The New Testament

Accentuating the link between discipleship in the time of Jesus and today, this volume combines critical scholarship with a passionate concern for the meaning of faith in a world of violence and injustice.

Wes Howard-Brook, a former attorney for the US and Washington State, has been teaching the Bible at the intersection of church, academy and the street since 1988. He is recently retired from Seattle University and continues to collaborate in the ministry, Abide in Me with his wife, Sue Ferguson Johnson. He is author most recently of Creation and Empire as well as "Come Out, My People": God's Call Out of Empire in the Bible and Beyond, Empire Baptized: How the Church Embraced What Jesus Rejected, 2nd-5th Centuries) and (with Anthony Gwyther) of Unveiling Empire: Reading Revelation Then and Now.

Sharon H. Ringe is coeditor of The Women’s Bible Commentary and author of many other books, including Wisdom’s Friends