Dale Allison
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Night Comes : Death Imagination And The Last Things
$21.99Add to cartWhen he was 23 years old, Dale Allison almost died in a car accident. That terrifying experience dramatically changed his ideas about death and the hereafter. In Night Comes Allison wrestles with a number of difficult questions concerning the last things – such questions as What happens to us after we die? and Why does death so often frighten us?
Armed with his acknowledged scholarly expertise, Allison offers an engaging, personal exploration of such themes as death and fear, resurrection and judgment, hell and heaven, in light of science, Scripture, and his own experience. As he ponders and creatively imagines – engaging throughout with biblical texts, church fathers, rabbinic scholars, poets, and philosophers -Allison offers fascinating fare that will captivate many a reader’s heart and soul.
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Constructing Jesus : Memory Imagination And History
$58.00Add to cartWhat did Jesus think of himself? How did he face death? What were his expectations of the future? In this volume, now in paperback, internationally renowned Jesus scholar Dale Allison Jr. addresses such perennially fascinating questions about Jesus. The acclaimed hardcover edition received the “Best Book Relating to the New Testament 2011” award from the Biblical Archaeology Society.
Representing the fruit of several decades of research, this major work questions standard approaches to Jesus studies and rethinks our knowledge of the historical Jesus in light of recent progress in the scientific study of memory. Allison’s groundbreaking alternative strategy calls for applying what we know about the function of human memory to our reading of the Gospels in order to “construct Jesus” more soundly.
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Jesus Of Nazareth
$29.00Add to cartThe return of the apocalyptic Jesus! Echoing themes from Albert Schweitzer, Allison attacks the current “wise teacher” portraits, offers a full-length treatment of Jesus’ asceticism, suggests ways to establish the “authenticity” of Jesus’ words, and brings out a host of fascinating cross-cultural parallels.
