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Handwriting Of God
$17.991. Can We Trust The Bible As The Inspired Word Of God?
2. The Bible’s Astonishing Influence On The West
3. The Impact Of Jesus On The World
4. The Incredible History Of The Bible
5. The Reason Many Reject The Bible
6. The Mystery Of The Trinity
7. The Incredible Bible Codes
8. New Bible Code Discoveries
9. The Messiah Codes
10. The Heavenly Prince Melchisedec Scroll
11. The Mystery Of The Jews: God’s Hand In Human History
12. The Rocks Cry Out: The Historical Evidence For The Bible
13. New Scientific Discoveries And The Scriptures
14. The Coming Collapse Of Evolution
15. Who Do You Say That I Am
Selected Bibliography…..p. 277Additional Info
THE HANDWRITING OF GOD will answer your questions about the phenomenal Bible Codes while revealing awesome New Code Discoveries hidden in the Scriptures. Can we trust the Bible? Is Christianity credible? There is a war on for the souls and minds of humanity and the main battleground is the issue of biblical authority. Grant has again uncovered new research material that will cause you to search the Scriptures for yourself. He provides new evidence that the Bible is truly ‘without error’ and trustworthy despite the attacks on its authority in our generation.Add to cartin stock within 3-5 days of online purchase
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Elusive Israel : The Puzzle Of Election In Romans
$30.00Cosgrove’s interpretation of Paul’s letter to the Romans is a study of the identity and destiny of Israel. He realizes that language allows for many possible interpretations, saying that Bible readers can never know for certain Paul’s intent, but they can establish a range of interpretations by taking the book in various contexts. Cosgrove also examines Israel as symbol and metaphor, nationalism and national differentiation in Pauline perspective, and the politics of God according to Romans 11.
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Exploring The Old Testament
$36.99Exploring the Old Testament is a foundational text designed to help the reader gain a deeper understanding of the Scriptures. It is written in an easy-to-read style accommodating laymen, ministers, and lower level college classes.
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Paul Between Damascus And Antioch
$60.00What happened between Paul’s conversion on the road to Damascus and his first missionary journey to Antioch? During these crucial years Paul rethought the implications of Christ’s life in light of the Old Testament in ways that have since become normative. Well-researched and thought-provoking.
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Families In The New Testament World
$60.00In many places the New Testament reflects the Roman Empire’s values of social stability, but at the same time, other passages make strong statements that seem to be against the family. What was the family like for the first Christians? How did they combine their family values and their new faith? When there were conflicts between family and faith, how did early Christians make choices between them? Osiek and Balch provide solid scholarship on these issues, informed by archaeological work and illustrated by figures and photographs.
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Heretics : The Other Side Of Early Christianity
$55.00According to the commonly held view, early Christianity was a time of great harmony, and heresy emerged only at a later stage. To the contrary, Gerd Ludemann argues that the time from the first Christian communities to the end of the second century was defined by struggle by various groups for doctrinal authority. Drawing on a wealth of data, he asserts that the losers in this struggle actually represented Christianity in its more authentic, original form. Orthodoxy has been defined by the victors in this struggle and it is they who subsequently silenced alternative views and labeled them heretical. Ludemann’s findings are important as well as liberating for the understanding of both Christianity and the Bible. Readers will gain a new understanding of Jesus and the early church from this compelling and controversial book.
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Gods Self Confident Daughters
$57.00In this study, Anne Jensen provides an exhaustive account of the many roles that women played in the early church and their subsequent marginalization by the later church. This book is required reading for anyone interested in the history of the church and its impact on the lives of women throughout the ages. To what extent has Christianity promoted the liberation of the woman and to what extent hindered it? In the textbooks and handbooks of traditional study the early church is usually treated as if the first Christian women and men lived in isolation.
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History Of Prophecy In Israel (Revised)
$56.00This revised and enlarged edition of a classic in Old Testament scholarship reflects the most up-to-date research on the prophetic books and offers substantially expanded discussions of important new insight on Isaiah and the other prophets.
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Who Wrote The New Testament
$20.99The Making of the Christian Myth
Commencing in mid February 2004, SBS TV (Australia) will run a two-part documentary based on this title.
In this groundbreaking and controversial book, Burton Mack brilliantly exposes how the Gospels are fictional mythologies created by different communities for various purposes and are only distantly related to the actual historical Jesus.
Mack’s innovative scholarship which boldly challenges traditional Christian understanding’ will change the way you approach the New Testament and think about how Christianity arose.
The clarity of Mack’s prose and the intelligent pursuit of his subject make compelling reading. Mack’s investigation of the various groups and strands of the early Christian community out of which were generated the texts of Christianity’s first anthology of religious literature and makes sense of a topic that has been confusing.
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Psalms Through 3000 Years
$39.00William Holladay examines the origins of the Psalms as well as their use in Judaism and Christianity throughout history. The result is an informative overview of the Psalms, which have been chanted, sung, and recited through the past three thousand years. The book is broken up into three major parts: The Psalms Take Shape – A Reconstruction; The Psalter through History; and Current Theological Issues. “In a serious work studded with human interest stories, Professor Holladay shows how the Psalms can be pitched to a modern key without losing the freshness of the first song. . .Read this work and you will make the Psalter your own prayer book.” -Frederick W. Danker. William Holladay is Professor of Old Testament at Andover Newton Theological School, Boston, Massachusetts.
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Interpreting The Prophetic Word
$27.99The diversity of prophetic voices in the Bible provides a message that is rich and variegated. But the variety of the testimony can be lost by limiting one’s interpretations or application of the prophetic word. Interpreting the Prophetic Word helps readers understand the harmony of the voices that reveal God’s purposes in redemptive history. Dr. Willem VanGemeren explains clearly and fully the background of the prophetic tradition. He then interprets the message of the major and minor prophets, using historical context and literary form and structure as tools in his analysis. He concludes with an explanation of the relevance of the prophetic word today. Dr. VanGemeren’s extensive research and scholarship is presented in a readable way to unlock the door of prophecy for readers. He helps them to interpret prophecy and invites them to listen to the prophets and to lives the prophetic word.
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Cultural Anthropology And The Old Testament
$16.00Overholt shows the usefulness of cultural anthropology to enhance our understanding of ancient Israelite society and to shed light on some puzzling features of Old Testament stories, especially in the Elijah and Elisha cycles.
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Exploring The Gospel Of John
$55.00In Exploring the Gospel of John, scholars of international standing gather to honor D. Moody Smith by examining the trails he has blazed in Johannine scholarship. Every aspect of the study of John is represented in this book, including the historical origins of the Johannine community, the religious traditions in the gospel within and beyond early Christianity, the Fourth Gospel’s literary dimensions and theological concerns, and the distinctive challenges presented by the Gospel’s interpretation. This book is indispensable for all interested in the Fourth Gospel. For researchers, it summarizes the modern history of Johannine scholarship as it points the way for its advancement in the next century. For pastors and students, it offers a comprehensive, up-to-date, and reliable guide to this important New Testament book.
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Who Killed Jesus
$18.99The death of Jesus is one of the most hotly debated questions in Christianity today. In his massive and highly publicized The Death of the Messiah, Raymond Brown — while clearly rejecting anti-Semitism — never questions the essential historicity of the passion stories. Yet it is these stories, in which the Jews decide Jesus’ execution, that have fueled centuries of Christian anti-Semitism.
Now, in his most controversial book, John Dominic Crossan shows that this traditional understanding of the Gospels as historical fact is not only wrong but dangerous. Drawing on the best of biblical, anthropological, sociological and historical research, he demonstrates definitively that it was the Roman government that tried and executed Jesus as a social agitator. Crossan also candidly addresses such key theological questions as “Did Jesus die for our sins?” and “Is our faith in vain if there was no bodily resurrection?”
Ultimately, however, Crossan’s radical reexamination shows that the belief that the Jews killed Jesus is an early Christian myth (directed against rival Jewish groups) that must be eradicated from authentic Christian faith.
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Dead Sea Scrolls Translated Second Edition (Reprinted)
$52.99One of the world’s foremost experts on the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Qumran community that produced them provides an authoritative new English translation of the two hundred longest and most important nonbiblical Dead Sea Scrolls found at Qumran, along with an introduction to the history of the discovery and publication of each manuscript and the background necessary for placing each manuscript in its actual historical context.
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What Really Happened To Jesus
$30.00Were the resurrection appearances real physical events – or nothing more than grief-induced hallucinations? What does it mean to say, Jesus rose from the dead? Dissatisfied with what he regarded as evasive answers given by theologians and scholars about the nature of the resurrection of Jesus, Gerd Ludemann here subjects the New Testament traditions to a thorough investigation. In particular, Ludemann is concerned with the story of the empty tomb and the subsequent appearance stories first related by Peter. Ludemann’s startling and somewhat radical conclusions have created a stir in Europe. This book, written for nonspecialists, presents Ludemann’s provocative conclusions. Readers will find a positive, albeit a revolutionary, new way of viewing the resurrection.
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Sowing The Gospel
$39.00This is a scholarly look at the literary currents of Mark’s historical setting. It is intended as literary history, which attempts to make more sense of Mark as a whole than than other approaches have been able to do. By examining the literary conventions of Mark’s day, the Mary Ann Tolbert hopes to make the message of Mark more clear. Tolbert is the George H. Atkinson Professor of Biblical Studies at Pacific School of Religion in Berkely, California.
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Lydias Impatient Sisters
$57.00Lydia’s Impatient Sisters offers a social history of the everyday life of women, setting common experiences of labor, money, illness, and resistance in the context of the Roman imperial society.Luise Schottroff relates this history to important theological topics in New Testament, such as the revelation of God and the daily life of the church. Schottroff’s work demonstrates how women were embedded in their social world.
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Feasts Of Israel
$18.99The author believes that God, who inspired the Scriptures by the Holy Spirit, has placed within them certain major keys. When properly used, these keys become interpretive tools that unlock the doors of the inexhaustible riches of God’s Word.
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Jesus And The Land
$27.99Piece together the life of Jesus as it unfolded against the windswept background of the Holy Land! In this highly readable, up-to-date synthesis of Scripture, rabbinic tradition, and archaeology, Page makes history come alive as he reconstructs Jesus’ life in first-century Israel. Black & white photos throughout.
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Crucifixion Of Jesus
$22.00With hundreds of thousands of criminals crucified by the ancient Romans, why is only one death so acutely hallowed and celebrated? Ranging from New Testament writers to theories of explanation in the early church to medieval passion piety, Sloyan’s work considers the mystery of the cross.
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Palestinian Setting
$52.99The Book of Acts in Its Palestinian Setting is devoted to a series of studies of those parts of the narrative of Acts that are specifically set in Palestine. The geographical, political, cultural, social, and religious aspects of first-century Jewish Palestine are all explored in order to throw light on Luke’s account of the Palestinian origins of early Christianity. There are fresh assessments of the historical significance of key features, persons, and events in Luke’s narrative.
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Paul Follower Of Jesus Or Founder Of Christianity
$39.99This is a print on demand book and is therefore non- returnable.
This book provides a broad, popular look at the relationship between Paul and Jesus. Considering the recurrent question of how much Paul knew and was dependent on the teachings of Jesus, Wenham studies the Gospels and Paul’s letters, systematically compares the teachings of Jesus and Paul, and reveals the intriguing connections and differences between the two. His conclusions make this volume a groundbreaking work with exciting implications for the study of Jesus and the Gospels and of Paul and early Christianity.
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Prince Of Darkness
$19.99Do you want to understand world events in the light of prophecy? Explore the astonishing prophecies about the mysterious Antichrist who will dominate the earth during the last days. Grant shares his incredible research into the secret groups moving America toward world government. Written in laymen’s terms PRINCE OF DARKNESS will open up the Bible’s fascinating prophecies about these vital topics: -The New World Order Global Agenda -America and the Council on Foreign Ralations -Surviving the Coming Economic Crisis -The Rush to World Government -The PLO-Israeli Agreement-Prelude to War -Zhirinovsky-the KGB and Russian Imperialism -The Surveillance Society-an Assault on Fredom -The Technology of the 666 Mark of the Beast -Satan’s Prince of Darkness in the Temple -38 Astonishing Prophecies Announce the Messiah -Armageddon-Christ’s Ultimate Victory.
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Text Of The New Testament (Revised)
$38.99The definitive introduction to New Testament textual criticism is now revised and enlarged! The Alands compare the major editions of the New Testament, describe and analyze the Greek manuscripts in detail, and discuss the value of early versions. Particularly noteworthy are their introduction to the use of modern editions of the Greek New Testament and their greater sensitivity to differing viewpoints. Two new supplementary essays are included in addition to revised plates, tables, and charts.
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Roots Of Wisdom
$34.00In this book, Claus Westermann argues that Israel’s early wisdom literature grew out of an oral tradition reflecting an agrarian setting. Dealing primarily with Proverbs 10-31, Westermann demonstrates how the wisdom literature evolved into a form of poetry that had greater universal appeal as the people of Israel became more urbanized. A distinctive feature of Roots of Wisdom is Westermann’s use of other wisdom sayings, particularly those from ancient Africa, to illustrate the logical progression of wisdom poetry being simply observational in character to becoming more universal in character.
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Jewish Responses To Early Christians
$23.00Preface
IntroductionPart One: Materials That Report Jewish Reactions To Christians
1.The Pauline And Deutero-Pauline Letters
2.The Synoptic Gospels
3.The Book Of Acts
4.The Gospel Of John
5.Revelation
6.Josephus
7.The Martydom Of Polycarp
8.The Gospel Of Peter
9.The Christian Apologists
10.Jewish And Christian Writers After 150 C.E.Part Two: Major Trends
11.Major Trends Detected
Tolerance
Physical Attacks
Verbal Reactions
ObservationsNotes
Bibliography
IndexesAdditional Info
What were Jews saying and doing about the followers of Jesus in the first two centuries? In this provocative and comprehensive study, Claudia Setzer argues persuasively that Jews saw the early followers of Jesus as Jews for some time after the Christians viewed themselves as separate from the larger Jewish communities.This book provides historical context and nuanced exegesis of texts that continue to be “trouble spots” in Jewish-Christian relations. It illuminates the diverse strands of early anti-Judaism while providing the reader with some surprises.
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Resurrection Of Jesus
$20.00What actually happened at the resurrection of Jesus? Gerd Luedemann suggests that this question, considered unanswerable by many, is of critical importance to Christians and that it can be answered more specifically than has been the case in recent studies. Luedemann begins with the oldest list of witnesses to the resurrection and proceeds from there to other texts from Paul and the Gospels to investigate the events of Good Friday, Easter, and Pentecost.
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Art Of Biblical History
$19.99The final volume in the acclaimed Foundations of Contemporary Interpretation series, this book deals with these crucial questions: Is the Bible a history book? What do we mean by “history” anyway? In what sense is biblical historicity important for faith? Why is there so much scholarly disagreement over historical issues relating to the Bible?
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Chronological And Background Charts Of The Old Testament
$21.991. The Ancient Church
2. The Medieval
3. The Reformation
4. The Modern European Church
5. The American Church84 Charts
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Charts provide a synthesis and visual overview of information that helps in teaching, learning, and review. Facts, relationships, parallels, and contrasts are grasped easily and quickly.The 84 charts in Chronological and Background Charts of Church History provide a summary of key persons, events, dates, and ideas throughout church history-from ancient to modern European and American.
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What Is Scripture
$39.00Introduction: Presenting The Issue
A Particular Example, To Illustrate
Scripture As Form And Concept: Historical Background
The True Meaning Of Scripture: The Qur’an As An Example
The Bible In Jewish Life?
The Hindu Instance
The Buddhist Instance
The Classics: Chinese And Western
Brief Further Considerations
Conclusion: Scripture And The Human ConditionNotes
Acknowledgments
IndexAdditional Info
“Scripture” is no longer an absolute. In the last two centuries, as Westerners have become more keenly conscious of the flatly historical character of their own biblical documents, they have also realized the normative function of scripture in other traditions.W. C. Smith’s vastly erudite work asks how it is that certain texts have so seeped into human life – in a rich, complex, and powerful way – as to be deemed sacred. Examining the history and use of scripture in the world’s major religious traditions, he shows how and why scripture continues to carry momentous and at times appalling power in human affairs.
In the end, Smith’s creative proposal is valuable not only for showing what it means to hold a text as sacred, or to treasure another’s scripture, but also for the light it sheds in a troubled culture on what it means to be human.
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Graeco Roman Setting
$58.99The Book of Acts in Its Graeco-Roman Setting locates the Book of Acts within various regional and cultural settings in the eastern Mediterranean. These studies draw on recent archaeological fieldwork and epigraphic discoveries to describe the key cities and provinces within the Roman Empire. The relevant societal aspects of these regions, such as the Roman legal system, Roman religion, and the problem of transport and travel, all help contextualize the Book of Acts.
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Ancient Literary Setting
$54.99This Prodigious New Six-Volume series presents the results of interdisciplinary research between New Testament, Jewish, and classical scholarship. Working to place the Book of Acts within its first-century setting, well-known historians and biblical scholars from Australia, the United States, Canada, Russia, and the United Kingdom have collaborated here to provide a stimulating new study that replaces The Beginnings of Christianity and other older studies on Acts. Starting with the understanding that the Book of Acts is rooted within the setting of the peoples and cultures of the Mediterranean in the first century A.D., this comprehensive series provides a multifaceted approach to the Acts of the Apostles in its literary, regional, cultural, ideological, and theological contexts. The composition of Acts is discussed beside the writing of ancient literary monographs and intellectual biographies. Recent epigraphic and papyrological discoveries also help illumine the text of Acts. Archaeological fieldwork, especially in Greece and Asia Minor, has yielded valuable information about the local setting of Acts and the religious life of urban communities in the Roman Empire. These volumes draw on the best of this research to elucidate the Book of Acts against the background of activity in which early Christianity was born. The Book of Acts in Its Ancient Literary Setting is the first volume in this groundbreaking series. The book includes fourteen chapters devoted to the literary framework that undergirds the Book of Acts. Topics include the text as an historical monograph, ancient rhetoric and speeches, the Pauline corpus, biblical history, subsequent ecclesiastical histories, and modernliterary method. All of these chapters arise out of a consultation by the project’s scholars at Cambridge in March 1993.
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Jeremiah : An Archaeological Companion
$42.00Philip King utilizes archaeological artifacts and texts of the late seventh and early sixth centuries BCE, many of them unpublished or not easily accessible, to elucidate the text of the book of Jeremiah, a book that is sometimes described as difficult and whose formation is complicated. By doing so, he adds important spatial and temporal dimension to the history of Israel and to the literature about the life of one of its most significant prophets: Jeremiah.
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History Of Ancient Palestine
$59.00The magnum opus of Ahlstrom who founded a school of historical studies at the University of Chicago to counteract what he felt were the prevailing literary approaches in North America. He labored on and off for decades on this dispassionate reconstruction of the major epochs of Israel’s history by tapping all known textual, epigraphic, and archaeological evidence.
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Life And Times Of Jesus The Messiah (Revised)
$39.95Book 1. The Preparation For The Gospel: Introductory Historical, Religious, Political, And Cultural Material Based On The Author’s Extensive Knowledge Of Jewish Lore And Customs
Book 2. From Bethlehem To Jordan: The Background Of Herod And His Reign, St. John The Baptist And His Message, And The Birth And Baptism Of Jesus.
Book 3. From Jordan To The Mount Of Transfiguration: Thirty Seven Chapters Explore The Miracles And Teachings Of Jesus’ Early Ministry.
Book 4. The Descent Into The Valley Of Humiliation: A History Of The Latter Part Of Jesus’ Ministry From The Transfiguration To The Journey To Jerusalem.
Book 5. The Cross And The Crown: A Chronicle Of Each Day Of Passion Week, From Palm Sunday To The Resurrection.
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One of the best known and most important references on the life of Christ ever written, Alfred Edersheim’s The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah is a storehouse of information on the background of the New Testament. The classic work successfully portrays the streets, the marketplaces, the religious conflicts, the people, and the places of Jesus’ earthly ministry.Add to cartin stock within 3-5 days of online purchase
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Sign And The Seal
$24.00The fact of the Lost Ark of the Covenant is one of the grant historical mysteries of all time. To believers, the Ark is the legendary vesel holding the stone tablets of the Ten Commandments. The Bible contains hundreds of references to the Ark’s power to level mountains, destroy armies, and lay waste to cities. The Ark itself, however, mysteriously disappears from recorded history sometime after the building of the Temple of Solomon.
After ten years of searching through the dusty archives of Europe and the Middle East, as well as braving the real-life dangers of a bloody civil war in Ethiopia, Graham Hancock has succeeded where scores of others have failed. This intrepid journalist has tracked down the true story behind the myths and legends — revealing where the Ark is today, how it got there, and why it remains hidden.
Part fascinating scholarship and part entertaining adventure yarn, tying together some of the most intriguing tales of all time — from the Knights Templar and Prester John to Parsival and the Holy Grail — this book will appeal to anyone fascinated by the revelation of hidden truths, the discovery of secret mysteries.
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Christian Beginnings
$60.00This book starts with a general introduction by Jurgen Becker, and continues with a study of the interaction of Jesus with the world around him by Christoph Burchard. Varieties of early Christianity are illuminated in an examination of the oldest Jewish-Christian community by Carsten Colpe; “The Circle of Stephen and Its Mission,” by Karl Loning; and “Paul and His Churches,” by Jurgen Becker. Starting from the gospels, John K. Riches explores “The Synoptic Evangelists and Their Communities.” “Post-Pauline Christianity and Pagan society” are analyzed by Peter Lampe and Ulrich Luz. “Apocalyptic Currents” are reviewed by Ulrich B. Muller, and finally C. Kingsley Barrett delineates “Johannine Christianity.”
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Hebrew Bible The Old Testament And Historical Criticism
$39.00Writing from a Jewish perspective, Jon Levenson reviews many often neglected theoretical questions. He focuses on the relationship between two interpretive communities–the community of scholars who are committed to the historical-critical method of biblical interpretation and the community responsible for the canonization and preservation of the Bible.
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Land And The Book
$24.99The Land and the Book provides an overview of the geography and the history of the Bible by the use of brief descriptions of each of the major areas in which the events of the biblical narrative took place (primarily Palestine, Egypt, and Syria) and reviews of the history of ancient Israel, beginning with the patriachs and continuing through the New Testament era and the crusader period to the present.
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Written Also For Our Sake
$32.00In this book, James Aageson likens interpretation to a conversation and uses Paul as a model for illustrating this. In Paul’s case, interpretation is a conversation between two people, Paul and scripture. Aageson gives four case studies of Paul conversing with scripture: Paul’s use of Abraham texts, his understanding of Israel, his use of the figure of Adam, and his seeing Christ as a figure by which all traditions are understood in new ways.
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Sources Of The Pentateuch
$30.00This book presents the whole of the Pentateuch as what it first of all is for the reader–and where every interpretation must begin–as literature, especially as a part of the history of ancient Israel’s literature.
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Heresy And Criticism
$35.00Robert Grant draws upon his fifty years of experience dealing with the correlation of early Christianity and classical culture to demonstrate that Christian “heretics” were the first to apply literacy criticism to Christian books. He shows that the heretics’ methods were the same as those of pagan contemporaries, and that literary criticism derived from the Hellenistic schools. Literary criticism was later used by famous orthodox leaders, and, as time passed, orthodox critics increasingly found that these methods could serve them well. Grant supports his argument by focusing on principal figures Origen, Dionysius of Alexandria, Eusebius, and Jerome.
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Windows On The World Of Jesus
$35.00George Smith, a twentieth century American, moved into a house with a large vineyard in the Eastern Mediterranean during the first century A.D., going back in time and space. He needed help on his land and requested that individuals interested in work be at his place at 9 A.M. on August 8. No one showed up. This is just one of the sixy fun-to-read “windows” Bruce Malina cleverly presents in this book that explains the customs and culture of the world in which Jesus lived and taught. Each adventure depicts a twentieth-century North American encountering puzzling practices while visiting Judea during this time period. These vignettes offer quick and easy access to the first-century Mediterranean world and relate to segments of the New Testament and other passages from the same cultural area.
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Historical Jesus : The Life Of A Mediterranean Jewish Peasant
$24.99“He comes as yet unknown into a hamlet of Lower Galilee. He is watched by the cold, hard eyes of peasants living long enough at a subsistence level to know exactly where the line is drawn between poverty and destitution. He looks like a beggar yet his eyes lack the proper cringe, his voice the proper whine, his walk the proper shuffle. He speaks about the rule of God and they listen as much from curiosity as anything else. They know all about rule and power, about kingdom and empire, but they know it in terms of tax and debt, malnutrition and sickness, agrarian oppression and demonic possession. What, they really want to know, can this kingdom of God do for a lame child, a blind parent, a demented soul screaming its tortured isolation among the graves that mark the edges of the village?”
— from “The Gospel of Jesus,” overture to The Historical JesusThe Historical Jesus reveals the true Jesus–who he was, what he did, what he said. It opens with “The Gospel of Jesus,” Crossan’s studied determination of Jesus’ actual words and actions stripped of any subsequent additions and placed in a capsule account of his life story. The Jesus who emerges is a savvy and courageous Jewish Mediterranean peasant, a radical social revolutionary, with a rhapsodic vision of economic, political, and religious egalitarianism and a social program for creating it.
The conventional wisdom of critical historical scholarship has long held that too little is known about the historical Jesus to say definitively much more than that he lived and had a tremendous impact on his followers. “There were always historians who said it could not be done because of historical problems,” writes Crossan. “There were always theologians who said it should not be done because of theological objections. And there were always scholars who said the former when they meant the latter.’
With this ground-breaking work, John Dominic Crossan emphatically sweeps these notions aside. He demonstrates that Jesus is actually one of the best documented figures in ancient history; the challenge is the complexity of the sources. The vivid portrayal of Jesus that emerges from Crossan’s unique methodology combines the complementary disciplines of social anthropology, Greco-Roman history, and the literary analysis of specific pronouncements, anecdotes, confessions and interpretations involving Jesus. All three levels cooperate equally and fully in an effective synthesis that provides the most definitive
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Elijah In Upper Egypt
$110.00Using methods from literary criticism. social history, and social theory, Eliijah In Upper Egypt makes a fresh contribution to our understanding of early Egyptian Christianity by describing the genesis and meaning of the Coptic Apocalypse of Eliijah. This document, an extended prophecy of the end times that enjoyed wide circulation in late antiquity, reflects a type of Christianity rarely discussed in scholarly literature, one that was rural, semi-literate, ascetically oriented, and fanatically millennialist.
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