• Editor: Brueggemann Walter, Cousar Charles B., Gaventa Beverly Roberts, Newsome Jr. James D.