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David A. DeSilva

    15 aprile 1967

    David A. deSilva è un eminente studioso del Nuovo Testamento e del greco, il cui lavoro si dedica a una comprensione più approfondita dei testi cristiani primitivi e dei loro contesti storici. La sua erudizione approfondisce lo studio degli scritti apocrifi e colloca il Nuovo Testamento nel suo più ampio contesto culturale e religioso. DeSilva enfatizza le metodologie per lo studio delle Scritture e le loro applicazioni pratiche per la formazione della fede e del ministero. Il suo approccio offre ai lettori una prospettiva completa sullo sviluppo del cristianesimo primitivo.

    Galatians
    Day of Atonement – A Novel of the Maccabean Revolt
    IN SEASON & OUT
    Despising Shame: Honor Discourse and Community Maintenance in the Epistle to the Hebrews
    Introducing the Apocrypha
    • Introducing the Apocrypha

      • 528pagine
      • 19 ore di lettura

      This comprehensive, up-to-date introduction to the Old Testament apocryphal books summarizes their context, message, and significance. The first edition has been very well reviewed and widely adopted. It is the most substantial introduction to the Apocrypha available and has become a standard authority on the topic. The second edition has been substantially revised and updated throughout to reflect the latest scholarship. The book includes a foreword by James H. Charlesworth.

      Introducing the Apocrypha
    • IN SEASON & OUT

      • 256pagine
      • 9 ore di lettura

      Grow in the Scriptures throughout the church year with David deSilva as your mentor. Beginning with Advent and moving through the church year, David deSilva brings his years of experience as a biblical scholar to the church in the form of sermons delivered to his home congregation throughout the church year, now adapted into a thoughtful and inspiring collection of reflections. These reflections, which draw on readings from the Revised Common Lectionary, will inform and inspire your understanding of Scripture, written with Dr. deSilva's characteristic warmth and wisdom. In Season and Out makes for excellent devotional reading that will feed saints both in front of and behind the pulpit.

      IN SEASON & OUT
    • In the blank pages between Malachi and Matthew, the course of an entire nation was changed ... His brother, the high priest Honiah, enjoyed the authority of the high priesthood, and all important decisions needed his approval. But it was Jason who was shaping the future of Jerusalem and, with it, all Judea. He breathed in again, imagining that he could feel the wave of destiny impelling him forward toward his vision as he exhaled ... The Greeks have taken over the world, but Jerusalem is still the same backwater city Jason has always known. He wants to help his hometown rise to a new age of prosperity and influence. If that means stretching the terms of the city's divine covenant, so be it

      Day of Atonement – A Novel of the Maccabean Revolt
    • Galatians

      • 167pagine
      • 6 ore di lettura

      deSilva leads students toward both a greater understanding of the Greek text and an appreciation for the textual and rhetorical intricacies not available in English translations.--Todd Scacewater Exegetical Tools

      Galatians