In this essay collection, the authors describe the trend toward synchronic methods in biblical exegesis, or interpreting biblical texts as the result of a literary rather than a historical process, and discuss and apply fifteen specific methods to interpreting Old and New Testament texts.

This volume gives a twofold exegetical analysis of Luke 24. The first part analyzes the text via a model, which is derived from cognitive linguistics. The second part uses a sociological model. It describes the reception of the text within Hellenistic culture.

All the texts of John's Gospel in which love plays a textual and/or narrative role are analyzed. The book contains the five chapters: family love, the teacher's love for his favourite, Jesus' disciples as (his) friends, loving women and beloved men.

This study describes the embedding of the Gospel of John in the city life of Ephesus. It uses the epigraphical and historical materials of first-century Ephesus as the point of reference for a reading of John. The study is a specific demonstration of the linguistic supposition that the use of the same (combination of) words in different co-texts evokes semantic similarities and dissimilarities which influence the process of giving meaning to a text. Reading John against the background of Ephesus influences its impact. Five topics have been selected: the use of names; the use of the titles for the emperors and Artemis in relation to the titles used for Jesus; the social city life; the group formations; and the function of the high priests in relation to the imperial cult.

Comentario al evangelio de Juan El trabajo de Tilborg, realizado desde la perspectiva pragmática que caracteriza los comentarios de "Evangelio y Cultura", aporta más luz sobre el que es considerado como el evangelio "espiritual" en el sentido más denso del término.