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Author: Beverly Roberts Gaventa

Beverly Roberts Gaventa is Helen H. P. Manson Professor of New Testament Literature and Exegesis at Princeton Theological Seminary in Princeton, New Jersey. She has published a number of books including Mary: Glimpses of the Mother of Jesus, one of the few books written about Mary by a Protestant woman.

Blessed One 
Protestant Perspectives on Mary
By Beverly Roberts Gaventa, Cynthia L. Rigby
Despite her prominence in the Christian narrative, Mary has largely been neglected within the Protestant church. Recent interest in such issues as feminism, spirituality, parenting, and ecumenism, however, force a serious reexamination of Mary's plac...
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The Ending of Mark and the Ends of God 
Essays in Memory of Donald Harrisville Juel
By Beverly Roberts Gaventa, Patrick D. Miller
Among his many contributions to New Testament studies, Donald Juel was perhaps best known for his treatment of the ending of Mark's Gospel. He saw the open-endedness of Mark as powerfully unsettling for the reader who desires to tame and predict God'...
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First and Second Thessalonians 
Interpretation: A Bible Commentary for Teaching and Preaching
By Beverly Roberts Gaventa
In this brilliant commentary, Beverly Roberts Gaventa discusses the issues central to the books of Thessalonians, identifying what makes each book important for the life of the church today, as well as for preachers and teachers.
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By Beverly Roberts Gaventa
In his epistles, Paul at various points uses maternal imagery to talk about his apostolic labors, sometimes actually referring to himself as a mother. For example, Paul writes that he must behave "like a nurse caring for her own children." Later, he ...
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Romans 
A Commentary
By Beverly Roberts Gaventa
In this new contribution to the New Testament Library, renowned New Testament scholar Beverly Roberts Gaventa offers a fresh account of Paul's Letter to the Romans as an event, both in the sense that it reflects a particular historical moment in Paul...
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Texts for Preaching, Year C 
A Lectionary Commentary Based on the NRSV
By Charles B. Cousar, Beverly Roberts Gaventa, J. Clinton McCann, James D. Newsome, Jr.
Based on the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible, this second in a series of three volumes provides resources for an entire year of sermons and offers practical help for preachers and others who use the Revised Common Lectionary. Beginning with...
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