This is an excellent guide to the various methods of biblical criticism to put into the hands of students. There are chapters on textual, historical, grammatical, literary, form, tradition, and redaction criticism, each concluding with a bibliography.[...]

Most contemporary Christians acknowledge the doctrine of hell, but they'd rather not think about how God punishes the wicked. The authors of Four Views on Hell meet this subject head-on with different views on what the Scriptures say.Is hell to be understood literally as a place of eternal smoke and[...]