R. Culpepper

Alan Culpepper is Dean Emeritus and Professor of New Testament Emeritus at the McAfee School of Theology, Mercer University, and Research Fellow at the University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa. Previously, he was Professor of Religion at Baylor University. He has published numerous articles and books, including Matthew in the New Testament Library and The People of the Parables: Galilee in the Time of Jesus, also published by Westminster John Knox Press.

The World of the Parables

Meeting the People Who First Heard Jesus

The World of the Parables invites readers to meet the people behind the parables—from children and parents to shepherds and merchants—so that they may hear Jesus’ words as first-century Galileans did, coming away with deeper understanding and appreciation. The parables of Jesus are filled with familiar figures—farmers and fishermen, widows and landowners, fathers and sons, merchants and laborers. Yet when we hear these stories today, we often miss the full force of their meaning because we no lo...

Exploring the Gospel of John

In Honor of D. Moody Smith

In Exploring the Gospel of John, scholars of international standing gather to honor D. Moody Smith by examining the trails he has blazed in Johannine scholarship. Every aspect of the study of John is represented in this book, including the historical origins of the Johannine community, the religious traditions in the gospel within and beyond early Christianity, the Fourth Gospel's literary dimensions and theological concerns, and the distinctive challenges presented by the Gospel's ...

The People of the Parables

Galilee in the Time of Jesus

Drawing from Greco-Roman history, Second-Temple Jewish studies, archaeology, the social world of the New Testament, parable studies, and the burgeoning literature on Galilee, The People of the Parables describes life in first-century Galilee as it was experienced by the characters in Jesus' parables.R. Alan Culpepper assesses both primary literature and recent research on Galilee--including important archaeological discoveries--and fashions a new and insightful social history of Galilee, the peo...

Matthew

A Commentary

In this new critical commentary for the New Testament Library series, R. Alan Culpepper sets the Gospel of Matthew in the context of the competing Jewish and early Christian voices of the first century, bringing greater clarity to Matthew’s own proclamation of the gospel and inviting readers to give up perhaps long-held assumptions about the book. In Culpepper’s treatment, Matthew emerges as a Gospel for a Jewish community, distinguishing itself from the Pharisees on one side and o...

R. Culpepper

The World of the Parables

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Exploring the Gospel of John

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The People of the Parables

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Matthew

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