The Original Assamese Novel, Xeuji Pator Kahini, Of Which This Is The English Translation, Was First Published In 1954. Set In Pre-Independence Assam, The Story Juxtaposes The Morally Oppressive Life In A Typical Assamese Village And The Life Of The Tea Garden Workers, Which, Even If Marvelously Free From The Moral Pretensions Of A Small Village Community, Is Harsh And Unrelenting. Nareswar, The Outsider From The Village, Finds ýMeaningý In The Free Fun Loving Ways Of The Coolie: And The Mercurial Sonia, Illegitimate Daughter Of A White Manager And A Young Coolie Girl, Is The Unfailing Critical Eye Which Sees Through All Human Deceptions. This Is The Story Of Love Between Nareswar And Sonia Woven Into The Extraordinarily Rich Texture Of Life In A Tea Garden.

Based on lectures delivered in Rome, 1990. Pp. 140-162, "The Israel of God, " analyze passages in the New Testament generally considered as anti-Jewish, interpreting them as part of an "intra-Jewish factional dispute."

The Gospel of Matthew is an oeuvre mouvante (a work in process), and the dynamics of this process are essential to its identity and function. This understanding of the Gospel of Matthew stands in distinction from the long history of research centered on Matthew the author and his design for the gospel. Focused instead on tradition history-the history of composition and transmission-Edwin K. Broadhead's approach keeps open the dialectical engagements and the conflicting voices intrinsic to the Gospel of Matthew. As a result, the consistently Jewish textures of this gospel are emphasized, there is a broader engagement with the landscape of antiquity, and serious attention is given to further developments in the history of transmission. This focus on the developing tradition thus highlights, rather than suppresses, the viability and the generative potential of such discourses.

Slightly revised version of the authoor's thesis (Ph.D.)--Groningen, Netherlands, 2009.

A hundred years after A. Schweitzer's Von Reimarus zu Wrede, the study of the historical Jesus is again experiencing a renaissance. Ongoing since the beginning of the 1980's, this renaissance has produced an abundance of Jesus studies that also display a welcome diversity of methods, approaches and hypotheses. The Handbook of the Study of the Historical Jesus is designed to handle this diversity and abundance. Drawing from first-class scholarship throughout the world, the four large volumes of the Handbook offer a unique assembly of leading experts presenting their approaches to the historical Jesus, as well as a thought-out compilation of original studies on a large variety of topics pertaining to Jesus research and adjacent areas.