History & Culture

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780825436550Author Boyd SeeversFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Kregel Publications,U.S.Publisher Kregel Publications,U.S.Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398457850Author James BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 314Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

In From Jewish Prophet to Gentile God, Maurice Casey suggests a new theory as to why New Testament Christology developed as it did. In making his argument, Casey pays particular attention to the culture of Jesus and the earliest Christians.About the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780830852475Author Jayson GeorgesFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint IVP AcademicPublisher IVP AcademicWeight(grams) 246gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 154mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781641234023Author Whitaker HouseFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Whitaker HousePublisher Whitaker HouseWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 206mm * 206mm *...

Do Old Testament poetry and narrative, wisdom-writing and prophecy work on us in the same way as do nonbiblical literary texts? Competent readers over the centuries have arrived at conflicting answers to this question. Some (from Longinus on) have...

The Bible and the Qur'an provides an overview of all the figures and groups who are mentioned in both the Bible and the Qur'an. Principal focus centres on the similarities and differences between the presentations of these characters in the two texts,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802879851Author D Clint BurnettFormat HardbackPage Count 359Imprint William B Eerdmans Publishing CoPublisher William B Eerdmans Publishing Co

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781514006948Author Susan C. LimFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Inter-Varsity Press,USPublisher InterVarsity PressWeight(grams) 299gDimensions(mm)...

The infancy narratives represent some of the most beautiful and intriguing passages in the Gospels. The stories they relate are also arguably the most well-known in the Christian tradition, from the child in the manger to the Magi paying homage to the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789901983513Author Rose PublishingPage Count 14Imprint Rose Publishing (CA)Publisher Rose Publishing (CA)Weight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm) 213mm * 142mm *...

Popular Author Provides the Market's Most Accessible Introduction to the World of Jesus' Time To understand Jesus' life and ministry, we need to understand the history and culture of his world. Marty, author of the popular The Whole Bible Story,...

In this book, Jacob Neusner gives an introductory, systematic, and holistic account of the theology and practice of Rabbinic Judaism, which emerged, along with Christianity, from antiquity and formed the classical statement of Judaism to the present day...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781505118698Author Nick DonnellyFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Tan BooksPublisher Tan BooksWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 213mm * 135mm * 15mm

How do we begin to carry out such a vast task-the examination of three millennia of diverse uses and influences of the biblical texts? Where can the interested scholar find information on methods and techniques applicable to the many and varied ways in...

When first published in 1983, Biblical Words and Their Meaning broke new ground by introducing to students of the Bible the principles of linguistics, in particular, on lexical semantics -- that branch that focuses on the meaning of individual words...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781606086469Author James H CharlesworthFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams)...

Combining the insights of many leading New Testament scholars writing on the use of social identity theory this new reference work provides a comprehensive handbook to the construction of social identity in the New Testament. Part one examines key...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781532674495Author Veronica Mary RolfFormat PaperbackPage Count 262Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams)...

A comprehensive treatment of the early Christian approaches to the Temple and its role in shaping Jewish and Christian identity The first scholarly work to trace the Temple throughout the entire New Testament, this study examines Jewish and Christian...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802869586Author Joseph BlenkinsoppFormat PaperbackPage Count 219Imprint William B Eerdmans Publishing CoPublisher William B Eerdmans Publishing...

Parables of Enoch: A Paradigm Shift is an interdisciplinary study of the state of the current debate surrounding the Parables of Enoch with regard to their dating as well as their Jewish character and their potential contribution to aspects of early...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781414379326Author Philip W. ComfortFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Tyndale House PublishersPublisher Tyndale House Publishers

This is the second volume of the projected four-volume history of the Second Temple period. It is axiomatic that there are large gaps in the history of the Persian period, but the early Greek period is possibly even less known. This volume brings...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780978533908Author Samuel S MartinFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint Sorensic PublishingPublisher Sorensic PublishingWeight(grams) 227g

EXPLORE THE INTIMATE CONNECTION BETWEEN FAITH AND FAMILYGod uses mothers and daughters in critical roles throughout the Old and New Testaments. They are often used to change the course of history, but more importantly, these female relationships and...

By building on his view of Jesus first developed in Parables as Subversive Speech, William Herzog II argues that Jesus is intensely interested in the social, political, and economic well-being of humanity. He examines the conflict stories,...

Persepolis and Jerusalem reconsiders Iranian influence upon Jewish apocalyptic, and offers grounds upon which such study may proceed. After describing the history of scholarship on the question of Iranian influence and on Jewish apocalyptic, Jason M...

This book, the first of two volumes, offers a comprehensive history of Israelite religion. It is a part of the Old Testament Library series.The Old Testament Library provides fresh and authoritative treatments of important aspects of Old Testament study...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780800663254Author Robert F. ShedingerFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Augsburg FortressPublisher 1517 MediaWeight(grams) 318g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781666701234Author Walter BrueggemannFormat PaperbackPage Count 154Imprint Cascade BooksPublisher Cascade BooksWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

"A landmark...If you have time to read only one book on the Bible this year, make sure that it is this one."-Katherine J. Dell, Church Times"Excellent...With a sure touch, the authors lead the reader through the geopolitical context of the Hebrew Bible...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780884143475Author Zev I FarberFormat HardbackPage Count 610Imprint SBL PressPublisher SBL PressWeight(grams) 1061g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802875433Author Walter T WilsonFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint William B Eerdmans Publishing CoPublisher William B Eerdmans Publishing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780884140658Author Jane Lancaster PattersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 218Imprint SBL PressPublisher SBL PressWeight(grams) 327g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781597522755Author Douglas E OakmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 348Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams)...

Many familiar Gospel narratives are filled with geographic details that we gloss over because of our distance from the Holy Land. Yet climate, landscape, natural resources, and other features of geography leave a lasting mark on the societies and...

The Senses of Scripture reveals the essence of biblical epistemology - the ways in which ancient Israelites thought about and used their sensorium. The theoretical introduction demonstrates that scholars need to liberate themselves from the Western bias...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780965508261Author Kevin A MillerPage Count 44Imprint Rose PublishingPublisher Rose PublishingWeight(grams) 295g

The Judean community at Elephantine has long fascinated historians of the Persian period. This book, with its stellar assemblage of important scholarly voices, provides substantive new insights and approaches that will advance the study of this...